JOELLE WALLACH - USA
BORN 29 JUNE
BORN 29 JUNE
Visionary composer Joelle Wallach writes music for orchestra, chamber ensembles, solo voices and choruses. Her String Quartet 1995 was the American Composers Alliance nominee for the 1997 Pulitzer Prize in Music. The New York Philharmonic Ensembles premiered her octet, From the Forest of Chimneys, written to celebrate their 10th anniversary; and the New York Choral Society commissioned her secular oratorio, Toward a Time of Renewal, for 200 voices and orchestra to commemorate their 35th Anniversary Season in Carnegie Hall. Wallach’s ballet, Glancing Below, a 1999 Juilliard Dance Theater showcase production originally commissioned by the Carlisle Project, was premiered in Philadelphia during the summer of 1994, entered the repertory of the Hartford Ballet in February 1995, and received its New York City premiere that June.
As early as 1980 her choral work, On the Beach at Night Alone, won first prize in the Inter-American Music Awards.Wallach grew up in Morocco, but makes her home in New York City, where she was born. Her early training in piano, voice, theory, bassoon and violin included study at the Juilliard Preparatory Division, and she earned bachelors and masters degrees at Sarah Lawrence College and Columbia University respectively. In 1984 the Manhattan School of Music, where she studied with John Corigliano, granted her its first doctorate in composition.A pre-concert lecturer for the New York Philharmonic for several subscription series, Ms Wallach speaks on a broad range of musical subjects, bringing fresh insights to familiar works and opening doors to modern ones and to those less frequently heard.
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Spiritual by Joelle Wallach
Spiritual by Joelle Wallach
BEATRICE BARAZZONI - ITALY
BORN 29 JUNE
Composer Beatrice Barazzoni was born in Como, Italy. She studied at the Conservatory “Giuseppe Verdi” in Milano, with Vincenzo Balzani and Alessandro Solbiati, she gradueted in piano and composition in 1987. Graduated in 1993 in modern literature at the Univesrità degli studi di Milano, she studied musicology at the Univesrsity in Padova. She also studied piano with Alexis Weissenberg at the Accademia Chigiana in Siena and attended masterclasses in composition with Luis De Pablo, Marco Stroppa, Ivan Fedele e Tadeusz Wieleckzy. From 1994 to 1996 she collaborated with the Association “I Pomeriggi Musicali”in Milano and in 2001 she received a diploma of merit at the International Composition Competition “Piotr Jungerson” in Moscow.
Her works have been performed in Italy and abroad. Recently is the approach to the poesia “visiva-sonora” "by Paolo Albani for the production of performances of music and poetry. She has written essays on baroque and contemporary music. She has taught at the Music Institute “Orazio Vecchi” of Modena and the DAMS of Padova. She teaches composition at the Conservatory in Cagliari.
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