Pedro Pinto Figueiredo: Amini

Pedro Pinto Figueiredo

Pedro Pinto Figueiredo (b.1966), conductor and composer born in Lisbon. He studied Composition at the Escola Superior de Música de Lisboa (Superior Music School of Lisbon) with the composer Christopher Bochmann, and Constança Capdeville. As a Calouste Gulbenkian scholarship holder, he studied in Paris with the composer Emmanuel Nunes. There, he simultaneously participated in and…

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Sungji Hong: Shine

Sungji Hong

Sungji Hong (b. 1973 in South Korea) is an assistant professor of composition at the University of North Texas. Her compositions include works for solo instruments, orchestra, chorus, ballet and electroacoustic media with special interest on timbre and pre-determined pitch structures. Her musical language is colorful with a wealth of imagery and exquisite delicacy. In…

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Dominik Karski: Glimmer

Dominik Karski

Dominik Karski (b. 1972) is an independent Polish/Australian composer, whose body of work is informed by close ollaboration with distinct interpreters of new music. Ensembles and soloists who have worked with the composer and presented his works include Flute o’clock, Malgorzata Walentynowicz, ELISION Ensemble, Quatuor Diotima, Karin Hellqvist, Anna Petrini, and Ensemble SurPlus, among many others.…

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Ya-Ting Lee: Vigil (2015)

Ya-Ting Lee

Ya-Ting Lee’s compositions have been performed in numerous cities of Taiwan, Czech Republic, Finland, and United States, and also by several distinguished ensembles including National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra, Eastman Percussion Ensemble, Taipei Percussion Ensemble, University of Central Missouri Percussion Ensemble, and Red Fish and Blue Fish Percussion Ensemble. Ms. Lee is the winner of 2005 Young…

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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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Wojciech Chałupka: Metanoia

Wojtek Chałupka (photo by Zuza Gasiorowska)

(Submitted by ISCM – POLISH SECTION) Wojciech Chałupka was born in Kluczbork, Poland in 1999. He is studying two courses simultaneously at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw, composition with Dariusz Przybylski and saxophone with Paweł Gusnar. In the 2019/2020 academic year he studied with Lars Mlekusch at the Zürcher Hochschule der Künste.…

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Adrian Iorgulescu: Retorts

Adrian Iorgulescu

Adrian Iorgulescu (born 1951, Bucharest) studied composition at the Bucharest Conservatory, where he subsequently took his M.A. In 1990, he was awarded a PhD in Musicology. The same year, he started teaching composition and musical forms at the National University of Music, Bucharest, and since 1994 he has supervised doctoral theses. In 2016, the Kishinev…

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