Tag Archives: 1980s – 2010s

An designer of phenomenal powers, Mûza Rubackyté (pronounced roo-BAHT-skee-tay) didn’t become known in the Western until perestroika allowed her departure from your Soviet Union in 1989. In 1981, at 22, she required Grand Prize in the Liszt/Bartók International Competition in Budapest, a rapturously welcomed contact with Western audiences resulting in …

Pioneering the Portuguese rock and roll scene in the very beginning of the ’80s and selecting to keep up a route towards leanest seems of pop/rock and roll, GNR slowly became among the senior musical sources with this small European country. Their deliverance of uncommonly poetic lyrics, backed by eccentric …

Kaija Saariaho isn’t just being among the most important Finnish composers of her period, but should be ranked among the leading composers from the past due twentieth and early twenty initial centuries. Given birth to Kaija Anneli Laakkonen, she began monitoring visual arts in the University or college of Artwork …

Russian-born Viktoria Mullova is normally a violinist primarily known on her behalf great virtuosity and a wide-ranging repertory which includes many crossover pieces. Over the critical side, she’s been praised on her behalf interpretations of varied solo functions by J.S. Bach, including partitas and sonatas, aswell as her readings of …

Peter Gutteridge was among the unsung heroes of the brand new Zealand music picture, a founding person in several important rings and among the expert contractors of what became referred to as the “Dunedin Audio,” but at exactly the same time an designer who also sadly received small acknowledgement for …

Julian Dawes’ career appears to have focused throughout the theater, but that hasn’t limited his compositional result to only music for the stage. His worklist includes an extensive quantity of vocal music furthermore to his movie theater functions, plus concertos, chamber music, orchestral, and key pad works. Dawes examined at …

Belgian saxophonist Michel Mast can frequently be heard using tenor in avant-garde jazz and rock albums, and he continues to be featured about baritone and soprano saxophones aswell. Mast began showing up on recordings in the first ’80s, as an associate of Luc Houtkamp’s saxophone quartet Hommage within the group’s …

Swedish recorder participant Dan Laurin offers accomplished a good deal with respect to the recorder, or “German flute,” which is viewed in lots of circles while merely the unworthy forerunner from the transverse flute in support of appropriate for make use of in children’s music gratitude classes and Renaissance rings. …

Cellist Patrick Demenga received his early schooling on the device in Switzerland’s Bern Conservatory beneath the tutelage of Johannes Bühler — being successful the Tschumi Prize to discover the best single diploma in 1983. Immediately after, he became the primary cellist with the town of Wintherthur Orchestra as well as …

Catalan countertenor Josep Benet is an expert in music from the center Ages to the first Baroque period. He offers performed using the Outfit Organum Sequentia, Hesperion XX, Les Arts Florissants, La Chapelle Royale, Clemencic Consort, Outfit Daedalus, as well as the Orquesta Ciudad de Barcelona. He’s a founding person …