Posts Tagged ‘women composers’
Barbara Jazwinski: Dreams of Vagabond Winds
Barbara Jazwinski (b. 1950) studied composition and theory at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw, Poland. She received her M.A. degree in composition and piano from Stanford University and her Ph.D. in composition from the City University of New York. Her teachers included Mario Davidovsky, György Ligeti, and John Chowning. Currently, she is…
Read MoreAnnette Schmucki: Hirsch Hirn Hornisse
Annette Schmucki (b. 1968 in Zurich) works with language as music. She studied composition with Cornelius Schwehr and Mathias Spahlinger, and has received numerous prizes and scholarships. She currently deals with durations and encounters of projected words, and with translations of telephone conversations and catenary histories. In addition to her solitary activity as a composer,…
Read MoreDoina Rotaru: Vivarta
Doina Rotaru (b. 1951, Bucharest) studied composition with Stefan Niculescu and Tiberiu Olah at the National University of Music, Bucharest. In 1991, she was the recipient of a composer’s scholarship from the Hague Conservatory, where she studied with Theo Loevendie. In 1997, she was awarded a PhD in Musicology for her thesis on Solutions for…
Read MoreMerzie Khalitova: Symphony No. 3 “Dedication”
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…
Read MoreTanja Elisa Glinsner: “Läuft mein Hirn so viele leere Kreise…”
Tanja Elisa Glinsner (b. 1995 in Linz) took lessons in violin, piano and saxophone at a young age. She subsequently also made her first compositional attempts. From 2005 to 2013 she attended the music branch of the Akademisches Gymnasium in Linz and studied violin with Wolfram Wincor and composition with Erland M. Freudenthaler as a…
Read MoreKrystyna Moszumańska-Nazar: Warianty
Krystyna Moszumańska-Nazar (5 September 1924,Lviv, now Ukraine – 27 September 2009, Kraków) was a Polish composer, music educator and pianist. She was born in Lwów, Poland (now Lviv, Ukraine), and after World War II studied at the State Higher School of Music in Kraków with Stanisław Wiechowicz for composition and Jan Hoffman for piano. After…
Read MoreIryna Kyrylina: Zapalyu svichu
Iryna Kyrylina (25 March 1953 – 4 September 2017) was a Ukrainian composer. She was born in Dresden, Germany, and studied with R.I. Vereschagin at the Kiev Musical College, and with M.V. Dremlyuga at the Kiev Conservatory, graduating in 1977. After completing her studies, she taught at a Kiev Music School and directed children’s choirs.…
Read MorePoly Hau-Yee Ng: memory fleeting ii – dementia
Poly Hau-Yee Ng (b. 1969) is presently teaching at the department of composition at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts. She frequently participates in music composition projects with the arts education section of the Education Bureau, the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, RTHK Radio 4, and the Hong Kong Arts Centre, including the…
Read MoreLesia Dychko: Slava
Lesia Dychko (b. 1939) is one of Ukraine’s most significant composers of choral music although she has created music is a wide range of idioms including two operas, four ballets, and numerous chamber works as well as the symphony Pryvitannia zhyttia (Welcoming Life) for soprano, bass, and chamber orchestra, based on the words of the imagist poet Bohdan…
Read MoreSabina Ulubeanu: Sheroes
Sabina Ulubeanu (b. 1979 in Bucharest) is one of the most complex artistic personalities of her generation, as her work comprises composition, photography, musicology, teaching, experimental performance, and directing a young international new arts festival. Ulubeanu sstudied piano at the George Enescu Music Highschool and then Composition at the National Music University of Bucharest, with…
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