Soundcloud Tamar Diesendruck's favored compositional medium for many years has been virtuosic chamber music; in recent years however her focus has shifted and opportunities to compose for larger ensembles are embraced. In addition to mixed chamber ensemble, string quartet, duos and trios she has also composed solo, orchestral, choral, wind ensemble and vocal works. Her … Continue reading Composer Profile: Tamar Diesendruck
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Composer Profile: Sophie Lacaze
Website | Mezzo Compo Feature Unsubdued but attentive to musical trends and schools, French composer Sophie Lacaze has developed an original aesthetics that takes into account the current research on sound while looking to restore music its primary functions, i.e. ritual, incantation, dance, and its links with nature. Sophie Lacaze studied music at the Conservatoire National de … Continue reading Composer Profile: Sophie Lacaze
Composer Profile: Clara Maïda
Website | Soundcloud Clara Maïda lives in Paris and Berlin. She turned to music composition after studying psychology at Nice-Sophia Antipolis and Aix-Marseille 1 Universities and music at the University of Huddersfield-UK (PhD in Composition) and Paris 8-Saint-Denis University (Master 2 in Musicology, Creation, Music and Society), Marseille and Nice conservatories of music, Cefedem-Sud/Training Centre for Teaching … Continue reading Composer Profile: Clara Maïda
Composer Profile: Vivian Fung
Website | Soundcloud JUNO Award-winning Canadian composer Vivian Fung has distinguished herself as a composer with a powerful compositional voice, whose music often merges Western forms with non-Western influences such as Balinese and Javanese gamelan and folk songs from minority regions of China. In 2012, Naxos Canadian Classics released the world premiere recording of Ms. Fung’s … Continue reading Composer Profile: Vivian Fung
New Voice: Bernhard Philipp Eder
Website | Soundcloud | YouTube Bernhard Philipp Eder, born in 1984 and raised in Vienna, Austria, has devoted his life to the arts of music from a very early age, when he began taking piano lessons and visiting classical concerts. At the age of 15, while studying at the Konservatorium Wien University and the Musikgymnasium Wien Neustiftgasse … Continue reading New Voice: Bernhard Philipp Eder
Composer Profile: Naomi Pinnock
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
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
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
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