Paul Steenhuisen
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Paul Steenhuisen is an independent composer working with a broad range of acoustic and digital media. His concert music consists of orchestral, chamber, solo, and vocal music, and often includes live electronics and soundfiles. Additionally, he creates electroacoustic, radio, and installation pieces. Paul Steenhuisen’s music is regularly performed and broadcast in Europe, Asia, Australia, and North America. He also contributes all audio content and programming to the Hyposurface installation project, based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
. Between academic degrees, he studied with Louis Andriessen
and Gilius van Bergeijk
at the Royal Conservatory of Music
, The Hague. While living in Amsterdam, he also worked with Michael Finnissy
in Hove, England. Subsequently, he was one of ten composers selected to take part in the Cursus de Composition et Informatiques at IRCAM
(Paris, 1996/97), where he had lessons with Tristan Murail
. He also attended masterclasses and individual lessons with Mauricio Kagel
, Helmut Lachenmann
, Jean-Claude Risset
, Luciano Berio
, Pierre Boulez
, Brian Ferneyhough
, Frederic Rzewski
, Magnus Lindberg
, and others.
. After a winter residency at the Banff Centre for the Arts, Paul Steenhuisen became Composer in Residence with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra (1998–2000, Jukka-Pekka Saraste
, Music Director). At the behest of the TSO, he wrote the chamber work Ciphering in Tongues, and orchestral pieces Airstream, and Pensacola (a melodrama for orchestra, computer, and spatialized brass). Pensacola has also been performed by the Esprit Orchestra, Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal (Roberto Abbado, conductor), and the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra (with Alexander Mickelthwate). During this time, Bramwell Tovey and the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra commissioned another orchestral piece, Your Soul is a Bottle Full of Thirsting Salt.
Wonder, for orchestra, tape, and soprano, was commissioned by the CBC for the CBC Vancouver Radio Orchestra, and selected to represented Canada at the International Rostrum of Composers
(UNESCO, Paris). It was ranked third in the world, and ascribed the honour of ‘recommended’ work, with subsequent broadcasts in twenty-five countries. As a result, the Austrian Radio Philharmonic also performed the work (Arturo Tamayo, conductor) and commissioned Bread for Sylvain Cambreling and Klangforum Wien
to perform at MuzikProtokoll in Graz, Austria. Bread was also performed at the 2001 ISCM World Music Days in Yokohama, Japan, by the Tokyo ensemble COmeT, and at the BONK festival (Tampa, USA), where Steenhuisen was a frequent guest. In 2003, Dr. Steenhuisen was appointed Assistant Professor of Composition at the University of Alberta, where he was the founder of the Electroacoustic Research Studios (UA-EARS). He served as director of the new studios until his resignation in 2007. UA-EARS studios were created with major project funding from the Endowment Fund for the Future, the Faculty of Arts, and the Canada Foundation for Innovation. In early 2009, the University of Alberta Press published its first music text, Steenhuisen’s Sonic Mosaics: Conversations with Composers, a collection of interviews with thirty-two composers.
In 2011, Paul Steenhuisen was awarded the Victor Martyn Lynch Staunton Award as the outstanding mid-career artist in music by the Canada Council.
ENSEMBLE
SOLO
VOICE
ELECTROACOUSTIC AND INSTALLATION WORKS
Orchestras: Esprit Orchestra, Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal, Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, Austrian Radio Philharmonic, CBC Vancouver Radio Orchestra, The Composer’s Orchestra, Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony.
Conductors: Jukka-Pekka Saraste, Roberto Abbado, Arturo Tamayo, Sylvain Cambreling, Walter Boudreau, Bramwell Tovey, Owen Underhill, Alex Pauk, Gary Kulesha, Kunitake Kokaji, Alexander Mickelthwate.
Ensembles: Klangforum Wien, New Music Concerts (Toronto), SMCQ, Vancouver New Music, Hilliard Ensemble, Continuum, Ensemble Offspring, Ensemble Télèmaque, Soundstreams Canada, New Works Calgary, Kovalis Duo, Trio Fibonacci, Ensemble 2e2m, Ensemble Tokyo COmeT, Musica Verticale, Hard Rubber Orchestra, Gryphon Trio, Battery Park Percussion.
