List of 21st-century classical composers

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This is a list of 21st-century classical composers, sortable by name, year of birth and year of death.

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The list includes composers who have made classical music since 2001. The 21st century is defined by the calendar rather than by any unifying characteristics of musical style or attitude, and is therefore not an era of the same order as the classical or romantic. However, the century to date can be considered a continuation of the postmodern era that began during the 20th century and differs from the earlier modernist era in matters of attitude more than style.

List

NameYear ofNationalityNotable 21st-century worksRemarks
birthdeath
Alma Deutscher 2005EnglishThe Sweeper of Dreams (opera); Cinderella (opera); Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in G; Piano Concerto in E-flat major Female composer
Yihan Chen 1994Chinese
Conrad Tao 1994American
Grace-Evangeline Mason 1994British
Anna Appleby 1993BritishDrought (opera)
Dani Howard 1993British
Diana Ringo 1992Finnish
Edward W. Hardy 1992American The Woodsman (Off-Broadway/ film); Three Pieces Inspired by Edgar Allan Poe ; Nevermore, Evil Eye, A Fantasy (solo violin & string quartet); Evolution – The Evolution of Black Music (solo violin); Strange Fruit (string quartet/ film);
Caio Facó 1992BrazilianDiário das Narrativas Fantásticas: Uma fantasia sobre a história da América do Sul (for chamber orchestra) [1] A major work about Latin American culture
Alex Prior 1992British
Christopher Bond 1992British
Peng-Peng Gong 1992Chinese
Roman Kim 1992KazakhstanViolin Concerto No. 1, Dies Irae, I Brindisi
Jacob Mühlrad 1991SwedishKaddish (choir)
Dylan Mattingly 1991American
Jay Greenberg 1991American
Daniil Trifonov 1991RussianPiano Concerto in E-flat minor, Rachmaniana
Lucy Armstrong 1991British
Alejandro Coello Calvo 1989Spanish
Arshia Samsaminia 1989Iranian
Koka Nikoladze 1989Georgian
Mehmet Erhan Tanman 1989TurkishThe Traffic, for orchestra
Liburn Jupolli 1989Kosovar-Albanian
Thomas Kotcheff 1988American
Andrew M. Boss 1988AmericanTetelestai; Alto Saxophone Concerto
Nobuyuki Tsujii 1988Japanese
Sauli Zinovjev 1988Finnish
Carolina Eyck 1987German
Kathryn Salfelder 1987American
Anna Korsun 1986UkrainianUlenflucht
Garth Neustadter 1986American
Kyle Bobby Dunn 1986Canadian
Trisdee na Patalung 1986Thai
Daniel Kidane 1986British
Natalie Draper 1985AmericanDecadent Music Box; Timelapse Variations Female composer
Roger Zare 1985AmericanFractal Miniatures
Peter Van Zandt Lane 1985American
Timo Andres 1985American
Michael Vincent Waller 1985American
Francisco Coll García 1985Spanish
Patrick Greene 1985American
Samuel Carl Adams 1985American
Taylor Brook 1985Canadian
Mohammed Fairouz 1985American
Michael Waller 1985American
Sarah Hutchings 1984American Female composer
Andrew Cadima 1984American
Matthew Dewey 1984Australian
Robin Hoffmann 1984German
Dafina Zeqiri 1984Kosovar
Ann Cleare 1983IrishClaustrophobia (orchestra) Female composer
Shaul Bustan 1983Israeli
Claudio Constantini 1983Peruvian
Ken Namba 1983Japanese
Jaime Reis 1983Portuguese
Andys Skordis 1983Cypriot
Dennis Tobenski 1982American
Joseph Twist 1982Australian
Caroline Shaw 1982American Partita for 8 Voices , Entr'acte, Plan and Elevation I-V
Viviana Guzmán 1982Chilean
Joey Roukens 1982Dutch
Guðmundur Steinn Gunnarsson 1982Icelandic
Charlotte Bray 1982British
Gordon Hamilton 1982Australian
Gilad Hochman 1982IsraeliNedudim (Wanderings) for mandolin and string orchestra; A Voice in the Wilderness for orchestra; Whom My Soul Loveth for cello and mixed choir
Sydney Guillaume 1982Haitian-American
Sahba Aminikia 1981Iranian-American
Hannah Lash 1981AmericanHush Female composer
Wen Zhanli 1981Chinese
Helen Grime 1981Scottish
Nana Forte 1981Slovenian
Brice Catherin 1981French
Harold O'Neal 1981AmericanMarvelous Fantasy; Piano Cinema; Marvleous Fantasy: Brave Living Dreams
Alexandra du Bois 1981American
Samuel Andreyev 1981CanadianVérifications; A propos du concert de la semaine dernère.
Christophe Bertrand 19812010French
Alexandra Fol 1981Bulgarian-Canadian
Edward Manukyan 1981Armenian-American
Nico Muhly 1981American
Shawn Okpebholo 1981American
Yoshiaki Onishi 1981Japanese
Vahram Sargsyan 1981Armenian
Johannes Kreidler 1980GermanFremdarbeit
Scott Perkins 1980AmericanThe Stolen Child
Dobrinka Tabakova 1980British/Bulgarian
Anna Clyne 1980British
Michael Djupstrom 1980American
Cheryl Frances-Hoad 1980English
Abbie Betinis 1980American
Henrik Åström 1980Swedish
Wang Jie 1980Chinese-born
American
Larry Goves 1980British
Nazanin Aghakhani 1980Austrian
Iain Bell 1980English
Adam Fong 1980American
Sarah Nemtsov 1980German
Adam Schoenberg 1980American
Man-Ching Donald Yu 1980Chinese (Hong Kong)First Symphony For Orchestra
Emily Howard 1979English
Nicholas Vasallo 1979American
Marcus Paus 1979Norwegian
Mark Bowden 1979British
Andrew Norman 1979American The Companion Guide to Rome ; Play; Split; Sustain
Joseph Hallman 1979American
Ivana Kiš 1979Croatian
Nicolas Gilbert 1979Canadian
Sampo Haapamäki 1979Finnish
Gianluca Cascioli 1979Italian
Kirsten Broberg 1979American
Matthew Barnson 1979American
Kate Moore 1979Australian
Eoin O'Keeffe 1979Irish
Nélida Béjar 1979Spanish
Miguel Álvarez-Fernández 1979Spanish
Benjamin C. S. Boyle 1979American
Mehdi Hosseini 1979Iranian Concerto for String Quartet and Chamber Orchestra
Vito Žuraj 1979Slovenian
Marios Joannou Elia 1978Cypriot Autosymphonic - Multimedia Symphony, Ulmer Oratorium - Oratorio for 10 soloists, 2 orchestras, 7 choirs, etc.
David T. Little 1978AmericanSoldier Songs, Dog Days , The Descanso Cycle
Martin Kennedy 1978American
Eric Knechtges 1978American
Daniel Hensel 1978German
Luke Bedford 1978British
Frans Ben Callado 1978Colombian-Québécois
Oliver Weeks 1978English
Benjamin Staern 1978Swedish
Jimmy López 1978Peruvian
Chris Opperman 1978American
Tarik O'Regan 1978British-American Heart of Darkness
Lev Zhurbin 1978Russian
Britta Byström 1977SwedishDer Vogel der Nacht; Picnic at Hanging Rock; A Walk After Dark Female composer
Joel Puckett 1977American
Karola Obermueller 1977German Female composer
Mason Bates 1977American
Jesús Elías 1977Bolivian
Santa Ratniece 1977Latvian Female composer
Gareth Williams 1977Irish
Aleksandr Shymko 1977Ukrainian
Anna S. Þorvaldsdóttir 1977Icelandic
Joseph Dangerfield 1977American
Jimmie LeBlanc 1977Canadian
Eres Holz 1977Israeli
Kasia Glowicka 1977Polish
Raven Chacon 1977American
Cristian Carrara 1977ItalianVivaldi. In memoriam; Magnificat
Jean-Pascal Chaigne 1977French
David Flynn 1977Irish
Dai Fujikura 1977Japanese
DaeSeob Han 1977South Korean
Huck Hodge 1977American
Yugo Kanno 1977Japanese JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, Batman Ninja
Frederik Magle 1977Danish Cantabile (symphonic suite), The Fairest of Roses (two trumpets and organ)
César de Oliveira 1977Portuguese
Jennifer Thomas (pianist) 1977American Winter Symphony (Jennifer Thomas album) Female composer
Kimiko Douglass-Ishizaka 1976German Female composer
Cassandra Miller 1976CanadianAbout Bach (string quartet)
Marko Nešić 1976Serbian
Simon Steen-Andersen 1976Danish
Mark Aanderud 1976Mexican
Tróndur Bogason 1976Faroese
Andrea Reinkemeyer 1976American
Huang Ruo 1976Chinese-born
American
Aaron Cassidy 1976American
Wang Ying 1976Chinese
Nicholas Vines 1976Australian
Tomi Räisänen 1976Finnish
Ali Ahmadifar 1976Iranian
Svitlana Azarova 1976Ukrainian-DutchOpera Momo and the Time Thieves
Michael Vincent 1976Canadian
Jonne Valtonen 1976Finnish
Daniel Kellogg 1976American
Stuart MacRae 1976Scottish
Merlijn Twaalfhoven 1976Dutch
Huw Watkins 1976British
David Morneau 1975American
Andrew Chubb 1975Australian
1975Icelandic
Mohammed Haddad 1975Bahraini
David Alagna 1975French
Dan Shore 1975American
Matthew Shlomowitz 1975Australian
Bongani Ndodana-Breen 1975South African
Alen Ilijic 1975Serbian
Edward Eicker 1975American
Olesya Rostovskaya 1975Russian
Ed Bennett 1975Irish
Steingrimur Rohloff 1975Icelandic German
Juan Manuel Abras 1975Swedish-Argentine
Kati Agócs 1975Canadian
Vijay Antony 1975Indian
Richard Beaudoin 1975American
Oscar Bianchi 1975Italian and Swiss
Tim Benjamin 1975Anglo-French
Avner Dorman 1975Israeli
Peter Gilbert 1975American
David Philip Hefti 1975Swiss
Márton Illés 1975Hungarian
Paul Mealor 1975Welsh
Gabriel Prokofiev 1975British
Patrick Saint-Denis 1975Canadian
Dino Rešidbegović 1975Bosnia and HerzegovinaX O Pt. II, Subtractive study for sound synthesizers and ensemble electronic music, experimental music
Đuro Živković 1975Serbian-Swedish
Ehesuma 1974Chinese
Peter Traub 1974American
Terry Lowry 1974American
Erin Gee 1974American
Vitalij Kuprij 1974Ukrainian-American
Enrico Chapela 1974Mexican
Elena Langer 1974Russian-born British Female composer
Scott Slapin 1974American
David Ludwig 1974American
Matthew Jones 1974British
Aaron Novik 1974American
Inés Medina-Fernández 1974Spanish
Miguel Gálvez-Taroncher 1974Spanish
James Fei 1974Taiwanese
Andrew Lockington 1974Canadian
Bruno Mantovani 1974French
David Laganella 1974American
Orit Wolf 1974Israeli
Nicholas Anthony Ascioti 1974American
Derek Charke 1974Canadian
Julian Cochran 1974Australian
Ramin Djawadi 1974German
Panayiotis Kokoras 1974Greek
Samuel Robles 1974Panamanian
Dean Rosenthal 1974American
Ian Vine 1974British
Jennifer Walshe 1974Irish
Harris Wulfson 19742008American
Sophie Viney 1974EnglishMissing God, Sonatina in 7 and 5 Female composer
Armando Bayolo 1973Puerto Rican/AmericanLast Breaths; Los Caprichos; Memorias vagabundas
Airat Ichmouratov 1973Russian-Canadian String Octet "Letter from an Unknown Woman" Op.56 after Stefan Zweig's novella
Jorge Villavicencio Grossmann 1973Peruvian
Reynold Tharp 1973American
Kristin Kuster 1973American Female composer
Narong Prangcharoen 1973Thai
J. Ryan Garber 1973AmericanParabolisms; Resonances
Gil Shohat 1973Israeli The Child Dreams , opera
Jono El Grande 1973Norwegian
Kenji Bunch 1973American
Chañaral Ortega-Miranda 1973Chilean
Henry Vega 1973American
Michel Petrossian 1973French
Füsun Köksal 1973Turkgish
Sungji Hong 1973South Korean
Mindia Khitarishvili 1973Georgian
Carsten Bo Eriksen 1973Danish
Kurt Doles 1973American
Lera Auerbach 1973Russian-American
Tansy Davies 1973British
Søren Nils Eichberg 1973German-Danish
Róbert Gulya 1973Hungarian
Nihad Hrustanbegovic 1973Bosnian
John Mackey 1973AmericanRedline Tango; Wine-Dark Seaprimarily composes for concert band
Matteo Marchisano-Adamo 1973American
Damien Ricketson 1973Australian
Jörg Widmann 1973German Das Gesicht im Spiegel ; Babylon ; Con brio ; Arche ; Partita
Raymond Yiu 1973Hong Kong-British
Kristoffer Zegers 1973Dutch
Andrew March 1973English Sanguis Venenatus
Klas Torstensson 1972Swedish
Amber Ferenz 1972American
Yasunori Mitsuda 1972Japanese
Mina Kubota 1972Japanese
Monty Adkins 1972British
Dan Coleman 1972American
Steven Bryant 1972American
Albert Schnelzer 1972Swedish
Octavio Vázquez 1972Spanish
Analia Llugdar 1972Argentine
Tomomi Adachi 1972Japanese
Vito Palumbo 1972Italian
Natasha Barrett 1972British
Rodrigo Cadiz 1972Chilean
Gabriela Lena Frank 1972American
Hiba Kawas 1972Lebanese
Lei Liang 1972Chinese-born
American
Carter Pann 1972AmericanSlalom
Kevin Puts 1972American
André Ristic 1972Canadian
Edward Top 1972Dutch
Martin Lohse 1971Danish
