4 FEBRUARY 2019

ANITRA TUMŠEVICA - LATVIA

BORN 4 FEBRUARY 

The composer and violinist Anitra Tumševica was born on February 4, 1971 in Riga. She studied violin at the Emīls Dārziņš College of Music (Romāns Šnē, 1978–1989) and at the Latvian Academy of Music (Uldis Sprūdžs, 1989–1992). In 2000, she began composition studies with Selga Mence at the Latvian Academy of Music, which she graduated with a bachelor’s degree in 2007, master's degree in 2009. She participated in improvisation master classes with Anto Pett (Estonia) in 2005, in the Český Krumlov 2003 composition master classes with Marek Kopelent, Lasse Thoresen and Helmut Oehring, the young composers’ master classes in Dundaga, Latvia with Klaas Torstensson, Rolf Wallin and John Woolrich in 2006, composition master classes at the JVLMA with Wolfgang Heiniger and John Palmer in 2007.

She has performed in many orchestras, including Rīgas kamermūziķi, the Riga Festival Orchestra, and the New Riga Chamber Orchestra.

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Trio Tendo by and Strings by Anitra Tumševica

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ANN SOUTHAM - CANADA
BORN 4 FEBRUARY 

Ann Southam was a Canadian electronic and classical music composer and music teacher. She is known for her minimalist, iterative, and lyrical style, for her long-term collaborations with dance choreographers and performers, for her large body of work, and, according to the Globe and Mail, for "blazing a trail for women composers in a notoriously sexist field."

Southam's early works are lyrical atonal pieces written in a Romantic style, and lyricism remained an important element of her later electronic scores. She also worked with 12-tone techniques.

Southam has been described as having "composed with exacting technique, intent on coaxing warmth out of her machines and bringing electronic music into new spaces."

Southam's passion for electronic music began in the 1960s, and she built a home studio with synthesizers, tape recorders, a mixer and a what she called a "minimum of sound equipment," including Electronic Music Studios synthesizers such as the AKS.

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Glass Houses Revisited by Ann Southam

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