ERIKA FOX - AUSTRIA
BORN 03 OCTOBER
Erika Fox (born 3 October 1936) is a British composer and teacher. She was born in Vienna and emigrated to England as a refugee in 1939. She grew up in an Orthodox Jewish home, and studied composition at the Royal College of Music with Bernard Stevens, and later with Jeremy Dale Roberts and Harrison Birtwistle.
Ensemble, Dartington and SPNM. Between 1974 and 1994 her works were regularly performed at London’s South Bank Centre, major festivals and have received broadcasts in the U.K. and abroad. ‘Shir’, for large ensemble was featured on Channel 4 Television. Fox’s critically acclaimed puppet opera, ‘The Bet’ (1990) received over 100 performances following a premiere at the Purcell Room. ‘Kaleidoscope’ won the 1983 Finzi Award and her chamber opera ‘The Dancer Hotoke’ was nominated for an Olivier Award. In 1990 Fox accopmanied John Cage to Paris and Strasbourg and took part in his ‘Europeras 1 and 2’ commissioned by the Almeida Festival.
Erika Fox has been commissioned by Festivals including Vale of Glamorgan, Cheltenham, Festival of Women Composers in Berlin and Amsterdam, Leamington, Almeida, Sonorities in Belfast. Her work has been performed by Lontano, New Music Players, Contrapuncti, Chamber Domaine, Gemini, Feinstein Quartet. Her music has been performed in Greece, Turkey, Canada, Italy, Slovakia.
Erika Fox is supported by PRS Foundation’s Composers’ Fund a new opportunity for classical composers with a strong track record, supported by the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation.
Source: Wikipedia & Erika Fox Official Website
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1st Movement by Erika Fox
MARY-ANN JOYCE-WALTER - USA
BORN 03 OCTOBER
BORN 03 OCTOBER
Mary Ann Joyce Walter was born into an Irish-Catholic family in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, and was exposed at an early age to the beauty of Gregorian chant and 16th-Century polyphony, and has, to this day, found the melodic beauty of chant and the contrapuntal works of the Renaissance informing her musical style. Her personal connection to and understanding of the genocide (The Great Famine) in Ireland created a need to compose many works that reveal human suffering on both a personal and universal scale. It is no accident that two of her latest works, Cantata for the Children of Terezin and Aceldama are based on subjects that are difficult to face: the Holocaust and the “Dark Night of the Soul.”
Mary Ann’s compositions also reflect the prairie’s changing skies and seasons, the beauty of the cycles of life, and celebrate the serene dignity of the Midwest that she experienced as a child. Her goal as a composer is to write music that expresses a wide range of human emotion – joy, loneliness, humor, love and longing.
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I Dream by Mary Ann Joyce Walter
I Dream by Mary Ann Joyce Walter
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