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A Famous Composer Writes to Noosa Chorale
Jim Fagan The famous British composer Sir Karl Jenkins has sent his thanks to the singers of the Noosa Chorale who will perform one of his works, Stabat Mater, next month.
Sir Karl is one of the most performed living…
Fingerstyle Acoustic Guitar Composer and Virtuoso Mark Vickness Launches “Alluvial Fans”…
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ASHEVILLE, North Carolina, USA, April 22, 2022 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Two years after the release of his highly acclaimed CD,…
Composer secures rights from Hollywood studio to stage Holocaust opera | News
A young British composer has secured the rights to stage an opera based on the film The boy in the striped pajamas.
Miramax, which owns the rights to the story after making the 2008 film of the same name, originally asked composer Noah…
Harrison Birtwistle, British composer, dies at 87 – Billboard
Harrison Birtwistle, the creator of bold experimental modern music, recognized as one of Britain's greatest contemporary composers, has died aged 87.
The publisher of Birtwistle, Boosey & Hawkes, said he died on Monday at his home…
Revolutionary composer Harrison Birtwistle dies at 87
Placeholder while loading article actionsHarrison Birtwistle, the creator of bold, experimental modern music recognized as one of Britain's greatest contemporary composers, died on April 18 at his home in Mere, England. He was 87 years…
New Louisville Orchestra Season Features Composer Residency World Premieres – 89.3 WFPL News…
the Louisville Orchestra announced its 2022-23 performance season on Tuesday, which will include world premieres by the organization's inaugural cohort new Creators Corps residency programa concert series in southern Indiana and at…
The human scale of it: Peter Simpson remembers composer Jonathan Besser
Peter Simpson reads Around the Corners, Out to the Edges, a memoir published two months after the untimely death of his friend, Jonathan Besser.
The title of Jonathan's memoir comes from the opening lines of a long poem by American poet…
Composer and musician Jon Batiste on his Carnegie Hall Perspectives series
For Batiste, it's about building on what came before.
Oscar-winning composer, musician, conductor and cultural ambassador Jon Batiste defies all categories. From his community “love riot” performances to his compositions…
Sir Harrison Birtwistle, avant-garde composer who became the great old man of British classical…
Sir Harrison Birtwistle, CH, who died aged 87, was one of the most uncompromising British composers of modern times and one of the hardest to classify; his abrasive, avant-garde music, often sounding like a dense jumble of notes and…
Classical composer Dani Howard loves pop and hates pretension
Dani Howard's path to composition was not the most conventional. “It was the influence of my piano teacher. I was working on my exam pieces and asked him if I could just rewrite a few bars. She said, 'I'm not sure, but why don't…
TESLA RHAPSODY a ‘tour de force’ by award-winning pianist and composer Marina…
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Marina Arsenijevic pianist and composer
Marina Arsenijevic in New York
Marina Arsenijevic pianist and composer
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The Boston Modern Orchestra Project pays tribute to Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, composer and pioneer
On Friday night, the Boston Modern Orchestra Project performed its most normal concert of the season – as normal as the BMOP is, anyway. Compared to February's organ extravaganza at Symphony Hall and June's highly anticipated production of…
New CD from composer Dan Locklair includes a Requiem written for the living as it honors the dead |…
Dan Locklair, a composer at Winston-Salem, completed his third symphony last year but recently released his first requiem.“Composers rarely make more than one requiem in their lifetime,” Locklair said. “You do a requiem,…
Obituary: Lyell Cresswell, composer who always sought to strike a chord
Lyell Cresswell: composer; b October 13, 1944; from March 19, 2022 Born and educated in New Zealand, composer Lyell Cresswell has lived in Scotland for over half his life. But he does not consider himself a Scot: “I am a New Zealander…
Classical composer Tchaikovsky’s house destroyed by Russian terrorists
Russian invaders under the orders of terrorist Putin have destroyed the 19th century house where composer Pyotr Illyich Tchaikovsky premiered his first work.
The Tchaikovsky House in the city of Trostyanets, northeastern…
Composer Qigang Chen Brings Bicultural Collaboration to New York Philharmonic Orchestra
With Reflection of a time goneChen masters the delicate balance of being true to his home country, his new home, and his own voice.
