Esa-Pekka Salonen is a Finnish conductor and composer. He is the music director of the San Francisco Symphony and conductor laureate of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Philharmonia Orchestra in London and the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra.
Ahmet Adnan Saygun was a Turkish composer, musicologist and writer on music.
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.
Josef Páleníček was a Czech piano virtuoso and composer.
Necil Kazım Akses was a Turkish classical composer.
Viktor Kalabis was a Czech composer, music editor, musicologist, and husband of harpsichordist Zuzana Růžičková.
Gediminas Gelgotas is a Lithuanian composer, conductor and self-performing artist.
Liza Lim is an Australian composer. Lim writes concert music as well as music theatre and has collaborated with artists on a number of installation and video projects. Her work reflects her interests in Asian ritual culture, the aesthetics of Aboriginal art and shows the influence of non-Western music performance practice.
Huck Hodge is an American composer of contemporary classical music.
Salim Dada is an Algerian composer, musician, and musicologist.
Michael Schelle, born January 22, 1950, in Philadelphia, is a composer of contemporary concert music. He is also a performer, conductor, author, and teacher.
Seyed Mehdi Hosseini Bami is a Persian composer of contemporary classical music.
Alexander Lonquich is a German classical pianist and conductor.
Ali Özkan Manav is a Turkish composer of contemporary classical music. His earlier works reveal influences of Saygun, Usmanbaş and Ligeti, at times progressing through aleatoric sections. Later works combine newer timbral concerns with maqamic pitch content, microtones and elements of folk music.
Sebastian Fagerlund is a Finnish composer. He is described as “a post-modern impressionist whose sound landscapes can be heard as ecstatic nature images which, however, are always inner images, landscapes of the mind”. Echoes of Western culture, Asian musical traditions, and heavy metal have all been detected in his music.
Erol Erdinç is a Turkish conductor of classical music, composer, pianist and educator.
Hande Özyürek is a Turkish violinist. She has been a member of the Munich Radio Orchestra since 2003 and has released a solo CD. She also teaches at the Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University. Özyürek was named the winner of the 15th Vienna Music Competition in 2007.
Igor Krivokapič is a Slovenian composer, retired tubist and instrument inventor.
Zeynep Gedizlioğlu is a Turkish composer who won the Ernst von Siemens Young Composer of the Year Award in 2012.
Vincent Calianno is a New York City and Tucson based composer of contemporary classical music, sound artist, and filmmaker.
