BEATRIZ FERREYRA - ARGENTINA
BORN 21 JUNE
BORN 21 JUNE
Beatriz Mercedes Ferreyra is an Argentine composer.
Ferreyra was born in Cordoba, Argentina, and studied piano with Celia Bronstein in Buenos Aires. She continued her study of music with Nadia Boulanger in Paris, and Edgardo Canton, Earle Brown and György Ligeti in Germany.
In 1963 she took a position in the research department of the Office de Radiodiffusion Television Francaise (ORTF), working with the Groupe de Recherches Musicales(GRM) directed by Pierre Schaeffer. She assisted with Henri Chiarucci's and Guy Reibel's Rapport entre la hauteur et la fondamentale d'un son musical, published in 1966 in Revue Internationale d'Audiologie and Pierre Schaeffer's Solfège de l'Objet Sonore. During this time she also lectured at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris. She worked with Bernard Baschet and his Structures Sonores in 1970, and served residencies in electronic music with Dartmouth College in 1976 and in 1998.
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JUDITH BINGHAM - UK
BORN 21 JUNE
Born in Nottingham, and raised in Mansfield and Sheffield, Judith Bingham began composing as a small child, before studying composition and singing at the Royal Academy of Music in London. Her composition studies there with Alan Bush and Eric Fenby were later supplemented by lessons from Hans Keller. She was awarded the Principal's prize in 1971, and 6 years later the BBC Young Composer award. Recent composition prizes include: the Barlow Prize for a cappella music in 2004, two British Composer Awards in 2004 for The Christmas Truce (choral) and Missa Brevis: The Road to Emmaeus (liturgical), one in 2006 for My Heart Strangely Warmdand the instrumental award in 2008 for Fantasia. She was once again nominated for an award in 2009 for Shakespeare Requiem, a Leeds Festival Chorus commission.
Although Bingham's output is notable for the number and variety of its choral works, she has always been seen as an all-rounder and the scope of her activities has included pieces for brass band, symphonic wind ensemble and various chamber groups and solo instruments, concertos for trumpet and bassoon and tuba, and several impressive works for large orchestra. Beyond Redemption (1995) was a BBC commission for the BBC Philharmonic and The Temple at Karnak (1996) was commissioned by Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Chartres, a significant work for large symphony orchestra, was performed to great acclaim by the BBC Philharmonic under Jane Glover in 1994, and was recently conducted by James MacMillan in Liverpool Cathedral as part of the BBC/Royal Philharmonic Society's 'Encore' project. She has written a substantial body of pieces for organ including Jacob's Ladder, a concerto for Stephen Cleobury and Philip Brunelle. A CD of her organ music performed by Tom Winpenny was released on the Naxos label in 2010. The Ivory Tree, a music-drama for soloists, chorus and ensemble, had its first complete performances in Bury St. Edmunds Cathedral in May 2005. A carol God would be born in thee was performed at the King's College Cambridge Nine Lessons and Carols at Christmas 2004 and was released by EMI on the CD On Christmas Day. Her works in recent years have included See and Keep Silent for the BBC Singers and Guy Johnston, performed on Good Friday at King's College Cambridge, and Shadow Aspect for choir, organ and timpani, written for the Edinburgh Royal Choral Union. A set of solo violin pieces called The Lost Works of Paganini was performed by Peter Sheppard Skaerved on Paganini's violin in Genoa and London.
Recent premieres include Les Saintes Maries de la Mer, a new piece for Girl’s Voices (SSA) commissioned by the City of London Festival and first performed on 28 of June, 2014, by the girls’ choirs of Southwark and Guildford Cathedral, in Southwark Cathedral, London. This piece sets the words of Elizabeth Cook that describe the Camargue legend of Mary Jacobus and Mary Salome (two of the Marys who witnessed the crucifixion) being put in a boat without oars and ending up in the Camargue in Southern France where they spread the gospel.
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