Website Naomi Pinnock (born 1979) comes from Cleckheaton, West Yorkshire, UK. She studied in London at King’s College London with Harrison Birtwistle, at the Royal Academy of Music with Brian Elias, and with Wolfgang Rihm at the Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe, Germany. She has received, amongst others, commissions and performances at/from the Wittener Tage für … Continue reading Composer Profile: Naomi Pinnock
Composer Profile: Johannes Schöllhorn
Website Born in 1962, he studied with Klaus Huber, Emanuel Nunes and Mathias Spahlinger and musical analysis with Peter Förtig. He also attended conducting courses with Peter Eötvös. Johannes Schöllhorn’s music is performed by many international Soloists, Ensembles and Orchestras like Ensemble Modern, Ensemble Intercontemporain, Klangforum Wien, Ensemble musikFabrik, Ensemble l’instant donné, ensemble recherche, Musikfabrik, … Continue reading Composer Profile: Johannes Schöllhorn
New Voice: Juliana Hall
Primarily known as an American art song composer, Juliana Hall (born 1958) has written over 35 song cycles and her commissions include two for song cycles for Metropolitan Opera singers Dawn Upshaw (soprano) and David Malis (baritone). Her music has been performed by more than 100 different performers in major concert halls in Argentina, Australia, … Continue reading New Voice: Juliana Hall
Composer Profile: Panayiotis Kokoras
Website Kokoras is an internationally award-winning composer and computer music innovator. Since fall 2012 he has been appointed Assistant Professor at the University of North Texas. Born in Greece, he studied classical guitar and composition in Athens, Greece and York, England; he taught for many years at Aristotle University in Thessaloniki (among others). Kokoras's sound compositions … Continue reading Composer Profile: Panayiotis Kokoras
New Voice: Joâo Schnier
Joâo Schnier describes a recent work: This piece was made with a completely distorted sample of my own voice. The composition process went rather quickly: I began by making a loop with just a small extract, then I transformed it in various ways and used each small sample as notes or musical ideas. I had only … Continue reading New Voice: Joâo Schnier
Composer Profile: Rutger Zuydervelt a/k/a Machinefabriek
Website Machinefabriek is the alias of Rutger Zuydervelt. Rutger's music combines elements of ambient, noise, minimalism, drone, field recordings and electro-acoustic experiments. His pieces can be heard as an attempt to create sonic environments for the listener to dwell in. Finding tension in texture, tone and timing, the result can be very minimalistic at … Continue reading Composer Profile: Rutger Zuydervelt a/k/a Machinefabriek
Composer Profile: Annette Krebs
Website Annette Krebs has been connected with music since her childhood. She studied music at "Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst" in Frankfurt/Main and finished her studies 1992 with the diploma. At the same time, she worked in painting. Since 1993 she has lived in Berlin and developed her own musical vocabulary. She works within … Continue reading Composer Profile: Annette Krebs
New Voice: Christian Mason
Website Born in London in 1984, Christian Mason was the recipient of the 2012 British Composer Award in the solo/duo category for Learning Self-Modulation, a work for violin and piano. This piece was co-commissioned by the Auditorium du Louvre, Paris; Wigmore Hall, London and the CDMC, Madrid, and was premiered by Carolin Widmann and Simon … Continue reading New Voice: Christian Mason
New Voice: Peter Kerkelov
Peter Kerkelov describes a recent work ~ Talking about improvisation and chance here I provide a link to my latest composition "Two Symphonies and Postumus" for string quartet. For creating this piece I was inspired by the sound of wind chimes. Not only by their fragile, ringing sound but also by the idea of random … Continue reading New Voice: Peter Kerkelov
Pet Sound: Ryuichi Sakamoto + Taylor Deupree
Isolation, solitude, contemplation. These are the themes that discreetly weave their way through “Disappearance”, the first collaboration album between 12k’s Taylor Deupree and pioneering electronic composer and pianist 坂本龍一. The two began their musical dialogue in 2006 when Deupree was invited to remix a song from Sakamoto’s album “Chasm”. With the convenience of both artists living in New … Continue reading Pet Sound: Ryuichi Sakamoto + Taylor Deupree
Musica Kaleidoskopea 