Two years before Qigang Chen's Central Conservatory classmates Tan Dun, Chen Yi and Zhou…
Saxophonist and composer Trish Clowes plays Hastings
Trish by Rose HendrySpokesman Julian Norridge said: “Clowes was a BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist from 2012 to 2014, during which time she was commissioned to write for the BBC Concert Orchestra, a piece that won a British Composer Award…
Ukrainian composer sends support through music (VIDEO)
By Maura SirianiApril 2, 2022Sophia Pavlenko-Chandley said all the money raised from the benefit concerts will go to Ukraine.Sophia Pavlenko-Chandley is a gifted composer, traveling the country, giving duo piano recitals with her husband,…
Obituaries: Lyell Cresswell, New Zealand-born composer who calls Scotland home
Lyell Cresswell was a quiet man but a creative heavyweightIn the 1980s the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra performed a new work by Lyell Cresswell. Older members of the orchestra still fondly remember the New Zealand-born composer sitting…
Scottish composer John McLeod dies aged 88
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Born in 1934 in Aberdeen, Scotland, John McLeod BCE has written music for several mediums, including film and television. In 1970 he moved to Edinburgh.
He first studied the clarinet in London royal…
Ukraine’s most famous living composer is now a refugee
His “Prayer for Ukraine” was the centerpiece of a Metropolitan Opera benefit concert this month. His Fourth Symphony has been performed in recent weeks by the London Philharmonic Orchestra; his Eighth, by the Lithuanian National Opera;…
composer Mason Bates on the powers and perils of musical storytelling
Musical storytelling is on my mind this month as the London Philharmonic Orchestra performs liquid interface, my first large-scale exploration of musical storytelling in the form of an "aquatic symphony". Premiered at the Kennedy Center…
Harlem’s Margaret Bonds, composer, pianist, arranger, teacher and one of the first black…
Margaret Allison Bonds, March 3, 1913 – April 26, 1972, was a Harlem composer, pianist, arranger and teacher.
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One of the first black female composers and performers to achieve…
From bandeau singer to classical songwriter, Colorado native Kip Winger finds a new audience
RED CLIFF, Colo. (KDVR) — They were the stars of MTV 30 years ago: glam rockers whose careers rose higher than their heavily sprayed hair. And few of its kind weighed bigger than Kip Winger.
Winger was born in Denver and…
Italian-French composer and keyboardist Alex Carpani to release concept album…
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With members from King Crimson, Soft Machine, Van de Graaf Generator and many more!…
Wire/wire to perform the portrait of the composer by Thomas Meadowcroft
On Thursday, April 21, 2022 at 8:00 p.m., experimental percussion and piano quartet Yarn/Wire will present two world premieres by Australian-born, Berlin-based composer Thomas Meadowcroft at Columbia University's Miller Theater. Part of…
At ‘Hope in the Night’, PostClassical Ensemble gives black composer William Levi Dawson…
But Friday's program also served as an evening prep session on composer William Levi Dawson (1899-1990). A skilled arranger of spirituals and longtime conductor of the Tuskegee Institute Choir, Dawson was also an exquisitely talented…
Highly sought-after composer Reena Esmail launches new piece with the Seattle Symphony
For its opening concert last September, when the Seattle Symphony returned for its first full season since the pandemic hit, it was the music of Reena Esmail that kicked off the program. She continues her role as composer-in-residence…
Artist-in-Residence Concert with Composer Jocelyn Hagen – The Spectator
The Artist-in-Residence Concert takes place this Thursday, March 17 at the Haas Fine Arts Center with choral composer Jocelyn Hagen and all six choral groups: Concert Choir, Symphonic, Singing Statesmen, Novum Voce, the Treble choir and…
“Grace” Composer Nolan Williams Jr.’s Dream Day in DC
"When I started reading this story, the only way to describe it is that the story started singing to me," says Williams, 53, to whom the books were gifted by the late arts administrator and of the museum, Steven Newsome. "I'm not really a…
Pasadena Chorale Presents Student Composer Concert LISTENING TOT HE FUTURE April 2
Pasadena Chorale will announce that tickets are now available for its next performance, "Listening to the Future," Saturday, April 2 at 7 p.m. at Neighborhood Unitarian Universalist Church in Pasadena.Spectators will discover 17 new pieces…
Cardiff Philharmonic’s decision not to play Russian composer ‘a terrible mistake’,…
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Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Photo by Emile Reutlinger
The Cardiff Philharmonic Orchestra's decision to drop Russian composer Pyotr Tchaikovsky from its upcoming program due to!-->…
Cardiff Orchestra withdraws Russian composer’s music from concert due to Ukraine invasion
The Cardiff Philharmonic Orchestra has removed a Russian composer from its upcoming concert program on the war in Ukraine. The orchestra says it would be "inappropriate at this time" to include Tchaikovsky and the decision was made "in!-->…
Gara Garayev – world famous Azerbaijani composer, whose music is rooted in the traditions of…
Baku, March 9, AZERTAC
The world famous Azerbaijani composer, Gara Garayev left a deep imprint on the musical culture not only of Azerbaijan, but of the whole world.
