Posts Tagged ‘female composers’
Victoria Polevá: No man is an Island
Ukrainian composer Victoria Polevá (born 1962 in Kiev) has been stylistically identified with “sacred minimalism” whose most famous practitioners include Arvo Pärt, Peteris Vasks, John Tavener, and Henryk Gorecki since the late 1990s. An important period in Victoria Polevá’s creative work is related to intensive studies and embodiment of texts from divine services. The daughter of…
Read MoreKarmella Tsepkolenko: Alles, Ausser – Was Noch Alles Ist…
Ukrainian composer Karmella Tsepkolenko (b. 1955 in Odessa) has written orchestral, chamber, vocal, and piano works that have been performed in Europe, Asia, and North America. Prof. Tsepkolenko studied composition with Aleksandr Kogan and piano with Grigory Buchynsky and Yelena Pannikova at the School of Stolyarsky in Odessa from 1962–73. She then studied composition with…
Read MoreHanna Havrylets: Chorale for Strings
Hanna Havrylets (1958-2022) was an important Ukrainian composer and teacher. She received her earliest musical education in her native village Vydyniv (in the Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast), studying with Vasyl Kufliuk, the author of a unique system for the development of musical hearing. From 1968 to 1977, she studied at the Solomiya Krushelnytska Secondary Specialized Music School…
Read MoreAlla Zagaykevych: Heroneya
Alla Zagaykevych was born in Khmelnytskyi, Ukraine in 1966 and graduated from Kiev State P.I. Tchaikovsky Conservatory (now the National Music Academy of Ukraine) in 1990. In 1995-1996 she attended annual course for composition at IRCAM in Paris, France and from 1986 to 1999 she was a member of the folkloric ensemble“Drevo” of the National Music Academy of…
Read MoreMaria Christina Krithara: Some Fragments from the “Opus 111” transposed for the 21st century
Maria Christina Krithara (b. 1954 in Athens) studied piano at the National Conservatoire of Athens and composition at the “Nikos Skalkotas” Conservatoire with Michail Travlos, where she graduated from both with honours. Her works include solos, chamber music, orchestral works and vocal music. She has composed more than seventy works and most of them have…
Read MoreEmily Doolittle: The Wise Daughter
Composer Emily Doolittle was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia and educated at Dalhousie, Indiana University, Princeton, and the Koninklijk Conservatorium in the Hague, where she studied with Louis Andriessen with the support a Fulbright fellowship. From 2008-2015 she lived in Seattle, where she was an Associate Professor of Music at Cornish College of the Arts.…
Read MoreTalia Amar: Reverberations
Pianist and composer Dr. Talia Amar (b. 1989) is the recipient of many international awards including the Israel Prime Minister award 2018, The Acum Award 2019, and the Rosenblum Prize for Promising Young Artist 2016 by the Tel Aviv Municipality. Her pieces are performed by leading ensembles around the world and she was selected to…
Read MoreDiana Rotaru: Hannya
(Submitted by ARFA) Romanian composer Diana Rotaru (b. 1981) has written from chamber and orchestral music to chamber opera and soundtracks for multimedia or dance shows and short films. Her music explores different expressive directions, from hypnagogia or pre-oneiric aesthetics, feminine psyche, humor or imaginary folklore. She is also active as a promoter of new…
Read MoreUlrike Mayer-Spohn: fKFW
(Submitted by ISCM – SWISS SECTION) Extraordinary diversity describes the composer and multi-instrumentalist Ulrike Mayer-Spohn (b. 1980) who plays the recorder (with a focus on contemporary music), as well as historical string instruments (fiddle and Baroque violin). She studied composition and audio design with Erik Oña at the Studio of Electronic Music, Academy of Music,…
Read MoreMargareta Ferek Petrić: Fire Walk With(out) Me
(Submitted by ISCM – CROATIAN SECTION) Margareta Ferek Petrić (b. 1982 in Zagreb), composer and artistic director of the Music Biennale Zagreb 2021/23, lives and works in Vienna, Austria and Zagreb, Croatia. She studied composition at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna where her teachers included Ivan Eröd, Klaus Peter Sattler, and…
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