CARMEN PETRA BASACOPOL - ROMENIA
BORN 05 NOVEMBER
Carmen Petra Basacopol (born on September 5th, 1926, Sibiu), is a Romanian composer and music teacher.
She was born in Sibiu and studied at the Bucharest Conservatory of Music between 1949-1956 with Ioan D. Chirescu (music theory), Leon Klepper and Mihail Jora (composition), Paul Constantinescu (harmony) and Tudor Ciortea (musical analysis), Nicolae Buicliu (counterpoint), Theodor Rogalski (orchestration), Ion Vicol și Ion Marian (choir, choral conducting), Adriana Sachelarie și George Breazul (music history), Tiberiu Alexandru și Emilia Comișel (folklor), Silvia Căpățână și Ovidiu Drimba (piano). She also attended the improvisation classes at Darmstadt (1968).
She won several prizes, including the 4th place of the International Contest in Bucharest (1953), the International Youth Contest in Warsaw (1955), Meritul Cultural Order cls. IV (1969), The Composers Union Award (1974, 1979, 1999, 2003), The Romanian Composers Academy Award (1980), Meritul Cultural Order in knight rank (2004). She was jury member of the Harp Contest in Jerusalem (1979).
She composes for orchestra, opera, chamber ensemble, harp, piano, vocal and ballet performance, often using themes and instruments from folk music. Among the 80 signed opuses, chamber music has a special place. She valued the harp, which she competently brought back into focus. This interest resulted in high appreciation abroad, for she has actually contributed to expansion of expression rendered by the instrument through very original timbre combinations. Her creative personality is also evidenced by her original ideas in musicology and in Romanian spirituality.
Source: Wikipedia and Centrul de Informare Muzicala
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Constelati by Carmen Petra Basacopol
ELIZABETH BROWN - USA
BORN 05 NOVEMBER
A Guggenheim Fellowship recipient and Juilliard graduate, she has received grants, awards and commissions from Orpheus, St. Luke’s Chamber Ensemble, Newband, The Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival, Kamratōn, the Barlow Foundation, the Asian Cultural Council, the Japan/US Friendship Commission, Music from Japan, Meet the Composer, the Electronic Music Foundation, Bravo! Vail Valley Music Festival, the Cary Trust, and NYFA, among others.
She has two solo CDs: Elizabeth Brown: Mirage (New World) and Blue Minor: Chamber Music by Elizabeth Brown (Albany), and her music is also available on CRI, Innova, and Music and Arts. She has been Artist-in-Residence at the Hanoi National Conservatory and in Grand Canyon National Park, and a fellow at the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center in Italy and at the MacDowell Colony.
BORN 05 NOVEMBER
Elizabeth Brown is an american composer born in 1953 in Camden, Alabama. There she grew up on an agricultural research station. After receiving a Master’s degree in flute performance from The Juilliard School in 1977, she started composing in the late 1970’s. She is married to visual artist Lothar Osterburg.
She combines a composing career with a diverse performing life, playing flute, shakuhachi, and theremin in a wide variety of musical circles. Her chamber music, shaped by this unique group of instruments and experiences, has been called luminous, dreamlike and hallucinatory.
Brown began studying shakuhachi in 1982 and its music has been a major influence on her musical language. She is celebrated both here and in Japan for her compositions combining eastern and western sensibilities. Besides Japan, Brown’s music has been heard in Russia, Colombia, Australia, South Africa and Vietnam as well as across the US and Europe.
A Guggenheim Fellowship recipient and Juilliard graduate, she has received grants, awards and commissions from Orpheus, St. Luke’s Chamber Ensemble, Newband, The Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival, Kamratōn, the Barlow Foundation, the Asian Cultural Council, the Japan/US Friendship Commission, Music from Japan, Meet the Composer, the Electronic Music Foundation, Bravo! Vail Valley Music Festival, the Cary Trust, and NYFA, among others.
She has two solo CDs: Elizabeth Brown: Mirage (New World) and Blue Minor: Chamber Music by Elizabeth Brown (Albany), and her music is also available on CRI, Innova, and Music and Arts. She has been Artist-in-Residence at the Hanoi National Conservatory and in Grand Canyon National Park, and a fellow at the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center in Italy and at the MacDowell Colony.
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Arcana for Flute and Recorded Sound by Elizabeth Brown
Arcana for Flute and Recorded Sound by Elizabeth Brown
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