Xavier Pagès i Corella 1971Spanish
Alejandro Román 1971Spanish
Marcel Chyrzyński 1971Polish
James Romig 1971American
Yoshino Aoki 1971Japanese
Guto Puw 1971Welsh
Takatomi Nobunaga 1971JapaneseString Quartet
Matthias Pintscher 1971German
Olga Hans 1971Polish
Luciano Chessa 1971Italian
Garrett Byrnes 1971American
Leilei Tian 1971Chinese
Richard Carrick 1971American
Klaus Lang 1971Austrian
Daniel Giorgetti 1971British
Aleksandar Kobac 1971Serbian
Jason Eckardt 1971American
Thomas Adès 1971British The Tempest
Peter Askim 1971American
Richard Causton 1971British
Carlo Forlivesi 1971Italian
Bernhard Gál 1971Austrian
Jonny Greenwood 1971British
Michael Hersch 1971American
Paweł Mykietyn 1971Polish 3 for 13
Lior Navok 1971Israeli
Jesper Nordin 1971Swedish
Marco Oppedisano 1971American
Andrea Lorenzo Scartazzini 1971Swissoperas
Volker Ignaz Schmidt 1971German
Joby Talbot 1971British
Hannes Taljaard 1971South African
Craig Walsh 1971American
Jason Wright Wingate 1971American
Yitzhak Yedid 1971Israeli-Australian
Evgeny Kissin 1971Russian, British, IsraeliTango, Meditation, Intermezzo, Toccata, Violoncello Sonata, String Quartet
Gabriela Montero 1970VenezuelanEx Patria, Op. 1 "In memoriam"; Piano Concerto No. 1 "Latin"
Michel van der Aa 1970DutchUp-Close; the Here trilogy
Fred Momotenko 1970Russian Dutch
Dario Palermo 1970ItalianDiscombobulator; The Difference Engine
Anton Rovner 1970Russian-American
Ralph Farris 1970American
Michael Sidney Timpson 1970American
Bjørn Bolstad Skjelbred 1970Norwegian
Nathaniel Stookey 1970AmericanYTTE, Junkestra, The Composer Is Dead
James Matheson 1970AmericanViolin Concerto, String Quartet, True South, Cretic Variations
Ivan Iusco 1970Italian-American
Daniel Felsenfeld 1970American
Ken Ueno 1970American
Mike McFerron 1970American
Liviu Marinescu 1970Romanian
Marzena Komsta 1970Polish
Chris Harman 1970Canadian
Robert Paterson 1970American
Dorothy Chang 1970Canadian-American
Louis Dufort 1970Canadian
Alberto Quintero 1970Spanish
Gustavo Díaz-Jerez 1970Spanish
Julian Wagstaff 1970ScottishThe Turing Test (chamber opera), Breathe Freely (chamber opera)
Aleksandra Vrebalov 1970Serbian
Will Todd 1970English
Desmond Gaspar 1970Canadian
Guillaume Connesson 1970French
Juan Sebastián Lach Lau 1970Mexican
Peter Boyer 1970American
Rodolfo Acosta 1970Colombian
Basil Athanasiadis 1970Greek
Esteban Benzecry 1970Argentine
David Bruce 1970BritishGumboots
Jonathan Cole 1970British
Graziella Concas 1970Italian
Donnacha Dennehy 1970Irish
David Horne 1970Scottish
Juan Sebastian Lach 1970Mexican
Chihchun Chi-sun Lee 1970American
Luigi Morleo 1970Italian
Joy Nilo 1970Filipino
Kumiko Omura 1970Japanese
Steven Reineke 1970American
Bernardo Sassetti 19702012Portuguese
Arlene Sierra 1970American
Fazıl Say 1970Turkish1001 Nights in the Harem, Istanbul Symphony Piano symphony, Turkish music
Yann Tiersen 1970French
Eric Whitacre 1970AmericanOctober; Sleep; Lux Aurumque; Deep Field
Nimrod Borenstein 1969British-French-IsraeliConcerto for violin and orchestra opus 60 (2013), Concerto for piano and orchestra opus 91  (2021), The Big Bang and Creation of the Universe opus 52 (2009), Etudes for piano opus 66 & opus 86
Jóhann Jóhannsson 19692018IcelandicAnd in the Endless Pause There Came the Sound of Bees
Martha Callison Horst 1969AmericanStraussian Landscapes; Three Meditations on Van Gogh Female composer
Scott McAllister 1969American
Jon Drummond 1969Australian
Bryn Harrison 1969BritishRepetitions in Extended Time
Nicola Campogrande 1969Italian
Andrea Cera 1969Italianelectroacoustic
Johanna Doderer 1969Austrian
Ciarán Farrell 1969Irish
Jocelyn Morlock 1969Canadian
Yannis Kyriakides 1969Cypriot
Elliott Miles McKinley 1969American
Victor Lazzarini 1969Brazilian
Karl Montevirgen 1969American
Beata Moon 1969American
Liu Shueh-shuan 1969Taiwanese
John Webb 1969English
Enno Poppe 1969German
Maria Grenfell 1969Australian/New Zealand
Sangidorjiin Sansargereltekh 1969Mongolian
Giovanni Allevi 1969Italian
James Francis Brown 1969British
Joshua Fineberg 1969American
Peter Fribbins 1969British
Tuomas Kantelinen 1969Finnish
Pierre Kolp 1969Belgian
Robert Voisey 1969American
Albert Patron 1969Italian
Roy Zu-Arets 1969Israeli-American
Victoria Borisova-Ollas 1969Russian-SwedishSymphony No. 1 The Triumph of Heaven; Golden Dances of the Pharaohs Female composer
Bohdana Frolyak 1968Ukrainian Female composer
Jean-Louis Agobet 1968FrenchGénération
Ian Cresswell 1968Australian
Francisco Lara 1968Spanish
Jens Joneleit 1968German
Laura Andel 1968Argentine
Alwynne Pritchard 1968British
Michael Oesterle 1968Canadian
Ramon Lazkano 1968Spanish
Adrian Bawtree 1968English
Erran Baron Cohen 1968British
Andrea Ferrante 1968Italian
Darren Copeland 1968Canadian
Gordon Fitzell 1968Canadian
Shai Cohen 1968Israeli
Kenneth Hesketh 1968British
Ramón Humet 1968Spanish
Niklas Sivelöv 1968Swedish
Régis Campo 1968French
Matthew Hindson 1968Australian
James Clapperton 1968Scottish
Joe Cutler 1968British
Gareth Farr 1968New Zealander
Ikuko Kawai 1968Japanese
Johannes Kretz 1968Austrian
Vanessa Lann 1968American
Javier Torres Maldonado 1968Mexican-Italian
Olga Neuwirth 1968Austrian
Patrick Nunn 1968British
Roxanna Panufnik 1968BritishSilver Birch
Boris Yoffe 1968Russian-Israeli
Evan Hause 1967American
Thomas Sandberg 1967Danish
Christian Hildebrandt 1967Danish
Giorgos Kyriakakis 1967Greek
Magali Babin 1967Canadian
Isidora Žebeljan 1967Serbian
Olli Mustonen 1967Finnish
Alberto Posadas 1967Spanish
Juan Pampin 1967Argentine
Moisès Bertran 1967Spanish
Wen-Pin Hope Lee 1967Taiwanese
Özkan Manav 1967Turkish
Jens Josef 1967German
Julian Anderson 1967British
Derek Bermel 1967American
Sansan Chien 19672011Taiwanese
Salvatore Di Vittorio 1967Italian
Amos Elkana 1967IsraeliThe Journey Home (opera)
Deirdre Gribbin 1967Northern Irish
Alastair King 1967British
Matthew King 1967British
Andreas Kunstein 1967German
Paolo Longo 1967Italian
Pieter Snapper 1967American
Rebecca Saunders 1967British
Christopher Theofanidis 1967American
Katia Tiutiunnik 1967Australian Female composer
Jun Yamaguchi 1967Japanese
Hiroyuki Yamamoto 1967Japanese
Xu Yi 1967Chinese
Brian T. Field 1967American
Tanya Anisimova 1966Russian Female composer
Søren Sebber Larsen 1966Danish
Juan J. Colomer 1966Spanish
Jan Müller-Wieland 1966German
Grant Colburn 1966American
Wenchen Qin 1966Chinese
Larry Bitensky 1966American
Juan Carlos Tolosa 1966Argentinian
Nicholas Frances Chase 1966American
Kui Dong 1966Chinese-American
Roberto Carnevale 1966Italian""Linae""
Juan Colomer 1966Spanish
Melissa Hui 1966Canadian
Andrey Kasparov 1966Armenian-American
Liza Lim 1966Australian
Harold Meltzer 1966American
Gráinne Mulvey 1966Irish
Paul Newland 1966British
John Psathas 1966New Zealander
Max Richter 1966German
Jon Schmidt 1966American
Vache Sharafyan 1966Armenian
Juan María Solare 1966Argentine
Donald Reid Womack 1966American
Alla Zahaikevych 1966Ukrainian
Dorothy Hindman 1966AmericanR.I.P.T., Rough Ride Female composer
Vangelis Petsalis 1965Greek
Sergio Blardony 1965Spanish
Thierry Escaich 1965French
Jonathan Little 1965Australian
Anton Batagov 1965Russian
Irina Bogushevskaya 1965Russian
Zana Clarke 1965Australian
Clara Petrozzi 1965Peruvian
Paul Steenhuisen 1965Canadian
Mats Wendt 1965Swedish
Peter Nardone 1965Scottish
Bernd Redmann 1965German
Alexandre Delgado 1965Portuguese
Rafael Leonardo Junchaya 1965Peruvian
Lindsay Vickery 1965Australian
Marc Sabat 1965Canadian
Robert Steadman 1965British
Richard Ayres 1965British
Carin Bartosch Edström 1965Swedish
Robert Davidson 1965Australian
Moritz Eggert 1965German
Rozalie Hirs 1965Dutch
Yuki Kajiura 1965Japanese
Hitomi Kaneko 1965Japanese
Yuri Khanon 1965Russian
Constantine Koukias 1965Greek-Australian
Georges Lentz 1965Luxembourgian-Australian
Lukas Ligeti 1965Austrian
Gordon McPherson 1965Scottish
Albena Petrovic-Vratchanska 1965Bulgarian-Luxembourgian
Veli-Matti Puumala 1965Finnish
Jay Schwartz 1965American
Georgia Spiropoulos 1965Greek
Charles Rochester Young 1965American
Bo Gunge 1964Danish
Roderick Watkins 1964English
Fiona Joy Hawkins 1964Australian
Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez 1964Mexican-American
Marco Betta 1964Italian
Boris Böhmann 1964German
Gregers Brinch 1964Danish
Judy Dunaway 1964Americanavant-garde
Raffaele Marcellino 1964Australian
Matthew Taylor 1964English
Fabian Müller 1964Swiss
Ivan Moody 1964English
Gabriela Ortiz 1964Mexican
Brent Lee 1964Canadian
Nenad Firšt 1964Slovenian
Mark Engebretson 1964American
David del Puerto 1964Spanish
Carl Unander-Scharin 1964Swedish
Michael McGlynn 1964Irish
Jörgen Dafgård 1964SwedishKlarinettkonsert (2013)
Jun Nagao 1964Japanese
Mark Andre 1964French
Luca Belcastro 1964Italian
Yorgos Foudoulis 1964Greek
Julia Gomelskaya 19642016Ukrainian
Yoko Kanno 1964Japanese Cowboy Bebop, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
Andrea Molino 1964Italian
Javier Parrado 1964Bolivian
Osmo Tapio Räihälä 1964Finnish Barlinnie Nine
Richard Rijnvos 1964Dutch
Örjan Sandred 1964Swedish
Yasuharu Takanashi 1964Japanese
Annette Schlünz 1964German
Augusta Read Thomas 1964American
Mariana Villanueva 1964Mexican
T. Edward Vives 1964American
Jordan Waring 1964American
Ian Wilson 1964Irish
Hikari Ōe 1963Japanese
Niels Marthinsen 1963Danish
Gastón Arce Sejas 1963Bolivian
Thomas Larcher 1963Austrian
Shinkichi Mitsumune 1963Japanese
Ann Millikan 1963American
Michael Zev Gordon 1963British
Sandeep Bhagwati 1963Indian
Keiko Fujiie 1963Japanese
Calliope Tsoupaki 1963Greek
John Pickard 1963British
Lucia Ronchetti 1963Italian
Fausto Romitelli 19632004Italian
Isabel Mundry 1963German
Roberto Molinelli 1963Italian
Sean O'Boyle 1963Australian
Veronika Krausas 1963Canadian
Henrik Hellstenius 1963Norwegian
Jaakko Mäntyjärvi 1963Finnish
Vasil Tole 1963Albanian
Svante Henryson 1963Swedish
Jean-Yves Malmasson 1963French
Sophie Lacaze 1963FrenchSoupirs d'étoiles (Sighs of stars) for orchestra
Christian Jost 1963German
Allison Cameron 1963Canadian
Philip Cashian 1963British
Evan Chambers 1963American
Graham Fitkin 1963British
Manuel Rocha Iturbide 1963Mexican
Philip Lasser 1963American
Nick Peros 1963Canadian
Elena Ruehr 1963American
Edson Zampronha 1963BrazilianSonora, for ensemble
Jonathan Elliott 1962American
David Crumb 1962American
Mark Adamo 1962American
Christopher Cook 1962American
Alexandros Mouzas 1962Greek
Iraida Yusupova 1962Turkmenistani Female composer
Abdalla El-Masri 1962Lebanese Russian
Ricardo Llorca 1962Spanish
Kaoru Wada 1962Japanese
Arne Eigenfeldt 1962Canadian
Carl Faia 1962American
P. Q. Phan 1962Vietnamese
Andersen Viana 1962Brazilian
Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf 1962German
Bettina Skrzypczak 1962Polish
Fredrik Sixten 1962Swedish
Émile Naoumoff 1962Bulgarian
Maria Newman 1962American
Wim Henderickx 1962Belgian
Eurico Carrapatoso 1962Portuguese
Mary Finsterer 1962Australian
Sylvia Constantinidis 1962Venezuelan-American
Surendran Reddy 19622010South African
Karim Haddad 1962Lebanese
Peter Copley 1962British
Victoria Poleva 1962Ukrainian
Rudi Spring 1962German
Laura Schwendinger 1962American
Jeffrey Ryan 1962Canadian
Shih-Hui Chen 1962Taiwanese
Michael Abels 1962American
Mohamed Abdelwahab
Abdelfattah
1962Egyptian
Tevfik Akbaşlı 1962Turkish
Michael Alcorn 1962Northern Irish
William Anderson 1962American
Andrew Ager 1962Canadian
Ned Bouhalassa 1962French Canadian
Stefano Gervasoni 1962Italian