Soloists: Margaret Lancaster, Lori Freedman, Roger Admiral, Catherine Dubosc, Benny Sluchin, Valdine Anderson, Guido Arbonelli, Irvine Arditti, Marc Couroux, Barbara Hannigan, Marshall McGuire, Elizabeth Skillings, Corey Hamm, Kathryn Cernauskas, Laura McPheeters, Anne La Berge, Kathleen Corcoran, Stacy Robinson, Laurel Rudd, Alain Trudel, John Hess, Jane Archibald, Barbara Pritchard.
Choirs: Netherlands Chamber Choir, Elektra Women’s Choir, Phoenix Chamber Choir.
AMP represents the music of Paul Steenhuisen, Howard Bashaw
, Keith Hamel
, Bob Pritchard, James Harley
, André Ristic
, Gordon Fitzell
, and Aaron Gervais
.
"Sonic Mosaics: Conversations with Composers" (UA Press, 2009) is a 314 page collection of interviews with composers. Reviews of the book can be found here.
Composers interviewed: R. Murray Schafer
, Robert Normandeau
, Chris Paul Harman, Linda Catlin Smith
, Alexina Louie
, Omar Daniel
, Michael Finnissy
, John Weinzweig
, Udo Kasemets
, Pierre Boulez
, Barbara Croall, James Rolfe
, John Beckwith
, Yannick Plamondon, Marc Couroux, George Crumb
, Peter Hatch
, John Oswald
, Francis Dhomont
, Martin Arnold, Helmut Lachenmann
, Juliet Palmer
, Christian Wolff, Mauricio Kagel
, John Rea, Gary Kulesha
, Howard Bashaw, Christopher Butterfield, Keith Hamel, Jean Piché, James Harley, Hildegard Westerkamp
.
Education
Paul Steenhuisen obtained his Doctor of Musical Arts degree in composition from the University of British Columbia, where he studied with Keith HamelKeith Hamel
Keith Hamel is a composer, software designer, and professor of music. His music consists of orchestral, chamber, solo, and vocal music, often focussing on live electronics and interactivity between acoustic instruments and computer.-Education:Keith Hamel studied at the Royal Conservatory of Music...
. Between academic degrees, he studied with Louis Andriessen
Louis Andriessen
Louis Andriessen is a Dutch composer and pianist based in Amsterdam. He teaches composition at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague...
and Gilius van Bergeijk
Gilius van Bergeijk
Gilius van Bergeijk is a Dutch composer.Taught by Kees van Baaren and Dick Raaymakers , Gilius van Bergeijk is a highly respected teacher at the Royal Conservatory in Den Haag...
at the Royal Conservatory of Music
Koninklijk Conservatorium
Het Koninklijk Conservatorium means "The Royal Conservatory" in Dutch.The title may refer to:*Royal Conservatory of The Hague*Koninklijk Conservatorium *Koninklijk Conservatorium...
, The Hague. While living in Amsterdam, he also worked with Michael Finnissy
Michael Finnissy
Michael Finnissy is an English composer and pianist. His music is characterised by the range of extremes often found in his work; opposing binary structures are found commonly, often seen as juxtaposing textures, register and tempi...
in Hove, England. Subsequently, he was one of ten composers selected to take part in the Cursus de Composition et Informatiques at IRCAM
IRCAM
IRCAM is a European institute for science about music and sound and avant garde electro-acoustical art music. It is situated next to, and is organizationally linked with, the Centre Pompidou in Paris...
(Paris, 1996/97), where he had lessons with Tristan Murail
Tristan Murail
Tristan Murail is a French composer. His father, Gérard Murail, is a poet and his mother, Marie-Thérèse Barrois, a journalist. One of his brothers, Lorris Murail, and his younger sister Elvire Murail, aka Moka, also write, and his younger sister Marie-Aude Murail is a French children's writer...
. He also attended masterclasses and individual lessons with Mauricio Kagel
Mauricio Kagel
Mauricio Kagel was a German-Argentine composer. He was notable for his interest in developing the theatrical side of musical performance .-Biography:...
, Helmut Lachenmann
Helmut Lachenmann
Helmut Lachenmann is a German composer associated with musique concrète instrumentale.-Life and works:...
, Jean-Claude Risset
Jean-Claude Risset
Jean-Claude Risset is a French composer, best known for his pioneering contributions to computer music. He is a former student of André Jolivet and former co-worker of Max Mathews at Bell Labs....
