Posts Tagged ‘piano music’
Igal Myrtenbaum: Comping the Empty Wheel
Dr. Igal Myrtenbaum is a composer, lecturer and educator. His work and passion ranges from synchronizing sounds to studying how people synchronize, through learning communities and multi-cultural environments. Composing both electronic and music for acoustic instruments, his projects and works are performed world-wide and he is giving lectures and clinics to a variety of audiences from…
Read MoreMarcus Karl Maroney: Touché
Marcus Karl Maroney (b. 1976) is currently Associate Professor of Music and Director of Graduate Studies at the University of Houston’s Moores School of Music after previously having served on the faculty of the Yale School of Music from 2002-2004. His academic pursuits include research on the music and life of Swiss composer Frank Martin,…
Read MoreSvitlana Azarova: Chronometer
Svitlana Azarova (b. 1976) is a Ukrainian-Dutch composer originally from Izmail, a city and municipality on the Danube river in Odessa Oblast in south-western Ukraine. After having graduated in music from Izmail Pedagogical Institute in 1996, Azarova entered Odessa State A.V. Nezhdanova Conservatoire, where she studied musical composition, first under the Ukrainian composer Olexander Krasotov, and later (until 2000) under the…
Read MoreVeronika Krausas: Unintermezzi
Of Lithuanian heritage, composer Veronika Krausas was born in Australia raised in Canada, and lives in Los Angeles. She has directed, composed for, and produced multi-media events that incorporate her works with dance, acrobatics and video. Commissions and performances include the Los Angeles Philharmonic, The Industry, New York City Opera, Tanglewood Contemporary Music Festival, Detroit…
Read MoreKenta MASUDA: tOtEtSU
(Submitted by ISCM – JAPANESE SECTION) Kenta Masuda was born in Japan in 1990. He has received prizes from the 20th Sogakudo Japanese Song Competition, the 4th International Antonín Dvořák Composition Competition, the 2014 PARMA student composer competition, and the Hirosaki Sakuranosono Composition Competition 2017 as well as the 33rd JSCM Award for Composers. His pieces…
Read MoreJames O’Callaghan: Piano reduction
(Submitted by ISCM – CANADIAN SECTION) James O’Callaghan (b. 1988) is a composer and sound artist based in Montréal praised for his “mastery of materials and musical form.” (Electromania, Radio France) His music has been described as “very personal… with its own colour anchored in the unpredictable.” (Goethe-Institut) Never having studied an instrument, he came…
Read MoreMaia Ciobanu: Excessive piano II
(Submitted by ISCM – ROMANIAN SECTION) Maia Ciobanu (b. 1952) served as President of the Romanian section of the ISCM (2002-2003), Director of the Contemporary Music Information Center (1995-2003), and was the Founder and Chief Editor of the Contemporary Music-Romanian Newsletter. Maia Ciobanu has given lectures about her music at the Gothenburg Music Academy, St.…
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