Posts Tagged ‘women composers’
Victoria Polevá: No man is an Island
Ukrainian composer Victoria Polevá (born 1962 in Kiev) has been stylistically identified with “sacred minimalism” whose most famous practitioners include Arvo Pärt, Peteris Vasks, John Tavener, and Henryk Gorecki since the late 1990s. An important period in Victoria Polevá’s creative work is related to intensive studies and embodiment of texts from divine services. The daughter of…
Read MoreKarmella Tsepkolenko: Alles, Ausser – Was Noch Alles Ist…
Ukrainian composer Karmella Tsepkolenko (b. 1955 in Odessa) has written orchestral, chamber, vocal, and piano works that have been performed in Europe, Asia, and North America. Prof. Tsepkolenko studied composition with Aleksandr Kogan and piano with Grigory Buchynsky and Yelena Pannikova at the School of Stolyarsky in Odessa from 1962–73. She then studied composition with…
Read MoreHanna Havrylets: Chorale for Strings
Hanna Havrylets (1958-2022) was an important Ukrainian composer and teacher. She received her earliest musical education in her native village Vydyniv (in the Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast), studying with Vasyl Kufliuk, the author of a unique system for the development of musical hearing. From 1968 to 1977, she studied at the Solomiya Krushelnytska Secondary Specialized Music School…
Read MoreJulia Gomelskaya: Jab-Jazz
[Ed. Note: The horrific invasion and war currently being waged on Ukraine has shocked the entire world. The ISCM supports our colleagues in Ukraine and to further call attention to them we will be exclusively featuring music by composers from Ukraine for the rest of this month as part of our ongoing ISCM Virtual Collaborative…
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 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 MoreSzu-Hsien Lee: Dialogue II: Mirage
Szu-Hsien LEE received her Bachelor of Music Art in Piano Performance from National Taiwan Normal University, Master of Art in Music Composition from National Chiao-Tung University, and Ph. D. in Music Composition and Theory from University of California, Los Angeles. She is currently Associate Professor at National Sun Yat-sen University in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. Dr. Lee…
Read MoreIsidora Žebeljan: The Horses of Saint Mark
Isidora Žebeljan (1967–2020) remains one of the most prominent and most performed Serbian composers on the international music scene. She wrote about 100 compositions, including five operas, all commissioned by the music festivals and institutions from abroad. She was the first and only Serbian composer who composed music for the Foundation of the Berliner Philharmoniker, La…
Read MoreYa-Ting Lee: Vigil (2015)
Ya-Ting Lee’s compositions have been performed in numerous cities of Taiwan, Czech Republic, Finland, and United States, and also by several distinguished ensembles including National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra, Eastman Percussion Ensemble, Taipei Percussion Ensemble, University of Central Missouri Percussion Ensemble, and Red Fish and Blue Fish Percussion Ensemble. Ms. Lee is the winner of 2005 Young…
Read MoreAntonia Barnett-McIntosh: Wild Fabrics–you couldn’t really tell
Antonia Barnett-McIntosh is a composer, performer, sound artist, and editor. Her works incorporate slippage and forced failure, improvisation and the live space, and investigate speech as music: the pitches, rhythms, conversational overlaps of our everyday. In juxtaposing the formalities of presentation and the aesthetics of failure, she gently taps on the borders between performance and…
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