Posts Tagged ‘concertante music’
William Blank: Reflecting Black
William Blank, born in Montreux in 1957, is active as both a composer and a conductor. He is currently responsible for contemporary music at the Music Academy HEMU in western Switzerland, where he directs the Ensemble Contemporain and teaches composition and analysis. Blank’s compositions are performed throughout Europe and in the USA and Japan, in…
Read MoreMax Savikangas: Silvertone
Max Savikangas (b. 1969 in Helsinki, Finland) started playing the violin at the age of 6 and piano at the age of 9, but as a teenager chose the viola as his main instrument. The seeds of Savikangas’s compositions often emerge as a result of (instru)mental improvisation, of savouring all kinds of sound events of…
Read MoreVitaliy Hubarenko: Chamber Symphony for Violin and Orchestra No. 1
Vitaliy Serhiyovych Hubarenko (Ukrainian: Віталій Сергійович Губаренко) (13 June 1934, Kharkiv – 5 April 2000, Kyiv) was a Ukrainian composer. He graduated from Kharkiv Conservatory in 1960 (where he studied under Dmitri Klebanov). He was awarded the Ostrovsky Prize in 1967, and the Taras Shevchenko Prize in 1984. His first opera, Zahybel’ eskadry (‘The Destruction…
Read MoreYevhen Stankovych: Ukrainian Poem
Yevhen Stankovych (born September 19, 1942) is a contemporary Ukrainian composer of stage, orchestral, chamber, and choral works whose music has been performed around the globe. Among his composition teachers were two of Ukraine’s most significant 20th century composers–Boris Lyatoshynsky and Myroslav Skoryk–with whom he studied at the Kyiv Conservatory from 1965 to 1970. He has…
Read MoreBohdana Frolyak: Lux aeterna
Bohdana Frolyak (born 1968 in Vydyniv, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Ukraine) made her first musical steps in her native village under the guidance of Vasyl Kufliuk, a village teacher who gained his musical education in Warsaw. In 1986, she graduated from Solomiya Krushelnytska Lviv Musical School after studying piano, music theory and composition. In 1991, she graduated from Lviv Conservatory as a composer. Her teachers in the academy…
Read MoreLaura Ana Mânzat: Concerto for 3 cellos and orchestra
Laura Ana Mânzat was born on the 24th of April 1969, in the town of Dej, Cluj County, Romania. She studied composition at the ‘’George Enescu’’ Academy of Music Iași, with Vasile Spătărelu as her professor and at the National University of Music Bucharest, with Ulpiu Vlad. She graduated in 1993. After that, she pursued…
Read MoreHelmut Lachenmann: Notturno
Helmut Lachenmann (b. November 27, 1935 in Stuttgart) studied piano, theory, and counterpoint at the Music Conservatory in Stuttgart from 1955 to 1958 and from 1958 to 1960 composition with Luigi Nono in Venice. The first public performances of his works took place at the Biennale in Venice in 1962 and at the International Summer Courses for New Music in Darmstadt. After his teaching activity…
Read MoreArturo Corrales: Flow
Arturo Corrales is a composer, conductor, musicologist, guitarist, teacher and Salvadorian / Swiss architect. Born in El Salvador and naturalized Swiss, he studied music in San Salvador, Geneva, Lugano and Paris. Arturo Corrales is an intensely active composer on the swiss and international scene. Co founder of the Ensemble Vortex and the duo Electric Primitivo, for the…
Read MoreBethan Morgan-Williams: Gêmdis
Bethan Morgan-Williams (b. 1992) is a composer who writes quirky, rhythmically-intricate music. Describedas “marvellously oblique and obscure” [5against4] while being “rooted in something ancient and folky” [The Telegraph],Bethan’s music finds motivation in the apogee of musical performance. With composer-performer collaborations a keypart of Bethan’s practice, each piece is written according to the characters of those…
Read MoreMalika Kishino: Concerto for Koto
Malika Kishino, born in Kyoto in 1971, studied Law in Kyoto (diploma in 1994). She came to France in 1995, where she studied composition with Yoshihisa Taira (École Normale de Musique, Paris), Robert Pascal (Conservatoire National Supérieur Musique et Danse, Lyon) and Philippe Leroux (IRCAM, Paris). She has received grants from the major studios for…
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