Jack Gibbons 1962EnglishAve Verum Corpus, Serenade for string orchestra
Jennifer Higdon 1962American
Šarūnas Nakas 1962Lithuanian
Eric W. Sawyer 1962American
Alex Shapiro 1962American
Giovanni Sollima 1962Italian
Graham Waterhouse 1962British Der Handschuh , Rhapsodie Macabre , Zeichenstaub
Ludmila Yurina 1962Ukrainian
Benjamin Yusupov 1962Tajikistani
Remilson Nery 1961Brazilian
Ivan Božičević 1961Croatian
Carolyn Yarnell 1961American Female composer
Edward Knight 1961American
Lynn Gumert 1961American Female composer
Morten Wedendahl 1961Danish
Jesús Rueda 1961Spanish
Kenneth Sivertsen 19612006Norwegian
Jonas Baes 1961Filipino
Sunleif Rasmussen 1961Faroese
Jake Heggie 1961American
Nailia Galiamova 1961Uzbekistani
Erica Muhl 1961American
John Burge 1961Canadian
Igor Raykhelson 1961Russian born American
Gintaras Sodeika 1961Lithuanian
Helmut Oehring 1961German
Tony O'Connor 19612010Australian
Cecilia McDowall 1961British
Rytis Mažulis 1961Lithuanian
Ivo van Emmerik 1961Dutch
Stephen Hough 1961British
Michael Edward Edgerton 1961American
Karen Tanaka 1961Japanese
Paul Carr 1961English
Geoffrey Álvarez 1961British/Nicaraguan
Mehmet Okonsar 1961Turkish-Belgian
Lucio Gregoretti 1961Italian
Jorge Grundman 1961SpanishA Mortuis Resurgere: The Resurrection of Christ; Shoah for Solo Violin and Sacred Temple
Marc-André Dalbavie 1961French
Matthias Dahms 1961German
Ana-Maria Avram 1961Romanian
Nicolas Bacri 1961Frenchopus 72 Sinfonietta, for string orchestra; opus 75 Sonata No. 2 for violin and piano
Unsuk Chin 1961South Korean–German
Brett Dean 1961Australian
Frank Felice 1961American
Daron Hagen 1961American
Marc-André Hamelin 1961French Canadian12 Études in All the Minor Keys, Variations on a Theme of Paganini, Circus Galop, Cathy's Variations, Toccata on L'homme armé, Little Nocturne, Con Intimissimo Sentimento, Solfeggietto a cinque, The Ring-Tone Waltz
Hanna Kulenty 1961Polish
Petri Kuljuntausta 1961Finnish
Lowell Liebermann 1961American
Peter Machajdík 1961Slovakian Namah
Isabel Soveral 1961Portuguese
David Sawer 1961British
R. J. Stove 1961Australian
Mauricio Sotelo 1961Spanish
Michael Torke 1961American
Roman Turovsky-Savchuk 1961Ukrainian-American
Dimitri Voudouris 1961Greek-South African
Peter Seabourne 1960EnglishSteps piano cycle series – 9 volumes
Craig First 1960American
Yekaterina Chemberdzhi 1960Russian Female composer
Stewart Wallace 1960American
Pertti Jalava 1960Finnish
Christian Heim 1960Australian
Priti Paintal 1960Indian
Nathan Currier 1960American
Ivan Sokolov 1960Russian
Martino Traversa 1960Italian
Jocelyn Pook 1960British
Andrew Schultz 1960Australian
Anthony Ritchie 1960New Zealander
Wolfgang Plagge 1960Norwegian
Ben Moore 1960American
Julian Grant 1960English
Fabrizio De Rossi Re 1960Italian
Nigel Clarke 1960British
Fabio Cifariello Ciardi 1960Italian
Martin Butler 1960English
Fred Onovwerosuoke 1960American
Adrián Iaies 1960Argentine
Anna-Maria Ravnopolska-Dean 1960Bulgarian
Nils Henrik Asheim 1960Norwegian
André Werner 1960German
Sonia Bo 1960Italian
Haukur Tómasson 1960Icelandic
Yasuhide Ito 1960Japanese
Detlev Glanert 1960German
Maria de Alvear 1960Spanish-German
Dirk Brossé 1960Flemish Belgian
Django Bates 1960British
Jeremy Beck 1960American
George Benjamin 1960British
Dmitri Capyrin 1960Russian
Sidney Corbett 1960American
Paul Doornbusch 1960Australian
Gerald Eckert 1960German
Karlheinz Essl 1960Austrian
C. P. First 1960American
Osvaldo Golijov 1960Argentine
Annie Gosfield 1960American
Georg Hajdu 1960Hungarian-German
Kamran Ince 1960Turkish-American
Aaron Jay Kernis 1960American
Hanspeter Kyburz 1960Swiss
Claude Ledoux 1960Belgian
António Chagas Rosa 1960Portuguese
Alexander Shchetynsky 1960Ukrainian
Urmas Sisask 1960Estonian
Randall Smith 1960Canadian
Ivan Glebovich Sokolov 1960Russian-German
Pete Stollery 1960British
William Susman 1960American
J. G. Thirlwell 1960Australian
Mark-Anthony Turnage 1960British
Ezequiel Viñao 1960Argentine-American
Michael H. Weinstein 1960Swiss-American
Walter Werzowa 1960Austrian
Daniel Léo Simpson 1959American
Espen Selvik 1959Norwegian
Caroline Ansink 1959Dutch
Lee Santana 1959American
Anthony Linden Jones 1959Australian
Ana Lara 1959Mexican
Lucio Garau 1959Italian
John Palmer 1959British
Adina Izarra 1959Venezuelan
Robert Ian Winstin 19592010American
John Oliver 1959Canadian
João Guilherme Ripper 1959Brazilian
Jorge Martín 1959Cuban-American
Stephen Leek 1959Australian
Willem Jeths 1959Dutch
James Harley 1959Canadian
Lawrence Dillon 1959American
Brent Michael Davids 1959American
Paul Coletti 1959Scottish
Ronald Caltabiano 1959American
David Hönigsberg 19592005South African
Sebastian Currier 1959American
Ilona Breģe 1959Latvian
Marti Epstein 1959American
Silvio Barbato 19592009Italian-Brazilian
Mats Lidström 1959Swedish
Peter Togni 1959Canadian
Victor Rasgado 19592023Mexican
Craig Armstrong 1959Scottish
Richard Barrett 1959BritishDark Matter; Construction
Carola Bauckholt 1959German
John Abram 1959Anglo-Canadian
Ratko Delorko 1959German
Jonathan Dove 1959British
Frédéric Durieux 1959French
Alfio Fazio 1959Italian
Vladimír Franz 1959Czech
Fergus Johnston 1959Irish
Vakhtang Kakhidze 1959Georgian
Shigeru Kan-no 1959Japanese
James MacMillan 1959Scottish
Steve Martland 19592013British
Simon Proctor 1959British
Stéphane Roy 1959French Canadian
Andi Spicer 19592020British
Erkki-Sven Tüür 1959Estonian
Theo Verbey 19592019Dutch
Stevie Wishart 1959English Australian Belgian
Norbert Wissing 19592019Dutch
Evan Ziporyn 1959American
Patrick Hawes 1958English The Great War Symphony, Highgrove Suite, Quanta Qualia
Gregg Wager 1958American
Ståle Kleiberg 1958Norwegian
Consuelo Díez 1958Spanish Female composer
Maura Bosch 1958American
Jun Miyake 1958Japanese
Giulio Castagnoli 1958Italian
Sinta Wullur 1958Indonesian-Dutch
Mark Kilstofte 1958Albanian
Peter Reynolds 19582016Welsh
Andrew Paul MacDonald 1958Canadian
James Lentini 1958American
Michael Jarrell 1958Swiss
Hanna Havrylets 19582022Ukrainian
Ronan Guilfoyle 1958Irish
Suzanne Giraud 1958French
Zulema de la Cruz 1958Spanish
Violaine Prince 1958French-Lebanese
Kimmo Hakola 1958Finnish
Michael Ching 1958American
Nicolas Vérin 1958French
Levent Çoker 1958Turkish
Kjartan Ólafsson 1958Icelandic
Rafał Stradomski 1958Polish
Eve Beglarian 1958AmericanThe Bus Driver Didn't Change His Mind; FlamingO; Book of Days
Neil Brand 1958British
Karl Gottfried Brunotte 1958German
Oscar van Dillen 1958Dutch
Hans-Ola Ericsson 1958Swedish
Howard Goodall 1958British
Simon Holt 1958British
Christian Lindberg 1958SwedishHelikon Wasp; Kundraan
Magnus Lindberg 1958Finnish Clarinet Concerto
Martín Matalon 1958Argentine
Mladen Milicevic 1958Bosnia and Herzegovina / USA electronic music film music experimental music sound installation
Riccardo Piacentini 1958Italian
Esa-Pekka Salonen 1958Finnish
Thomas Simaku 1958Albanian
Bent Sørensen 1958DanishSecond Symphony
Franz Surges 19582015German
Frank Ticheli 1958American
Errollyn Wallen 1958Belizean-British
Andrew Lowe Watson 19582021British
Nigel Westlake 1958Australian
Julia Wolfe 1958American
Akio Yasuraoka 1958Japanese
Jay Alan Yim 1958American
Roman Yakub 1958Ukrainian-American
Davide Zannoni 1958Italian
Juliana Hall 1958American
Daniel Doura 1957ArgentineVisiones patagónicas, Sinfonía argentina, Sueños de verano
Rand Steiger 1957American
Joan Szymko 1957American Female composer
Eric Mandat 1957American
Tapani Puranen 1957Finnish
Ivo Josipović 1957Croatian
Michael Glenn Williams 1957American
Miguel del Águila 1957Uruguayan-born
American
Conga-line in hell, Salon Buenos Aires, Submerged The Giant Guitar, The Fall of Cuzco, Time and Again Barelas opera Hispanic composer LGBTQ composer
Camille Kerger 1957Luxembourg
Kim Jin-hi 1957South Korean
Jorge Liderman 19572008American
Thomas Daniel Schlee 1957Austrian
Gerhard Präsent 1957Austrian
Petros Shoujounian 1957Armenian Canadian
Claus Kühnl 1957GermanVoller Sonnen
Elena Kats-Chernin 1957Australian
Ričardas Kabelis 1957Lithuanian
Regina Irman 1957Swiss
Lars Graugaard 1957Danish
Jiří Gemrot 1957Czech
Christian Eggen 1957Norwegian
James Clarke 1957English
Howard Bashaw 1957Canadian
Mikhail Pletnev 1957Russian
Helmut Christoferus Calabrese 1957German
Pan Shiji 1957Taiwanese
Guan Xia 1957Chinese
Rolf Wallin 1957Norwegian
Cong Su 1957Chinese
Michael Stöckigt 1957German
Linda Bouchard 1957Canadian
Masamichi Amano 1957Japanese
Gheorghi Arnaoudov 1957Bulgarian
Charles Roland Berry 1957American
Keith Burstein 1957British
Mary Ellen Childs 1957American
Chaya Czernowin 1957Israeli
Alexandre Danilevsky 1957Russian-French
Andrew Ford 1957English-Australian
Ellen Fullman 1957American
Hendrik Hofmeyr 1957South African
Luc van Hove 1957Belgian
Ulf Långbacka 1957Finland-Swedish
Richard Karpen 1957American
Kenji Kawai 1957Japanese
John Kenny 1957British
Douglas Knehans 1957American
Bernhard Lang 1957Austrian
David Lang 1957American
Paul Moravec 1957American
Zurab Nadareishvili 1957Georgian
Hilda Paredes 1957Mexican
Francis Pott 1957British
Mikel Rouse 1957American
Marcela Pavia 1957Argentinean-American
Linda Catlin Smith 1957American
Rudi Tas 1957Belgian
Paul Terracini 1957Australian
Tan Dun 1957Chinese
Melinda Wagner 1957American
Janet Wheeler 1957British
David Chesky 1956AmericanThe Mice War (opera); The Venetian Concertos
Carolyn Steinberg 1956American Female composer
Laura Kaminsky 1956American Female composer
Jeff Hamburg 1956American
Deborah Drattell 1956American Female composer
Tom Cipullo 1956American
John Howell Morrison 1956American
Oliver Schroer 19562008Canadian
Leon Milo 19562014American
Thomas Pernes 19562018Austrian
Iris ter Schiphorst 1956German
Andy Vores 1956Welsh
Carla Scaletti 1956American
Marie Samuelsson 1956Swedish
Madeleine Isaksson 1956Swedish
Michelle Ekizian 1956American
Anne Dudley 1956English
Chiara Benati 1956Italian
László Tihanyi 1956Hungarian
Iris Szeghy 1956Slovak
Stefano Scodanibbio 19562012Italian
Philip Maneval 1956American
Rolf Martinsson 1956Swedish
John Lunn 1956British
Harold Levin 1956American
Carlos Grätzer 1956Argentine
Philip Grange 1956English
Luca Francesconi 1956Italian
Daniel Dorff 1956American
Richard Danielpour 1956American
William Beauvais 1956Canadian
Normand Corbeil 19562013Canadian
Eryck Abecassis 1956Algerian
John Harle 1956English
Benet Casablancas 1956Spanish
James Biery 1956American
Larysa Kuzmenko 1956Canadian
Steen Pade 1956Danish
Makiko Kinoshita 1956Japanese
Guo Wenjing 1956Chinese
Eduardo Alonso-Crespo 1956Argentine
Javier Álvarez 19562023Mexican
Sally Beamish 1956British
Tim Brady 1956Canadian
Paul Dolden 1956Canadian
Dror Elimelech 1956Israeli
Eve de Castro-Robinson 1956New Zealander
John Frandsen 1956Danish
Miguel Frasconi 1956American
Kenneth Fuchs 1956American
Vladimír Godár 1956Slovakian
Michael Gordon 1956American
Mark Gresham 1956American
Jouni Kaipainen 19562015Finnish
Graeme Koehne 1956Australian
Steven Mackey 1956American
Onutė Narbutaitė 1956Lithuanian
Martijn Padding 1956Dutch
Carlo Pedini 1956Italian
Pierre Pincemaille 19562018French
Jan Van der Roost 1956Belgian
Thomas Sleeper 19562022American
Laurence Traiger 1956American
Gast Waltzing 1956Luxembourg
Craig Bohmler 1956Americanopera, art songs
Hans Kockelmans 1956Dutch
Carter Larsen 1955AmericanHe has composed a wide variety of concert works (Solo Piano, Two Pianos, Piano and Orchestra, Instrumental) as well as music for theater and film.
