MARGA RICHTER - USA
BORN 21 OCTOBER
Marga Richter (born October 21, 1926) is an American composer of classical music, and also a fine pianist.
Marga Richter's musical style emphasizes chromaticism, a free use of dissonance, ostinatos, layering, rhythmic excitement, and dramatic pacing. She favors much use of seconds and sevenths. Her music often draws upon American, Irish, and Asian sources for inspiration. While she taught only a handful of students, she has inspired many later women composers, including composer Dianne Goolkasian Rahbee. Richter is noted for being one of the few women composers from her time who composed music for large-scale forces: orchestra, ballet, and ensembles. She has composed one opera, Riders to the Sea.
Richter composes for orchestra, ballet, opera, chorus, orchestra, chamber ensemble and solo instrument and her compositions have been performed internationally. Selected works include: Abyss (1-act ballet, choreography by Stuart Hodes), orchestra, 1964; Bird of Yearning (1-act ballet, choreography by Stuart Hodes), orchestra, 1967; Riders to the Sea (1-act chamber opera, libretto by John Millington Synge) 1996; Concerto for Piano and Violas, Cellos and Basses, 1955; Lament, string orchestra, 1956 and others.
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Aria and Toccata for Viola and String Orchestra by Marga Richter
LERA AUERBACH - USA
BORN 21 OCTOBER
BORN 21 OCTOBER
Lera Auerbach is a Soviet-Russian-born American classical composer and pianist.
Auerbach was born to a Jewish family in Chelyabinsk, a city in the Ural Mountains bordering Siberia. Her mother was a piano teacher, many of whose ancestors had also been musicians. Lera began composing her own music at an early age; she later told an interviewer, "I was born to do this, to work in art... I had this feeling when I was four and I had it when I came to New York...". She received permission to visit the United States on a concert tour in 1991; although she spoke no English, she decided to defect so she could stay in the country to pursue her musical career. Unable to afford subway fares, she walked more than a hundred blocks each day to study at the Manhattan School of Music. Auerbach subsequently earned degrees in piano and composition from the Juilliard School, where she studied piano with Joseph Kalichstein and composition with Milton Babbitt. Her graduate studies were supported by The Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans. She also graduated from the piano soloist program of the Hochschule für Musik Hannover.
Auerbach's compositions have been commissioned and performed by a wide array of artists, orchestras and ballet companies including Gidon Kremer, the Kremerata Baltica, David Finckel, Wu Han, Vadim Gluzman, the Tokyo, Kuss, Parker and Petersen String Quartets, the SWR and NDR symphony orchestras, Berg Orchestra, and the Royal Danish Ballet. Auerbach's music has also been commissioned by and performed at Caramoor International Music Festival, Lucerne Festival, Lockenhaus Festival, Bremen Musikfest and Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival.
Source: Lera Auerbach Official Website and Wikipedia
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Avita Duo by Lera Auerbach
Avita Duo by Lera Auerbach
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