Website Simon Steen-Andersen (b. 1976) is a Berlin-based composer, performer and installation artist, working in the field between instrumental music, electronics, video and performance within settings ranging from symphony orchestra and chamber music (with and without multimedia) to stagings, solo performances and installations. The works from the last 6-7 years concentrates on integrating concrete elements … Continue reading Composer Profile: Simon Steen-Andersen
Category: Profiles
These are profiles of established composers featuring some of their latest work.
New Voice: Karl Henning
Website | Soundcloud Karl Henning studied clarinet, conducting and orchestration with Nancy Buckingham Garlick, conducting and theory with Jack Russell, and composition with Jack Gallagher, Paul Schwartz, Judith Shatin, Walter Ross, Louis Andriessen and Charles Wuorinen. Karl's formal study resulted in a B.Mus. with a double major in composition and clarinet performance at the College of Wooster … Continue reading New Voice: Karl Henning
Composer Profile: Erdem Helvacıoğlu
Website | Soundcloud Erdem Helvacıoğlu is one of the most renowned new music composers of his generation in Turkey. He has received commissions from the 2006 World Football Championship, TBA 21 The Morning Line, Borusan Center for Culture & Arts, Arter “Space for Art”, The Association for the Art of the Harp, Novelum Contemporary Music … Continue reading Composer Profile: Erdem Helvacıoğlu
New voice: Alberto Arroyo
Invisibili, for 4 groups in one invisible space, one semi-invisible. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFQaPvPWMng BIOGRAPHY Born in 1989, Barcelona, Alberto Arroyo began his musical studies at Conservatorio Joaquin Turina in Madrid. Soon he entered a higher level class of harmony and analysis which awakened his interest in composition. In 2007 he traveled to Boston to begin lessons in … Continue reading New voice: Alberto Arroyo
Composer Profile: Liza Lim
Website | Soundcloud Liza Lim’s compositions are marked by visceral energy and vibrant colour and often explore ritual forms and performance aesthetics from Asian and Australian Aboriginal cultural sources . Some recurring themes in her work include ‘hiddenness and revelation’, ‘violence and meditation’ and ecstatic transformation. Recent projects have been based on the Sufi verse … Continue reading Composer Profile: Liza Lim
New voice: Annemarie Borg
[ composer, singer, writer, environmentalist and speaker ] Annemaries describes her recent project ~ I have two main projects at the moment; both involve art, music and communication via creativity. One is The Antara Project, which is a community and a philosophy. This project deals with refocusing on creativity in the education system to promote … Continue reading New voice: Annemarie Borg
New voice: Clio Montrey
Clio Montrey describes her recent work ~ A recent work I would like to present is Spielzeug (2009), for toy piano and electronics. I created all the electronics effects, and I played the piano in the electronics part, as well as the toy piano at the premiere (this is a live recording of the first performance). … Continue reading New voice: Clio Montrey
Composer Profile: Francis Dhomont
Website | electrocd | Discogs | Bio in Canadian Encylclopedia Francis Dhomont studied under Ginette Waldmeier, Charles Koechlin and Nadia Boulanger. In the late '40’s, in Paris (France), he intuitively discovered with magnetic wire what Pierre Schaeffer would later call “musique concrète” and consequently conducted solitary experiments with the musical possibilities of sound recording. Later, leaving behind instrumental writing, he dedicated himself exclusively to … Continue reading Composer Profile: Francis Dhomont
Composer Profile: Adam Stansbie
Website | Soundcloud | Article: “The acousmatic musical performance” Adam Stansbie is a composer, performer and writer specializing in electroacoustic/acousmatic music - that is, music which involves some form of electronic mediation. Stansbie started composing electroacoustic music some 20 years ago, before completing a degree in music production at The University of Leeds, and a … Continue reading Composer Profile: Adam Stansbie
New voice: Chin Ting Chan
Chin describes a recent work ~ I’d like to share with you a piano trio I wrote in the summer of 2012. The piece was recorded by the excellent musicians from eighth blackbird. In the program notes, I wrote: “Icebergs are irregularly formed, just like almost everything in nature. But if you step back and … Continue reading New voice: Chin Ting Chan
Musica Kaleidoskopea 