, Luciano Berio
Luciano Berio
Luciano Berio, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI was an Italian composer. He is noted for his experimental work and also for his pioneering work in electronic music.-Biography:Berio was born at Oneglia Luciano Berio, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI (October 24, 1925 – May 27, 2003) was an Italian...
, Pierre Boulez
Pierre Boulez
Pierre Boulez is a French composer of contemporary classical music, a pianist, and a conductor.-Early years:Boulez was born in Montbrison, Loire, France. As a child he began piano lessons and demonstrated aptitude in both music and mathematics...
, Brian Ferneyhough
Brian Ferneyhough
Brian John Peter Ferneyhough is an English composer. His music is characterized by the extensive use of complex rhythmic tuplet notation which features in all his works...
, Frederic Rzewski
Frederic Rzewski
Frederic Anthony Rzewski is an American composer and virtuoso pianist.- Biography :Rzewski began playing piano at age 5. He attended Phillips Academy, Harvard and Princeton, where his teachers included Randall Thompson, Roger Sessions, Walter Piston and Milton Babbitt...
, Magnus Lindberg
Magnus Lindberg
Magnus Lindberg is a Finnish composer and pianist. He is currently the composer-in-residence at the New York Philharmonic.-Education:...
, and others.
Career
During his student years, Steenhuisen was laureate of more than a dozen national and international awards for his music. These include four prizes in the CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) Young Composers Competition, seven in the PROCAN/SOCAN Competition, first prize in the Vancouver New Music Composers Competition, and the Governor General of Canada Gold Medal as the outstanding student in all faculties (UBC, 1990). Music by Paul Steenhuisen was also selected for competition at the Gaudeamus Music WeekGaudeamus International Composers Award
The Gaudeamus International Composers Award is a European award issued by the Music Center the Netherlands...
. After a winter residency at the Banff Centre for the Arts, Paul Steenhuisen became Composer in Residence with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra (1998–2000, Jukka-Pekka Saraste
Jukka-Pekka Saraste
Jukka-Pekka Saraste is a Finnish conductor and violinist.Saraste was trained as a violinist. He later studied conducting at the Sibelius Academy with Jorma Panula, in the same class as Esa-Pekka Salonen and Osmo Vänskä...
, Music Director). At the behest of the TSO, he wrote the chamber work Ciphering in Tongues, and orchestral pieces Airstream, and Pensacola (a melodrama for orchestra, computer, and spatialized brass). Pensacola has also been performed by the Esprit Orchestra, Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal (Roberto Abbado, conductor), and the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra (with Alexander Mickelthwate). During this time, Bramwell Tovey and the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra commissioned another orchestral piece, Your Soul is a Bottle Full of Thirsting Salt.
Wonder, for orchestra, tape, and soprano, was commissioned by the CBC for the CBC Vancouver Radio Orchestra, and selected to represented Canada at the International Rostrum of Composers
International Rostrum of Composers
The International Rostrum of Composers is an annual forum organized by the International Music Council that offers broadcasting representatives the opportunity to exchange and publicize pieces of contemporary classical music...
(UNESCO, Paris). It was ranked third in the world, and ascribed the honour of ‘recommended’ work, with subsequent broadcasts in twenty-five countries. As a result, the Austrian Radio Philharmonic also performed the work (Arturo Tamayo, conductor) and commissioned Bread for Sylvain Cambreling and Klangforum Wien
Klangforum Wien
The Klangforum Wien is an Austrian chamber orchestra, based in Vienna at the Konzerthaus, which specialises in contemporary classical music.Founded by composer and conductor Beat Furrer in 1985, it is run on collective principles, having no official principal conductor. Sylvain Cambreling is...
to perform at MuzikProtokoll in Graz, Austria. Bread was also performed at the 2001 ISCM World Music Days in Yokohama, Japan, by the Tokyo ensemble COmeT, and at the BONK festival (Tampa, USA), where Steenhuisen was a frequent guest. In 2003, Dr. Steenhuisen was appointed Assistant Professor of Composition at the University of Alberta, where he was the founder of the Electroacoustic Research Studios (UA-EARS). He served as director of the new studios until his resignation in 2007. UA-EARS studios were created with major project funding from the Endowment Fund for the Future, the Faculty of Arts, and the Canada Foundation for Innovation. In early 2009, the University of Alberta Press published its first music text, Steenhuisen’s Sonic Mosaics: Conversations with Composers, a collection of interviews with thirty-two composers.