Jerome Kitzke 1955American
Masguda Shamsutdinova 1955Russian Female composer
Kenneth Frazelle 1955American
Diego Luzuriaga 1955Ecuadorian
Janika Vandervelde 1955American Female composer
David Conte 1955American
Gerda Geertens 1955Dutch
Iryna Kyrylina 19532017Ukrainian
Simon Shaheen 1955Palestinian-American
Jukka Linkola 1955Finnish
Pedro Luís Neves 1955Portuguese
Michael Obst 1955German
Olli Kortekangas 1955Finnish
David A. Jaffe 1955American
Mark Edgley Smith 19552008British
Karmella Tsepkolenko 1955Ukrainian
Jeffrey Mumford 1955American
Gérard Pape 1955American
Vyacheslav Kuznetsov 1955Belarusian
Juraj Filas 19552021Slovak
Eleanor Joanne Daley 1955Canadian
Krassimir Taskov 1955Bulgarian
Bruce Adolphe 1955American
Kiril Lambov 19552019Bulgarian
Daniel W. McCarthy 1955American
Paul Edwards 1955English
Dušan Bogdanović 1955Serbian-born American
Dieter Lehnhoff 1955Guatemalan
Behzad Ranjbaran 1955Persian
Jacques Burtin 1955French
Ofer Ben-Amots 1955Israeli-American
Byron Adams 1955American
Denys Bouliane 1955French Canadian
Eric Chasalow 1955American
Bob Chilcott 1955British
Michael Denhoff 1955German
Leonid Desyatnikov 1955Russian
Pascal Dusapin 1955French
Roland Dyens 19552016French
Susanne Erding-Swiridoff 1955German
Ludovico Einaudi 1955Italian
Mamoru Fujieda 1955Japanese
Kyle Gann 1955American
Naji Hakim 1955Lebanese-French
Toshio Hosokawa 1955Japanese
Yuri Kasparov 1955Russian-Armenian
Nigel Keay 1955New Zealander
Bernardo Kuczer 1955Argentinian
Robert Normandeau 1955Canadian
Bright Sheng 1955Chinese-American
Tibor Szemző 1955Hungarian
Vladimir Tarnopolsky 1955Russian
Víctor Varela 1955Venezuelan-Swedish
Ian Venables 1955British
Wang Hesheng 1955Chinese
Ye Xiaogang 1955Chinese
Timothy Sullivan 1954Canadian
Phil Nyokai James 1954American
Jessica Suchy-Pilalis 1954American Female composer
David Balakrishnan 1954American
Robert Greenberg 1954American
Robert Aldridge 1954American Elmer Gantry (opera)
Niels Eje 1954Danish
German Cáceres 1954Salvadoran
Hi Kyung Kim 1954South Korean
Stephen Jaffe 1954American
Denise Kelly 1954Irish
Phillip Houghton 19542017Australian
Renata Kunkel 1954Polish
Richard Blackford 1954English
Cecilie Ore 1954Norwegian
Irina Hasnaș 1954Romanian
Birgit Havenstein 1954German
Susan Frykberg 19542023New Zealander
María Escribano 19542002Spanish
René Wohlhauser 1954Swiss
Niels Rosing-Schow 1954Danish
Betty Olivero 1954Israeli
Steven Sametz 1954American
Eric Moe 1954American
Barrington Pheloung 19542019Australian
Ella Milch-Sheriff 1954Israeli
Benedict Mason 1954British
Pamela J. Marshall 1954American
Richard Ingham 1954Scottish
Orlando Jacinto Garcia 1954Cuban-American
James Fulkerson 1954American
Chan Wing-wah 1954Chinese (Hong Kong)
Șerban Nichifor 1954Romanian
Gilles Gobeil 1954Canadian
John Musto 1954American
Daniel Bukvich 1954American
Oliver Kentish 1954British
Elliot Goldenthal 1954American
Kenneth Atchley 1954American
Robert Beaser 1954American
Sylvie Bodorová 1954Czech
Elisabetta Brusa 1954Italian
Lam Bun-Ching 1954Chinese
Robert Carl 1954American
Michael Daugherty 1954American
Joël-François Durand 1954FrenchAthanor; String Quartet; Concerto for piano and orchestra
Eric Ewazen 1954American
Beat Furrer 1954Austrian
Gilles Gobeil 1954Canadian
Anders Hillborg 1954Swedish
Joseph-François Kremer 1954French
Gary Kulesha 1954Canadian
Paulo Costa Lima 1954Brazilian
Chiel Meijering 1954Dutch
Elizabeth Hayden Pizer 1954American
Tobias Picker 1954American
Larry Polansky 1954American
Andrew Poppy 1954British
Sergio Rendine 19542023Italian
Arturo Rodas 1954Ecuadorian-French
Jan Sandström 1954Swedish
Sinan Savaskan 1954British
Henrik Strindberg 1954Swedish
Paweł Szymański 1954Polish
Pedro Vilarroig 1954Spanish
Carl Vine 1954Australian
Judith Weir 1954British
John Woolrich 1954British
Yanni 1954Greek-American
Allen Cohen 1951American
Sorin Lerescu 1953Romanian
Arthur Levering 1953American
Larry Hochman 1953American
Miguel Roig-Francolí 1953Spanish/American
Victor Kissine 1953Russian
Henk de Vlieger 1953Dutch
Cynthia Cozette Lee 1953American
Wendy Mae Chambers 1953American
Avril Anderson 1953English
Roger Bellon 1953French
Josefina Benedetti 1953American
Susan Morton Blaustein 1953American
David Felder 1953American
Jody Diamond 1953American
He Xuntian 1953Chinese
Adriana Hölszky 1953Romanian-German
Juhani Komulainen 1953Finnish
Z. Randall Stroope 1953American
Boris Pigovat 1953Israeli
Akira Nishimura 19532023Japanese
Jeff Manookian 19532021American
Cindy McTee 1953American
Joel Hoffman 1953Canadian
Christos Hatzis 1953Greek Canadian
Richard Harvey 1953British
Stephen Whittington 1953Australian
Peter Hannan 1953Canadian
Ivan Fedele 1953Italian
Eibhlis Farrell 1953Irish
Sonja Beets 1953Dutch
Martin Amlin 1953American
John Craton 1953American
Anthony Powers 1953British
Stéphane Delplace 1953French
René Eespere 1953Estonian
John Luther Adams 1953American Become Ocean
Patrick Ascione 19532014French
Daniel Asia 1953American
Cornelis de Bondt 1953Dutch
Hans-Jürgen von Bose 1953German
John Oswald 1953Canadian
Andrew Culver 1953American
Raymond Deane 1953Irish
Violeta Dinescu 1953Romanian
Patrick Doyle 1953Scottish
Arnold Dreyblatt 1953American
Denis Dufour 1953FrenchDernier quatuor, PH 27–80, Blue Rocket on a Rocky Shore, Cycle Le Livre des désordresInstrumental perceptive morphology, acousmatic music, mixed music, electronic music
Robert Fleisher 1953American
Bernard Foccroulle 1953Belgian
Georg Friedrich Haas 1953Austrian
Paul Hertel 1953Austrian
Scott Irvine 1953Canadian
Anne LeBaron 1953American
Peter Scott Lewis 1953American
Zhou Long 1953Chinese-American
Peter McGarr 1953British
Tod Machover 1953American
Johan de Meij 1953Dutch Symphony No. 1 "The Lord of the Rings"
László Melis 19532018Hungarian
Wim Mertens 1953Belgian
Christopher Norton 1953British
Åke Parmerud 1953Swedish
Alexander Raskatov 1953Russian
Robert Saxton 1953British
Wolfgang von Schweinitz 1953German
Roberto Sierra 1953Puerto Rican
Roger Steptoe 1953British
James Wood 1953British
Chen Yi 1953Chinese
Takashi Yoshimatsu 1953Japanese
Jaime Mirtenbaum Zenamon 1953Bolivian
Lidia Zielińska 1953Polish
John Zorn 1953American
Jan Randall 1952CanadianMidsummer Night's Ice Dream; Pieces of Eight; Sonata for Piano
Pär Lindgren 1952Swedish
Joseph Waters 1952American
Sérgio Assad 1952Brazilian
Brenton Broadstock 1952Australian
Alexander Voltz 1999Australian
Tina Davidson 1952American
Reinhard Febel 1952German
Max Beckschäfer 1952German
Ryuichi Sakamoto 19522023Japanese
Kazuhiro Morita 19522021Japanese
Dominic Muldowney 1952English
Lev Konov 1952Russian
Gerd Kühr 1952German
Christian Lauba 1952Tunisian born French
Miklós Sugár 1952Hungarian
Reza Vali 1952Iranian
José Luis Turina 1952Spanish
Mikhail Kollontay 1952Russian
Margriet Hoenderdos 19522010Dutch
Hans Gefors 1952Swedish
Philippe Fénelon 1952French
Maia Ciobanu 1952Romanian
Mark Carlson 1952American
David Carlson 1952American
Roger Bourland 1952American
Lee Hyla 19522014American
Dimitrije Bužarovski 1952Macedonian
Lee Bracegirdle 1952American
Motoyuki Shitanda 1952Japanese
José Carlos Amaral Vieira 1952Brazilian
Ushio Torikai 1952Japanese
S. P. Somtow 1952Thai-AmericanMae Naak (opera), Ayodhya (opera), The Silent Prince (opera), Dan no Ura (opera)
Gordon Stout 1952American
Byambasuren Sharav 19522019Mongolian
Hans Abrahamsen 1952Danish
Kristi Allik 1952Canadian
Simon Bainbridge 19522021British
Gerald Barry 1952Irish
Judith Bingham 1952British
Roger Briggs 1952American
Todd Tamanend Clark 1952AmericanObsidian Variations, The Nature of Tongueselectronic, psychedelic
Joseph Dillon Ford 19522017American
Peter Garland 1952American
Heiner Goebbels 1952German
Jonty Harrison 1952British
Stephen Hartke 1952American
Oliver Knussen 19522018British
Zoltán Kocsis 19522016Hungarian
Philippe Manoury 1952French
Bunita Marcus 1952American
Sergei Pavlenko 1952Russian-British
Alla Pavlova 1952Ukrainian-American
Qu Xiao-Song 1952Chinese
Wolfgang Rihm 1952German Dionysos
Kaija Saariaho 19522023Finnish Laterna Magica Female composer
Gustavo Santaolalla 1952Argentine
Somtow Sucharitkul 1952Thai-American
Param Vir 1952Indian-British
Peter-Jan Wagemans 1952Dutch
Moshe Zorman 1952Israeli
John Buckley 1951Irish
Pär Lund 1951Swedish
Richard Marriott 1951American
John D. Stevens 1951American
Gerald Levinson 1951American
Frank La Rocca 1951American
Curt Cacioppo 1951American
Marcela Rodríguez 1951Mexican Female composer
Beth Wiseman 19512007British Female composer
Kenneth Kafui 19512020Ghanaian
Michael Blake 1951South African
John Burke 19512020Canadian
Nancy Galbraith 1951American
Craig H. Russell 1951American
Tatyana Sergeyeva 1951Russian
Mona Lyn Reese 1951American
Richard Emsley 1951British
James Erber 1951British
Viera Janárceková 19412023Slovakian
Earl Howard 1951American
Patricia Jünger 1951Swiss-Austrian
Aivars Kalējs 1951Latvian
James Chater 1951British
George Tsontakis 1951American
Halina Harelava 1951Belarusian
Eero Hämeenniemi 1951Finnish
Denis Gougeon 1951Canadian
Gareth Glyn 1951Welsh
Jeannie G. Pool 1951American
António Pinho Vargas 1951Portuguese
Alan Belkin 1951Canadian
Nils-Göran Areskoug 1951Swedish
Aleksandër Peçi 1951Albanian
George C. Baker 1951American
Manfred Stahnke 1951German
Doina Rotaru 1951Romanian
Louis Karchin 1951American
Karólína Eiríksdóttir 1951Icelandic
Justinian Tamusuza 1951Ugandan
Anneli Arho 1951Finnish
Rafał Augustyn 1951Polish
Hendrik Bouman 1951Dutch
Howard J. Buss 1951American
Qigang Chen 1951Chinese-French
Anthony Davis 1951American
David Earl 1951South African
Huib Emmer 1951Dutch
Lorenzo Ferrero 1951Italian La Conquista, Risorgimento!, Franca Florio, regina di Palermo postmodern
Beatriz Bilbao 1951Venezuelan
Guus Janssen 1951Dutch
Patrick Larley 1951British
Michael Rosenzweig 1951South African
Philip Sparke 1951British
Lois V Vierk 1951American
Alejandro Viñao 1951Argentine
Otomar Kvěch 19502018CzechString Quartet No. 7
Michalis Travlos 1950Greek
Michael Matthews (composer) 1950Canadian
John Borstlap 1950Dutch
Édith Canat de Chizy 1950French
Gene Bowen 1950American
Åse Hedstrøm 1950Norwegian
Emmanuel Gyimah Labi 1950Ghanaian
Lam Manyee 1950Chinese
Libby Larsen 1950American
Jay Reise 1950American
Simon Rowland-Jones 1950English
Joseph Pehrson 19502020American
Vivienne Olive 1950British-Australian
Laurent Petitgirard 1950French
Lewis Nielson 1950American
Carlos Micháns 1950Dutch
Lars Hegaard 1950Danish
Ulrich Gasser 1950Swiss
Zoran Erić 1950Serbian
Richard Arnest 1950American
Carl Verbraeken 1950Belgian
Denis Bédard 1950Canadian
Dnu Huntrakul 1950Thai
Svetozar Sasa Kovacevic 19502022Serbian
Lejla Agolli 1950American
Ernani Aguiar 1950Brazilian
Beth Anderson 1950American
Christian Calon 1950French Canadian
Michael Carnes 1950American
Stephen Chatman 1950Canadian
Robert Dick 1950American
James Dillon 1950Scottish
Elena Firsova 1950Russian
Alistair Hinton 1950Scottish
Joe Hisaishi 1950Japanese
Christopher Hobbs 1950British
John Anthony Lennon 1950American
Arturo Márquez 1950Mexican
Synne Skouen 1950Norwegian
Michael Schelle 1950American
William Sweeney 1950Scottish
Nancy Telfer 1950Canadian
Christopher Yavelow 1950American
Daniele Zanettovich 1950Italian
Hiro Fujikake 1949JapanesePastoral Fantasy (1975), The Rope Crest (1977), Symphony Japan(1993), Symphony IZUMO(2005)
Odaline de la Martinez 1949American Female composer
John Thow 19492007American
Hanne Rømer 1949Danish Female composer
Zhanna Vasil'yevna Pliyeva 19492023Russian Female composer
Philip Kruse 1949Norwegian
Marina Marta Vlad 1949Romanian
Daniel Steven Crafts 1949American
