Milton Byron Babbitt was an American composer, music theorist, mathematician, and teacher. He is particularly noted for his serial and electronic music.
Alfred Whitford (Fred) Lerdahl is the Fritz Reiner Professor Emeritus of Musical Composition at Columbia University, and a composer and music theorist best known for his work on musical grammar and cognition, rhythmic theory, pitch space, and cognitive constraints on compositional systems. He has written many orchestral and chamber works, three of which were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize for Music: Time after Time in 2001, String Quartet No. 3 in 2010, and Arches in 2011.
A prepared guitar is a guitar that has had its timbre altered by placing various objects on or between the instrument's strings, including other extended techniques. This practice is sometimes called tabletop guitar, because many prepared guitarists do not hold the instrument in the usual manner, but instead place the guitar on a table to manipulate it.
Zurab Nadareishvili was born on January 4, 1957 in Poti, Georgia, where he went to primary and music school. From 1973 to 1978 he studied at the Georgian Polytechnic Institute, after that he resumed music lessons and in 1982 entered Tbilisi State Conservatory, composition class. During the studies at the conservatory he participated in student’s music festivals in Georgia, as well as other countries.
Martin Kennedy is a pianist and composer of contemporary classical music.
Nico Asher Muhly is an American contemporary classical music composer and arranger who has worked and recorded with both classical and pop musicians. A prolific composer, he has composed for many notable symphony orchestras and chamber ensembles and has had two operas commissioned by the Metropolitan Opera. Since 2006, he has released nine studio albums, many of which are collaborative, including 2017's Planetarium with Sufjan Stevens, Bryce Dessner & James McAlister. He is a member of the Icelandic music collective and record label Bedroom Community.
Jennifer Walshe is an Irish composer, vocalist and artist.
Ray Suen is an American musician based in Los Angeles, California, best known for his work with Childish Gambino, Lorde and Mariachi El Bronx.
Tomi Räisänen is a Finnish composer.
Rebecca Saunders is a London-born composer who lives and works freelance in Berlin. In a 2017 Classic Voice poll of the greatest works of art music since 2000, Saunders' compositions received the third highest total number of votes (30), surpassed only by the works of Georg Friedrich Haas (49) and Simon Steen-Andersen (35). In 2019, writers of The Guardian ranked Skin (2016) the 16th greatest work of art music since 2000, with Tom Service writing that "Saunders burrows into the interior world of the instruments, and inside the grain of Fraser's voice [...] and finds a revelatory world of heightened feeling."
Albert Schnelzer is a Swedish composer.
Richard Festinger is an American composer of contemporary classical music, pianist and educator.
Gerhard Präsent is an Austrian composer, conductor and academic teacher.
Sampo Haapamäki is a Finnish composer. He has won several international composition competitions.
Moisès Bertran i Ventejo, in Spanish Moisés Bertrán is a Catalan composer. He studied his Masters at the Hartt School of Music.
Allen Raymond Shearer is an American composer and baritone.
Gregor Huebner is a violinist, pianist and composer. He performs solo and with several ensembles including El Violin Latino, Sirius Quartet, Berta Epple and Salsafuerte. From 1985 to 2012 he was a member of Tango Five. He is a professor of composition at the University for Music and Theater in Munich, Germany. In 2017 he received the Grand Prize for New York Philharmonic's New World Initiative Composition Challenge for his composition “New World, Nov 9. 2016.”
Annesley Black is a Canadian composer.
Arshia Samsaminia is an Iranian composer.
Aki Yli-Salomäki is a Finnish composer, music critic and music journalist. Yli-Salomäki's works are often built on atmospheres, continuity and resonance. In addition to contemporary classical music, he also works as a composer and producer in popular music.