In 2011, Paul Steenhuisen was awarded the Victor Martyn Lynch Staunton Award as the outstanding mid-career artist in music by the Canada Council.
List of Works
ORCHESTRAL- Pensacola (2001/2002) 12' Orchestra, spatialized brass, computer
- Your Soul is a Bottle Full of Thirsting Salt (2001) 13' Large orchestra
- AIRSTREAM (1999) 7' Orchestra
- wonder (1996) 16' Orchestra, tape, soprano
- EXEGESIS (1990) 12' String Orchestra
ENSEMBLE
- Intaglio sulla cervello (2010) 15’ Piano Trio (15’)
- Copralite Culture and Analysis Results #1–20 (2008–09) 15’ Percussion and Piano
- MATERIAL/ULTRAMATERIAL (2005) 16’ Eight instruments and soundfiles
- Sommes-nous pilotées par nos genes? (2005) 10’ Septet
- Vorwissen (2004) 7’ Piano trio
- HOBO ACTION FIGURES (2003) 18’ Jazz quintet and soundfiles
- bread (1999) 9' Thirteen instruments and soundfiles
- ciphering in tongues (1998) 8' Twelve instruments
- Mycenaean Wound (1992) 15' Quintet
- Your Golden Hair Margarethe… (1991) 16' Two violas
- Corpus Inconnu (1991) 18' Octet
SOLO
- Revolutions Per Minute (2009–2010) 1'
- Every Joy Pop Turbo (2008–09) 10’ Piano
- Toneland Security (2005) 2’ Bass flute
- recipes for the common man (2001) 10' Oboe and CD
- cette obscure clarté qui tombe des étoiles (2000) 4' Flute and CD
- pomme de terre (1999) 1' Piccolo or E-flat Clarinet
- Now is a Creature (1997, revised 2003) 9' Trombone and live electronics
- plea (1995) 1' Piano
- Huskless (Freedman Etudes) (1994) 12' Bass Clarinet
- Tract (1992) 4' Harp
- Foundry (1990) 9' Flute
- Amaranth (1989) 18' Cello
VOICE
- Les enfers éternels des gens désespérés (2003) 9' Four male voices and electronics
- A Book From The Harbour, Chapter III (1995) 9' Soprano and piano
- on a pin's point my love is spinning (1994) 3' Women’s choir
- A Book From The Harbour, Chapter II (1994) 11' Soprano and piano
- Between Lips and Lips There Are Cities (1993) 6' Two 8-part Antiphonal Choirs
- millennia (1991) 9' Soprano, violin, piccolo
- Two Rivers (1989) 7' Choir
- A Book From The Harbour, Chapter I (1988) 5' Soprano and piano
ELECTROACOUSTIC AND INSTALLATION WORKS
- LoK8Tr internet project (2010) unfixed duration. Audio and Video with live telematic improvisation
- Blueblood (2008) 30’ Soundtrack for Art Installation
- Hyposurface Interactive Audio (2007–) 240’ Architectural Installation
- dECOi I (2006) 5’
- Frank O. Lunaire #10: Raub (2005) 8’
- There’s a Glacier in our Sink (2004) 22’ Radio documentary
- Circumnavigating the sea of shit (1996) 3'
- Poland is not yet lost (1992) 1'
- Tube Shelter Perspective (1991) 9'
- Enclaves Intèrieures (1990) 11' Three percussionists and tape
- Deep Mountain (1989) 12'
Performers
Music by Paul Steenhuisen has been commissioned and performed by many contemporary music performers and presenters.Orchestras: Esprit Orchestra, Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal, Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, Austrian Radio Philharmonic, CBC Vancouver Radio Orchestra, The Composer’s Orchestra, Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony.
Conductors: Jukka-Pekka Saraste, Roberto Abbado, Arturo Tamayo, Sylvain Cambreling, Walter Boudreau, Bramwell Tovey, Owen Underhill, Alex Pauk, Gary Kulesha, Kunitake Kokaji, Alexander Mickelthwate.
