JEAN HASSE - USA
BORN 20 AUGUST
Jean Hasse was born in Cleveland, Ohio, USA, 1958, and graduated from Oberlin College Conservatory, Ohio, specialising in piano, conducting and instrumental music education (BM, 1981); she then did graduate work and teaching at Cleveland State University. A varied career as a teacher, multi-instrumentalist, concert producer, music copyist, editor and publisher has included managing Margun Music (then owned by Gunther Schuller) and acting as the US and Canadian Representative for Faber Music Ltd. London, as well as forming her own publishing company, Visible Music, in 1987. While living in Boston, Jean was also a member of the popular music ensemble, The Composers in Red Sneakers.
Jean composes for films, silent films, videos and special events, along with new concert music pieces. Her twenty silent film scores to date began with Faust (1926), performed in October 2007 by a chamber orchestra in Bristol and at London's Barbican Centre. Four silent film scores for quartet (violin, trumpet, sax, piano) include Ghosts Before Breakfast(1928) and The Fall of the House of Usher (1928). As a piano accompanist, original scores include Mabel's Dramatic Career (1913), premiered at the National Film Theatre, London, and The Rat (1925), for piano, clarinet and accordion, played at Bristol’s Arnolfini. In 2009 Jean accompanied several silent films at an international conference on Colour Film and Restoration in Bristol. In January 2014 she performed a new score to Richard Wagner (1913) at the Barbican Centre. Ensemble scores from 2016-17 include The Devilish Tenant (1909), Arthème Swallows his Clarinet (1912) and The (?) Motorist (1906) for wind ensemble.
Jean has played piano most of her life, as soloist and in ensembles (solo and choral accompanist, jazz ensembles, ballet classes, chamber groups, orchestra). In a special performance in May 2014, Jean and Paul Israel alternatively played each hour, for several days, to audiences and 60 caged birds, listening to Liszt’s Légend No.1: St. Francois d'Assise: La prédication aux oiseaux. (An art installation by Annika Kahrs.) Jean plays piano regularly with the Bristol Symphony Orchestra.
BORN 20 AUGUST
Jean Hasse was born in Cleveland, Ohio, USA, 1958, and graduated from Oberlin College Conservatory, Ohio, specialising in piano, conducting and instrumental music education (BM, 1981); she then did graduate work and teaching at Cleveland State University. A varied career as a teacher, multi-instrumentalist, concert producer, music copyist, editor and publisher has included managing Margun Music (then owned by Gunther Schuller) and acting as the US and Canadian Representative for Faber Music Ltd. London, as well as forming her own publishing company, Visible Music, in 1987. While living in Boston, Jean was also a member of the popular music ensemble, The Composers in Red Sneakers.
Jean composes for films, silent films, videos and special events, along with new concert music pieces. Her twenty silent film scores to date began with Faust (1926), performed in October 2007 by a chamber orchestra in Bristol and at London's Barbican Centre. Four silent film scores for quartet (violin, trumpet, sax, piano) include Ghosts Before Breakfast(1928) and The Fall of the House of Usher (1928). As a piano accompanist, original scores include Mabel's Dramatic Career (1913), premiered at the National Film Theatre, London, and The Rat (1925), for piano, clarinet and accordion, played at Bristol’s Arnolfini. In 2009 Jean accompanied several silent films at an international conference on Colour Film and Restoration in Bristol. In January 2014 she performed a new score to Richard Wagner (1913) at the Barbican Centre. Ensemble scores from 2016-17 include The Devilish Tenant (1909), Arthème Swallows his Clarinet (1912) and The (?) Motorist (1906) for wind ensemble.
Jean has played piano most of her life, as soloist and in ensembles (solo and choral accompanist, jazz ensembles, ballet classes, chamber groups, orchestra). In a special performance in May 2014, Jean and Paul Israel alternatively played each hour, for several days, to audiences and 60 caged birds, listening to Liszt’s Légend No.1: St. Francois d'Assise: La prédication aux oiseaux. (An art installation by Annika Kahrs.) Jean plays piano regularly with the Bristol Symphony Orchestra.
As a music copyist, Jean has worked for several publishing companies and for dozens of composers, including John Williams, Ornette Coleman and Paul McCartney. She did music score preparation work for the UK films, The Killing of John Lennon and Eliminate: Archie Cookson, for which she also conducted the recording session.
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Ghosts before breakfast by Jean Hasse
DORA COJOCARU - ROMENIA
BORN 19 AUGUST
Dora Cojocaru (born August 20, 1963 in Baia-Mare) is a Romanian composer. Cojocaru studied at the Music Academy of Cluj-Napoca and earned there her diplomas in composition, education and piano in 1986.
BORN 19 AUGUST
Dora Cojocaru (born August 20, 1963 in Baia-Mare) is a Romanian composer. Cojocaru studied at the Music Academy of Cluj-Napoca and earned there her diplomas in composition, education and piano in 1986.
After studying with Johannes Fritsch at the Hochschule für Musik Cologne, she received a master's degree in composition. In 1997, she earned a Ph.D. in musicology with a thesis about György Ligeti. After its publication in 1999, the work was awarded a literary prize in Romania. From 1990 to 2002 she taught at the Music Academy of Cluj-Napoca, and worked from 1993 to 1995 for the Westdeutscher Rundfunk. She has been living in Montreal since 2002 and teaches at McGill University.
Source: Wikipedia
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Red Rouge Rot by Dora Cojocaru
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