Related Research Articles
Mark-Anthony Turnage is an English composer of contemporary classical music.
Robert Eugene Ward was an American composer who is best remembered for his opera The Crucible (1961) after the 1953 play of the same name by Arthur Miller. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Music for that opera in 1962.
Erkki-Sven Tüür is an Estonian composer.
Chen Yi is a Chinese-American composer of contemporary classical music and violinist. She was the first Chinese woman to receive a Master of Arts (M.A.) in music composition from the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing. Chen was a finalist for the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Music for her composition Si Ji, and has received awards from the Koussevistky Music Foundation and American Academy of Arts and Letters, as well as fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. In 2010, she was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from The New School and in 2012, she was awarded the Brock Commission from the American Choral Directors Association. She was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2019.
Augusta Read Thomas is an American composer and University Professor of Composition in the Department of Music at the University of Chicago, where she is also director of the Chicago Center for Contemporary Composition.
Matthew John Hindson AM is an Australian composer.
Donald Henry Kay AM is an Australian classical composer.
Robert Xavier Rodríguez is an American classical composer, best known for his eight operas and his works for children.
David Horne is a Scottish composer, pianist, and teacher.
Zdeněk Lukáš was a Czech composer. He authored over 330 works.
David Frederick Stock was an American composer and conductor.
Gary Alan Kulesha is a Canadian composer, pianist, conductor, and educator. Since 1995, he has been Composer Advisor to the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. He has been Composer-in-Residence with the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony (1988–1992) and the Canadian Opera Company (1993–1995). He was awarded the National Arts Centre Orchestra Composer Award in 2002.
Andreas Makris was a Greek-American composer and violinist, born in Kilkis, Greece, on March 7, 1930. He was a Composer-in-Residence for many years at the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington DC, working with conductors such as Howard Mitchell, Mstislav Rostropovich, Antal Dorati, and Leonard Slatkin. He composed around 100 works for orchestra, chamber ensembles, and solo instruments, including the Aegean Festival Overture, which, transcribed for concert band by Major Albert Bader of the USAF Band, became a popular piece with US bands. Grants and awards he received include the Damroch Grant, National Endowment for the Arts Grant, the Martha Baird Rockefeller Award, ASCAP Award, the Fulbright Scholarship, and citations from the Greek Government.
Gerhard Schedl was an Austrian composer.
References
- ↑ Vera, Liber (May 29, 2021). "Circus Days and Nights". British Theatre Guide. Retrieved November 6, 2021.
- ↑ "Hip-Hop Meets Ballet in One Man's Body" by Alastair Macaulay, The New York Times , April 3, 2013
- ↑
- ↑
- ↑
- ↑ "The Crucible as you’ve never seen it" by Peter Marks, The Washington Post , March 31, 2016
- ↑ "Spoleto Fanfare - for carillon". Hal Leonard . Retrieved May 23, 2022.
- ↑ Lavinia Meijer – Philip Glass – Metamorphosis; The Hours at AllMusic
