Joanne Metcalf (born Los Angeles, 1958) is an American composer. She studied at Duke University with Scott Lindroth and with Louis Andriessen at the Royal Conservatory of Music in The Hague. She currently teaches composition at Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin. [1]
Her Il nome del bel fior (1998), based on the vision of Mary in Canto XXIII of Dante‘s Paradiso, was composed for, and recorded by, the Hilliard Ensemble and Singer Pur. [2]
Louis Joseph Andriessen was a Dutch composer, pianist and academic teacher. Considered the most influential Dutch composer of his generation, he was a central proponent of The Hague school of composition. Although his music was initially dominated by neoclassicism and serialism, his style gradually shifted to a synthesis of American minimalism, jazz and the manner of Stravinsky.
Juan Sebastián Lach Lau is a Mexican composer of classical, microtonal and electroacoustic works.
Jasna Veličković is a Serbian composer.
Richard Baker is a British composer and conductor.
The California EAR Unit was an American chamber ensemble dedicated to the performance of contemporary classical music. The group was founded in March 1981 in Los Angeles, California.
Scott Allen Lindroth is an American composer and teacher based near Durham, North Carolina.
Martijn Padding is a Dutch composer and educator.
Víctor Varela is a Venezuelan-Swedish composer based in Gothenburg. His compositions include works for orchestra, vocal and instrumental chamber music, with electronics and computer devices.
Susanne Abbuehl is a Swiss/Dutch jazz singer and composer.
Ivana Kiš is a Croatian composer of classical music, electronic music and music theatre.
Peter Hannan is a Canadian composer, opera director and recorder player based in British Columbia. Hannan has composed music for the recorder, and is known for his work in the field of electro-acoustics. and sampled music as well as his compositions for modern opera.
Richard Ayres is a British composer and music teacher.
Koji Nakano is a Japanese composer.
Yannis Kyriakides is a composer of contemporary classical music, and sound art. His music explores new forms and hybrids of media, synthesizing disparate sound sources and highlighting the sensorial space of music. He has focused in the majority of his work on ways of combining traditional performance practices with digital media, particularly in the use of live electronics. The relation between music and language has been explored in many pieces that utilize text films as a multimedia element.
Sinta Wullur is an Indonesian-Dutch gamelan musician, pianist, singer, and classical composer.
Mary Finsterer is an Australian composer and academic.
Ralph van Raat is a Dutch classical pianist.
Penka Kouneva is a Bulgarian-American composer, orchestrator and soundtrack producer. In 1999, she began working in film and television and in 2009 began to score for videogames. Her music is a blend of Bulgarian influences, classical training, rock sensibility, and modern film and game soundtracks.
Nora Fischer is a soprano singer. Her new album, HUSH, furthers her reputation as someone who breaks conventional musical genre barriers.
Caroline Mallonée is an American composer best known for her choral works. She is also the artistic director of the Creative Musicians Retreat, part of The Walden School's summer offerings.