Search results

• Rihm, Wolfgang
  German composer of stage, orchestral, chamber, choral, vocal, and piano works that have been performed throughout the world. ...so received encouragement from Wolfgang Fortner and Humphrey Searle in the early 1970s. He then studied composition with Karlheinz Stockhausen in Cologne in
  6 KB (808 words) - 02:36, 13 July 2018
• Lepak, Alexander
  ...n addition to percussion, the now-retired Professor Emeritus of Theory and Percussion also taught ear training and conducted the Hartt Concert Jazz Band, which h ...uating cum laude in 1950 and immediately being appointed to the theory and percussion faculty.
  9 KB (1,384 words) - 16:36, 31 May 2019
• Holten, Bo
  ...is every year, giving some 70 concerts, radio- and CD recordings including works with Symphony Orchestra and several BBC Proms. 1996 he founded the vocal en ...oppel and Emil Reesen, and also an entire CD devoted to Holten's own choir works. At the moment (2007) Holten is concentrating mainly on composing a new gra
  6 KB (921 words) - 16:41, 24 August 2013
• Gilmour, Russell
  ...mar School, WA. Since graduating from the University of New England in the early 1980s, he has worked as a teacher, lecturer and arts administrator. <!--== Books for Percussion ==
  3 KB (473 words) - 17:55, 3 August 2018
• Schuller, Gunther
  ...or his wide range of activity in both jazz and classical music and for his works embracing both jazz and advanced 12-tone elements. ...Symphony and Metropolitan Opera orchestras. His interest in jazz developed early when he became a fan of Duke Ellington; he made symphonic adaptations of se
  5 KB (679 words) - 03:02, 11 October 2012
• Paliev, Dobri
  ...and loved individual… He started appearing in musical performances from an early age, playing the accordion, trumpet, drums, conducted the student’s orche “Prior to Paliev, we had no idea of the potential of percussion instruments and that one could achieve such virtuosity of them…”- obser
  8 KB (1,101 words) - 02:27, 7 June 2023
• Hutcheson, Jere
  ..., Massachusetts. His earliest inspiration to become a composer came in his early teen years from his piano teacher, Harry Bolza. His works have been performed throughout the USA and Canada, as well as in Europe, As
  5 KB (784 words) - 12:02, 11 September 2013
• Vees, Jack
  Citing Charles Ives and Captain Beefheart as his most prominent early influences, Jack Vees has a particularly distinctive and personal musical s ...k, Stephen Mosko, Louis Andriessen, Vinko Globokar, and Bernard Rands. His works have been performed throughout the world by numerous ensembles and soloists
  4 KB (664 words) - 19:56, 13 January 2019
• LCM Grade 1 Orchestral Percussion
  Component 1 - Technical Works <br/> | 7 || Early Riser || [[Brian Stone]] || [[LCM Snare Drum Grades 1-2]] || [[Stainer & Be
  8 KB (978 words) - 05:56, 9 August 2023
• Double Music
  Though rare in classical music, collaborative works are not at all unknown. For various reasons, composers sometimes agree to c ...e, who admittedly had trouble with harmonic concepts, had settled on using percussion sounds for his dance music, including the celebrated invention of the "prep
  6 KB (990 words) - 02:32, 7 March 2022
• Horwood, Michael
  ...formed Convergence, an improvisation ensemble in which he played piano and percussion. In 2003, he retired from teaching and moved with his wife to Cowley, Alber ...1988), the electroacoustic work Motility (revised 1986) and the orchestral works Amusement Park Suite (1986), National Park Suite (1991) and Symphony No. 2,
  7 KB (1,058 words) - 22:48, 24 August 2013
• Firth, Everett "Vic"
  ...cussion. By the time he was in high school, he had gravitated full-time to percussion, studying first with Robert Ramsdell and later with George Lawrence Stone, ...s hesitant to mention outstanding pupils, but he fondly recalls a class on percussion techniques for a Copland seminar that included three young conductors - Cla
  9 KB (1,443 words) - 16:28, 31 May 2019
• Ptaszyńska, Marta
  ...as appeared on many new music festivals, and premiered numerous percussion works. ...Nadia Boulanger and electronic music at the ORTF Center in Paris, and then percussion at the Cleveland Institute of Music in the U.S., where she received an Arti
  6 KB (819 words) - 05:02, 12 July 2023
• Cacioppo, George
  ...nd work didn't move in straight lines from one point to another. After his early compositions of the 1950s, each musical work has its own unique identity an ...vertheless he was soon back at his radio occupation and composition of new works.
  5 KB (746 words) - 22:01, 10 July 2018
• Grey, Geoffrey
  ...his parents as he had shown a precocious interest in the violin at a very early age. Edinburgh, however, was markedly unfriendly to the English in those da ...ppointed Tour Musical Director of the NZ Opera Company. He had a number of early pieces broadcast by the NZBS and returned to England in 1960.
  3 KB (542 words) - 14:39, 7 September 2013
• Hart, Paul
  ...usic, first as a junior exhibitor and later full-time. Having developed an early interest in jazz music he left college and started working as a bass player ...ons on the British national anthem. Paul has had three performances of his works at the BBC Proms including the jazz composition ‘Out Of Hamelin’ perfor
  4 KB (551 words) - 04:17, 14 June 2012
• Silverman, Adam
  ...e Professor of Music Theory and Composition at West Chester University and works actively creating new compositions that are performed on concerts worldwide ...ny compositions for accompanied and unaccompanied solo cello, and original works and arrangements for cello choirs. He has composed three concertos since 20
  6 KB (906 words) - 01:25, 14 July 2015
• Another Sunrise
  ...in Cuba, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Haiti and Veracruz (Mexico), in early son, merengue and rumba groups. == Works for Percussion by this Composer ==
  4 KB (553 words) - 05:10, 28 April 2022
• Teaching Percussion
  Cook, Gary. <u>Teaching Percussion 3rd edition</u>. New York, Schirmer Books, 2005.<br /--> ...lf-contained book, students in music education programs, private study, or percussion pedagogy courses will develop a broad musical awareness and comprehensive t
  11 KB (1,797 words) - 12:47, 16 December 2022
• Antheil, George
  ..., Salvador Dali, Ernest Hemingway, Eric Satie, and Igor Stravinsky. In the early '20s, he lived at the literal center of English-language culture in Europe: ...over 300 musical works in all major genres, including symphonies, chamber works, film music, and operas. He was extremely outspoken and articulate, and wro
  3 KB (515 words) - 00:32, 13 May 2022

View (previous 20 | next 20) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500)