GLORIA COATES - USA
BORN 10 OCTOBER
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Gloria Coates (born October 10, 1938 in Wausau, Wisconsin) is an American composer who has lived in Munich, Germany since 1969. She studied with Alexander Tcherepnin, Otto Luening, and Jack Beeson. Her father Roland E. Kannenberg served as a Progressive in the Wisconsin State Senate from 1935 to 1939, and she sang at his rallies as a child.
Gloria Coates has written many orchestral works, some with chorus, which include 16 symphonies (the highest number of symphonies ever written by a woman composer), ten string quartets, chamber music, solo and vocal music, electronic musique concrète, and the opera Stolen Identity.
Her music features canonic structures and prominent, sometimes exclusive, glissandos, being "characterized by extremely strict, even rigid technical procedures (canonic structures), which are often worked out with unusual musical materials (glissandi)". Her music is postminimalist, marked by the tension "not only between material and technique (...an attempt to give structure to chaos), but even more so between what would have to be termed 'sober-technical' compositional principles and the genuine direct expressive power and emotionality of the music".
Besides composing, Gloria Coates also paints abstract expressionistic paintings that are often used as the covers for her albums . In her paintings, complementary colours such as red and green, yellow and blue, interact and mix with one another in the small strokes. The painterly manner, with layers of swirls of colours, is reminiscent of the style of Vincent van Gogh.
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WW II Poems for Peace by Gloria Coates
SUSAN FRYKBERG - NEW ZEALAND
BORN 10 OCTOBER
BORN 10 OCTOBER
Susan Frykberg (born 10 October 1954) is an electroacoustic composer and a sound artist. She also composes acoustic music in a variety of genres.
Susan Frykberg was born in Hastings, New Zealand, and studied at the University of Canterbury, Simon Fraser University and the University of Otago. Teachers included John Rimmer, Barry Vercoe, Barry Connyngham, Iannis Xenakis and Barry Truax.
She moved to Canada in 1979 and worked as a free-lance composer in Toronto until a move to Vancouver in 1986, to complete a master's degree with Barry Truax. She then taught for seven years in the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University. She has also served as a guest lecturer at The Ontario College of Art, Toronto, and Emily Carr College, Vancouver, Auckland University, RMIT University, Melbourne and Box Hill Institute of TAFE. She has one son.
Frykberg composes electroacoustic works. Selected compositions include: Mother Too; Insect Life; Birth/Rebirth Bearing Me; Audio Birth Project; Margaret and others.
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Dr. Hodgkinson and Women Voters by Susan Frykberg
Dr. Hodgkinson and Women Voters by Susan Frykberg
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