NANA FORTE - SLOVENIA
BORN 24 SEPTEMBER
Nana Forte (born 1981) is a Slovenian composer. She was born in Zagorje ob Savi, Slovenia.
In 2005, Forte graduated in composition from the Music Academy in Ljubljana under Marko Mihevc. She continued her postgraduate studies at Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber in Dresden under Lothar Voigtländer from 2005 to 2007 and in Berlin at Universität der Künste under Walter Zimmermann (2007–09).
Her works include compositions for solo instruments, chamber music, orchestral music and pieces for choir. Forte is one of the few young Slovenian composers who are composing much choral music. While studying she worked with many Slovenian choirs and conductors and was awarded a number of prizes for her choral compositions.
Her compositions have been performed in concerts and festivals all over the Europe, including Young Euro Classic (DE), Weimarer Frühjahrstage (DE), Music Bienale Zagreb (CRO), Festival Bemus (SRB), Klara Festival (BE), Festival Emilia Romagna (I), Festival Semanas de Musica do Estoril (PT), Festival LES VOIXS DU PRIEURE (FR), Bienale of Contemporary Music Koper (SI), Ljubljana Festival (SI) and Festival Slowind (SI), and have been broadcast by various European classical music radio stations. Some of her pieces have been published and recorded.
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En Ego Campana by Nana Forte
DIANA ROTARU - ROMANIA
BORN 24 SEPTEMBER
Source: Diana's Rotaru Official Website
BORN 24 SEPTEMBER
Diana Rotaru (b. 1981, Bucharest) has written over 50 works, from chamber and orchestral music to chamber opera, multimedia shows and film soundtracks. Her music explores different expressive directions, such as hypnagogia or pre-oneiric aesthetics, feminine psyche and subtle eroticism or imaginary folklore. She has also been active as a promoter of new music in Romania, being the artistic director of SonoMania new music ensemble (since 2012), co-artistic director of InnerSound International New Arts Festival (2012-2015) and the main coordinator of the Romanian Music Information Center (CIMRO). She has worked with the SeduCânt synchretic group in various multimedia projects. She is currently teaching at the National University of Music in Bucharest (Composition and Composition Practice, Music Analysis).
Diana Rotaru studied with Ştefan Niculescu and Dan Dediu at the National University of Music in Bucharest (2000-2005) – where she has a PhD in Composition (with the dissertationThe Recent Trance and the Principle of Repetition in New Music, 2012) – and with Frédéric Durieux at the Conservatoire National Superieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris (2005-2006). She participated at different summer composition courses such as Acanthes (Metz, 2008), Voix Nouvelles-Royaumont (2002 and 2006), or the International Bartok Seminary(Szombathely, 2003), thus working with Salvatore Sciarrino, Brian Ferneyhough, Michael Jarrell, François Paris, Jonathan Harvey among others.
She has won numerous prizes, among which the Romanian Academy’s George Enescu Award (2010), the ISCM-IAMIC Young Composer Award (World Music Days, Vilnius, 2008), the IrinoPrize (Japan, 2004) or the George Enescu Prize ex-aequo (Romania, 2003 and 2005). Her works have been commissioned by Ensemble XXI (Dijon), Stockholm Saxophone Quartet, Pärlor för svin, Ernst von Siemens Foundation, Takefu International Music Festival, etc.
Source: Diana's Rotaru Official Website
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Verde by Diana Rotaru
Verde by Diana Rotaru
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