Jean-Pascal Chaigne (born 1977) is a French composer.
Following initial studies at the Conservatoire National de Région de Tours and the University of Tours, he was admitted to the Conservatoire de Paris where he obtained first prizes in analysis, harmony, orchestration, counterpoint, 20th century music writing and composition, studying with Emmanuel Nunes and Stefano Gervasoni. Jean-Pascal Chaigne is Professor of XX-XXI century musical writing at the Paris Conservatory (CNSMDP) and at the Haute Ecole de Musique Vaud Valais Fribourg (Lausanne Conservatory) in Switzerland.
John Harris Harbison is an American composer and academic.
Éric Gaudibert was a Swiss composer.
Bruce Mather is a Canadian composer, pianist, and writer who is particularly known for his contributions to contemporary classical music.
Pehr Henrik Nordgren was a Finnish composer.
Stefans Grové was a South African composer. Before his death the following assessment was made of him: "He is regarded by many as Africa's greatest living composer, possesses one of the most distinctive compositional voices of our time".
Zygmunt Krauze is a Polish composer of contemporary classical music, educator, and pianist.
Daniel Felsenfeld is a composer of contemporary classical music and a writer.
William Jay Sydeman was a prolific American composer. He was born in New York. He studied at Duke University, and received a B.S. degree in 1955 from the Mannes School of Music, having studied with Felix Salzer, Roy Travis, and Roger Sessions. He received his master's in music from the Hartt School in 1958, studying under Arnold Franchetti and Goffredo Petrassi. From 1959 to 1970 he joined the composition faculty at his alma mater Mannes School of Music.
Jiří Teml is a Czech composer and radio producer.
Janet Maguire (1927–2019) was an American composer who was born in Chicago and resided in Venice, Italy.
Madeleine Isaksson is a Swedish/French composer.
Tigran Yeghiayi Mansurian is a leading Armenian composer of classical and film music, People's Artist of the Armenian SSR (1990), and Honored Art Worker of the Armenian SSR (1984). He is the author of orchestral, chamber, choir, and vocal works which have been played across the world.
Eibhlis Farrell is a Northern Irish composer.
José Luis Turina is a Spanish composer, grandson of Joaquín Turina.
Ivan Fedele is an Italian composer. He studied at the Milan Conservatory.
