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• Chatman, Stephen
  ...composers, Stephen Chatman, Professor of Composition at The University of British Columbia, Vancouver since 1976, is the first Canadian ever short-listed in ...rds, and multiple Juno nominee, Chatman is recognized internationally as a composer of choral, orchestral, and piano music. In 2012, Dr. Chatman was appointed
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• A table of noises
  <!-- fill in the name of the file (it can be a .jpg or a .gif) as well as the composer's name in the fields above. You may delete this text once this is done.--> ...for years through my early teens. <ref>http://www.musicsalesclassical.com/composer/work/714/36146</ref>
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• Rands, Bernard
  Bernard Rands (born 2 March 1934) is a British-American composer of contemporary classical music. ...The American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2004. From 1989 to 1995 he was composer-in-residence with the Philadelphia Orchestra.
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• Holt, Simon
  ...the featured composer of the 1985 Bath International Festival; as a young composer, he was also taken up by the late Michael Vyner, then artistic director of ...ony Orchestra in May 2008 and also won the Orchestral Award at the British Composer Awards (2009). Troubled Light was premiered at the BBC Proms also in 2008,
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• Roberts, Aldwyn
  As a composer and musician, Roberts is generally considered to be self-taught and self-ma ...was 15. He changed his artistic name to "Lord Kitchener," inspired by the British field marshall, and by 1938 was a popular singer in the town of Arima. That
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• Hart, Paul
  Paul Hart is a music composer. He spent his early life in Ilford, Essex. He studied Piano, Violin and com ...examination pieces. Other commissions include pieces for London Brass, the British Clarinet Ensemble and The Kings Singers.
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• Bellson, Louis
  ...te (drummer) Frank King. This special tribute show also featured legendary British session and big band drummer, Kenny Clare, as well as Buddy Rich. The orche <!-- Enter the composer's biography here -->
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• Feldman, Victor
  ...chestra and quintet from 1954 to 1955, which also featured other important British jazz musicians such as Phil Seamen and Hank Shaw. It was Scott who recommen <!-- Enter the composer's biography here -->
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• Kondo, Jo
  ...1986 resided in London as a British Council Senior Fellow. In 1987 he was composer in residence at Hartt School of Music, Hartford, Connecticut, USA, and taug <!-- Enter the composer's biography here -->
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• Xenakis, Iannis
  <!-- Enter the composer's biography here --> Iannis Xenakis was a composer of Greek heritage and Romanian birth, known for his revolutionary ideas reg
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• Wilby, Philip
  [[Image:composername.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Composer Name]] ...or solo flugelhorn and band (Grimethorpe, 1991); Revelation (1995, for the British Open Championships). Much of Wilby's recent wind band music has been commis
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• Normandy Beach 1944
  ...ormandy in an elaborate amphibious operation. A total of 425,000 American, British and German men lost their lives in the ensuing conflict. Normandy Beach 194 == Works for Percussion by this Composer ==
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• Percussion History
  ...is part fits into the orchestra, as parts were often written as though the composer had just written down what may have sounded nice and easy to play on a keyb ...an-Baptiste Lully had composed in 1671. Johann Sebastian Bach was another composer who was one of the first to begin writing for timpani. His standard compos
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• Stamp, Jack
  ...niversity Wind Symphony (1988-89) and was musical director of the Triangle British Brass Band, leading them to a national brass band championship in 1989. He is active as a guest conductor, clinician, adjudicator, and composer throughout North America and Great Britain. His compositions have been comm
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• Orion M.42
  <!-- fill in the name of the file (it can be a .jpg or a .gif) as well as the composer's name in the fields above. You may delete this text once this is done.--> ...er 9th, 2003. He was a clarinet, saxophone, and guitar player as well as a composer. He did not pick up composition until later in his life, partly due to his
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• Ford, Andrew
  ...composer at ANAM in 2009. In April 2014 he was Poynter Fellow and Visiting Composer at Yale University. A former academic, Ford has written widely on all manne <!-- Enter the composer's biography here -->
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• Fitkin, Graham
  Graham Fitkin is a UK composer who works with acoustic and electronic instruments, collaborates with dance A ‘Composer for Dance Award’ in 1990 led to a new work for David Massingham Dance. E
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• Sculthorpe, Peter
  ...Sussex and Griffith. An Officer of both the Order of Australia and of the British Empire, in 1998 he was elected a National Trust of Australia National Livin ...nner's authorised biography, Peter Sculthorpe: The Making of an Australian Composer, covering the years 1929 to 1974, was published in 2007.
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• Blues for Gilbert
  <!-- fill in the name of the file (it can be a .jpg or a .gif) as well as the composer's name in the fields above. You may delete this text once this is done.--> ...ome Mozart keyboard works originated: It was a written-down version of the composer's improvisation. It is essentially a jazz piece that has been turned into a
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• Rihm, Wolfgang
  German composer of stage, orchestral, chamber, choral, vocal, and piano works that have bee ...unich (2004, for Quartettstudie from 11. Streichquartett), and the British Composer Award for International Composition (2007, for Verwandlung I).
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