ANNA CLYNE - UK
BORN 9 MARCH
London-born Anna Clyne is a Grammy-nominated composer of acoustic and electro-acoustic music. Described as a "composer of uncommon gifts and unusual methods" in a New York Times profile and as "dazzlingly inventive" by Time Out New York, Clyne’s work often includes collaborations with cutting-edge choreographers, visual artists, filmmakers, and musicians worldwide.
Appointed by Music Director Riccardo Muti, Clyne served as a Mead Composer-in-Residence for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra from 2010-2015. She also recently served as Composer-in-Residence for the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra during the 2015-2016 season and for L’Orchestre national d’Île-de-France from 2014-2016. This season, Clyne was selected by the League of American Orchestras and New Music USA to serve as the Music Alive Composer-in-Residence with the Berkeley Symphony through the 2018-2019 season. She has been commissioned by such renowned organizations as American Composers Orchestra, BBC Radio 3, BBC Scottish Symphony, Carnegie Hall, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Houston Ballet, London Sinfonietta, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Seattle Symphony, and the Southbank Centre, and her work has been championed by such world-renowned conductors as Marin Alsop, Pablo Heras-Casado, Riccardo Muti, Leonard Slatkin, and Esa-Pekka Salonen.
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ZULEMA DE LA CRUZ - SPAIN
BORN 9 MARCH Zulema de la Cruz is Master in Piano and Composition at the Royal Superior Conservatory of Music of Madrid, Master of Arts in Composition and Computer Music by Stanford University (California, U. S. A.) and Advanced Studies Diploma in Culture and Comunication by the IE University of Segovia (Spain). She expanded her education in Electroacoustic and Computer Music by J. Chowning, thanks to a fellowship George Maile at CCRMA (Center for Computer Music and Acoustics, Stanford University). Nowadays she is proceeding with her PhD Thesis.
Within her performer framework she is member of the Foundation and “Grupo Sax Ensemble” since 1993, in charge of the electroacoustic media. This group received the Spanish National price in 1997.
She has been awarded several prices and acted as consultant and juree member for several institutions. Her commissioned works have been interpreted in Europe, USA, Canada, South America, Japan, China and Australia. Her catalogue offers a variety of musical ensembles, from solos, to chamber, multimedia, symphonic, vocal and scene music.
Since 1996 belongs to the consulting board of the Piano International Concourse “Premio jaén”, being in 1998 the author of the compulsory work “Trazos del Sus” for its XL edition. This work is part of the eight pieces collection “En torno al Sur”, 1997-2005.
The “6º Concurso Internacional de Piano Compositores de España” devoted its 2005 edition to her; the “Dúo Cerutti”performed for the first time “Gigantes y Molinos”.
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Evocacione Rossiniana by Zulema de la Cruz
Evocacione Rossiniana by Zulema de la Cruz
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