KATHARINE PARKER - AUSTRALIA
BORN 28 MARCH
Katharine Parker was an Australian composer, perhaps best known for her piano piece "Down Longford Way". She was also an accomplished pianist and accompanist.
Kitty Parker was born 'Catherine Parker' at 'Parknook'Lake River, near Longford, Tasmania. Her mother was Florence Agnes Parker [née Leary]; her father was Ernest James Rainey Parker. Florence was a superb pianist and gave many concerts. She made sure her daughters were musically trained. Kitty was the most successfully renowned. From 1904 to 1906 she studied for a diploma in Music in Melbourne. At the inaugural Australian Exhibition of Women's Work she won the Piano Solo Gold Medal. She travelled to London to study with Percy Grainger, who had very high praise for her work and kept in touch with her for many years.
Through Grainger, she met the English tenor Hubert Mortimer Eisdell, whom she married on 16 June 1910 at St Mark's Church, Hamilton Terrace, London. They had one son Michael (1912-1986). In 1911 she made her London concert début as a soloist.
Her work consists mainly of songs for voice and piano and solo piano works. At least one of the latter (Nocturne in F-sharp minor) was published under the name "Kitty Parker".
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KARIN HÖGHIELM - SWEDEN
BORN 28 MARCH
Karin Höghielm was born and raised on Gotland and is a Swedish composer and singer. Studies in composition, different vocal techniques, classical piano, cello and flute.
She have written several works for choir, soloinstruments, organ and chamber ensembles and her works has been performed in Sweden, Europe and USA by leading ensembles.
As a singer she is strongly influenced by classical singing and folk music, using wordless singing to latin, old nordic, sumerian and coptic and of course english and gotlandish (old swedish accent from Gotland).
Karin is also playing wineglass, bells, bone-flute, lyre, percussion and dulcimer.
She has recorded several CD:s in not so classical environment for chamber ensemble. She has also written music for art works, theatre, film, opera and dance. Her music is mostly tonal with strong melodies, often inspired by nature, different cultures and Early music and she is often using self-recorded sounds from nature, knitting machines in Norköping, Falu mine bell, Halla Church bell and scrap irons in her compositions.
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Så som det susar i säven by Karin Höghielm
Så som det susar i säven by Karin Höghielm
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