BORN 2 JANUARY 1922 - CANADA
Barbara Pentland was born in Winnipeg and began to write music at the age of nine, an activity which was met with strong disapproval from her conventional and socially prominent parents.
During the Second World War years Pentland became an instructor at the Royal Conservatory of Music of Toronto, but found her professional advances vanishing as male colleagues returned to re-claim their places in the post-war musical life of central Canada.
By the middle years of the 20th century Pentland saw herself as a committed high modernist and a steadfast partisan of contemporary values. In Canadian terms she was analogous to Elizabeth Lutyens in the United Kingdom or Ruth Crawford Seeger in the United States; she shared their concerns not just about the struggle for the new, but the particular problems of a finding a place as a woman in the overwhelmingly male milieu of the international avant garde.
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The Sung Songs No4 & No5 by Barbara Pentland
The Sung Songs No4 & No5 by Barbara Pentland
BORN 2 JANUARY 1939 - LATVIA
By winning in the International Competition by the Barlow Endowement for Music Competition in 1997 Maija Einfelde has become one of the most celebrated and well-known Latvian composers in the world. Maija Einfelde was born in Valmiera, January 2, 1939. Her father was an organ-builder and her mother was an organ-player.
Maija Einfelde learned music at Alfreds Kalnins Music School in Cesis and later at Jazeps Medins Music College in Riga. She studied composition with Prof. Janis Ivanovs at the Conservatoire of Latvia named after Jazeps Vitols, and graduated from it in 1966. Since 1968 she has been teaching comosition and the theory of music in various music schools (at Alfreds Kalnins Music School in Cesis, Jazeps Medins Music College, and recently at Emils Darzins Music College). In 1997, Maija Einfelde was awarded the Latvian Great Music Award. In 1999, she was awarded the Culture Award of the Republic of Latvia, and in 2000, the Copyrights’ Infinity Award, which was awarded to her by the Latvian Authors’ Union. In 2002, the composer became an honorary member of the Academy of Science.
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Maestoso for Viola and Piano Maija Einfelde
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