Ensembles: Klangforum Wien, New Music Concerts (Toronto), SMCQ, Vancouver New Music, Hilliard Ensemble, Continuum, Ensemble Offspring, Ensemble Télèmaque, Soundstreams Canada, New Works Calgary, Kovalis Duo, Trio Fibonacci, Ensemble 2e2m, Ensemble Tokyo COmeT, Musica Verticale, Hard Rubber Orchestra, Gryphon Trio, Battery Park Percussion.
Soloists: Margaret Lancaster, Lori Freedman, Roger Admiral, Catherine Dubosc, Benny Sluchin, Valdine Anderson, Guido Arbonelli, Irvine Arditti, Marc Couroux, Barbara Hannigan, Marshall McGuire, Elizabeth Skillings, Corey Hamm, Kathryn Cernauskas, Laura McPheeters, Anne La Berge, Kathleen Corcoran, Stacy Robinson, Laurel Rudd, Alain Trudel, John Hess, Jane Archibald, Barbara Pritchard.
Choirs: Netherlands Chamber Choir, Elektra Women’s Choir, Phoenix Chamber Choir.
Affiliations
Paul Steenhuisen is an associate composer of the Canadian Music Centre, served on the Council of the Canadian League of Composers (2000–2008), and was President of the International Society for Contemporary Music (ISCM) Canadian Section (2003–2008). He also serves on the Editorial Board of the World New Music Magazine.AMP represents the music of Paul Steenhuisen, Howard Bashaw
Howard Bashaw
Howard Bashaw is a composer of acoustic music; and a Professor of Music at the University of Alberta.Bashaw graduated as a Master of Music in 1984 and a Doctor of Musical Arts in 1989 from the University of British Columbia. He also attended the Banff Centre for the Arts where he won the Banff...
, Keith Hamel
Keith Hamel
Keith Hamel is a composer, software designer, and professor of music. His music consists of orchestral, chamber, solo, and vocal music, often focussing on live electronics and interactivity between acoustic instruments and computer.-Education:Keith Hamel studied at the Royal Conservatory of Music...
, Bob Pritchard, James Harley
James Harley
James Harley is a Canadian composer, author, and professor of music born in Vernon, British Columbia. His creative output consists of orchestral, chamber, solo, electroacoustic, and vocal music...
, André Ristic
André Ristic
André Ristic is a Canadian composer, pianist, accordion player, and music theorist. He has won several awards, including the Jules Léger Prize for New Chamber Music in 2000 for his work Catalogue de bombes occidentales, the Prix opus for Composer of the Year in 2002, and the Prix Québec-Flandre in...
, Gordon Fitzell
Gordon Fitzell
Gordon Fitzell is a composer, concert organizer, and professor of music. His catalog consists of solo, chamber and electroacoustic music, including open and improvisatory works.-Biography:...
, and Aaron Gervais
Aaron Gervais
Aaron Gervais is a Canadian composer of contemporary classical music.Aaron Gervais was born and grew up in Edmonton. He studied jazz performance at Grant MacEwan College and the University of Toronto, and composition at the University of Alberta, the University of Toronto, and UCSD. He currently...
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Writing
Since 1987, Paul Steenhuisen has made contributions to numerous magazines and journals, including Discorder (CiTR Radio, Vancouver), MusicWorks, Circuit, Wholenote Magazine, Anjelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities, Contemporary Music Review, and others."Sonic Mosaics: Conversations with Composers" (UA Press, 2009) is a 314 page collection of interviews with composers. Reviews of the book can be found here.
Composers interviewed: R. Murray Schafer
R. Murray Schafer
Raymond Murray Schafer is a Canadian composer, writer, music educator and environmentalist perhaps best known for his World Soundscape Project, concern for acoustic ecology, and his book The Tuning of the World...
, Robert Normandeau
Robert Normandeau
Robert Normandeau is a Canadian electroacoustic music composer.Normandeau studied at the Université Laval in Quebec City, and at the Université de Montréal, where he studied with Marcelle Deschênes and Francis Dhomont...
, Chris Paul Harman, Linda Catlin Smith
Linda Catlin Smith
Linda Catlin Smith is an American composer based out of Toronto, Canada. In 2005 she became the second woman to win the Jules Léger Prize for New Chamber Music....