Rocco Di Pietro 1949Italian
Rachel Galinne 1949Israeli
Geoffrey Poole 1949American
Carol E. Barnett 1949American
Tim Hodgkinson 1949English
Ian Dorricott 1949Australian
Michaël Lévinas 1949French
Vladimir Tošić 1949Serbian
Kimi Sato 1949Japanese
Lasse Thoresen 1949Norwegian
Jolyon Brettingham Smith 19492008English
Dean Drummond 19492013American
Carlos Azevedo 19492012Portuguese
János Vajda 1949Hungarian
Thomas Schmidt-Kowalski 19492013German
Judith Shatin 1949American
Gerhard Stäbler 1949German
Dave Smith 1949British
Richard Mills 1949Australian
Cezary Skubiszewski 1949Polish Australian
Manuel De Sica 19492014Italian
Ann Callaway 1949American
Leonid Bobylev 1949Russian
Alexander Kandov 1949Bulgarian
Klaus Bruengel 1949German
Michel Herr 1949Belgian
Kalevi Aho 1949Finnish
Eleanor Alberga 1949Jamaican
James Barnes 1949American
Dennis Báthory-Kitsz 1949American
Javier Busto 1949Spanish
John Casken 1949British
Daniel Catán 19492011Mexican
Chan Ka Nin 1949Canadian
Geoffrey King 1949British
Mary Jane Leach 1949American
Michaël Lévinas 1949French
David Liptak 1949American
Dan Locklair 1949American
Alexina Louie 1949Canadian
Stephen Paulus 19492014American
Shulamit Ran 1949Israeli-American
Christopher Rouse 19492019American
Sharon Ruchman 1949American
Poul Ruders 1949Danish
Sinyan Shen 19492016American
Steven Stucky 19492016American
Manfred Trojahn 1949German
Fabio Vacchi 1949Italian
Kevin Volans 1949Irish-South African
Philip Wilby 1949British
Walter Zimmermann 1949German
Fu Tong Wong 1948Chinese-American
Susan Cohn Lackman 1948American Female composer
Bern Herbolsheimer 19482016American
Mark Abel 1948American
Igor Wakhévitch 1948French
Allen Shawn 1948American
Gisèle Barreau 1948French
Shoshana Riseman 1948Israeli
Lyudmila Karpawna Shleh 1948Belarusian
Junko Mori 1948Japanese
Sally Johnston Reid 19482019American
Brian Eno 1948English
Richard Festinger 1948American
Jean-Michel Jarre 1948French
Kerstin Jeppsson 1948Swedish
Theo Jörgensmann 1948German
Natsagiin Jantsannorov 1948Mongolian
Janet Graham 1948English
Jim Hiscott 1948Canadian
Stuart Saunders Smith 1948American
Marjan Mozetich 1948Canadian
Ron Nagorcka 1948Australian
Max Lifchitz 1948Mexican
Philippe Hersant 1948French
Jani Golob 1948Slovenian
Theo Brandmüller 19482012German
Chester Biscardi 1948American
Lubomyr Melnyk 1948Canadian
Paul DeMarinis 1948American
Ioseb Bardanashvili 1948Georgian
Claudio Ambrosini 1948Italian
Claude Baker 1948American
Michael Berkeley 1948British
Glenn Branca 19482018American
Stephen Brown 1948Canadian
Diana Burrell 1948British
Brian Elias 1948British-Indian
Steven Gerber 19482015American
Mikko Heiniö 1948Finnish
Bo Holten 1948Danish
Leslie Howard 1948Australian
Edward McGuire 1948Scottish
Winfried Michel 1948German
Nigel Osborne 1948British
Ivana Stefanovic 1948Serbian
Peter Ruzicka 1948German
Haskell Small 1948American
Dmitri Smirnov 19482020Russian-British
Bernadette Speach 1948American
Jukka Tiensuu 1948Finnish
Julia Tsenova 19482010Bulgarian
Dan Welcher 1948American
Grażyna Pstrokońska-Nawratil 1947Polish Female composer
Salvatore Macchia 1947American
Anders Koppel 1947Danish
Efim Jourist 19472007Ukrainian
Faye-Ellen Silverman 1947American Female composer
Alan Bullard 1947English
Zarrina Mirshakar 1947Tajik
Václav Riedlbauch 19472017Czech
Gwyneth Van Anden Walker 1947American
Jack Gallagher 1947American
Donald Grantham 1947American
Ruth Bakke 1947Norwegian
Grigoriy Korchmar 1947Russian
Vlastimir Trajković 19472017Serbian
Gwyneth Walker 1947American
Paul Schoenfield 1947American
Hilary Tann 19472023Welsh
Hugh Shrapnel 1947English
Max Stern 1947Israeli
David Porcelijn 1947Dutch
David Ott 1947American
György Orbán 1947Hungarian
Paul Patterson 1947British
Giorgio Pacchioni 1947Italian
George Palmer 1947Australian
Philip Martin 1947Irish
Vasily Lobanov 1947Russian
Peter Paul Koprowski 1947Canadian
Kjell Mørk Karlsen 1947Norwegian
Max E. Keller 1947Swiss
Ivan Jevtić 1947Serbian/French
Barry Guy 1947British
David Gillingham 1947American
Ada Gentile 1947Italian
Steven Gellman 1947Canadian
Jean-Yves Bosseur 1947French
Liana Alexandra 19472011Romanian
Anthony Plog 1947American
Georgs Pelēcis 1947Latvian
Krzysztof Knittel 1947Polish
Jean-Louis Florentz 19472004FrenchL'Enfant des Iles (op.16, 2002)
Renaud Gagneux 19472018French
Kim Kuusi 1947Finnish
Somei Satoh 1947Japanese
Mayako Kubo 1947Japanese
John Adams 1947American On the Transmigration of Souls
Franghiz Ali-Zadeh 1947Azerbaijani
Michel Chion 1947French
Anders Eliasson 19472013Swedish
Ko Fan-long 1947Taiwanese
Don Freund 1947American
Peter Michael Hamel 1947German
John S. Hilliard 19472019American
Jo Kondo 1947Japanese
Joan La Barbara 1947American
Nicola LeFanu 1947British
Tristan Murail 1947French
Morris Pert 19472010Scottish
Pēteris Plakidis 19472017Latvian
Karl Aage Rasmussen 1947Danish
David Rosenboom 1947American
Salvatore Sciarrino 1947Italian
Howard Skempton 1947British
James Swearingen 1947American
Emil Tabakov 1947Bulgarian
Barry Truax 1947Canadian
Roger Craig Vogel 1947American
Chris Willcock 1947Australian
Joel Eric Suben 19462023American
Wolfgang Rübsam 1946German-American
Harald Sæther 1946Norwegian
Sheila Silver 1946American Female composer
Claire Schapira 1946French Female composer
Joelle Wallach 1946American
Dana Wilson 1946American
Snaffu Rigor 19462016Filipino
Heinz Winbeck 19462019German
Ho Wai-On 1946British
Nicola Piovani 1946Italian
Robert Xavier Rodriguez 1946American
Richard St. Clair 1946American
Gilius van Bergeijk 1946Dutch
Renate Birnstein 1946German
Zsolt Gárdonyi 1946Hungarian German
Niels Bernhart 19462008Danish
Ann-Elise Hannikainen 19462012Finnish
Konstantin Petrossian 1946Armenian
Anna Rubin 1946American
Jane O'Leary 1946American
Henry Mollicone 19462022American
David Noon 1946American
Max Méreaux 1946French
Peter Lieberson 19462011American
Ladislav Kubík 19462017Czech-American
Michael Kugel 1946Russian
John Metcalf 1946British and Canadian
Gabriel Iranyi 1946Romanian-born Israeli-German
Barbara Harbach 1946American
Jean-Luc Darbellay 1946Swiss
Tsippi Fleischer 1946Israeli
Mónica Cosachov 1946Argentine
Dora Draganova 1946Bulgarian
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Klaus Ager 1946Austrian
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Michel Longtin 1946Canadian
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Martin Bresnick 1946American
Pierre Even 1946Luxembourgian
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David Evan Jones 1946American
Pınar Köksal 19462019Turkish
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Ulrich Leyendecker 19462018German
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Pēteris Vasks 1946Latvian
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Hildegard Westerkamp 1946German-Canadian
Graciela Agudelo 19452018Mexican
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Trond Kverno 1945Norwegian
Zhao Jiping 1945Chinese
Felipe Sosa 1945Paraguayan
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Jacques Lenot 1945French
Peter Kiesewetter 19452012German
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Graciane Finzi 1945French
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Victoria Bond 1945American
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Maya Badian 1945Romanian-born Canadian
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Nagako Konishi 1945Japanese
Ahmed Achour 1945Tunisian
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Georges Aperghis 1945Greek
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Clarence Barlow 19452023British
Boudewijn Buckinx 1945Belgian
Rauf Dhomi 1945Kosovar
Edward Gregson 1945British
Thomas Oboe Lee 1945Chinese-American
Alexandre Rabinovitch-Barakovsky 1945Russian-Swiss
John Rutter 1945British
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Martin Wesley-Smith 19452019Australian
Judith Lang Zaimont 1945American
Alexander Zhurbin 1945Russian
Robert Manno 1944American
Michael Tilson Thomas 1944American
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Christopher Gunning 19442023British
Beatriz Lockhart 19442015Uruguayan
Arif Mirzayev 1944Azerbaijani
Neely Bruce 1944American
Claire Renard 1944French
Tatyana Chudova 19442021Russian
Silvia Sommer 1944Austrian
Lyell Cresswell 19442022New Zealander
Alison Bauld 1944Australian
Marisa Rezende 1944Brazilian
Stephen Scott 19442021American
Russell Schulz-Widmar 1944American
Goff Richards 19442011English
John Hawkins 19442007Canadian
Thomas Koppel 19442006Danish
Rhian Samuel 1944Welsh
Pekka Kostiainen 1944Finnish
John Fodi 19442009Canadian
Barry Conyngham 1944Australian
Lee Holdridge 1944Haitian-born American
Paul Drayton 1944British
Michael Garrett 19442023English
Gabriella Cecchi 1944Italian
Thüring Bräm 1944Swiss
Gilbert Biberian 19442023British
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Frank Corcoran 1944Irish
Iancu Dumitrescu 1944Romanian
Péter Eötvös 1944Hungarian
York Höller 1944German
Karl Jenkins 1944Welsh
Giedrius Kuprevičius 1944Lithuanian
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Pehr Henrik Nordgren 19442008Finnish
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Johnterryl Plumeri 19442016American
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Leif Segerstam 1944Finnish
Penelope Thwaites 1944Australian
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László Vidovszky 1944Hungarian
Klaas de Vries 1944Dutch
Tison Street 1943American
Alejandro Núñez Allauca 1943Peruvian
Bruce MacCombie 19432012American
Laura Clayton 1943American
Solange Ancona 19432019French
Faraj Garayev 1943Azerbaijani
Marta Ptaszynska 1943Polish
Michèle Reverdy 1943French
Michael Radulescu 1943Romanian-German
Robert Morris 1943American
Stephen Montague 1943American
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Costin Miereanu 1943French
Krzysztof Meyer 1943Polish
David Maslanka 19432017American
Miklós Maros 1943Hungarian
Fred Lerdahl 1943American
Tania León 1943Cuban
Anne Lauber 1943Canadian
Anthony Iannaccone 1943American
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Eleanor Cory 1943American
Frank Denyer 1943English
Jon Deak 1943American
José Antônio Rezende
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Artin Poturlyan 1943Armenian-Bulgarian
James Curnow 1943American
Maryanne Amacher 19432009American
Larry Lake 19432013Canadian
Daniel Börtz 1943Swedish
Joanna Bruzdowicz 19432021Polish
Gavin Bryars 1943British
Edward Cowie 1943British
Hugh Davies 19432005British
William Duckworth 19432012American
Hugues Dufourt 1943French
Dennis Eberhard 19432005American
Ross Edwards 1943Australian
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Julio Estrada 1943Mexican
Brian Ferneyhough 1943British
Joseph Fitzmartin 1943American
Allain Gaussin 1943French
Rolf Gehlhaar 19432019American
HK Gruber 1943Austrian
Robin Holloway 1943EnglishConcertos Nos. 4 and 5 for Orchestra
Shin-ichiro Ikebe 1943Japanese
Ilaiyaraaja 1943Indian
Zoltán Jeney 19432019Hungarian
Alexander Knaifel 1943Russian
Morten Lauridsen 1943American
Mario Lavista 19432021Mexican
Bill McGlaughlin 1943American
David Matthews 1943British
Vangelis Papathanasiou 19432022Greek
Imant Raminsh 1943Latvian-Canadian
Joseph Schwantner 1943American
Roger Smalley 19432015British-Australian
Yoav Talmi 1943Israeli
Michael Vetter 19432013German
Alexander Vustin 19432020Russian
Udo Zimmermann 19432021German
Ilayaraja 1943Indian
Canary Burton 1942American Female composer
Jon Mostad 1942Norwegian
Jeffrey Lewis 1942Welsh
John Cale 1942Welsh
Diane Thome 1942American