His compositional art received wide recognition, both in Azerbaijan and…
March 15 concert in honor of the work of composer Mauricio Kagel
Professors from three Louisiana universities will perform in a tribute concert to composer Mauricio Kagel on Tuesday, March 15 at 7:30 p.m. at Magale Recital Hall. Attendees include, from left, Northwestern State professor Dr.…
Composer traveling Route 66 to set the highway to music | national news
KINGMAN, Ariz. – If US Route 66 was a symphony orchestra, what would it look like?It's a question that Dr.…
A Conversation with Pianist, Composer and Conductor Adam Burnette
Adam Burnette is a pianist, bandleader and composer from Chatsworth, Georgia. He has worked across the United States, from the Kennedy Center to Indiana State University, and in Europe. His work was recently featured in NewMusicShelf…
Piano star Richard Clayderman offers duet with ‘great composer’ Ed Sheeran
French pianist Richard Clayderman hailed Ed Sheeran as a "great composer" and offered a duet after seeing the singer-songwriter in concert.The 68-year-old classical musician watched Sheeran perform at the Stade de!-->!-->!-->…
Clarinetist, composer returns to share the music
Clarinetist, composer returns to share the music
A South Whidbey alum prepares for her first show at the Whidbey Island Center for the Arts.
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Munich and Rotterdam could fire Russian composer Gergiev, London abandons the Bolshoi
Munich Mayor Dieter Reiter has threatened to remove Valery Gergiev as conductor of the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra unless Gergiev says publicly by Monday!-->…
Concert will pay tribute to historic black composer – InkFreeNews.com
WABASH — A concert will pay tribute to a historic black composer. The Manchester Symphony Orchestra celebrates the "Trailblazers" at their first concert of 2022. It will be at 3pm on Sunday March 13 at the Honeywell Center in Wabash.
The…
Violinist, composer and conductor Jaakko Kuusisto has died | News
Finnish musician Jaakko Kuusisto died on February 23, 2022. Diagnosed with a brain tumor in the summer of 2020, his condition deteriorated earlier this year and he was hospitalized.
Kuusisto was born on January 17, 1974 into a family of…
Premiere of the Double Concerto for violin and percussion by the Finnish composer
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Finland Lahti Symphony Orchestra will be the first Kalevi AhoConcerto for viola, percussion and orchestra.
Will be held at Sibelius House concert hall in the evening, this double concerto will be…
composer Jimmy López explains why new music needs time and space
We are in 2022; time for artistic leaders to show the way to the future and not to underestimate the public's thirst for novelty. Stop living in the past. You have heard this phrase before. Composers have been pronouncing it for more…
Euphoria composer Labrinth talks about making music with (and for)…
It's an important scene, as Rue reflects on her father and his death, which was the catalyst for her eventual descent into drug addiction. How emotional was it on set?
