ALEXANDRA BARKOVASKAYA - BELARUS
BORN 25 MAY
Alexandra Barkovskaya is a Belarusian composer, musician and multi-instrumentalist based in Berlin.
Education:
Film University Babelsberg "Konrad Wolf" (Film music, 2009-2013)
University of the Arts, Berlin (Piano, 2005-2008)
Belarusian State Academy of Music, Minsk (Piano, Composition, Music theory, 1998-2003).
PROJECTS (selection)
- Dust (Feature Film, 2019) - D.: Udita Bhargava (Unafilm, Maze Pictures, Film University “Konrad Wolf") - world premiere at the 69th Berlin International Film Festival
- Berlinale Talent at the Berlinale Talents 2019
- Polizeiruf 110 'Der Preis der Freiheit' (TV Film, 2016) - D.: Stephan Rick (rbb, Real Film, ARD)
- Out There (Feature Documentary, 2016) - D.: Takehiro Ito (Eyes Films Production Tokyo, Taipei Film Commission) - Festival international de cinéma de Marseille (2016 / Sélection officielle)
- Iris Butterfly (Oper/Arrangement, 2016) - Arrangement for Neuköllner Oper. In collaboration with Derik Listemann
- Imraan, c/o Carrom Club (Documentary/Short, 2014) - D.: Udita Bhargava - 3sat-Förderpreis
- Personality Shop (Short, 2011) - D.: Pauls Kesteris
- Bodies in Motion (Video-installation, 2010) - D.: Katharina Klewinghaus (HKW, Berlin)
- Live-Performances at the Babelsberger Media Awards 2009, 2010 (multi-instrumentalist and composer)
- Concerts as a solo-pianist, ensemble player, performances with Minsk Philharmonic Orchestra, Saint-Petersburg Radio and TV Orchestra, Chamber Orchestra Potsdam (Chaplin Complete Festival, Berlin) - 1998-2014
- CD-Production for NAXOS 'Russische Romantik' 2006 as a member of "Aurora Quartett" Berlin.
- Chamber oper 'Faust' 2003, Minsk (for 5 Soloists, Choir and Orchestra)
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JEANNE SHAFFER - USA
BORN 25 MAY
Jeanne Ellison Shaffer was an American composer and musician.
Shaffer was born in Knoxville, Tennessee. She was interested in music from a young age, singing on radio beginning at age four. When she was 11 she began touring with the Paul Whiteman Orchestra. She also appeared in Girl of the Golden West as Jeannette MacDonald. Shaffer studied at Samford University, Birmingham Southern College, and Vanderbilt University.
Shaffer's compositions have been published by 12 companies and in at least three languages. They include three musicals, orchestral pieces, chamber music, a chamber opera, a ballet, organ music, cantatas, and song cycles. Her Three Faces of Woman was recorded in orchestral arrangement by Richard Stoltzman and the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra. She has earned grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, National Endowment for the Arts, and the Aspen Music Festival. She has also served as a choir director, organist, and teacher, and hosted a radio program called Eine Kleine Frauenmusik about female composers.
In 1944, she married Loran O. Shaffer (1921–1969). She married secondly Swiss native Robert S. Barmettler (1924–2013) in 1989 while at the Atlantic Center for the Arts with Joan Tower.
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