Steve Lacy was an American jazz saxophonist and composer recognized as one of the important players of soprano saxophone. Coming to prominence in the 1950s as a progressive dixieland musician, Lacy went on to a long and prolific career. He worked extensively in experimental jazz and to a lesser extent in free improvisation, but Lacy's music was typically melodic and tightly-structured. Lacy also became a highly distinctive composer, with compositions often built out of little more than a single questioning phrase, repeated several times.
Alfred Brendel KBE is an Austrian classical pianist, poet, author, composer, and lecturer who is held in high regard for his performances of Mozart, Schubert, Schoenberg, and Beethoven.
Keith Jarrett is an American jazz and classical music pianist and composer. Jarrett started his career with Art Blakey and later moved on to play with Charles Lloyd and Miles Davis. Since the early 1970s, he has also been a group leader and solo performer in jazz, jazz fusion, and classical music. His improvisations draw from the traditions of jazz and other genres, including Western classical music, gospel, blues, and ethnic folk music.
Philip Lionel Corner is an American composer, trombonist, alphornist, vocalist, pianist, music theorist, music educator, and visual artist.
Fazıl Say is a Turkish pianist and composer.
Stjepan Šulek was a Croatian composer, conductor, violinist and music teacher.
M. Lewis Spratlan Jr. is an American music academic and composer of contemporary classical music.
Dubravko Pavličić was a Croatian footballer who played as a central defender.
The Vladimir Nazor Award is a Croatian prize for arts and culture established in 1959 and awarded every year by the Ministry of Culture.
Dubravko Šimenc is a former Croatian water polo player who competed for both Yugoslavia and Croatia, and later water polo coach.
Boris Papandopulo was a Croatian composer and conductor of Greek and Russian Jewish descent. He was the son of Greek nobleman Konstantin Papandopulo and Croatian opera singer Maja Strozzi-Pečić and one of the most distinctive Croatian musicians of the 20th century. Papandopulo also worked as music writer, journalist, reviewer, pianist and piano accompanist; however, he achieved the peaks of his career in music as a composer. His composing oeuvre is imposing : with great success he created instrumental, vocal and instrumental, stage music and film music. In all these kinds and genres he left a string of anthology-piece compositions of great artistic value.
The Tin Ujević Award is an award given for contributions to Croatian poetry. It is considered the most prestigious award in Croatia and is named after the poet Tin Ujević.
Frantz Casseus was a Haitian-American guitarist and composer.
Dubravko Merlić is a Croatian journalist, television producer and author, known for his work as an actor, editor and anchor on the Croatian Radiotelevision and Nova TV. He is a winner of the 2007 Rose d'Or award for The Pyramid, a competitive talk show created by Castor Multimedia, a TV production company of which Merlić is currently the CEO.
Gestures is the first CD by the young pianist Maksim Mrvica. It features works by contemporary Croatian composers. The CD was recorded in Lisinski Studio, sound engineer - Hrvoje Hegedušić, music producer - Dubravko Detoni, executive producer - Xenia Detoni, cover photograph - Damil Kalogjera and design - Ana Nikolić. It was released in 1999.
Ayuo Takahashi is a Japanese-born American composer, poet, lyricist, singer and performer of plucked string instruments including guitar, bouzouki, Irish harp, Chinese zheng, Japanese koto, and medieval European psaltery. He is adept at adapting the ancient music of Japan, China, Persia, Greece and medieval Europe to create a new and original music without abandoning their strict forms, while simultaneously making them relevant to contemporary music styles. He has composed for classical ensembles including string quartets, piano, various chamber ensembles and orchestra, as well as composed, produced and performed with rock, jazz and musicians of various traditional music from around the world. He has also composed many music theater pieces, some of which has been released on CD in the United States and Japan.
Umberto Petrin is an Italian jazz pianist, composer and poet, he devoted himself to the study of the piano at the age of 12. After studying Chemistry, he graduated in Piano at the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory in Milan, where he is now Professor of Jazz Piano. From the age of 18 he took an active interest in contemporary poetry and began a long collaboration with literary magazines, winning several prizes and being a finalist in numerous poetry competitions.
Fran Galović was a Croatian writer who lived in the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
Dubravko Ledić is a former Bosnian footballer who played as a midfielder.
