Karel Stulens: EXPIRED

Karel Stulens

Karel Stulens (b. 1997) is a Ghent-based composer of new arts and music. His works range fromorchestral and chamber works, mainly with performative and multi-media components, tointeractive video’s. Research and questions on stereotypes, traditionalism and institutionalmechanisms are his foundations of creating new work. Stules sees the concept of composing asworking with components: his work is…

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William Blank: Reflecting Black

William Blank (photo by Eddy Mottaz)

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…

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Merzie Khalitova: Symphony No. 3 “Dedication”

Merzie Khalitova

Merzie Khalitova (b. 1956) is an Uzbekistan-born Ukrainian composer of Crimean Tatar origin. Her mother taught geography and her father was an economic planner. In 1982 she graduated from the Tashkent State Conservatory of Music in the class of composition by Mirsadik Tadzhiyev and Georgiy Mushel. Upon graduation she taught composition at the Special Music…

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Vitaliy Hubarenko: Chamber Symphony for Violin and Orchestra No. 1

Vitaliy Hubarenko

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…

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Batya Frenklakh: Nocturne

Batya Frenklakh

(Submitted by ISCM – ISRAELI SECTION) Batya Frenklakh (b. 1992) is a master’s degree student in composition at Anton Bruckner Private University under the direction of Prof. Carola Bauckholt (’19-). Previously she studied with Mr. Dan Yuhas (’14-’17) and Mr. Reuben Seroussi (’17-’19), and completed her first master at The Buchmann-Mehta School of Music at…

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