Gerald M. Shapiro (born 1942 in Philadelphia) is an American composer of acoustic and electronic music.
Shapiro studied first at the Eastman School of Music, where he received a Bachelor of Music degree with distinction in 1964. He then did graduate work at Mills College, where he received an M.A. in 1967, the University of California, Davis, the San Francisco Tape Music Center, and in Paris at the Conservatoire Nationale de Musique and the École Normale Supérieure de Musique. His principal composition teachers were Darius Milhaud, Morton Subotnick, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Olivier Messiaen, and Nadia Boulanger. From 1967 he taught at Brown University, retiring in 2014 as Professor of Music, Emeritus. His compositions have been performed throughout the United States and Europe, and are recorded on the Naxos and Neuma labels.
Mario Davidovsky was an Argentine-American composer. Born in Argentina, he emigrated in 1960 to the United States, where he lived for the remainder of his life. He is best known for his series of compositions called Synchronisms, which in live performance incorporate both acoustic instruments and electroacoustic sounds played from a tape.
Grażyna Bacewicz Biernacka was a Polish composer and violinist of Lithuanian origin. She is the second Polish female composer to have achieved national and international recognition, the first being Maria Szymanowska in the early 19th century.
Nikolai Sergeevich Korndorf was a Russian and Canadian composer and conductor. He was prolific both in Moscow, Russia, and in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
James Dillon is a Scottish composer who is often regarded as belonging to the New Complexity school. Dillon studied art and design, linguistics, piano, acoustics, Indian rhythm, mathematics and computer music, but is self-taught in composition.
Jonathan Dean Harvey was a British composer. He held teaching positions at universities and music conservatories in Europe and the United States.
Henri Léon Marie-Thérèse Pousseur was a Belgian classical composer, teacher, and music theorist.
Claude Ledoux is a Belgian composer, born in 1960.
Bruce Mather is a Canadian composer, pianist, and writer who is particularly known for his contributions to contemporary classical music.
Tomás Marco Aragón is a Spanish composer and writer on music.
York Höller is a German composer and professor of composition at the Hochschule für Musik Köln.
Jukka Santeri Tiensuu is a Finnish contemporary classical composer, harpsichordist, pianist and conductor.
John Palmer (1959) is a British composer, pianist, and musicologist, also known as a university professor. He has held teaching positions in England, Switzerland and Germany and has delivered masterclasses across universities and music conservatories throughout Europe. His music is published by Composers Edition.
Roman Haubenstock - since 1943 Roman Haubenstock-Ramati was a composer and music editor who worked in Kraków, Tel Aviv and Vienna.
Zygmunt Krauze is a Polish composer of contemporary classical music, educator, and pianist.
Gary Alan Kulesha is a Canadian composer, pianist, conductor, and educator. Since 1995, he has been Composer Advisor to the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. He has been Composer-in-Residence with the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony (1988–1992) and the Canadian Opera Company (1993–1995). He was awarded the National Arts Centre Orchestra Composer Award in 2002.
Ivan Fedele is an Italian composer. He studied at the Milan Conservatory.
Philippe Capdenat is a French composer and academic teacher. First a mining engineer, he started composing avant-garde music, but turned to chamber music, music for the stage and vocal music, using traditional instruments. He has been a teacher at several French universities and conservatories.
Richard Gibson is a Canadian composer of contemporary classical music, and Professor of Composition at the Université de Moncton in New Brunswick.
Nicole Lizée is a Canadian composer of contemporary music. She was born in Gravelbourg, Saskatchewan and received a MMus from McGill University. She lives in Montreal, Quebec. At one time, she was a member of The Besnard Lakes, an indie rock band from Montreal.
Andrew Staniland is a Canadian composer and guitarist. He is currently a professor of Composition and Electronic Music at the Memorial University of Newfoundland.