Posts Tagged ‘orchestral music’
Karel Stulens: EXPIRED
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…
Read MoreCathy Milliken: Piece 43 For Now
Cathy Milliken (b. 1956) is a Brisbane, Australia-born and Berlin, Germany-based international award-winning performer and composer known for her evocative instrumental and vocal works. She has composed for concert, opera, radio and film. Commissioners include Ensemble Modern, Remix Ensemble, Porto, London Sinfonietta, Arte, Southbank Centre London, Donaueschinger Musiktage, Staatsoper Berlin and Musica Viva of the…
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 MorePatrick Leterme: Lumières
Patrick Leterme (born 1981 in Verviers) studied at the Conservatoire Royal de Musique de Liège where he obtained First Prizes in Piano, Chamber Music and Harmony as well as a Bachelor’s Degree in Accompaniment Piano (Grand Distinction). He continued his studies at the Musikhochschule of Cologne where he completed a Zusatzstudium (Postmaster) in Liedbegleitung (Song…
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 MoreBatya Frenklakh: Nocturne
(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…
Read MoreDaan Janssens: (…dans son presque silence…)
(Submitted by ISCM – FLEMISH SECTION) Daan Janssens (born in Bruges in 1983) studied composition at the Ghent Conservatory with Frank Nuyts, Godfried-Willem Raes and Filip Rathé. He visited several international composition seminars and master classes. Since October 2016, he has taught composition and orchestration at the Royal Conservatory Ghent. Janssens has collaborated with both Belgian…
Read MoreMalin Bång: splinters of ebullient rebellion
(Submitted by ISCM – SWEDISH SECTION) Malin Bång’s music is an exploration of movement and energy. Bång (b. 1974) defines her musical material according to their amount of friction to create a spectrum of unpredictable and contrasting actions, ranging from the intimate and barely audible to the harsh and obstinate. In her work she often…
Read MoreBernhard Gander: Blood Beat
(Submitted by ISCM – AUSTRIAN SECTION) Bernhard Gander (b. 1969 in Lienz) studied at the Tyrolean Provincial Conservatoire (piano, musical composition, conducting) and had subsequent composition studies with Beat Furrer in Graz, as well as pursued electro acoustic music at Studio UPIC in Paris and at the Swiss Centre for Computer Music in Zurich. He…
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