It was fucking emotional. Literally the whole place was crying at the…
Local composer featured at Wartburg Community Symphony concert this weekend | Best Stories
WAVERLY, Iowa (KWL) — When you think of a composer, the image of someone who lived decades or even centuries…
Gordon Crosse, composer who set works by Ted Hughes, Stevie Smith and Robert Graves to music –…
His operas Purgatory and The Grace of Todd were seen as a double bill at Jubilee Hall, Aldeburgh on June 7, 1969. That night Maltings Concert Hall in Snape, six miles away, was consumed by the fire. Unaware of the ongoing disaster that…
Nationally accredited composer travels RT 66 to draw inspiration from namesake orchestral suite
America's Mother Road, which stretches 2,000 miles across the country, is once again the center of attention as the 100th anniversary approaches. Dr. Nolan Stolz of the University of South Carolina has also turned his attention to…
Composer Raven Chacon presents works at the Whitney Biennial
Composer Raven Chacon relaxes at her home in downtown Albuquerque. The composer/musician/artist has just been invited to the Whitney Biennial. (Adolphe Pierre-Louis/Albuquerque Journal)
Albuquerque composer Raven Chacon…
The legendary video game composer talks about his work and his process
Inon Zur is one of, otherwise the most, prolific composers working in the gaming industry today. With a massive backlog of iconic sheet music to his name, chances are any gamer worth his salt has had his songs stuck in his head at one…
New album celebrates composer John Williams’ 90th birthday
Today 90and Legendary film score composer John Williams' birthday is celebrated with the release of a new album, John Williams – The Berlin Concert.
The album, from Deutsche Grammophon, captures live a series of sold-out concerts last…
George Crumb, eclectic composer in search of sounds, dies at 92
Other plays were equally theatrical and sometimes had ritual elements. A recording of whale songs by a marine scientist inspired his “Vox Balaenae (Voice of the Whale)” for electric flute, cello and amplified piano (1971). Performers wear…
Mexican composer Rubén Fuentes, author of La Bikina, dies at 95
The Mexican composer Rubn Fuentes, creator of the famous mariachi songs "La Bikina" and "El Son de la Negra", He died this Saturday at the age of 95, reported the Society of Authors and Composers of Mexico (SACM).
Fuentes' compositions,…
OU School of Music welcomes a composer | News
Composer Lori Laitman is scheduled to visit the University of Oklahoma's…
LE CHEVALIER brings the life and music of an 18th century black composer to the stage February 18-20
In partnership with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association, the North Shore Center for the Performing Arts and Concert Theater Works, Music of the Baroque presents the Midwest premiere of "The Chevalier," a new concert play written and…
Baku celebrates the birthday of a Russian composer [PHOTO]
January 31, 2022 2:50 p.m. (UTC+04:00)
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Russian composer Alexander Scriabin made history as the inventor of the first color keyboard and the notation of…
Composer pays homage to Rinns of Islay in new symphony
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Bach to Bach: Sunday concert to celebrate the work of the famous German composer – American…
Johann Sebastian Bach's music will feature in the Lake Charles Symphony's "Bach to Bach" concert. (Special for the American press)…
Best Works by Brahms: Top 10 Pieces by the Romantic Composer
From the Cradle Song to his Third Symphony, you've probably heard more Brahms in everyday life than you thought.Spending most of his time in Vienna, he evolved among part of the musical elite of the mid-Romantic era, befriending Robert and…
Final score and final word from Sondheim: chameleon composer, blacksmith of blacksmiths
Chicago's Sondheim in the Park celebration at Millennium Park in July 2006, including two concerts with the Grant Park Orchestra and Chorus. Sondheim attends performances by Chicago actors and musicians in the Lurie Garden / Photo: Darren…
Best Einaudi Songs: 10 Works by the Minimalist Pianist and Composer
January 25, 2022, 3:38 p.m. | Updated: January 25, 2022, 4:04 PM
10 best works by pianist and composer Ludovico Einaudi.
Photo: Aliyah…
Tchaikovsky, composer of the world’s most uplifting ballets, had crippling problems…
January 24, 2022, 4:51 p.m. | Updated: January 24, 2022, 5:07 PM
Tchaikovsky's letters give us insight into his personal life.
