Composer Portals
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Iceland's Anna Thorvaldsdottir Imagines Fantastical Landscapes
It is simply too simplistic to say that Anna Thorvaldsdottir is "inspired by nature,” as has become the shorthand in describing composers hailing from Iceland. Aug 24, 2015
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Donnacha Dennehy's Exuberant Post-Minimalism
Donnacha Dennehy goes from Ireland to America, France and Amsterdam to study, gets the post-minimalism gospel (with a sideline degree in spectralism), and returns to his native Ireland. Sep 8, 2014
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Phil Kline Spotlights Scandinavian Symphonist Per Nørgård
While the music of Kaija Saariaho, Magnus Lindberg and Esa-Pekka Salonen has become quite familiar to American audiences in recent years, that of their important predecessor Per Nørg... Jul 21, 2014
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Caleb Burhans Delivers Melancholic Stillness with Punk-Rock Bravado
Caleb Burhans clearly has a sense of purpose. As a founding member of various performer collectives like Alarm Will Sound and Newspeak – and with his contributions as a composer to se... Jul 20, 2013
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John Luther Adams Channels Nature's Savage Beauty
April 14, 2014, John Luther Adams was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Music for "Become Ocean." Get a primer on this exciting composer of expansive, environmentalist music. Jul 16, 2013
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Gavin Bryars's Underground Sanctuaries of Ambient Sound
English composer and bassist has achieved sonically rich musical results in works like The Sinking of the Titanic and Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet. Read an appreciation of the com... May 7, 2013
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John Corigliano's Radical Pursuit of the New and Immediate
While never fully breaking from the expressive language developed by Mahler and his 20th-Century heirs, Corigliano develops it to often harrowing extremes. Read a profile of the celeb... Apr 29, 2013
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Poul Ruders Tempers Dark Narratives with Scandinavian Cool
Poul Ruders’s diverse body of compositions is tied together by his smooth absorption of many styles and modes. Read a full profile on the Danish composer, featured on this weekend's C... Apr 3, 2013
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Martin Bresnick's Playful Sound Spans the Blues to Goya
Given his Yale teaching post and the number of composers he has mentored there, Martin Bresnick may wind up being remembered as the Nadia Boulanger of the late 20th-century American s... Feb 25, 2013
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Avner Dorman Meshes Mandolins and Club-Drug Euphoria
Avner Dorman is a composer of musical spices, perfumes and toxins in a figurative sense. His music is piquant — vivid, present, spicy. Read a profile of the Israeli-born composer and ... Feb 6, 2013
