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Tyshawn Sorey

Tyshawn Sorey

composer Composer and multi-instrumentalist Tyshawn Sorey has performed globally with his own ensembles, as well as alongside industry titans including…
Sissie Cohen
September 3, 2026
Bernard Rogers

Bernard Rogers

Composer Rogers was born in New York City. He studied with Arthur Farwell, Ernest Bloch, Percy Goetschius, and Nadia Boulanger. He taught at the Cleveland Institute…
Sissie Cohen
April 27, 2026
Jessie Montgomery

Jessie Montgomery

Jessie Montgomery is a GRAMMY® Award-winning composer, violinist, and educator whose work interweaves classical music with elements of vernacular music, improvisation,…
Sissie Cohen
September 23, 2025
Donald Dorr

Donald Dorr

Librettist Donald Dorr, librettist of Ulysses Kay’s opera Frederick Douglass, was a co-founder of Opera/South, the producing company for the…
Sissie Cohen
May 16, 2025
Ulysses Kay

Ulysses Kay

Kay, the nephew of the classic jazz musician King Oliver, studied piano, violin and saxophone. He attended the University of…
Sissie Cohen
February 3, 2025
John Zorn

John Zorn

John Zorn is an American composer and saxophone player. He owns his own record company (called Tzadik), so he's free…
Justin DiMucci
February 25, 2024
Evan Ziporyn

Evan Ziporyn

From Lincoln Center to Balinese temples, from loft spaces to international festivals, composer/performer Evan Ziporyn has traveled the globe in…
Justin DiMucci
February 25, 2024
Zhou Long

Zhou Long

Zhou Long (b. July 8, 1953, Beijing). Chinese-born American composer of mostly orchestral, chamber and vocal works that have been…
Justin DiMucci
February 25, 2024
Roger Zahab

Roger Zahab

Roger Zahab instigates complex relations through his activities as composer, violinist, conductor, teacher and writer. He has written much chamber,…
Justin DiMucci
February 25, 2024
Yang Yong

Yang Yong

Composer Yang Yong was born in Beijing, China. The earliest musical influence on him came from the Peking Opera, folk…
Justin DiMucci
February 25, 2024
Chen Yi

Chen Yi

Chen Yi (b. April 4, 1953, Guangzhou) is a Chinese-born American composer of orchestral, chamber, choral, and piano works that…
Justin DiMucci
February 25, 2024
Randy Woolf

Randy Woolf

Randall Woolf studied composition privately with David Del Tredici and Joseph Maneri, and at Harvard, where he earned a Ph.D.…
Justin DiMucci
February 25, 2024
Julia Wolfe

Julia Wolfe

Drawing inspiration from folk, classical, and rock genres, Julia Wolfe's music brings a modern sensibility to each while simultaneously tearing…
Justin DiMucci
February 25, 2024
Trevor Weston

Trevor Weston

Trevor Weston’s music has been called a “gently syncopated marriage of intellect and feeling.” (Detroit Free Press) Weston’s honors include…
Justin DiMucci
February 25, 2024
Chou Wen-Chung

Chou Wen-Chung

Chou Wen-chung's earliest work, Landscapes for orchestra (finished in 1949 and premiered by Leopold Stokowski with the San Francisco Symphony in 1953),…
Justin DiMucci
February 25, 2024
Judith Weir

Judith Weir

Judith Weir’s music has been appreciated by audiences and critics alike. She trained with John Tavener while still at school…
Justin DiMucci
February 25, 2024
Tianyi Wang

Tianyi Wang

Born in China, Tianyi Wang is an award-winning composer, conductor, and pianist, whose music vocabulary is diverse and much inspired by…
Justin DiMucci
February 25, 2024
Diana Voyer

Diana Voyer

Diana Voyer (b. 1994) is a composer, vocalist, fantasy writer, and engineer currently pursuing a Masters of Music in composition…
Justin DiMucci
February 25, 2024
Ryan Vigil

Ryan Vigil

Ryan Vigil (b. 1978), active as a composer, conductor, pianist, theorist, and teacher, holds degrees from Yale University, Tufts University,…
Justin DiMucci
February 25, 2024
Chinary Ung

Chinary Ung

A Cambodian-American composer, Chinary Ung (b. 1942) combines traditional Cambodian and Western elements in his works. As the world grows…
Justin DiMucci
February 25, 2024
Ken Ueno

