Female composers

[pjme]

Edith Canat - de Chizy

http://www.youtube.com/v/3tlR7pQILrE

Jacqueline Fontyn

http://www.youtube.com/v/hgpqbEQCf8Y

[Christo]

Kassia (c. 810-843/865): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kassia
https://www.youtube.com/v/ioWWIiG_sHc

[pjme]

Henriette Bosmans

http://www.youtube.com/v/69QT3cwSXhI

Tera de Marez - Oyens

http://www.youtube.com/v/UXmLBi7XYto

Elisabeth Lutyens

http://www.youtube.com/v/73kMX1ENUEo

and

The skull!

http://www.youtube.com/v/di19ZKLZlKQ

[Christo]

Ruth Gipps - for me thé discovery in this respect of recent years, especially on hearing her fine and moving Second Symphony in one movement (1945), though the Fourth, also on Youtube, may be considered her masterpiece
https://www.youtube.com/v/IaD8Cc5U6qA

[pjme]

Thanks for this discovery Christo and Dundonnell. This is a beautiful work!

Peter

[Christo]

Thanks for this discovery Christo and Dundonnell. This is a beautiful work!

Peter

... at the same time I cannot but wholeheartedly endorse your contributions here.  (Heard Henriëtte Bosmans'  fine concertinos a couple of times in the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, BTW).

[SimonNZ]

^I hadn't heard Liza Lim before. I had a bit of fun checking out things on YT, including her testing unusual instruments with Ensemble MusikFabrik:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-A2gQuEqwoM

And her interviewing Irvine Arditti (who seems a refreshingly down to earth guy):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niTCB4E9u7k

[San Antone]

Re: Liza Lim

Liza agreed to be included in my series of composer profiles.  Her article - which includes a short interview, her description of Navigator, a recent operatic work, as well as an audio clip - can be found here.

[some guy]

Very cool blog, sanantonio.

One of the names I proposed for my own website had the word kaleidoscope in it, but I was overrulled by my then comrades in arms.

So even better that you have a site about new music with the word kaleidoscope in it. 

[San Antone]

Very cool blog, sanantonio.

One of the names I proposed for my own website had the word kaleidoscope in it, but I was overrulled by my then comrades in arms.

So even better that you have a site about new music with the word kaleidoscope in it. 

Thanks, SG. 

[San Antone]

Roxanna Panufnik : using music to bridge religious differences

Panufnik is the daughter of a Jewish mother and a Polish Catholic father, the composer Sir Andrzej Panufnik; the co-existence of religions and cultures is an essential part of her identity.

She says, "there's so much common ground between the monotheistic faiths. Obviously there are some fundamental differences in the way we practice. But I think that too much time and energy is spent on the differences and not enough on the things that we all share. That's what I want to do musically - to highlight those universal elements."

Read more and hear audio samples here.

[San Antone]

Morgan Krauss : the clashing of emotional opposites



Her music is focused on the latent instability of seemingly fixed gestures where the interaction between performer and the score creates yet a third entity, often guided by improvisation and the clashing of emotional opposites.

More info and audio clips can be found HERE.

[jochanaan]

Morgan Krauss : the clashing of emotional opposites



Her music is focused on the latent instability of seemingly fixed gestures where the interaction between performer and the score creates yet a third entity, often guided by improvisation and the clashing of emotional opposites.

More info and audio clips can be found HERE.

Very nice, and definitely evokes "emotional opposites"!

[ComposerOfAvantGarde]

Three of my favorite living composers are women: Marta Ptaszynska, Marta Gornicka, and Liza Lim (who is probably my favorite living composer).

Ptaszynska's Space Model for Percussion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obMbCmZgSLs

Marta Gornicka's Magnificat for Women Chorus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3d0XWV2Mu3U

Liza Lim's Invisibility
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rb81dD7Mems

Liza Lim is a wonderful composer! One of my favourites (not just of female composers)

[ComposerOfAvantGarde]

Currently listening to Helen Grime's clarinet concerto on this disc



Helen Grime is now right up there with Ferneyhough and Adės as one of my favourite British composers.

[ComposerOfAvantGarde]

This is the last piece performed on that disc I posted above. Fantastic seeing it be performed! http://youtu.be/ZLH1SoCfjqs

[San Antone]

Missy Mazzoli : composer for a new dark age



Missy Mazzoli (born 1980) is an American composer and pianist living in Brooklyn, New York who has received critical acclaim for her chamber, orchestral and operatic work.  One of her recent works, Vespers for a New Dark Age, is a 30-minute suite for singers, chamber ensemble and electronics, which inhabits the sometimes disturbing intersection between technology and humanity. The piece, commissioned by Carnegie Hall for the 2014 Ecstatic Music Festival, takes up the bulk of her new album of the same name released in March, 2015.

Vespers reimagines the traditional vespers prayer service, exploring the intersection of our modern technological age with the archaic formality of religious services.

[pjme]

With madame Claude Arrieu back to 1934!

https://www.youtube.com/v/inRagQI8Du4

Hanna Kulenty's trumpet concerto nr. 1 / 2002. She has written two more trumpetconcerti since then! Read more about this composer at http://www.hannakulenty.com/01.1_news.html

https://www.youtube.com/v/ZL5RBUdR464

Performers not mentioned. Possibly Marco Blaauw on trumpet.


Trumpet Concerto (2002) by Hanna Kulenty was awarded the first prize by radio music producers participating in the UNESCO 50th International Rostrum of Composers, held at the ORF in Vienna, June 2 - 6 2003.
For this achievement Hanna Kulenty received the UNESCO Mozart Medal from the International Music Council.

"One of Poland's most interesting composers of the middle generation".
[Graham Dixon, BBC Radio]

Trumpet Concerto was performed by Marco Blaauw, trumpet, and by The National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Ronald Zollman.

On 22 September 2003 Trumpet Concerto was again performed, this time at the Warsaw Autumn Festival with Sinfonia Varsovia conducted by Renato Rivolta, and again Marco Blaauw on his red quarter-tone trumpet.

[San Antone]

Alla Zagaykevych :composer; performance artist; musicologist



Alla Zahaikevych or Zagaykevych (December 17, 1966) is a Ukrainian composer of contemporary classical music, performance artist, organiser of electroacoustic music projects, musicologist. List of Zagaykevych's works include symphonic, instrumental and vocal chamber music, electro-acoustic compositions, multi-media installations and performances, chamber opera, music for films.

A recording of her electro-acoustical works is available, Nord/Ouest.

[San Antone]

Marina Khorhova : existential sounds on the border of life



"My composition VORderGRENZE (2010) for clarinet, cello and prepared piano deals with the edges of life: existential sounds on the border of life and death represented by different breath sounds, reinforced with partials and translated into the instrumental parts. The fight to the last breath is the essential message of the piece, which is expressed by some extreme sound gestures. Various processes and characteristics of inhalation and exhalation were tried in quasi sound-photographs. Suffocating breath sounds, for example, are chaotic and noisy. Last breaths have a dark timbre with delicate nuances (such as wheezing) during inhalation and exhalation. The instrumentalists were also directed to blow on megaphones and this natural and quiet breathing was compared and linked, as it were, with the inhalation and exhalation of the instrumental sounds."