Hsiung-Zee Wong (born October 24, 1947) is a composer, [1] artist, and designer who was born in Hong Kong.
Wong moved to the United States in 1966, where she worked as a freelance graphic designer and illustrator. She studied at the University of Hawaii until 1968. In 1970, she studied electronic music [2] at Mills College with Robert Sheff (later known as Gene Tyranny) and Dane Rudhyar. In 1972, she studied industrial design at the California College of Arts and Crafts. [3] Other teachers included Ernst Krenek, Chou Wen-Chung, Leonard Klein and Robert Ashley. [4] In 1972, Wong presented an art exhibit entitled "A Celebration of Women" at the Intersection Gallery (probably Intersection for the Arts). [5]
Wong founded Hysteresis, a women's creative arts group that included Bay-area artists, at Mills College. [6] She also performed with the Flowing Stream Ensemble. Wong's compositions include:
Marina Rosenfeld is an American composer, sound artist and visual artist based in New York City. Her work has been produced and presented by the Park Avenue Armory, Museum of Modern Art, Portikus (Frankfurt), Donaueschinger Musiktage, and such international surveys as documenta 14 and the Montreal, Liverpool, PERFORMA, and Whitney biennials, among many others. She has performed widely as an improvising turntablist, and served as co-chair of Music/Sound in the MFA program at the Milton Avery School of the Arts, Bard College, from 2007 to 2020. She has also taught at Harvard, Yale, Brooklyn College, and Dartmouth.
Jacqueline Nova Sondag (1935–1975) was a Colombian musician, author and composer. She is often cited as having initiated Colombia's electroacoustic musical practices.
Composer Inna Abramovna Zhvanetskaya was born in Vinnytsia, Ukraine, on 20 January 1937 or 20 January 1939. She studied composition under Nikolay Peyko at the Gnessin School where she graduated in 1964. She taught piano and in 1965 became a lecturer in score-reading and instrumentation at the Gnessin School.
Valentine Yanovna Zhubinskaya was born in Kharkiv, Ukraine. She was a Ukrainian composer, concertmistress, lecturer, and pianist. Zhubinskaya was the concertmistress at Kharkiv State Theatre until 1948, while studying piano under M. Pilstrom and composition under V. Barabashov at the Kharkiv Conservatory. She graduated with distinction in 1949 and did postgraduate studies in Moscow, becoming a lecturer on the piano at Gnessin State Musical College in 1961.
Ludmila Anatolievna Yaroshevskaya was a Soviet composer, pianist, and concertmistress. A native of Kiev, she studied piano with V. Pukhalsky at the Lysenko Music School there, graduating in 1930. She was concertmistress at the Lviv Music School from 1923 to 1926. She died in Lviv in 1975.
Ilse Gerda Wunsch was an American composer, pianist, teacher, and choral conductor who was born in Germany.
Betty Ann Wong is an American author, composer, and multi-media musician. She received the 1988 Hollywood Dramalogue Critics Award for Outstanding Achievement for Original Music Theater for her work on Eugene O'Neill's Marco Millions. She has also composed film scores for Academy Award-winning movie producers Allie Light and Irving Saraf.
Beatrice Braverman Witkin was an American composer and pianist who was best known for her electronic music, especially the theme she composed for the TV show Wild, Wild World of Animals in 1973.
American composer and pianist Betty Rose Wishart was born on September 22, 1947, in Lumberton, North Carolina. She earned music degrees from Queens College and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, then pursued further studies in New York City. Her major teachers were Roger Hannay, Richard Bunger Evans, Donald Waxman, Michael Zenge, and Wolfgang Rose.
Regina Kastberg Hansen Willman was an American composer, born in Burns, Wyoming. She married Allan Arthur Willman in 1942; they divorced in 1956, but remained close throughout her life. Willman received a B.M. from the University of Wyoming in 1945, and a M.M. from the University of New Mexico in 1961. She studied with Darius Milhaud at Mills College, Roy Harris at Colorado College, and pursued further studies at the University of California, Berkeley, the Juilliard School, the Sorbonne, and the Lausanne Conservatory. Willman was the resident composer of the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation in Taos, New Mexico, from 1956–57 and 1960-61. Her papers are archived at the University of Wyoming.
Jane Kathleen Sinclair Wells is a British composer and saxophonist. She began her studies at the junior department of the Royal College of Music, then spent five years studying music education at universities in Durham, Sussex, and Southampton. She studied composition with David Lumsdaine and Jonathan Harvey. Later, she took courses in adult education, working with the frail elderly, and making music with learning-disabled adults. Wells worked in London from 1978 to 1987, where in addition to composing, she taught adults and led music-making sessions for children for the Battersea Arts Centre and the Gemini music ensemble.
Carol Ann Weaver is an American-Canadian composer, pianist, and teacher.
Regina Cohn Watson was a composer, pianist, and teacher who was born in Germany. Her family later moved to America, first to Detroit, then to Chicago, where Regina lived for the rest of her life. In 1873, she married Lewis H. Watson, a Civil War veteran who had fought with an infantry unit from Maine.
An-Ming Wang is the pen name of Chinese-American composer and pianist Marion Wang Mak.
Alice Vinette was a Canadian composer, organist, and nun. Her religious name was Sister Marie-Jocelyne.
Awilda M. Villarini-Garcia is a Puerto Rican composer and pianist who publishes and performs under the name "Awilda Villarini."
Marcelle Henriette Marie Villin was a French composer and organist who published her music under the name "Marcelle Villin."
Composer Tamara Nikolayevna Vakhvakhishvili was born in Warsaw, but lived much of her life in Georgia, where she was awarded the title of Honored Artist of the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic.
Iwonka Bogumila Szymanska is a Polish composer and pianist who developed a new musical form she called a “sonnet.”
Ann Loomis Silsbee was an American composer and poet who composed two operas, published three books of poetry, and received several awards, commissions, and fellowships.
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