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Japanese pianist and composer Toshio Hosokawa combines the Traditional western classical custom with Japanese visual sensibilities and an extremely innovative imagination. Hosokawa examined piano and music theory in Tokyo; structure with Isang Yun, Klaus Huber, Brian Ferneyhough; and theory with Witold Szaloneck at Hochschule der Künste in Berlin. In 1980, …

Olivier Messiaen was a France composer, organist, instructor, and ornithologist whose music is distinguished by his deep devotion to Catholicism, exoticism, and character. At age 11 he moved into the Paris Conservatoire, learning body organ and improvisation with Marcel Dupré and structure with Paul Dukas. In 1930, he became the …

Toru Takemitsu (1931-1996) was a self-taught Japan composer who all combined components of Eastern and American music and school of thought to make a unique audio world. A few of his early affects had been the sonorities of Debussy, and Messiaen’s usage of character imagery and modal scales. There’s a …

A genuine original, composer/musician/sound artist Frank Pahl spent his musical career within the underground, amassing a little cult following. Whether along with his organizations Just a Mother as well as the Scavenger Quartet or playing single, he charms his general public with beautiful avant-garde melodies performed on an extraordinary selection …

Composer Frank Denyer’s function is marked by his like of lyrical but unconventional melodies and frequent usage of microtones. He’s also known for his curiosity in lots of types of non-Western music, such as for example Japanese shakuhachi music, Indian music, as well as the music from the Pokot folks …