Chuck Owen is Distinguished University Professor of Jazz Studies at the University of South Florida where he also serves as the founding Director of the USF Center for Jazz Composition. A committed, visible, and passionate educator, he is also recognized, inside and outside of academia, for his unique compositional voice. Grounded in the jazz tradition,
Educated both in Israel and the United States, Tamar Muskal composes music that harmonizes the unique cultural aspects of both places. Her music is always in a counterpoint style, carefully structured, and with great attention for details. She was born in 1965 in Jerusalem, Israel. She studied viola, music theory, and composition at the Rubin
Lei Liang is a Chinese-born American composer whose mostly stage and chamber works have been performed throughout the world. He earned numerous prizes as both a composer and pianist in China before coming to the US at age seventeen. He studied composition with Sir Harrison Birtwistle, Robert Cogan, Chaya Czernowin, Mario Davidovsky, Joshua Fineberg, and
Michael Gordon’s music merges subtle rhythmic invention with incredible power embodying, in the words of The New Yorker’s Alex Ross, “the fury of punk rock, the nervous brilliance of free jazz and the intransigence of classical modernism.” Over the past twenty-five years, Mr. Gordon has produced a strikingly diverse body of work, ranging from large-scale
Erin Gee received her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in piano and composition, respectively, from the University of Iowa, where she studied with Réne Lecuona, Lawrence Fritts, and Jeremy Dale Roberts. In Austria and Germany, she studied composition with Beat Furrer, Mathias Spahlinger, Chaya Czernowin, Richard Barrett, and Steve Takasugi. She completed her Ph.D. in music
Pianist and composer Ryan Cohan is one of the leading jazz performers and composers working today. During his undergraduate years at DePaul University, he spent two summers at the prestigious and highly competitive Skidmore Jazz Institute, where he was named one of the Institute’s first Blue Note Scholars, a scholarship established by Bruce Lundvall, President
Billy Childs was born in Los Angeles in 1957, to Joseph and Mable Childs. Having demonstrated an aptitude for piano as early as age six, he developed rapidly, and at age sixteen entered the Community School of the Performing Arts, a preparatory music program sponsored by the University of Southern California, studying theory with Marienne
Composer Yu-Hui Chang has been recognized by numerous prestigious institutions, such as the Fromm Music Foundation at Harvard University, the Koussevitzky Music Foundation in the Library of Congress, Charles Ives Fellowship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Barlow Endowment for Music Composition, the Aaron Copland Award from the Copland House, and with
Jorge Villavicencio Grossmann’s music has been performed throughout the United States, Latin America, and Europe. His works find inspiration in a wide range of subjects, from medieval music to Latin American modern art. He has been a recipient of the Aaron Copland Award, Charles Ives Scholarship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a
Born in Mexico City in 1974, Enrico Chapela is gaining worldwide recognition as a superbly talented and highly imaginative composer. After receiving his undergraduate degree in guitar performance from the Centro de Investigacion y Estudios de la Musica (CIEM) in Mexico City in 1999, he continued his studies at CIEM, earning his Licenciate in compositional
Kenny Werner is a gifted pianist, composer, and music producer. Born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1951, by age eleven he recorded a single with a fifteen-piece orchestra and appeared on television playing stride piano. His love of classical music was nurtured during his high school years at the Manhattan School of Music, and after
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Educated at the Conservatorio Nacional de Música (1981-89), Carnegie Mellon University (M.F.A., 1991), and the University of British Columbia (D.M.A., 1999), Hebert Vázquez is almost as well known for his contributions to music theory scholarship as for his highly original compositions that play upon but always transcend Mexican cultural themes. His compositions, which range from
Argentinean composer Esteban Benzecry was born in 1970. After receiving his diploma as professor of painting from the Buenos Aires Superior School of Fine Arts, Benzecry studied musical composition with H. Gerardi and S. Hualpa in Argentina and with J. Charpentier at the Paris CNR, where he was awarded First Prize by a unanimous jury
Marta Ptaszynska, composer, percussionist, and professor of composition, born in Warsaw, Poland, has been living in the United States since 1972. She is the author of such well-known works as the Concerto for Marimba, Winter’s Tale, Sonnets to Orpheus, and Moon Flowers, as well as numerous composition for percussion (Siderals, Graffito, Spider Walk, Space Model,
Cergio Prudencio was born in 1955 in La Paz, Bolivia, where he attended the Bolivian Catholic University and studied classical guitar, flute, piano, and percussion. A composer, conductor, teacher, and researcher, he is the founder (in 1980) and chief conductor of the Orchestra of Experimental Native Instruments (OEIN), which has received strong attention for such
Praised as “OH, a name to remember” in the Volkskrant (September 2005), Seung-Ah Oh, a native of Korea, is the winner of the Toonzetters prijs for the best contemporary music in the Netherlands (2010), the prestigious creative arts residency at the Bellagio Center by the Rockefeller Foundation (US. 2010), the Barlow endowment for music composition,
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