Jonathan Kramer 19422004American
Kyungsun Suh 1942Korean
Diogenes Rivas 1942Venezuelan
Wojciech Rybicki 19422019Polish
Daniel Roth 1942French
Shigeaki Saegusa 1942Japanese
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Haruna Miyake 1942Japanese
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Adel Kamel 19422003Egyptian
Gentil Montaña 19422011Colombian
Julian Dawes 1942English
Yevhen Stankovych 1942Ukrainian
Timothy Salter 1942English
Tomás Marco 1942Spanish
David Johnson 19422009Scottish
Ulf Grahn 19422023Swedish
David Fanshawe 19422010English
Robert Cuckson 1942American
Helen Fisher 1942New Zealander
Philip Bračanin 1942Australian
Viktor Suslin 19422012Russian
Jorge Antunes 1942Brazilian
Limoz Dizdari 1942Albanian
Clive Strutt  [ de ]1942English
David Padrós 19422016Spanish
Guy Bovet 1942Swiss
Brian Cherney 1942Canadian
Volker David Kirchner 19422020Germanoperas Gilgamesh; Savanarola; Gutenberg
Ingram Marshall 19422022American
Paul McCartney 1942British Ecce Cor Meum , Ocean's Kingdom
Meredith Monk 1942American
John Purser 1942Scottish
Horațiu Rădulescu 19422008Romanian-French
Sven-David Sandström 19422019Swedish
Chinary Ung 1942Cambodian
John Maxwell Geddes 19412017ScottishAn Ayrshire Suite
C. Curtis-Smith 19412014American
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Elizabeth Walton Vercoe 1941American Female composer
Antony le Fleming 1941English
Philip Krumm 1941American
Paul Alan Levi 1941American
Judith Margaret Bailey 1941English
Anđelka Bego-Šimunić 19412022Bosnian
Richard Nanes 19412009American
Sook-Ja Oh 1941Korean
Magaly Ruiz 1941Cuban
Sorrel Hays 19412020American
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Kay Gardner 19412002American
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Frank Proto 1941American
Erkki Salmenhaara 19412002Finnish
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Ivana Loudová 19412017Czech
Édith Lejet 1941French
Valeri Kikta 1941Ukrainian
Moya Henderson 1941Australian
Teppo Hauta-aho 19412021Finnish
Adolphus Hailstork 1941American
Sebastian Forbes 1941English
Sergio Calligaris 1941Argentine
Derek Bourgeois 19412017English
Graham Newcater 1941South African
Stojan Stojkov 1941Macedonian
Hafliði Hallgrímsson 1941Icelandic
Konrad Boehmer 19412014Dutch-German
Geoffrey Burgon 19412010British
Johannes Fritsch 19412010German
Angelo Gilardino 19412022Italian
Friedrich Goldmann 19412009German
Jackson Hill 1941American
Imants Kalniņš 1941Latvian
Emmanuel Nunes 19412012PortugueseDas Märchen (opera)
Vladislav Shoot 19412022Russian-British
Wadada Leo Smith 1941American
Nguyen-Thien Dao 19402015Vietnamese-French
Joseph Fennimore 1940American
Manuel Lillo Torregrosa 1940Spanish
Heidi Baader-Nobs 1940Swiss Female composer
Alexander Yossifov 19402016Bulgarian
David Pentecost 1940British
Graciela Paraskevaidis 19402017Argentine
Maria Teresa Luengo 1940Argentine
Ken-Ichiro Kobayashi 1940Japanese
Gary Lee Nelson 1940American
Dorothy Rudd Moore 19402022American
Octavian Nemescu 19402020Romanian
Margaret Brouwer 1940American
Helmut Bieler 19402019German
Dieter Acker 19402006German
António Victorino de Almeida 1940Portuguese
Vyacheslav Artyomov 1940Russian
Juraj Beneš 19402004Slovakian
Vladimir Cosma 1940French-Romanian
Graciela Castillo 1940Argentine
Henry Flynt 1940American
Jon Gibson 19402020American
Eleanor Hovda 19402009American
Alden Jenks 1940American
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Maciej Małecki 1940Polish
Dary John Mizelle 1940American
Peer Raben 19402007German
László Sáry 1940Hungarian
Alvin Singleton 1940American
Dan-Alexandru Voiculescu 19402009Romanian
Andrew Thomas 1939American
Robert E. Jager 1939American
Ivan Bootham 19392016New Zealander
Bent Hesselmann 1939Danish
Ma Shui-long 19392015Taiwanese
Inger Wikström 1939Swedish
María Luisa Ozaita 19392017Spanish
Lesia Dychko 1939Ukrainian
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Elinor Armer 1939American
Charles Boone 1939American
Alojz Ajdič 1939Slovenian
Mikheil Kobakhidze 19392019Georgian
Jean-Claude Amiot 1939French
Jennifer Fowler 1939British
Margaret Lucy Wilkins 1939English
Ricardo Tacuchian 1939Brazilian
Michael Smither 1939New Zealander
John Rimmer 1939New Zealander
Marlos Nobre 1939Brazilian
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David Loeb 1939American
Jaroslav Krček 1939Czech
Manuel de Elías 1939Mexican
Maija Einfelde 1939Latvian
Edwin Penhorwood 1939American
Gian Paolo Chiti 1939Italian
Georgi Minchev 1939Bulgarian
José Antonio Abreu 19392018Venezuelan
Robert Aitken 1939Canadian
Louis Andriessen 19392021DutchLa Commedia; La Giro; Anais Nin; Mysterien; Agamemnon; Theater of the World.
Marcelle Deschênes 1939Canadian
Leo Brouwer 1939Cuban
Wendy Carlos 1939American
Victor Davies 1939Canadian
Hartmut Geerken 19392021German
Jonathan Harvey 19392012British
Heinz Holliger 1939Swiss
Nicolaus A. Huber 1939German
Franz Hummel 19392022German
Tom Johnson 1939American
Barbara Kolb 1939American
Jean-Pierre Leguay 1939French
Annea Lockwood 1939American
Arkady Luxemburg 1939Moldovan-American
John McCabe 19392015British
Daan Manneke 1939Dutch
Vyacheslav Nagovitsyn 1939Buryat
Naresh Sohal 19392018Indian-British
David Stock 19392015American
Tomáš Svoboda 19392022Czech-American
Zsigmond Szathmáry 1939Hungarian
Richard Teitelbaum 19392020American
Boris Tishchenko 19392010Russian
James Willey 1939American
Ellen Taaffe Zwilich 1939American
Roland C. Jordan 1938American
Hans-Joachim Hespos 19382022German
Ann Carr-Boyd 1938Australian
Michel Rateau 1938French
Barton McLean 1938American
Mieko Shiomi 1938Japanese
Douglas Leedy 19382015American
Reinbert de Leeuw 19382020Dutch
David Borden 1938American
Piera Pistono 1938Italian
Tyzen Hsiao 19382015Taiwanese
Givi Gachechiladze 1938Georgian
Simon Preston 19382022English
Graham Jenkin 1938Australian
Álvaro Cassuto 1938Portuguese
José Serebrier 1938Uruguayan
Tona Scherchen 1938Swiss
Emanuel Vahl 1938Ukrainian-Israeli
Harvey Sollberger 1938American
Cornelia Tăutu 19382019Romanian
William Thomas McKinley 19382015American
Michael Parsons 1938British
Piotr Lachert 19382018Polish
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Paul Chihara 1938American
Howard Blake 1938English
Elliot del Borgo 19382013American
Elizabeth R. Austin 1938American
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Dianne Goolkasian Rahbee 1938American
Atli Heimir Sveinsson 19382019Icelandic
Virko Baley 1938Ukrainian-American
Bart Berman 1938Dutch-Israeli
William Bolcom 1938American
Gloria Coates 19332023American
John Corigliano 1938American
Alvin Curran 1938American
Jean-Claude Éloy 1938French
John Harbison 1938American
Paavo Heininen 19382022Finnish
Jacques Hétu 19382010Canadian
Zygmunt Krauze 1938Polish
Mesías Maiguashca 1938Ecuadorian
Jean-Christian Michel 1938French
Frederic Rzewski 19382021American
Richard Stoker 19382021British
Yuji Takahashi 1938Japanese
Dimitri Terzakis 1938Greek
Joan Tower 1938American
Jan Vriend 1938Dutch
Charles Wuorinen 19382020American
Rolf Riehm 1937German Sirenen (opera)
Dubravko Detoni 1937Croatian
Miguel Ángel Coria 19372016Spanish
Zbigniew Bargielski 1937Polish
David Cornwall 19372006American
Dmitry Smolsky 19372017Belarusian
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Wang Xilin 1937Chinese
Guy Woolfenden 19372016English
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Misha Geller 19372007Russian
Marta Lambertini 19372019Argentine
Jon Hassell 19372021American
Anatoly Dokumentov 1937Russian
Robert Moran 1937American
Paul Ramsier 19372021American
Yoshihisa Taira 19372005Japanese-born French
Irma Ravinale 19372013Italian
Ann Southam 19372010Canadian
Edwin Roxburgh 1937English
Ahmad Pejman 1937Iranian
Irina Odagescu 1937Romanian
Jean-Louis Petit 1937French
Diana McIntosh 19322022Canadian
Paul Méfano 19372020French
Katherine Hoover 19372018American
Bernard Gilmore 19372013American
John Ferritto 19372010American
Azio Corghi 19372022Italian
Beatriz Ferreyra 1937Argentine
Janet Beat 1937Scottish
Michael Conway Baker 1937Canadian
Jan Bach 19372020American
Tore Uppström 19372006Swedish
Keiko Abe 1937Japanese
Edward Applebaum 19372020American
Junsang Bahk 1937South Korean
Osvaldas Balakauskas 1937Lithuanian
David Bedford 19372011British
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Gordon Crosse 19372021British
David Del Tredici 19372023American
George Flynn 1937American
Philip Glass 1937American The Hours , Symphony 8
Lóránt Hajdú 1937Hungarian
Walter Hekster 19372012Dutch
Nikolai Kapustin 19372020Ukrainian
James Lavino 1973American
Philip Ledger 19372012British
Bo Nilsson 19372018Swedish
Valentyn Sylvestrov 1937Ukrainian
Loris Tjeknavorian 1937Iranian-Armenian
Rick Wilkins 1937Canadian
Yehuda Yannay 19372023Israeli-American
Robert Leaf 19362005American
Joyce Grill 1936AmericanSpanish Nights Female composer
Vitaliy Hodziatsky 1936Ukrainian
Brunhilde Sonntag 19362002German
Oleksandr Krasotov 19362007Ukrainian
Harold Budd 19362020American
Colin Mawby 19362019English
Aleksandar Džambazov 19362022Macedonian
Erika Fox 1936British Female composer
Malcolm Goldstein 1936American
Trisutji Kamal 19362021Indonesian
Izabella Arazova 1936Armenian
Jocy de Oliveira 1936Brazilian
Sheila Nelson 19362020English
John White 19362024English
Vivian Adelberg Rudow 1936American
Elliott Schwartz 19362016American
Marek Stachowski 19362004Polish
Erika Radermacher 1936German
Gérard Masson 1936French
Ami Maayani 19362019Israeli
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Barbara Heller 1936German
Nigel Brooks 1936English
Ralph Lundsten 19362023Swedish
Claude Coppens 1936Belgian
Monic Cecconi-Botella 1936French
Fahri Beqiri 19362021Albanian
Herbert Blendinger 19362020Austrian
Sieglinde Ahrens 1936German
Gilbert Amy 1936French
Richard Rodney Bennett 19362012British
David Blake 1936British
Philippe Boesmans 19362022Belgian
Carl Davis 19362023American-British
Michel Decoust 1936French
Iván Erőd 19362019Hungarian-Austrian
Malcolm Forsyth 19362011South African-Canadian
Éric Gaudibert 19362012Swiss
Frans Geysen 1936Belgian
Daniel Goode 1936American
Maki Ishii 19362003Japanese
Akil Mark Koci 1936Kosovar-Albanian
Ladislav Kupkovič 19362016Slovakian
Anthony Payne 19362021British
Steve Reich 1936American
Aribert Reimann 1936German Medea
Robert Suderburg 19362013American
David Ward-Steinman 19362015American
Hans Zender 19362019GermanChief Joseph (opera)
Sergei Cortez 19352016Belarusian
Wang Qiang 1935Chinese
Gloria Wilson Swisher 19352023American
Luis Advis 19352004Chilean
Khayyam Mirzazade 19352018Azerbaijani
Kazuko Hara 19352014Japanese
Helen Gifford 1935Australian
Biancamaria Furgeri 1935Italian
Vasif Adigozalov 19352006Azerbaijani
Jiří Teml 1935Czech
Noam Sheriff 19352018Israeli
Carlo Martelli 1935English
Enid Luff 19352022Welsh
André Isoir 19352016French
John Eaton 19352015American
Jordi Cervelló 19352022Spanish
Thérèse Brenet 1935French
Jiří Bárta 19352012Czech
Conrad Susa 19352013American
Rajko Maksimović 1935Serbian
Ian Keith Harris 1935Australian
Kurt Schwertsik 1935Austrian
Akin Euba 19352020Nigerian
Theodore Antoniou 19352018Greek
Nigel Butterley 19352022Australian
Derek Bell 19352002Irish
Bruno Canino 1935Italian
Leonid Hrabovsky 1935Ukrainian
Elgar Howarth 1935English
Samuel Jones 1935American
Giya Kancheli 19352019Georgian
Georg Katzer 19352019German
Helmut Lachenmann 1935German
Bent Lorentzen 19352018Danish
François-Bernard Mâche 1935French
Pierre Mariétan 1935Swiss
Diego Masson 1935French
Nicholas Maw 19352009British
Misha Mengelberg 19352017Dutch
Gordon Mumma 1935American
