CHAN-HAE LEE - SOUTH KOREA
BORN 08 OCTOBER
Chan-Hae Lee (born 8 October 1945) is a South Korean music educator and composer.
Chan-Hae Lee (born 8 October 1945) is a South Korean music educator and composer.
She was born in Seoul, Korea, and studied composition at Yonsei University in Seoul with Jae-Yul Park and Un-Young La. She continued her studies with George T. Jones and Conrad Bernier at Catholic University in Washington, D.C., graduating with a MA and PhD. Later she attended seminars and festivals, studying the Kodály method in Hungary in 1989, and was a visiting scholar at Oakland University and the Paris Conservatory.
After completing her education, she took a position in 1977 as professor of composition at Yonsei University. She has also served as visiting professor at Wayne State University. Lee has received The National Composition Prize of Korea and her works have been performed internationally.
Selected works include: With for trombone and string quartet; Back to the Origins, opera; The Rabbit Story and others.
Source: Wikipedia & Oxford Music
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Rite of Water by Chan-Hae Lee
JOHANNA BORDEWIJK-ROEPMAN - THE NETHERLANDS
DEATH 08 OCTOBER
DEATH 08 OCTOBER
Johanna Bordewijk-Roepman (4 August 1892 – 8 October 1971) was a Dutch composer. She was born in Rotterdam, and began composing in 1917 without instruction. In 1937 she studied orchestration with Eduard Flipse and became successful as a composer in the 1940s and 1950s.
In August 1914 she married writer Ferdinand Bordewijk, who contributed lyrics to some of her works, and had a son Robert and daughter Nina.
During World War II, she and her
husband organized private concerts and literary evenings in their home, located next to the office of the Kultuurkamer. The proceeds went to the artists' resistance group. Their home in Bezuidenhout was bombed
on March 3, 1945. They narrowly escaped. Household goods, works of art, books, musical instruments,
manuscripts and scores, all their belongings were destroyed
She received an award in 1943 for her Piano Sonata and died in The Hague.
The critics of her time praised Bordewijk-Roepman for her great and unique talent. They characterized her
music as French-oriented, influenced by Debussy, impressionistic, full of atmosphere, tense and occasionally
humorous. Again and again the reviews mentioned the individuality of her music; the unique combination of
lyricism and strength. She continued to amaze, “particularly as a frail looking woman.”
Source: Wikipedia and Forbidden Music Regained
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Sonata for piano by Johanna Bordewijk-Roepman
Sonata for piano by Johanna Bordewijk-Roepman
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