, Alexina Louie
Alexina Louie
Alexina Louie, OC, FRSC is a Canadian composer of Chinese descent who has written many pieces for orchestra, as well as pieces for solo piano.-Biography:Alexina Louie was born in Vancouver and received an...
, Omar Daniel
Omar Daniel
Omar Daniel is a Canadian composer and pianist of Estonian descent. In 1997 he won the Jules Léger Prize for New Chamber Music for his Zwei Lieder nach Rilke, a work for soprano and chamber ensemble, and in 2007 he received the K.M. Hunter Artists Award for classical music...
, Michael Finnissy
Michael Finnissy
Michael Finnissy is an English composer and pianist. His music is characterised by the range of extremes often found in his work; opposing binary structures are found commonly, often seen as juxtaposing textures, register and tempi...
, John Weinzweig
John Weinzweig
John Weinzweig, OC, O.Ont was a Canadian composer of classical music.Born in Toronto, Weinzweig went to Harbord Collegiate Institute, and studied music at the university. In 1937, he left for the United States to study under Bernard Rogers...
, Udo Kasemets
Udo Kasemets
Udo Kasemets is an Estonian-born Canadian composer of orchestral, chamber, vocal, piano, and electroacoustic works. He was one of the first to adopt the methods of John Cage, and is also a conductor, lecturer, pianist, organist, teacher and writer.Kasemets was born in Tallinn, Estonia, and trained...
, Pierre Boulez
Pierre Boulez
Pierre Boulez is a French composer of contemporary classical music, a pianist, and a conductor.-Early years:Boulez was born in Montbrison, Loire, France. As a child he began piano lessons and demonstrated aptitude in both music and mathematics...
, Barbara Croall, James Rolfe
James Rolfe
James Simon Rolfe is one of Canada's leading composers of contemporary music. He studied composition with John Beckwith at the University of Toronto and Jo Kondo in Japan...
, John Beckwith
John Beckwith
John Beckwith may refer to:*John Christmas Beckwith English organist and composer.*John Charles Beckwith , English organist*John Charles Beckwith...
, Yannick Plamondon, Marc Couroux, George Crumb
George Crumb
George Crumb is an American composer of contemporary classical music. He is noted as an explorer of unusual timbres, alternative forms of notation, and extended instrumental and vocal techniques. Examples include seagull effect for the cello , metallic vibrato for the piano George Crumb (born...
, Peter Hatch
Peter Hatch
Peter Hatch is a retired English professional footballer who played for Oxford United, Exeter City and Ħamrun Spartans of Malta.-References:...
, John Oswald
John Oswald
John Oswald may refer to:* John Oswald , Scottish philosopher, writer, and revolutionary* John Oswald , British general...
, Francis Dhomont
Francis Dhomont
Francis Dhomont is a French composer of electroacoustic / acousmatic music.-Biography:He studied composition under Ginette Waldmeier, Charles Koechlin and Nadia Boulanger...
, Martin Arnold, Helmut Lachenmann
Helmut Lachenmann
Helmut Lachenmann is a German composer associated with musique concrète instrumentale.-Life and works:...
, Juliet Palmer
Juliet Palmer
Juliet Palmer is a contemporary composer living in Toronto, Canada-Career:Juliet Kiri Palmer was born in New Zealand in 1967, where she completed graduate studies in composition, clarinet and time-based art at the University of Auckland. She moved to New York City in 1990 to work with...
, Christian Wolff, Mauricio Kagel
Mauricio Kagel
Mauricio Kagel was a German-Argentine composer. He was notable for his interest in developing the theatrical side of musical performance .-Biography:...
, John Rea, Gary Kulesha
Gary Kulesha
Gary Kulesha is a Canadian composer, pianist, conductor, and educator. Since 1995, he has been Composer Advisor to the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. He has been Composer-in-Residence with the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony and the Canadian Opera Company . He was awarded the National Arts Centre...
, Howard Bashaw, Christopher Butterfield, Keith Hamel, Jean Piché, James Harley, Hildegard Westerkamp
Hildegard Westerkamp
Hildegard Westerkamp is a German and Canadian composer of electroacoustic music.Many of her compositions deal with the acoustic environment. Particular themes include soundscapes of urban or rural areas, including voices, noise, silence, music and media, and so on...
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