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The Batman theme unveiled by composer Michael Giacchino
As we get closer and closer to March, anticipation grows for the release of The Batman. The latest iteration of Gotham's legendary superhero in the DCEU is finally set to hit theaters on March 4, 2022, after multiple delays throughout the…
It’s a Day in the Sun for Pioneering Black Composer Florence Price
In July 1936, composer, pianist, organist and pedagogue Florence B. Price was profiled again in the Chicago Defender. Since 1918, her affiliations and accomplishments had attracted the attention of publication, an…
Colorado Springs Philharmonic Orchestra Concerts to Feature Award-Winning Composer and Pianist |
Composer Scott Ordway was on a trip to Istanbul when he first heard the call to prayer in a Muslim…
Bamberg Symphony Orchestra Under Conductor Hrůša Wins Prestigious ICMA Award
One of Anton Bruckner's most popular works, Symphony No. 4 was written in 1874 and repeatedly revised by Bruckner after its initial release. In a new album, the Bamberg Symphony under Jakub Hrůša performed all three!-->!-->!-->…
Prolific composer and Head of Music at RTÉ
John Kinsella
Birth: April 8, 1932
Died: November 9, 2021…
Kennedy Center to celebrate composer John Williams’ 90th birthday
WASHINGTON, DC — The Kennedy Center and the National Symphony Orchestra will host a three-day festival in June to honor composer John Williams as he celebrates his 90th birthday.Williams, a five-time Academy Award winner and 25-time Grammy…
Composer Danny Elfman Brings Hollywood Flair to Colorado Symphony | Culture & Leisure
There's a great new podcast called "Let's Talk to Lucy" which unearths short celebrity radio conversations…
Francis Jackson, organist, composer and dean of cathedral music who spent nine decades associated…
Jackson became sub-organist on Easter Monday 1946; 10 days later, Bairstow passed away after 33 years of service and Jackson took his place; Bairstow's warning that his mission was to be a "musical generalist" or "jack of all trades"…
Cleveland Orchestra Focuses On Young Composer Bernd Richard Deutsch With World Premiere Of…
CLEVELAND, Ohio - Ever since living with a pandemic, Bernd Richard Deutsch has been waiting for this moment.He completed “Intensity,” a new piece for the Cleveland Orchestra and music director Franz Welser-Most, in March 2020, days before…
Oksana Lyniv begins another role of revolutionary composer
Ukrainian Oksana Lyniv, one of the world's most exciting classical music talents, once again made history with a three-year position at the Teatro Comunale in Bologna. With her new job, which began this month, the superstar…
Composer Betsy Jolas receives French Commander of the Legion of Honor
(Photo credit: Jacques Demarthon)
Born in Paris in 1926, Betsy jolas has dual American and French nationality. After graduating from Bennington College, she continued her studies in Paris in 1946 - studying with Darius Milhaud and Olivier…
Swedish House Mafia ‘One’ Symphony Composer Remix
Swedish House Mafia closed their massive comeback in 2021 with a brand new single. After dropping a collaboration with The Weeknd and announcing a spot at Coachella in 2022, the electronic trio called on respected classical composer…
World-famous composer conducts New Years concert in Shanghai
Famous composer and conductor Tan Dun conducts the Shanghai Chinese Orchestra on Friday for the Shanghai Grand Theater New Year's concert. Their performance will include…
Thirty years of ‘Sonic the Hedgehog’ with composer Jun Senoue
Iborn in 30 years, Sonic the hedgehog has become a cultural icon, and the music in its games has provided soundtracks for generations of gamers. We found Jun Senoue, Sonicmusic guru since 1993.
Three decades ago this year, a pop culture…
MU Composer’s Bicentennial Piece Captures River Life, Music of Travelers |
MU composer Stefan Freund is no longer interested in camping.“I always say I'm not going to camp because I…
John Adams is both composer and conductor in the Seattle Symphony’s comeback engagement
Editor's Note: In view of the rapid spread of the omicron variant of the coronavirus, please take into account the safety recommendations of local health authorities as they are updated, and check your event's website for COVID-19…
“Walking in the Air” was written when the composer was on the verge of…
Howard Blake, the songwriter of the famous party song "Walking in the Air", said he was on the verge of "collapse" when he wrote the song.The song is best known as the soundtrack for Raymong Briggs' 1982 animated adaptation. The Snowman.In…