MARY MAGEAU - USA
BORN 04 SEPTEMBER
Mary Jane Mageau (born 4 September 1934) is an American born writer, harpsichordist and composer who lives and works in Australia. She was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and studied at DePaul University, Chicago, and the University of Michigan where she studied with Leon Stein, Leslie Bassett and Ross Lee Finney, graduating with a Master of Music degree. In 1974 she accepted an Australian guest lectureship and there married architect Kenneth White. She is now an Australian citizen and resident of Queensland. She has been particularly prominent in lobbying for opportunities for women composers.
Mageau has written of her artistic practice, "Through my music I always seek to communicate something fresh, new and expressive to the performer/s and listening public. Music must communicate - it must say something of meaning that will engage each listener in a satisfying artistic journey".
Selected works include: Triple Concerto for piano trio and orchestra; Better Way for treble choir with piano; Ragtime Remembered for quintet (2001); She Is a Cat for soprano and piano (2000); and others.
Her music has been recorded and issued on CD, including the Vienna Modern Masters Music From Six Continents CD Series.
Mageau is the author of two spiritual books; Insights : for an awakening humanity and A little book of living spiritually, published by Boolarong Press and poetry published in the United States by Red Moon Press, the MET Press, and in Australian and Canadian literary magazines.
Source: Wikipedia and Australian Music Centre
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The Furies by Mary Mageau
HILDUR GUDNADÓTTIR - ICELAND
BORN 04 SEPTEMBER
BORN 04 SEPTEMBER
Hildur Ingveldardóttir Guðnadóttir (born 4 September 1982) is an Icelandic musician and composer. A classically trained cellist, she has played and recorded with the bands Pan Sonic, Throbbing Gristle, Múm and Stórsveit Nix Noltes, and has also toured with Animal Collective and Sunn.
In 2006, she released a solo album under the name Lost In Hildurness, Mount A, on which she attempted to "involve other people as little as I could." It was recorded in New York City and Hólar in the north of Iceland. 2009 saw the release of her second solo album, Without Sinking, on the UK-based audio-visual label, Touch.
As well as the cello, Hildur also sings and arranges choral music, once arranging a choir for performances by Throbbing Gristle in Austria and London. As a composer she has written a score for the play Sumardagur ("Summer Day") performed at Iceland's National Theatre. She has also written the score for the Danish film Kapringen (2012), Garth Davis' 2018 film Mary Magdalene (in collaboration with Jóhann Jóhannsson), Stefano Sollima's Sicario: Day of the Soldado (2018), and the 2019 Chernobyl miniseries. She wrote the score to the 2019 film Joker starring Joaquin Phoenix, directed by Todd Phillips.
Source: Hildur Gudnadóttir Official Website and Wikipedia
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Eruptin Light by Hildur Gudnadóttir
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