META OVERMAN - THE NETHERLANDS
BORN 09 OCTOBER
Meta Overman was born in Rotterdam into a musical family. Her own musical ability was obvious from an early age: she would place picture books on the piano and attempt to play what she could see. This ability to transform pictures into musical concepts and sounds is evident in all her compositions. She began piano lessons very early, firstly with her mother who was a professional teacher, and later with Johann Kievid.
She survived two world wars in Holland, the Nazi occupation and almost total destruction of Rotterdam in 1940. In 1951, due to the shortage of housing after the war, she migrated to Australia to settle with relatives of her then husband, pianist Frank Russcher, with whom she had formed a successful piano duo.
In 1957 Overman moved to Melbourne with her second husband Robert Hyner, who for some time was the part-time curator of the Percy Grainger Museum. There was a brief period of nine years between 1969 and 1978 when Overman returned to Holland due to ill health, but in 1978 she resettled in Perth where she remained until her death in October 1993.
Overman's mature composing life spans from 1939 to 1988. Her works cover many genres. There are seventeen works, or sets of works, for piano solo, five for orchestra, six sets of songs, five choral works, eleven operas including one three-act opera, four ballets and twenty-four chamber works, some of which are for two pianos. Unlike many of her contemporaries she did not work extensively as a piano teacher, which is why among her works there are no teaching pieces, books of studies or piano albums that occupied the time of many other composers who wrote for their students.
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Queen of tone colour and Fantasy by Meta Overman
ANDREA TARRODI - SWEDEN
BORN 09 OCTOBER
BORN 09 OCTOBER
Andrea Tarrodi, born in 1981, is a Swedish composer based in Stockholm. She started playing the piano at the age of 8, and became interested in composition shortly thereafter.
Tarrodi studied composition at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm, Conservatorio di Musica di Perugia, Italy, and the College of Music in Piteå with, among other teachers, Jan Sandström, Pär Lindgren, Fabio Cifariello-Ciardi, Jesper Nordin and Marie Samuelsson. She completed her master´s degree in composition at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm in 2009.
Her works have been performed at several venues both in Sweden and abroad, among them the Royal Albert Hall at the BBC Proms in 2017, the Berliner Philharmonie, the Wiener Musikverein and the Barbican Centre in London. In 2018 Tarrodi´s CD ’String Quartets’ performed by the Dahlkvist Quartet was awarded with a Swedish Grammy for best classical album of the year. Tarrodi's music has also been represented several times at Östersjöfestivalen / the Baltic Sea Festival.
In 2010 her piece Zephyros for orchestra received 1st prize in the Uppsala Composition Competition, which led to several performances of the piece by different orchestras around the world.
Andrea Tarrodi is a member of the Swedish Performing Rights Society (STIM) and the Society of Swedish Composers (FST).
Source: Andrea's Tarrodi Official Website and Cabrillo Music
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Änglar by Andrea Tarrodi
Änglar by Andrea Tarrodi
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