Ken Ueno

Winner of the 2006-2007 Rome Prize and the 2010-2011 Berlin Prize, Ken Ueno, is a composer, vocalist, improviser, and cross-disciplinary…
Justin DiMucci
February 25, 2024
Joan Tower

Joan Tower

Joan Tower is widely regarded as one of the most important American composers living today. During a career spanning more…
Justin DiMucci
February 25, 2024
Michael Torke

Michael Torke

With his two best known early pieces, Ecstatic Orange and Yellow Pages, written in 1985 while still a composition student at Yale, Michael Torke…
Justin DiMucci
February 25, 2024
Josef Tal

Josef Tal

Josef Tal was born Joseph Grünthal in the town of Pinne (now Pniewy), near Poznań, German Empire (present-day Poland). Soon…
Justin DiMucci
February 25, 2024
Jan Swafford

Jan Swafford

Jan Swafford (born 1946) is an American composer and author who teaches composition, theory, and musicology at the Boston Conservatory…
Justin DiMucci
February 25, 2024
Steven Stucky

Steven Stucky

Composer Steven Stucky was the recipient of numerous commissions from orchestras, performing groups, individuals, and foundations both at home and…
Justin DiMucci
February 25, 2024
David Stock

David Stock

Composer/Conductor David Stock is Professor of Music at Duquesne University, where he conducts the Duquesne Contemporary Ensemble. He has been…
Justin DiMucci
February 25, 2024
Rick Snow

Rick Snow

Rick Snow is a composer and educator based in New Orleans, Louisiana. As a composer he seeks intersections between dimension,…
Justin DiMucci
February 25, 2024
Ezra Sims

Ezra Sims

Ezra Sims is known mainly as a composer of microtonal music. He made his professional debut (with his earlier twelve-note…
Justin DiMucci
February 25, 2024
Bright Sheng

Bright Sheng

COMPOSER  Proclaimed "a fresh voice in cross-cultural music" and "an innovative composer who merges diverse musical customs in works that…
Justin DiMucci
February 25, 2024
Eric Sawyer

Eric Sawyer

Eric Sawyer's music is frequently performed on both coasts of the United States, including New York City's Weill Recital Hall…
Justin DiMucci
February 25, 2024
Alejandro Rutty

Alejandro Rutty

Composer  Born in Argentina, composer Alejandro Rutty's output includes orchestral, chamber and mixed-media music, arrangements of Argentine traditional music, and…
Justin DiMucci
February 25, 2024
Huang Ruo

Huang Ruo

Awarded First Prize by the prestigious Luxembourg International Composition Prize, Huang Ruo has been cited by the New Yorker as “one of…
Justin DiMucci
February 25, 2024
Elena Ruehr

Elena Ruehr

An award winning faculty member at MIT, Elena Ruehr has also been a fellow at Harvard's Radcliffe Institute and composer-in-residence…
Justin DiMucci
February 25, 2024
Bruce Reiprich

Bruce Reiprich

Bruce Reiprich's music has been described as "post-romantic radiance" (Danbury News-Times), "a deeply personal mediation on the poet's feelings" (San…
Justin DiMucci
February 25, 2024
Steve Reich

Steve Reich

Steve Reich was recently called "…America's greatest living composer." (The Village Voice), "...the most original musical thinker of our time"…
Justin DiMucci
February 25, 2024
Radiohead

Radiohead

FORMED: 1989, Oxford, England Radiohead is widely regarded as one of the world's most important bands of today. While their…
Justin DiMucci
February 25, 2024
Benjamin Park

Benjamin Park

Benjamin Park is an active composer and native of Boston, Massachusetts. He began formally studying music composition at MIT and completed both…
Justin DiMucci
February 25, 2024
Alex North

Alex North

Composer  Renowned composer Alex North shunned publicity and Hollywood careerism. But he nevertheless accumulated 15 Oscar nominations and a Lifetime…
Justin DiMucci
February 25, 2024
Lior Navok

Lior Navok

The music of Lior Navok (b. Israel, 1971) has been described by The Boston Globe as "colorful, haunting, accomplished and exciting." His…
Justin DiMucci
February 25, 2024
Paul Moravec

Paul Moravec

Composer Paul Moravec, recipient of the 2004 Pulitzer Prize in Music, has composed numerous orchestral, chamber, lyric, and operatic works.…
Justin DiMucci
February 25, 2024
Eric Moe

