Zoran Eric: Oberon

Zoran Erić

(Submitted by ISCM – SERBIAN SECTION) Zoran Erić (b. 1950, Serbia) acquired his BA and MA degrees in composition at the Faculty of Music in Belgrade. For a short time, he also studied at the Orff Institute in Salzburg and in Witold Lutosławski’s master-class in Grožnjan, Croatia. His works have been performed in almost every country…

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Iulia Cibisescu-Duran: Concerto for Violin and Chamber Orchestra No. 2

Iulia Cibisescu-Duran

(Submitted by ARFA) Iulia-Narcisa Cibișescu-Duran (b.1966) is a Romanian composer of orchestral, chamber, choral, and vocal works that have been performed in Germany, France, Italy, USA, Brazil, Bolivia, and Australia. Ms. Cibișescu-Duran studied composition with Cornel Taranu and then orchestral conducting with Emil Simon and Petre Sbarcea at ”Ghe. Dima” National Music Academy of Cluj-Napoca,…

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Satoru Ikeda: Superstring Theory

IKEDA Satoru

(Submitted by ISCM – JAPANESE SECTION) Satoru Ikeda, born in Hamamatsu City, Shizuoka prefecture in 1961, studied composition under Hiroshi Otsuki and Shin Sato. Having received a B.A. in Education from Shizuoka University in 1983 and M.M. degree in Composition from Tokyo University of the Arts in 1987, he is currently Musical Director at Shimamura Music…

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Hanspeter Kyburz: Cells

Hanspeter Kyburz

(Submitted by ISCM – SWISS SECTION) Hanspeter Kyburz was born in 1960 in Lagos, Nigeria to Swiss parents. In 1980 he began his composition studies, initially in Graz with Andrzej Dobrowolsky and Gösta Neuwirth, from 1982 to 1990 with Gösta Neuwirth and Frank Michael Beyer at the University of the Arts in Berlin and then…

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