Poll: How old is the youngest composer you regularly listen to?

[bwv 1080]

(perhaps excluding the younger composers who are members here)

John Zorn (b 1953)

[springrite]

I have CDs of music by living composers in their 30's, and do listen to them once in a while. Then there are the usual suspects from PMD, Birthwistle to Stockhausen.

BUT, the one living composer that I can say I listen to REGULARLY is Carter, who is well over 90.

[not edward]

In terms of regular listening, would be Wolfgang Rihm (born 1952).

Btw, I love the little "90+" joke in the poll.

[Archaic Torso of Apollo]

Magnus Lindberg (b. 1958)

[greg]

Magnus Lindberg (b. 1958)

me too, i think

can't think of anyone who's younger that i NORMALLY listen to

[Greta]

I was going to say Esa-Pekka Salonen (also b. 1958) but forgot about Michael Torke (b. 1961), Jennifer Higdon (b. 1962), Christopher Theofanidis (b. 1967).

But the two youngest I do listen to regularly I came to through band actually, Eric Whitacre (b. 1970), and the prize-winner John Mackey (b. 1973), who is 33.

John Mackey has really got some chops, he writes entertaining, exotic, very colorfully scored music that never turns into pastiche. He mixes it up with pop, jazz, minimalism and succeeds brilliantly. Really nice guy too.

EDIT: Or I could cop out and say Jay Greenberg... (What is he, 15 now?) Though I do like his work, I don't listen to it regularly.

[Florestan]

They're all dead...  

[karlhenning]

Eek!

[orbital]

They're all dead...  

Their children are (or if they had would be) dead too 

[Steve]

Karl Henning 

[Al Moritz]

In terms of regular listening, would be Wolfgang Rihm (born 1952).

Same here.

[bhodges]

This took some thinking! 

I think Derek Bermel (b. 1967) may be the youngest (keeping in mind the word "regularly").  His works seem to show up fairly often on concert programs here.

--Bruce

[beclemund]

Regularly listen too...

Arvo Pärt (b1935)

Tho' I also occasionally listen to Haukur Tómasson (b1961)

[Todd]

"Regularly" would probably be someone like Leonardo Balada, who's in his 70s.  Stephen Hartke could become a fave, though, and he's younger.  Hopefully I'll find other, younger composers of interest.

[BachQ]

Greg Cook

[lukeottevanger]

Regularly? - among the youngest I listen to with above-average frequency are Saariaho, Lindberg, Dillon, Weir, Woolrich, Benjamin, Turnage, and Ades, who is the youngest 'major' composer around, IMO. Though of this list I probably listen to Benjamin most of all.

[quintett op.57]

Schnittke

[Novi]

Oh wow, this is an interesting poll and puts a new perspective on my listening habits.

I'm hard pressed to find works by living composers in my collection, let alone ones which I regularly listen to. I've just had a look on my shelves and recordings from composers born in the 20th century come to less than a handspan, and over half of those are Ligeti's . In fact, I've had a closer look and I think only Boulez and Macmillan qualify. I hear a little bit more live though, but not a lot - in the past year, Tiensuu, Weir, Connesson, Gavin Bryars, Tarik O'Regan, Schnittke, Rautavaara and a couple of other commissions by the local groups.

This is shameful ... and it isn't as though I've an aversion to contemporary music either.

[johnQpublic]

The youngest is Ades (b.1971)

[Symphonien]

The youngest is Ades (b.1971)

Same.