Featured Composer: Hiroyuki Sawano
Hiroyuki Sawano is a composer, lyricist, arranger, and music producer from Tokyo, Japan. He is renowned for his evocative scores in...
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Featured Composer - Oscar Peterson
The Canadian jazz pianist Oscar Peterson (1925–2007) is well known as a virtuosic performer, winning 8 Grammys during his lifetime and...
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Feb 14
Featured Composer: Josepha Auernhammer
Josepha Barbara Auernhammer (1758–1820) was born in Vienna and lived there her whole life, studying with Georg Friedrich Richter, Leopold...
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Jul 25, 2023
Featured Composer: R. Nathaniel Dett
Robert Nathaniel Dett (1882–1943) is perhaps best remembered today for his stylistic approach, blending African American spirituals...
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Feb 27, 2023
Featured Composer: Ethel Smyth
Throughout her professional career, the English composer Dame Ethel Smyth (1858-1944) faced a critical dilemma that many women composers...
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Oct 13, 2022
Featured Composer: Silvestre Revueltas
Perhaps best known for his string and orchestral compositions, Mexican composer Silvestre Revueltas (1899–1940) was a violinist,...
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Sep 8, 2022
Featured Composer: Ann Southam
Born in Winnipeg, MB, the Canadian composer Ann Southam (1937-2010) is known for both her early tape music and her large-scale cycles for...
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Jun 2, 2022
Featured Composer: Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875–1912) was an English composer and conductor, best known today for his cantata Hiawatha's Wedding Feast,...
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Jan 29, 2022
Featured Composer: Marianne von Martinez
Marianne von Martinez (1744-1812) was a vocalist, keyboardist, and composer, once known across Europe both as a performer and for her...
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Nov 24, 2021
Featured Composer: George Walker
George Walker (1922-2018) was an American composer and pianist, who first came to national fame upon winning the Pulitzer Prize for his...
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Sep 18, 2021
Featured Composer: Mary Lou Williams
Mary Lou Williams (1910-1981) was an American jazz pianist, arranger, and composer. She was a prolific composer, with hundreds of both...
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May 4, 2021
Featured Composer: Halim El-Dabh
Halim El-Dabh (1921-2017) was a composer, musician, ethnomusicologist, and educator. Born in Egypt, El-Dabh originally studied...
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Mar 21, 2021
Featured Composer: Lili Boulanger
Lili Boulanger (1893-1918) was a French composer whose career was tragically cut short by a lifetime of dealing with illness. Yet,...
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Feb 7, 2021
Featured Composer: Cécile Chaminade
Cécile Chaminade (1857-1944) was a French pianist and a prolific composer. She began her musical studies with her mother, but quickily...
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Jan 2, 2021
Featured Composer: Luise Adolpha Le Beau
Luise Adolpha Le Beau (1850-1927) was a German composer, pianist, and teacher. Le Beau began her musical studies with her father from a...
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Dec 6, 2020
Featured Composer: Undine Smith Moore
Undine Smith Moore (1904-1989), is perhaps best known as an educator and as a co-founder the of Black Music Center at Virginia State...
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Nov 20, 2020
Featured Composer: Philippa Schuyler
Philippa Schuyler (1931-1967) was a pianist, composer, journalist, and author. Hailed as a child prodigy (and genius!), she made her...
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Nov 4, 2020
Featured Composer: Sophie-Carmen Eckhardt-Grammaté
Sophie-Carmen Eckhardt-Grammaté (1898-1974) is a Russian-born Canadian composer, pianist, and violinist. A largely self-taught composer,...
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Oct 7, 2020
Featured Composer: Harry Thacker Burleigh
Harry Thacker Burleigh (1866-1949) is perhaps best known as both a baritone and a composer of art songs and concert spirituals. Burleigh...
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