Roxanna Panufnik (born 24 April 1968 in London, UK) is a British composer of Polish heritage. Since studying composition at London's Royal Academy of Music, Roxanna's since written a wide range of pieces including opera, ballet, music theatre, choral works, chamber compositions and music for film and television which are regularly performed all over the … Continue reading Roxanna Panufnik : using music to bridge religious differences
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Toru Takemitsu : born today in 1930
Toru Takemitsu was born in Tokyo on 8 October 1930. He began attending the Keika Junior High School in 1943 and resolved to become a composer at the age of 16. During the post-war years, he came into contact with Western music through radio broadcasts by the American occupying forces – not only jazz, but … Continue reading Toru Takemitsu : born today in 1930
The Stray Birds
The band – multi-instrumentalists and vocalists Maya de Vitry, Oliver Craven, and Charlie Muench – hails from Lancaster, Pennsylvania. All three are classically-trained musicians who’ve been making music of all kinds since childhood (before they reconnected through the local music scene, de Vitry and Muench first met in middle school orchestra); however, they were also … Continue reading The Stray Birds
Jacob Gotlib : experimental chamber and electronic music
Jacob Gotlib was born and raised in Louisville, KY, and has written music for instruments, electronics, dance, and multimedia. His music is regularly played at festivals around North America and Europe, most recently at the Wellesley Composers Conference (Wellesley, MA), the Acht Brücken Festival (Cologne, Germany), Hear+Now (Louisville, KY) and June in Buffalo (Buffalo, NY). … Continue reading Jacob Gotlib : experimental chamber and electronic music
Happy Birthday Phill
Phill Niblock turns 82 today, and is still very busy: May 22 (6-10pm), 23(12-20) and 24-25 (12-18), A book fair at the Tate Modern, with a section by Frederic Acquaviva, of "La Plaque Tournante" in Berlin, laplaquetournante.org/ with a new book of "Cello Pieces" scores, by Phill Niblock Sunday May 24th 2015 , 8 pm … Continue reading Happy Birthday Phill
Kate Soper : vocal experimentation
Kate Soper (born 1981) is a composer, performer, and writer whose work explores the integration of drama and rhetoric into musical structure, the slippery continuums of expressivity, intelligibility and sense, and the wonderfully treacherous landscape of the human voice. She was a recent Guggenheim Fellow as well as a 2012-13 fellow of the Radcliffe Institute … Continue reading Kate Soper : vocal experimentation
Ödön Pártos : Israeli composer, string player and teacher of Hungarian origin
Ödön Pártos (also Oedoen Partos) was born in Budapest on 1 Oct 1907 and died in Tel-Aviv, 6 July 1977. He was an Israeli composer, string player and teacher of Hungarian origin. Born to an assimilated Jewish upper middle class family, he was a child prodigy and studied the violin with Ormandy. Hubay heard him play the violin at the … Continue reading Ödön Pártos : Israeli composer, string player and teacher of Hungarian origin
Klaus Lang : Austrian composer
Klaus Lang (*1971 Graz / Austria) lives in Steirisch Lassnitz (Austria). He studied composition and theory of music (with H.M. Preßl, B. Furrer and Y. Pagh-Paan) and organ. Klaus Lang loves tea and dislikes lawnmowers and Richard Wagner. Klaus Lang’s music is not a means to convey extramusical contents, such as emotions, philosophical or religious ideas, political … Continue reading Klaus Lang : Austrian composer
Mark Andre : French composer living in Germany
Mark Andre was born in Paris in 1964, where he studied at the École Normale Supérieure (writing a thesis on “Le compossible musical de l’Ars subtilior”) and with Claude Ballif and Gérard Grisey at the Paris Conservatoire (First Prize in Composition). Later he studied with Helmut Lachenmann at the Stuttgart University of Music, where he … Continue reading Mark Andre : French composer living in Germany
Alican Çamcı : new music from Turkey
Alican Çamcı’s (b. 1989) output includes works for small and large ensembles, solo instrumental music and electro-acoustic compositions. His music seeks to incorporate musical ideas inside and outside of Western classical music tradition as well as themes and concepts from philosophy and semiology. A native of Istanbul, Turkey, he was first introduced to music at … Continue reading Alican Çamcı : new music from Turkey
Musica Kaleidoskopea 