MIA ZABELKA - AUSTRIA
BORN 21 SEPTEMBER
Mia Zabelka (born 1963 in Vienna, Austria) is an Austrian contemporary violinist, improviser, and composer of Czech, Jewish and French familiar background. Comprehensively educated in classical music from early age on she opened up the traditional understanding of the violin as solo and ensemble instrument towards improvisation, experimental music, and sound art.
Mia Zabelka is known for her experimental style, with a big passion for free improvisation, jazz, rock, noise, drone and dark ambient. Comprehensively educated in classical music from early age on, she continued to construct and explore the limits of sound and music in a language entirely her own, based on the de- and reconstruction of the violin’s sonic possibilities, expanding the range of the instrument using live electronic devices, preparing it through the insertion of alien objects between or on the strings and innovative performance techniques.
Mia Zabelka basically changed the modern electric violin language. She has given concerts and performances at many Festivals throughout Europe, America and Asia. Numerous CD, vinyl and video releases. Recipient of highly regarded prizes (3- time winner of the Prix Ars Electronica) and awards, she was a guest of the DAAD’s (German Academic Exchange Service’s) international artists’ programme in Berlin and the Fulbright Commission in New York.
In 2017, the Solo album ‘Cellular Resonance’ was released on the British label LCR, which received numerous enthusiastic reviews.
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Cellular Resonance by Mia Zabelka
KATHERINE HOOVER - USA
DEATH 21 SEPTEMBER
DEATH 21 SEPTEMBER
Katherine Hoover (December 2, 1937 – September 21, 2018) was an American composer and flutist. She held a performer's certificate in flute and a Bachelor of Music in music theory from the Eastman School of Music, and a Masters in Music from the Manhattan School of Music. She was a faculty member of the Manhattan School of Music for fifteen years and taught flute at the Juilliard Preparatory School. Hoover won numerous awards for her compositions, and her music was hailed as "fresh and individual... dazzlingly crafted."
Hoover's compositional style has been described as "a romantic, often pictorial atonal style" that is "clear and eloquent [with] moments of startling beauty [emerging] from her sometimes acerbic harmonies." Three compositional elements stand out as consistent patterns in Hoover's music: 1) extra-musical references; 2) quotations and manipulations of other composers' melodies; and 3) use of abstract, original material. Extra-musical references have proven a consistent trend throughout Hoover's compositions, and she has found inspiration in a wide variety of sources. She pulled from many different sources for her compositional ideas, and it is because of these references to extra-musical concepts that her music is often considered pictorial and evocative.
Hoover became particularly renowned for her compositions for flute. This was natural since she had quite a varied career as a distinguished flutist. Hoover believed that being an accomplished performer greatly benefitted her compositional abilities.
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Summer Night by Katherine Hoover
Summer Night by Katherine Hoover
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