ALEKSANDRA PAKHMUTOVA - RUSSIA
BORN 09 NOVEMBER
Aleksandra Nikolayevna Pakhmutova is a Soviet and Russian composer. She has remained one of the best known figures in Soviet and later Russian popular music since she first achieved fame in her homeland in the 1960s. People's Artist of the USSR (1984).
She was born on 9 November 1929 in Beketova (now a neighbourhood in Volgograd), Russian SFSR, Soviet Union, and began playing the piano and composing music at an early age. She was admitted to the prestigious Moscow Conservatory and graduated in 1953. In 1956 she completed a post-graduate course led by the outstanding composer Vissarion Shebalin.
Her career is notable for her success in a range of different genres. She has composed pieces for the symphony orchestra (The Russian Suite, the concerto for the trumpet and the orchestra, the Youth Overture, the concerto for the orchestra); the ballet Illumination; music for children (cantatas, a series of choir pieces, and numerous songs); and songs and music for over a dozen different movies from Out of This World in 1958 to Because of Mama in 2001.
She is best known for some of her 400 songs, including such enduringly popular songs as The Melody, Russian Waltz, Tenderness, Hope, The Old Maple Tree, The Song of the Perturbed Youth, a series of the Gagarin Constellation, The Bird of Happiness (from the 1981 film O Sport, You - the world!, whose the song is subsequently very known in both Russia and China when performed by Russian singer Vitas since 2003) and Good-Bye Moscow which was used as the farewell tune of the 22nd Olympic Games in Moscow in 1980. Tenderness was used with great effect in Tatyana Lioznova's 1967 film Three Poplars on Plutschikha. Her husband, the eminent Soviet era poet Nikolai Dobronravov, contributed lyrics to her music on occasion, including songs used in three films.
Source: Wikipedia and Russian Composers
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Russia Holidays Overture by Aleksandra Pakhmutova
CARMEN BRADEN - CANADÁ
BORN 09 NOVEMBER
BORN 09 NOVEMBER
Carmen Braden lives in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories and works as a composer, performer, and field recordist. All her musical creations are influenced by the sonic environment, both natural and man made, and she uses original texts in many works. Braden’s works reflect her connection to the contemporary classical world as well as her experience as a jazz pianist, and singer-songwriter.
In 2009 Braden obtained a Bachelor of Music Degree in Composition at the University of Acadia, where she studied under Dr. Derek Charke and Dr. Steven Naylor. She discovered her love of Acoustic Ecology and began recording and processing the sounds of natural world around her. Braden’s current focus is on the sounds created by ice, specifically the lake ice of Great Slave Lake in Canada. She records these sounds using a hydrophone and processes the sounds into compositions.
Braden has recently collaborated with the Gryphon Trio during their tour of the NWT, and works regularly with Northern ensembles such as the Borderless Art Movement, the Yellowknife Choral Society, and Classics On Stage Yellowknife. Her music and sound company Black Ice Sound launched in 2012. In 2013 she will be attending the University of Calgary in their Master’s of Music program.
Source: Music Centre and Carmen Braden
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Waltz of Wing by Carmen Braden
Waltz of Wing by Carmen Braden
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