Composers

Jacob TV
Dutch avant pop composer JacobTV (aka Jacob Ter Veldhuis, 1951) started as a rock musician and studied composition and electronic music at the Groningen Conservatoire, where he was awarded the Dutch Composition Prize in 1980.
During the eighties he made a name for himself with melodious compositions, straight from the heart and with great effect. ‘I pepper my music with sugar,‘ he says.

Jacob TV is preoccupied with American media and world events and draws raw material from those sources. His work possesses an explosive strength and raw energy combined with extraordinarily intricate architectural design. TV makes superb use of electronics, incorporating sound bytes from political speeches, commercials, interviews, talk shows, TVangelists, and what have you - a colorful mix of high and low culture.

TV is one of the most performed contemporary Dutch composers. In May 2007 a three day JacobTV Festival took place at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. Recently bastamusic.com released a box set trilogy containing 11 hours of audio and video.

Ian Wilson
Ian Wilson was born in Belfast in 1964 and obtained the first D.Phil in composition to be awarded by the University of Ulster which, in 1993, commissioned his orchestral work Rise in celebration of the tenth anniversary of its foundation. His music has been performed and broadcast on six continents by artists such as the National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland, the London Mozart Players and the Irish Chamber Orchestra, the Vogler and Vanbrugh Quartets, Lontano and Avanti! ensembles, Catherine Leonard and Hugh Tinney. Works have been performed at many festivals including the BBC Proms, Venice Biennale, ISCM World Music Days and the Ultima Festival in Oslo, where Running, Thinking, Finding for orchestra received the composition prize in 1991.

He has written over eighty pieces including two chamber operas, concertos for organ, cello, alto saxophone, violin (three), marimba and piano, orchestral pieces, eight string quartets, four piano trios and many other chamber and vocal works.

In 1992 Ian Wilson was awarded the Macaulay Fellowship administered by the Arts Council of Ireland, and in 1998 he was elected to Aosdána, Ireland’s State-sponsored body of creative artists. From 2000 to 2003 Ian Wilson was AHRB Research Fellow in Creative and Performing Arts at the University of Ulster. Since 2002 he has been director of the Sligo New Music Festival, and from 2006-2009 he is Composer-in-Association with California’s Camerata Pacifica ensemble. Ian’s music is published by Ricordi London and Universal Edition.

Philip Glass
Through his operas, his symphonies, his compositions for his own ensemble, and his wide-ranging collaborations with artists ranging from Twyla Tharp to Allen Ginsberg, Woody Allen to David Bowie, Philip Glass has had an extraordinary and unprecedented impact upon the musical and intellectual life of his times.
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Tristan Keuris
Tristan Keuris (1946 - 1996) was one of the leading Dutch composers of his generation. He studied at the Utrecht Conservatory with Ton de Leeuw (1962-69), and taught musical theory and composition in Groningen, Hilversum, Utrecht and Amsterdam.. Keuris’ many orchestral scores reveal him to be a brilliant orchestrator, who enjoyed exploring every imaginable combination of sounds and colours, without indulging in technical superficialities.
Tristan Keuris on wikipedia

Horatiu Radulescu
The Romanian-French composer Horatiu Radulescu was born in Bucharest on January 7 1942. He is best known for the spectral technique of composition which he has developed since the late 1960s. Radulescu’s spectral techniques, as they evolved through the 1970s and beyond, are quite distinct from those of his French contemporaries Gérard Grisey and Tristan Murail.
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Erkki-Sven Tüür
Erkki-Sven Tüür, who was born in 1959 in Kärdla on the Estonian island of Hiiumaa, is one of the most remarkable composers of his generation. “My work as a composer is entirely concerned with the relation between emotional and intellectual energy and the ways in which they can be channelled, accumulated, liquidated and re-accumulated.”
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Siobhán Cleary
Siobhán Cleary studied music at NUI Maynooth, Queen’s University Belfast and Trinity College Dublin, where she recently completed a Masters in Music and Media Technology. She has attended composition courses with tutors such as Franco Donatoni and Louis Andriessen. She is the founding member and Artistic director of IPNM (Ireland Promoting New Music) which curates concerts for established performers and ensemble.
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Franco Donatoni
Born in Verona, Franco Donatoni started studying violin at the age of seven, and frequented the local Music Academy. Later he studied in the Milan Conservatory and the Bologna Conservatory. Donatoni attended the Summer School at Darmstadt in 1954 and encountered Stockhausen and John Cage. He experimented briefly with serialism and admired its discipline, writing some piano works in this most demanding of styles. He had ideas such as the view that a composer does not create, he transforms.
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