Arvo Pärt 1935Estonian Symphony No. 4
Terry Riley 1935American
Aulis Sallinen 1935Finnish
Peter Schat 19352003Dutch
Peter Schickele 19352024American
Charles Shere 19352020American
Steve Tittle 1935Canadian
La Monte Young 1935American
Mirjana Živković 19352020Serbian
Solhi al-Wadi 19342007Iraqi-Syrian
Benjamin Boretz 1934American
Geoffrey Grey 1934British
Alicia Terzian 1934Argentine
Bernard Vitet 19342013French
Ramon Sender 1934Spanish
Zhanneta Metallidi 19342019Russian
Richard Wernick 1934American
Teresa Procaccini 1934Italian
Claudio Prieto 19342015Spanish
Alexandra Pierce 19342021American
Walter Steffens 1934German
Jeremy Dale Roberts 19342017English
Jan Klusák 1934Czech
Bernard Hoffer 1934Swiss-born American
Rob du Bois 19342013Dutch
Norma Beecroft 1934Canadian
İlhan Baran 19342016Turkish
Henrique de Curitiba 19342008Brazilian
Vassil Kazandjiev 1934Bulgarian
Mary Mageau 19342020American
Bernard Rands 1934American
Alain Bancquart 19342022French
Harrison Birtwistle 19342022British
Mario Davidovsky 19342019Argentine-American
Peter Maxwell Davies 19342016British Naxos Quartets ; Kommilitonen! ; Symphony No. 8; Symphony No. 9
Peter Dickinson 19342023British
Anthony Gilbert 19342023British
Paul Glass 1934American
Srul Irving Glick 19342002Canadian
Vinko Globokar 1934French
Bryan Kelly 1934British
John McLeod 19342022Scottish
Siegfried Matthus 19342021German
Gonzalo de Olavide 19342005Spanish
Paul Panhuysen 19342015Dutch
Roger Reynolds 1934American
Larry Sitsky 1934Australian
Avo Sõmer 1934Estonian-American
Ernstalbrecht Stiebler 1934German
James Tenney 19342006American
Christian Wolff 1934American
Arlene Zallman 19342006American
Eric Salzman 19332017AmericanThe True Last Words of Dutch Schultz (opera)
Joel Spiegelman 1933American
Vincent McDermott 19332016AmericanThe Blue Forest
George Tibbits 19332008Australian
John Sanders 19332003English
Roland Trogan 19332012American
Bertram Turetzky 1933American
Michael Brimer 19332023Australian
Maria Helena Rosas Fernandes 1933Brazilian
Seóirse Bodley 19332023Irish
Harrison Oxley 19332009British
W. Francis McBeth 19332012American
Andrei Volkonsky 19332008Russian
Albert Markov 1933Russian American
Miklós Kocsár 19332019Hungarian
Don Kay 1933Australian
Ida Gotkovsky 1933French
Pozzi Escot 1933American
Walter Buczynski 1933Canadian
Colin Brumby 19332018Australian
Jerry Bilik 1933American
Helene Karastoyanova 1933Bulgarian
Toshi Ichiyanagi 19332022Japanese
Antón García Abril 19332021Spanish
Leonardo Balada 1933Spanish-American
Easley Blackwood Jr. 19332023American
Justin Connolly 19332020British
Henryk Górecki 19332010Polish
Jerry Herman 19332019American
Krzysztof Penderecki 19332020Polish List of compositions by Krzysztof Penderecki
Ilkka Kuusisto 1933Finnish
István Láng 19332023Hungarian
Akira Miyoshi 19332013Japanese
Yves Prin 1933French
R. Murray Schafer 19332021Canadian
Morton Subotnick 1933American
Ton-That Tiet 1933Vietnamese-French
Wang Jianzhong 19332016Chinese
Marvin David Levy 19322015American
Robert Lombardo 1932American
Diana Pereira Hay 1932Danish
Elaine Barkin 19322023American
Hans G. Helms 19322012German
Kilza Setti 1932Brazilian
Max Schubel 19322010American
Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson 19322004American
Rudi Martinus van Dijk 19322003Dutch
Tod Dockstader 19322008American electronic music
John Boswell Maver 1932Australian
Muammer Sun 19322021Turkish
Alan Stout 19322018American
Malcolm Peyton 1932American
Jaan Rääts 19322020Estonian
Doru Popovici 19322019Romanian
Giacomo Manzoni 1932Italian
Karl Kroeger 1932American
Marta Jiráčková 1932Czech
Bengt Hallberg 19322013American
Fyodor Druzhinin 19322007Russian
Michael Colgrass 19322019American
Carey Blyton 19322002British
Betty Beath 1932Australian
Jean-Michel Defaye 1932French
Malcolm Lipkin 19322017English
François Bayle 1932French
Henning Christiansen 19322008Danish
James Douglas 19322022Scottish
Sylvia Glickman 19322006American
Alexander Goehr 1932English
Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen 19322016Danish
André Hajdu 19322016Israeli
Ruth Watson Henderson 1932Canadian
Wojciech Kilar 19322013Polish
Marek Kopelent 19322023Czech
Bronius Kutavičius 19322021Lithuanian
Henri Lazarof 19322013Bulgarian
Richard Meale 19322009Australian
Per Nørgård 1932Danish
Pauline Oliveros 19322016American
Éliane Radigue 1932French
Lalo Schifrin 1932Argentine
Rodion Shchedrin 1932Russian
Sergei Slonimsky 19322020Russian
Gilles Tremblay 19322017Canadian
John Williams 1932American Star Wars , Catch Me If You Can , Concerto for Horn and Orchestra, Harry Potter , Soundings , Air and Simple Gifts
Hugh Wood 19322020British
Luigi Zaninelli 1932American
Jonathan Elkus 1931American
Alida Vázquez 19312018Mexican
Awatef Abdel Karim 19312021Egyptian
Derek Holman 19312019English
Nancy Laird Chance 1931American
Louis W. Ballard 19312007American
Martin Boykan 19312021AmericanPiano Trio No. 3, Rites of Passage; Piano Sonata No. 3; Sonata for violin and piano No. 2
Donald Harris 19312016American
Maria Dolores Malumbres 19312019Spanish
Felicia Donceanu 19312022Romanian
Frederick A. Fox 19312011American
Rudolf Komorous 1931Canadian
Young-ja Lee 1931South Korean
Arthur Weisberg 19312009American
Yüksel Koptagel 1931Turkish
Raoul Pleskow 19302022Austrian-born American
Yuriy Oliynyk 19312021Ukrainian
Robert Gauldin 1931American
F. R. C. Clarke 19312009Canadian
Voki Kostić 19312010Serbian
Román Alís 19312006Spanish
David Baker 19312016American
Vytautas Barkauskas 19312020Lithuanian
Sylvano Bussotti 19312021Italian
Charles Camilleri 19312009Maltese
Lucien Goethals 19312006Belgian
Sofia Gubaidulina 1931Russian
Hikaru Hayashi 19312012Japanese
Anthony Hedges 19312019British
Josef Maria Horváth 19312019Hungarian
Mauricio Kagel 19312008German-Argentine
Rudolf Kelterborn 19312021Swiss
André Laporte 1931Belgian
Alvin Lucier 19312021American
David Lumsdaine 19312024Australian
Donald Martino 19312005American
Arne Nordheim 19312010Norwegian
Ib Nørholm 19312019Danish
Ivo Petrić 19312018Slovenian
Makoto Shinohara 19312024Japanese
Sándor Szokolay 19312013Hungarian
Yuzo Toyama 19312023Japanese
Peter Westergaard 19312019American
Malcolm Williamson 19312003Australian
Lorin Maazel 19302014American
Gerardo Guevara 1930Ecuadorian
Dwight Gustafson 19302014American
Yen Lu 19302008Chinese-born Taiwanese
Gudrun Lund 19302020Danish
Joan Franks Williams 19302003American
John Carmichael 1930Australian
Pieter van der Staak 19302007Dutch
Betty Roe 1930English
Antoinette Kirkwood 19302014English
Ryōhei Hirose 19302008Japanese
Muhal Richard Abrams 19302017American
Petar Bergamo 19302022Croatian
Claude Bolling 19302020French
Clotilde Rosa 19302017Portuguese
Jorma Panula 1930Finnish
Makoto Moroi 19302013Japanese
Walter Sear 19302010American
Nancy Van de Vate 19302023American
Ben Steinberg 19302023Canadian
Hifumi Shimoyama 1930Japanese
Usko Meriläinen 19302004Finnish
Günter Kochan 19302009German
Ruth Lomon 19302017Canadian
Johnny Arthey 19302007British
Jacqueline Fontyn 1930Belgian
Robert Cogan 19302021American
Dick Raaymakers 19302013Dutch
Richard Felciano 1930American
David Amram 1930American
Robert Ashley 19302014American
Larry Austin 19302018American
Vera Baeva 19302017Bulgarian
Jacques Calonne 19302022Belgian
Dejan Despić 1930Serbian
Fernando García 1930Chilean
Jean Guillou 19302019French
Cristóbal Halffter 19302021Spanish
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John Mayer 19302004Indian
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Eino Tamberg 19302010Estonian
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Veljo Tormis 19302017Estonian
Heinz Werner Zimmermann 19302022German
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Teizo Matsumura 19292007Japanese
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Bogusław Schaeffer 19292019Polish
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Hans Stadlmair 19292019AustrianMiro, Trumpet Concerto
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Mark Kopytman 19292011Israeli
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Luc Ferrari 19292005French-Italian
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James K. Randall 19292014American
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Osian Ellis 19282021Welsh
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Luna Alcalay 19282012Croatian born Austrian
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Frank Michael Beyer 19282008German
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Avni Mula 19282020Albanian
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Guo Zurong 1928Chinese
Ennio Morricone 19282020Italian
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Karlheinz Stockhausen 19282007German Sonntag aus Licht ; Klang ; Fünf weitere Sternzeichen
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Bernard Parmegiani 19272013French
Wayne Peterson 19272021American
William Ennis Thomson 19272019American
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André Almuró 19272009French
Dolores Claman 19272021Canadian
John Diercks 19272020American
Bernhard Lewkovitch 19272024Danish
Janet Maguire 19272019Austrian
Beatrice Ohanessian 19272008Iraqi Armenian
Dagvyn Luvsansharav 19272014Mongolian
George Balch Wilson 19272021American
Mary Jeanne van Appledorn 19272014American
Joe Maneri 19272009American
Vlastimil Lejsek 19272010Czech
Wilhelm Killmayer 19272017German Mörike-Lieder
Walter Hartley 19272016American
Donald Erb 19272008American
Emma Lou Diemer 1927American
Paul Angerer 19272017Austrian
Dominick Argento 19272019American
Tzvi Avni 1927Israeli
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Osvaldo Lacerda 19272011Brazilian
Ștefan Niculescu 19272010RomanianIson II
Eva Schorr 19272016German
Margrit Zimmermann 19272020Swiss
Maria de Lourdes Martins 19262009Portuguese Female composer
Edward Bland 19262013American
Brian Bonsor 19262011Scottish
Earle Brown 19262002American
Zhun Huang 1926Chinese
Werner Kaegi 1926Swiss
Janine Charbonnier 19262022French
Francis Dhomont 19262023French
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Hans Otte 19262007German
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William Schmidt 19262009American
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Edwin Carr 19262003New Zealander
Jacques Castérède 19262014French
Friedrich Cerha 19262023Austrian
Carlisle Floyd 19262021American
Eric Gross 19262011Austrian-Australian
Hans Werner Henze 19262012German Phaedra
Ben Johnston 19262019American
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Gottfried Michael Koenig 19262021German-Dutch
György Kurtág 1926Hungarian
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Ruth Zechlin 19262007German
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Doming Lam 19262023Chinese (Macau)
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Tristram Cary 19252008English-Australian
Clytus Gottwald 19252023German
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Hale Smith 19252009American
Włodzimierz Kotoński 19252014Polish
Teo Macero 19252008American
Ivo Malec 19252019French
Frank Lewin 19252008American
Ernie Stires 19252008American
Louis Barron 19252008American
Hilda Dianda 1925Argentine
Amada Santos Ocampo 19252009Philippine
Nguyễn Văn Quỳ 19252022VietnameseSonatas Nos. 8 and 9 for violin and piano
Claudio Spies 19252020Chilean-American
Miroslav Miletić 19252018Croatian
William Mayer 19252017American
Eloy Fominaya 19252002American
Jindřich Feld 19252007Czech
Antoine Duhamel 19252014French
Charles Chaynes 19252016French
