Erkki-Sven Tüür is an Estonian composer.
John Harris Harbison is an American composer, known for his symphonies, operas, and large choral works.
Pēteris Vasks is a Latvian composer.
James Ehnes, is a Canadian concert violinist and violist.
Richard Danielpour is a music professor at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Bogusław Julian Schaeffer was a Polish composer, musicologist, and graphic artist, a member of the avantgarde "Cracow Group" of Polish composers alongside Krzysztof Penderecki and others.
Boris Khristoforovich Parsadanian was a Soviet-born Armenian-Estonian composer, violinist, and arts administrator.
Osvaldas Jonas Balakauskas is a Lithuanian composer of classical music and diplomat.
Ulrich Leyendecker was a German composer of classical music. His output consisted mainly of symphonies, concertos, chamber and instrumental music.
Matthew John Hindson AM is an Australian composer.
Margaret Brouwer is an American composer and composition teacher. She founded the Blue Streak Ensemble chamber music group.
Martin Boykan was an American composer known for his chamber music as well as music for larger ensembles.
Jaan Rääts was an Estonian composer who worked extensively on Estonian film scores of the 1960s and 1970s.
Donald Henry Kay AM is an Australian classical composer.
Michael Alec Rose composes chamber and symphonic music. He is Professor of Composition at Vanderbilt University’s Blair School of Music. His awards and commissions include the Walter W. Naumburg Foundation’s chamber music commission, for which he composed his String Quartet No. 2, premiered by the Meliora Quartet at Lincoln Center and the Library of Congress; a commission from the International Spoleto Festival for a violin-cello duo; twenty-five consecutive annual awards in composition from the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers, 1986–2010; string quartet commissions from the Blair and Mendelssohn Quartets; and three commissioned performances by the Nashville Symphony, including Symphony No. 1—Paths of Peace (2000).
Benjamin Yusupov is a classical composer, conductor and pianist.
Eduard Hayrapetyan is an Armenian composer of contemporary classical music.
David Serkin Ludwig is an American composer, teacher, and Dean of Music at The Juilliard School. His uncle was pianist Peter Serkin, his grandfather was the pianist Rudolf Serkin, and his great-grandfather was the violinist Adolf Busch. He holds positions and residencies with nearly two dozen orchestras and music festivals in the US and abroad. His choral work, The New Colossus, was performed at the 2013 presidential inauguration of Barack Obama.
Boris Pigovat is an Israeli composer. Many of his works have been performed throughout the world. He studied at Gnessin Music Institute in Moscow. Between 1978 and 1990 he lived in Tajikistan, and immigrated to Israel in 1990. In 2002 he received his Ph.D. degree from Bar-Ilan UniversityArchived 2007-05-09 at the Wayback Machine (Israel).
József Soproni was a Hungarian composer.
