GINA BIVER - USA
BORN 14 JUNE
BORN 14 JUNE
Gina Biver is a composer of electroacoustic music for chamber ensemble, choir, multimedia, dance, sound installations and film. Her early career as an electric guitarist brought her press from multiple guitar magazines, (Guitar World, Kerrang!, Guitar for the Practicing Musician) with Rock Scene magazine calling her “the best female guitarist in rock today” (which caused her to dream of the day where “female” wasn’t part of the compliment). From performing on some of New York’s biggest stages to subsequent performances with the National Gallery of Art New Music Ensemble in Washington, DC, she still occasionally straps on her guitar in her work with Fuse Ensemble.
Gina has been awarded composer grants from the American Music Center, American Composers Forum, and others, and her work has been performed in the US, Sydney Australia and across Europe and Canada. She continues to collaborate with filmmakers, multimedia and visual artists, DIY instrument makers, poets and painters. Besides the fun of scoring to picture, her film scores have brought her multiple television, video and independent film awards. Forever championing new music, her group Fuse Ensemble has premiered and performed works by several living composers, and she continues to program the work of as many women as men. She lives in Falls Church, VA, with her husband Steve Biver, photographer and author, and their three children.
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JEANNE BEYERMAN-WALRAVEN - INDONESIA
BORN 14 JUNE
Jeanne Beijerman-Walraven was a Dutch composer. She was born in Semarang, Indonesia, and studied privately with Frits Koeberg in The Hague.
Beijerman-Walraven's early compositions were late Romantic in style, but she adopted contemporary techniques and later works became more Expressionist. Although she received recognition early in her career, her work was seldom played after the 1920s. She died in Arnhem.
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