Alice Ping Yee Ho: Begin

Alice Ping Yee Ho

Alice Ping Yee Ho (b. 1960) is a Hong Kong-born Canadian composer acclaimed for her “distinctly individual”style and “organic flow of imagination”. She has written in many musical genres and received numerous national and international awards, including the 2016 Louis Applebaum Composers Award, the 2014 Prince Edward Island Symphony Composers Competition, the 2014 Kitchener Waterloo…

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Asta Hyvärinen: Star Child Arise/Star Child Aria

Asta Hyvärinen

Asta Hyvärinen (b. 1963) has described her composition style with the term “surrealist-cubism”. This means the structures are based on the surrealistic (subconscious) process and the sonic details appearance as cubistic. She uses also the term “whole tonality” which means equality of any kind of sounding material (chromatic; microtonal; noises & any kind of unpitched…

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Helena Skljarov: Bugs

Helena Skljarov

Helena Skljarov (b. 1993 in Zagreb) graduated in musicology from the Music Academy, University of Zagreb in 2017. In 2014, she began the study of composition at the same university in the class of Prof. Berislav Šipuš. In 2018, she received the Rector’s Award for her composition Pulsar which was premiered in Zagreb by a student orchestra…

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Evelyn Celeste Frosini: Samoa

Evelyn Frosini

Evelyn Celeste Frosini (b. 1983) is a composer and sound designer. She studied Composition at the National University of Arts (UNA) and Sound Design at the National School of Cinematographic Experimentation and Direction (ENERC) in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Currently, she is a professor, Co-Director of the DaMus Electroacoustic Ensemble in the National University of the…

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Kristine Tjøgersen: Mistérios do Corpo

Kristine Tjøgersen

Kristine Tjøgersen (b. 1982) is a composer, visual artist and clarinetist,who lives and works in Oslo, Norway. Shehas a Master’s in Composition with prof.Carola Bauckholt at the Anton Bruckner Universität in Linz, Austria. Her music has been performed by the Arditti Quartet (UK), asamisimasa, Ensemble neoN, Pinquins (N), El Perro Andaluz (DE), and Mimitabu (SE), among…

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Remembering Kaija Saariaho (1952-2023)

Saariaho

It is with great sadness that we acknowledge the passing of the extraordinary composer Kaija Saariaho (1952-2023). She will forever be remembered for extraordinary music (well over 100 compositions) which seamlessly wove acoustic and electronic elements as well as for her transformative operas, especially L’Amour de Loin, which was the first full-length opera composed by…

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Michelle Zen-in Cheng: Latched II

Cheng Zen-in Michelle

Michelle Zen-in Cheng is a Hong Kong-born composer and music educator. Graduated from the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, majoring in music composition, Cheng soon pursued her studies in Music Education at Hong Kong Baptist University. She is currently a MA student at the Iceland University of the Arts, a full member of the…

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Tara Valkonen: Farliga drömmar

Tara Valkonen

Tara Valkonen (b. 1999) started to play cello at the age of six, and soon she was imagining her future as a professional cellist – and a sculptor. But picking up the guitar at the age of 13 brought a change, as it was rock music now that became the main interest in her life…

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Fani Kosona: Narratives

Fani Kosona

Fani Kosona (born 1969 in Athens, Greece) is a composer, pianist, professor of music, and mathematician who holds a degree in Mathematics from the University of Athens, studied piano in the National Conservatory of Athens, in the Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris with Jacques Lagarde, then in the Conservatoire National de Région de Rueil-Malmaison…

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Tatiana Riabinkina: No War

Tatiana Riabinkina

Tatiana Riabinkina started composing when as a child. She grew up in Yekaterinburg, Russia, but moved to Moscow to study music more seriously, and in 2013, she graduated from the Moscow College of Improvisational Music, as a bass player. In 2018, she received a Diploma with Excellence from the Gnessin Russian Academy of Music as…

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