OLGA VICTOROVA - UKRAINE
BORN 22 SEPTEMBER
Olga Viktorova was born on 22 September 1960 in Ukraine.
She is a graduate from the Kharkov Music School for gifted children. In 1984, she graduated with honours from the St-Petersburg State Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory where she studied composition (with professor B. Arapov) and folklore. In 1986 she completed her postgraduate course at the same conservatory. Since 1996 she has been a member of the Composers' Union of Russia.
Olga Viktorova worked as a Music Director of the Kemerovo Drama Theater, taught composition and music theory at the Kemerovo College of Music. Nowadays she teaches composition and instrumentation at the Sverdlovsk College of Music.
In 1998, Olga Viktorova along with Oleg Paiberdin founded the Contemporary Music Club which turned into the Workshop of the New Music Autograph.
Olga Viktorova's works were performed at numerous festivals and concerts in the Netherlands, the USA, Spain, Belgium and Russia. Her music has been performed by Kuzbass Symphony Orchestra (Kemerovo, Russia), Billings Symphony Orchestra (USA), BACH Chamber Orchestra and the Ural Philharmonic Orchestra (Yekaterinburg, Russia), Ensemble '88 (the Netherlands).
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Milky Way by Olga Viktorova
KEYLA OROZCO - CUBA
BORN 22 SEPTEMBER
BORN 22 SEPTEMBER
Keyla Orozco received professional music education since the age of 8. She started with piano at the Conservatory in Santiago de Cuba, her city of birth, and later at the Escuela Nacional de Arte (ENA) in Havana, where in 1998 she obtained her diploma in Piano Pedagogy and Performance. In 1993 she became a Bachelor in Composition at Instituto Superior de Arte (ISA) in Havana under the guidance of Harold Gramatges. Later she followed advanced composition studies for three years with Theo Loevendie at the Koninklijk Conservatorium in The Hague and at Conservatorium van Amsterdam.
She is currently living and working in the US, after establishing herself in The Netherlands as an independent artist for over 18 years. She shares her professional career between these two countries mainly.
Her compositional work has been awarded with the Guggenheim and the Cintas Fellowships, Fromm Music Foundation Commission, Two-Years Composition Grant by the Dutch Performing Arts Funds, a Residency Fellowship at MacDowell Colony, First and Second Prizes at International Composition Contest René Amengüal in Chile, and the National Cuban prize for Symphonic Composition UNEAC.
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Met de Schoenen by Keyla Orozco
Met de Schoenen by Keyla Orozco
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