HUBA DE GRAAFF - THE NETHERLANDS
BORN 01 NOVEMBER
Source: Huba de Graaf Official Website and Last FM
Huba de Graaff is a composer born in Amsterdam. She studied sonology in Utrecht and composition at the Royal Conservatory in the Hague with Gilius van Bergeijk, Louis Andriessen, Frederic Rzewski, Dick Raaymakers, Walter Zimmermann. She graduated with ‘distinction’. She works with computers from the very beginning (’80).
The experimental opera she wrote with writer Erik-Ward Geerlings for singing and moving loudspeakers ‘Lautsprecher Arnolt’ (2004) performed by Marien Jongewaard has toured succesfully for a long period, and was even performed in Teheran-Iran.
Recently she wrote an electronic piece for the 25th jubilee of the Mondriaan String Quartet in 2007.
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De Arigen by Huba de Graaff
ELLEN MANDEL - USA
BORN 01 NOVEMBER
BORN 01 NOVEMBER
Ellen Mandel is a composer that has written music for over sixty plays at theaters in New York City including the Mint, Jean Cocteau Rep (Resident Composer), Pearl, Phoenix Theatre Ensemble, and Riverside Shakespeare, and at regional theaters including the Asolo (FL), Antaeus (LA—Scenie Award), Arkansas Rep, Tennessee Rep, Pendragon, and Peterborough Players. She has composed scores for five indie films, and for dance and cabaret, as well as on the spot for improv comedy. Ms Mandel has released five CDs: a wind has blown the rain away (E.E. Cummings songs) and the first of all my dreams (E.E. Cummings, Seamus Heaney, and other songs), Every Play’s an Opera (theatre music); There Was a World (Heaney and Glyn Maxwell texts), and The Cat and the Moon, with singer Daniel Neer, includes settings of Heaney, Yeats, Thomas Hardy, and Neer’s own Haikus. Dizzy Gillespie called her a “wonderful musician.
Mandel has released six CDs: a wind has blown the rain away (E.E. Cummings songs), and the first of all my dreams (E.E. Cummings, Seamus Heaney, WB Yeats, and other songs), Every Play's an Opera (theatre music); The Cat and the Moon, (settings of Heaney, Yeats, Thomas Hardy, and Daniel Neer), and There Was a World (Seamus Heaney and Glyn Maxwell settings), and I So Liked Spring (Charlotte Mew, Thomas Hardy, Shakespeare and Yeats settings). Dizzy Gillespie called her a “wonderful musician
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Sweet Spring is Our Time by Ellen Mandel
Sweet Spring is Our Time by Ellen Mandel
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