Website Mathias Grassow was born in Wiesbaden, Germany in 1963. From the start, music has always been a deep passion. He played drums and guitar in the 1970s and moved on to keyboards in the early 1980s. Mathias became increasingly fascinated with the flexibility and possibility inherent in keyboards and electronics and created experimental electronic … Continue reading Mathias Grassow ~ Tara
Composer Profile: Simon Steen-Andersen
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
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
Johannes Maria Staud ~ One Movement and Five Miniatures
Publisher's Biography http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FaFqshsg3k This work took as its point of departure the challenge of using the ‘early music’ instrument, the harpsichord, alongside the ‘new music’ instrument, the computer. In the course of composition it became clear that this was not a question of a reciprocal demarcation of boundaries between these two spheres, but rather of their … Continue reading Johannes Maria Staud ~ One Movement and Five Miniatures
Serialism, Indeterminacy, Musique concrète and Minimalism
Around the middle of the 20th century several new compositional styles (while not emerging entirely new) came to represent dominant streams, almost establishing a kind of “common practice”, for at least a few years. While these methods of composing have lost much of their initial momentum, their influence continues to effect composers even … Continue reading Serialism, Indeterminacy, Musique concrète and Minimalism
Mieczyslaw Weinberg (1919-1996): the third greatest 20th century Russian composer?
Website Mieczyslaw Weinberg, or Moisey Vainberg or Vaynberg, was not Russian, but a Polish Jew. He was born in Warsaw, Poland December 8, 1919 to Jewish parents and lived in Warsaw until 1939, when he left to escape the Nazi invasion. He managed to escape, but not before, unfortunately, the rest of his family were … Continue reading Mieczyslaw Weinberg (1919-1996): the third greatest 20th century Russian composer?
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
Musica Kaleidoskopea 