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, known for his symphonies, operas, and large choral works.
Bruce Mather is a Canadian composer, pianist, and writer who is particularly known for his contributions to contemporary classical music.
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.
Zdeněk Lukáš was a Czech composer. He authored over 330 works.
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.
Marti Epstein is an American composer. She is Professor of Composition at Berklee College of Music and the Boston Conservatory at Berklee.
Mark Carlson is an American composer, flutist, UCLA professor, and the founder and Artistic Director of Pacific Serenades.
Janet Maguire was an American composer born in Chicago, resided in Venice, Italy.
Madeleine Isaksson is a Swedish/French composer.
Tigran Yeghiayi Mansurian is a leading Armenian composer of classical music and film scores, 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. He was nominated for Grammy awards in 2004 and 2017.
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.