Eric Moe

Eric Moe (1954- ), composer of what The NY Times calls "music of winning exuberance", has received numerous grants and awards for…
Justin DiMucci
February 25, 2024
Olivier Messiaen

Olivier Messiaen

Olivier Eugène Prosper Charles Messiaen (10 December 1908 – 27 April 1992) was a French composer, organist, and ornithologist who was one of the major composers…
Justin DiMucci
February 25, 2024
John Melby

John Melby

Born in 1941 in Whitehall, Wisconsin, John Melby was brought up in Pulaski, Tennessee, where he began his musical studies…
Justin DiMucci
February 25, 2024
Wlad Marhulets

Wlad Marhulets

Wlad has worked on such films as Ambition, directed by Bob Shaye, Hitman: Agent 47, starring Rupert Friend and Zachary Quinto, Marshal From Detroit,…
Justin DiMucci
February 25, 2024
Tan Dun

Tan Dun

composer To create the haunting original score for director Ang Lee's acclaimed romantic martial-arts adventure Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, composer…
Justin DiMucci
February 25, 2024
Wang Lu

Wang Lu

Composer and pianist Wang Lu was born in Xi’an, the ancient capital of China. Being brought up in a musical family with…
Justin DiMucci
February 25, 2024
Edwin London

Edwin London

Edwin London (b. 1929) has served living music throughout his career. He has formed two highly-acclaimed ensembles: Ineluctable Modality, a…
Justin DiMucci
February 25, 2024
David Dramm

David Dramm

composer David Dramm (1961) was born in Illinois, growing up in San Diego, California. His composition studies began with Robert…
Justin DiMucci
February 25, 2024
Andrew List

Andrew List

Andrew List (Professor of Composition and Theory at Berklee College of Music, Boston, MA) composes music in many different genres,…
Justin DiMucci
February 25, 2024
Adam del Monte

Adam del Monte

composer, guitar First Prize winner at the 1997 Stotsenberg International Classical Guitar Competition, Adam del Monte studied flamenco and classical…
Justin DiMucci
February 25, 2024
Jacob Cooper

Jacob Cooper

Composer Jacob Cooper's diverse compositions have earned him a Charles Ives Scholarship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters,…
Justin DiMucci
February 25, 2024
Shih-Hui Chen

Shih-Hui Chen

Composer As the recipient of a Koussevitzky Music Foundation Commission (2004), a Barlow Endowment Commission (2001), a Guggenheim Fellowship (2000),…
Justin DiMucci
February 25, 2024
Eric Chasalow

Eric Chasalow

Composer Composer Eric Chasalow (USA 1955) has become most recognized for works that combine traditional instruments with computer generated sound.…
Justin DiMucci
February 25, 2024
Yu-Hui Chang

Yu-Hui Chang

Composer Using a decidedly contemporary language of diverse harmonic color, inventive timbre and ingenious effects, award-winning composer Yu-Hui Chang has…
Justin DiMucci
February 25, 2024
Magnus Lindberg

Magnus Lindberg

Lindberg's juvenilia include the large orchestral work Donor, composed at age 16. Quintetto dell'Estate (1979) is generally held to be Lindberg's first opus.…
Justin DiMucci
February 25, 2024
Lei Liang

Lei Liang

Heralded as "one of the most exciting voices in New Music" by The Wire magazine, Lei Liang is a Chinese-born American composer…
Justin DiMucci
February 25, 2024
Han Lash

Han Lash

Hailed by The New York Times as “striking and resourceful…handsomely brooding,” Han Lash’s music has been performed at Carnegie Hall, Los Angeles'…
Justin DiMucci
February 25, 2024
David Lang

David Lang

"There is no name yet for this kind of music," writes Los Angeles Times music critic Mark Swed about the Pulitzer Prize-winning…
Justin DiMucci
February 25, 2024
Gail Kubik

Gail Kubik

Gail Thompson Kubik was an American composer, motion picture scorist, violinist, and teacher. Kubik studied at the Eastman School of…
Justin DiMucci
February 25, 2024
Shirish Korde

Shirish Korde

Composer Shirish Korde is celebrated for "integrating and synthesizing music of diverse cultures into breathtaking works of complex expressive layers"…
Justin DiMucci
February 25, 2024
Komitas

Komitas

Komitas, a.k.a. Soghomon Soghomonyan, was born on September 26, 1869 in Anatolia, Turkey, in the town of Koutina (Ketaia). His…
Justin DiMucci
February 25, 2024

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