Edith Borroff 19252019American
Allan Blank 19252013American
Gustavo Becerra-Schmidt 19252010Chilean
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Pierre Boulez 19252016French Incises ; Dérive 2
Aldo Clementi 19252011Italian
Marius Constant 19252004French-Romanian
Andrei Eshpai 19252015Russian
Emmanuel Ghent 19252003Canadian
Ron Goodwin 19252003British
Svatopluk Havelka 19252009Czech
Bertold Hummel 19252002German
Giselher Klebe 19252009German
Kirke Mechem 1925American
Gunther Schuller 19252015American
Mikis Theodorakis 19252021Greek
Paul W. Whear 19252021American
Milko Kelemen 19242018CroatianTromberia for Trumpet and Orchestra
Noël Lee 19242013American
Hugh Aitken 19242012American
Charles L. Bestor 19242016American
Gladys Nordenstrom 19242016American Female composer
Jeanne Colin-De Clerck 1924Belgian
Benjamin Lees 19242010American
Riichiro Manabe 19242015Japanese
Arthur Frackenpohl 19242019American
Stanley Hollingsworth 19242003American
Ernest Tomlinson 19242015English
Krystyna Moszumańska-Nazar 19242009Polish
Michael Amissah 1924Ghanaian
Ruth Schönthal 19242006German
Erzsébet Szőnyi 19242019Hungarian
Yehoshua Lakner 19242003Israeli
Axel Borup-Jørgensen 19242012Danish
Enriko Josif 19242003Serbian
Zhivka Klinkova 19242002Bulgarian
Claude Abravanel 19242012Swiss
Leni Alexander 19242005German-Chilean
Claude Ballif 19242004French
Altamiro Carrilho 19242012Brazilian
Stephen Dodgson 19242013British
Heimo Erbse 19242005German
Egil Hovland 19242013Norwegian
Klaus Huber 19242017Swiss
Maurice Jarre 19242009French
Ezra Laderman 19242015American
Franco Mannino 19242005Italian
Angela Morley 19242009British
Serge Nigg 19242008French
Eugene Kurtz 19232006American
William Kraft 19232022AmericanEncounters
Isaac Schwartz 19232009Ukrainian
Jan Boerman 19232020Dutch
Teresa Borràs i Fornell 19232010American
James Clifford Brown 19232004English
Ludmila Ulehla 19232009American
Triphon Silyanovski 19232005Bulgarian
Gerhard Wimberger 19232016Austrian
Jean Catoire 19232005French
Chou Wen-chung 19232019Chinese/American
Jean Eichelberger Ivey 19232010American
Flavio Testi 19232014Italian
James Stevens 19232012English
Reid N. Nibley 19232008American
Phil Nimmons 19232024Canadian
Viktor Kalabis 19232006Czech
Dika Newlin 19232006American
Arthur Butterworth 19232014English
Leslie Bassett 19232016American
Carlos Bonilla Chávez 19232010Ecuadorian
Warren Barker 19232006American
Henryk Czyż 19232003Polish
Simeon ten Holt 19232012Dutch
György Ligeti 19232006Hungarian
Ursula Mamlok 19232016German-born, American
Kenneth G. Mills 19232004Canadian
Daniel Pinkham 19232006American
Ned Rorem 19232022American
Friedrich Zehm 19232007German
Anna Gordy Gaye 19222014American
Raffaello de Banfield 19222008English
Antonio Bibalo 19222008Italian-Norwegian
John Boda 19222002American
Kelsey Jones 19222004Canadian
Doreen Carwithen 19222003British
Tale Ognenovski 19222012Macedonian
Eric Jupp 19222003British
James Wilson 19222005Irish
Francis Thorne 19222017American
George Walker 19222018American
Felix Werder 19222012German-born Australian
Otmar Mácha 19222006Czech
Leo Kraft 19222014American
Lars Edlund 19222013Swedish
Odette Gartenlaub 19222014French
Wim Franken 19222012Dutch
Edvard Hagerup Bull 19222012Norwegian
Yehezkel Braun 19222014Israeli
Sadao Bekku 19222012Japanese
Sol Berkowitz 19222006American
Ester Mägi 19222021Estonian
Gérard Calvi 19222015French
Lukas Foss 19222009German-American
Stefans Grové 19222014South African
Ilja Hurník 19222013Czech
Gilberto Mendes 19222016Brazilian
Zhu Jian'er 19222017Chinese
Marcel Bitsch 19212011French
Adrienne Clostre 19212006French Female composer
Ariel Ramírez 19212010Argentine
Antony Hopkins 19212014British
Hans Ulrich Engelmann 19212011German
Mustafa Krantja 19212002Albanian
Edward Salim Michael 19212006French
Will Ogdon 19212013American
Douglas Townsend 19212012American
Kaljo Raid 19212005Estonian
Alfred Reed 19212005American
Roger Nixon 19212009American
Richard Rudolf Klein 19212011German
Ingvar Lidholm 19212017Swedish
Kan Ishii 19212009Japanese
Crawford Gates 19212018American
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William Blezard 19212003British
Jack Beeson 19212010American
Seymour Barab 19212014American
Dorothea Austin 19212011Austrian-born American
Douglas Allanbrook 19212003American
Chaya Arbel 19212007Israeli
Malcolm Arnold 19212006British9 symphonies, other orchestral suites; opera; chamber musicTonal with conservative formal concerns
Halim El-Dabh 19212017Egyptian-American
Oscar Feltsman 19212013Russian
Karel Husa 19212016Czech-American
Andrew Imbrie 19212007American
Edvard Mirzoyan 19212012Armenian
Ralph Shapey 19212002American
İlhan Usmanbaş 1921Turkish
Donald H. White 19212016American
J. Durward Morsch 19202015American
Dave Brubeck 19202012American
Dorothea Anne Franchi 19202003New Zealander Female composer
Karen Khachaturian 19202011Soviet and Russian
John Lessard 19202003American
Rolande Falcinelli 19202006French
Robert Turner 19202012Canadian
Robert Mann 19202018American
Robert Moevs 19202007American
John La Montaine 19202013American
Alexander Arutiunian 19202012Armenian
Jacob Gilboa 19202007Israeli
Ravi Shankar 19202012Indian
Harold Shapero 19202013American
Helen Tobias-Duesberg 19192010Estonian-American Female composer
Bernard Barrell 19192005English
Jacob Avshalomov 19192013American
Udo Kasemets 19192014Estonian-born Canadian
István Anhalt 19192012Hungarian-Canadian
Talivaldis Kenins 19192008Latvian-Canadian
Leon Kirchner 19192009American
Juan Orrego-Salas 19192019Chilean
Jiří Pauer 19192007Czech
Galina Ustvolskaya 19192006Russian
Lina Pires de Campos 19182003Brazilian
Lucrecia Roces Kasilag 19182008Filipino
Joseph Willard Roosevelt 19182008American
Francisco Llácer Pla 19182002Spanish
Marcelo Koc 19182006Argentinian
Augustin Kubizek 19182009Austrian
Jürg Baur 19182010German
Milton DeLugg 19182015American
Jórunn Viðar 19182017Icelandic
Liviu Comes 19182004Romanian
Harold Gramatges 19182008Cuban
George Rochberg 19182005American
Erna Woll 19172005German Female composer
José Maceda 19172004Filipino
Clarisse Leite 19172003Brazilian
Henri Betti 19172005French
Robert Ward 19172013American
Geraldine Mucha 19172012Scottish
Oskar Morawetz 19172007Canadian
Samuel Dolin 19172002Canadian
Anton Coppola 19172020American
Hidayat Inayat Khan 19172016English
Richard Arnell 19172009British
Roque Cordero 19172008Panamanian
Robert Farnon 19172005Canadian
John Gardner 19172011British
Lou Harrison 19172003American
Eta Tyrmand 19172008Belarusian
Reginald Smith Brindle 19172003British
Irwin Swack 19162006American
Carin Malmlöf-Forssling 19162005Swedish
Gonchigiin Birvaa 19162006Mongolian
Jan Håkan Åberg 19162012Swedish
William Presser 19162004American
Ian Parrott 19162012Anglo-Welsh
Helmut Eder 19162005Austrian
Roman Toi 19162018Canadian
Denis ApIvor 19162004British
Milton Babbitt 19162011American
Henri Dutilleux 19162013French
Veli Mukhatov 19162005Turkmenistani
Štěpán Rak 19162008Canadian
René Touzet 19162003Cuban-American
Robert Strassburg 19152003American
Alexander Brott 19152005Canadian
Robert Moffat Palmer 19152010American
Ebbe Grims-land 19152015Swedish
Abel Ehrlich 19152003Israeli
José Bragato 19152017Italian-born Argentine
David Diamond 19152005American
Grigory Frid 19152012Russian
Jan Hanuš 19152004Czech
Knut Nystedt 19152014Norwegian
George Perle 19152009American
Alan Shulman 19152002American
Berthe di Vito-Delvaux 19152005Belgian
Wilfrid Mellers 19142008English
Akira Ifukube 19142006Japanese
Hermann Haller 19142002Swiss
Cacilda Borges Barbosa 19142010Brazilian
Riccardo Malipiero 19142003Italian
Josée Vigneron-Ramackers 19142002Belgian
Lucio D. San Pedro 19132002Filipino
Matilde Capuis 19132017Italian
Kent Kennan 19132003American
Ernest van der Eyken 19132010Belgian
Bruno Bettinelli 19132004Italian
Jan Ekier 19132014Polish
Henry Brant 19132008American Ice Field
Norman Dello Joio 19132008American
Miriam Hyde 19132005Australian
Tikhon Khrennikov 19132007Russian
Gardner Read 19132005American
Witold Rudziński 19132004Polish
John Weinzweig 19132006Canadian
Sirvart Kalpakyan Karamanuk 19122008Armenian
Zoltán Pongrácz 19122007Hungarian
Robert Hughes 19122007Scottish-born Australian
Arthur Berger 19122003American
Tauno Marttinen 19122008Finnish
Xavier Montsalvatge 19122002Spanish
Louis Moyse 19122007French
Robert McBride 19112007American
Erik Bergman 19112006Finnish
Roberto García Morillo 19112003Argentine
Jan Koetsier 19112006Dutch
Gian Carlo Menotti 19112007Italian-American
Anatoly Bogatyrev 19102003Belarusian
Patricia Blomfield Holt 19102003Canadian
Vilém Tauský 19102004Czech
Leon Stein 19102002American
Otto Joachim 19102010German-born Canadian
Werner Wolf Glaser 19102006Swedish
Erland von Koch 19102009Swedish
H. Owen Reed 19102014American
Meinrad Schütter 19102006Swiss
Josef Tal 19102008Israeli
Todor Skalovski 19092004Macedonian
Maria Dziewulska 19092006Polish
Isabel Aretz 19092005Argentine-Venezuelan
Ljubica Marić 19092003Serbian
Robin Orr 19092006Scottish
Jean Berger 19092002German
Harald Genzmer 19092007German
Kurt Schwaen 19092007German
Joan Mary Last 19082002English
Alice Samter 19082004German
Trude Rittmann 19082005German
Jean-Yves Daniel-Lesur 19082002French
Roberta Bitgood 19082007American
Elliott Carter 19082012American
Jeronimas Kačinskas 19072005Lithuanian-born American
Lora Aborn 19072005American
Roy Douglas 19072015British
Bernhard Christensen 19062004Danish
Normand Lockwood 19062002American
Arnold Cooke 19062005British
Murray Adaskin 19062002Canadian
Joaquim Homs 19062003Spanish
Manuel Rosenthal 19042003French
Goffredo Petrassi 19042003Italian
Mykola Kolessa 19032006Ukrainian
Jenő Takács 19022005Austrian
Aurelio de la Vega 19252022Cuban-American
Steve Heitzeg 1959AmericanNobel Symphony
Bear McCreary 1979American Battlestar Galactica , Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. , Outlander , The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power , Call of Duty: Vanguard Composer of film, television, and video game scores.
James Horner 19532015American James Cameron's Titanic , James Cameron's Avatar , Apollo 13 (film) , Braveheart , Legends of the Fall , Jumanji , A Beautiful Mind (film) , Mighty Joe Young (1998 film) , The Mask of Zorro , Field of Dreams (film) Composer of film, television scores.
Ola Gjeilo 1978Norwegian
Caleb Burhans 1980American
Bryce Dessner 1976American
Daníel Bjarnason 1979Icelandic
Thomas Adès 1971British
Ryan Lott 1979American
Kim André Arnesen 1980Norwegian
James Whitbourn 1963British
Jane Antonia Cornish 1975English
Richard Reed Parry 1977Canadian
Judd Greenstein 1979American
Missy Mazzoli 1980American
Christopher Cerrone 1984American
Anna Thorvaldsdottir 1977Icelandic
Jessie Montgomery 1981American
Sarah Kirkland Snider 1973American
Daniel Wohl 1980French
Ted Hearne 1982American
Angélica Negrón 1981Puerto Rican
Raquel García-Tomás 1984SpanishAlexina B.
Jonathan Leshnoff 1973American
Gavin Higgins 1983British

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21st-century classical music is Western art music in the contemporary classical tradition that has been produced since the year 2000. A loose and ongoing period, 21st-century classical music is defined entirely by the calendar and does not refer to a musical style in the sense of Baroque or Romantic music.

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  1. "La historia tras la pieza musical que estrenará Caio Facó en el último Programa de Orquesta de la OCV" (in European Spanish). Orquesta de Cámara de Valdivia. Retrieved 2020-02-12.