JENNY MCLEOD - NEW ZEALAND
BORN 12 NOVEMBER
Jennifer Helen McLeod, ONZM (born Wellington, 12 November 1941) is a composer and former Professor of Music at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.
McLeod graduated BMus (Hons) from Victoria University in 1964, and the same year a New Zealand government bursary enabled her to study for two years in Europe with Messiaen, Stockhausen and Berio. In 1967 she became a lecturer in music at Victoria University, and Professor in 1971, a position she held until 1976.
In June 1997 she was awarded the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to music. She is best known for two major works, Earth and Sky and Under the Sun for large forces. She has also composed many songs and hymns. She is a great admirer of, and was greatly influenced by the music of Messiaen.
Her Seven Tone Clock Pieces were first performed by the New Zealand pianist Jeffrey Grice. She lives in Pukerua Bay, Porirua, where she continues to work on music theory, especially the relationships between notes and scales.
In the mid-1980s, McLeod encountered the work of Dutch composer Peter Schat, who had developed a post-tonal compositional technique called the Tone Clock. This technique emphasised the role on forming the chromatic aggregate through the transposition and inversion of three-note chords (trichords). McLeod expanded this technique to encompass all 223 possible set-classes (to use the terminology of Allan Forte's pitch-class set theory), and also developed an exceptionally coherent labelling, categorisation and analytical approach to the chromatic universe. Her unpublished manuscript Tone Clock Theory Expanded: Chromatic Maps I & II explains the theoretical and philosophical basis behind her theory, and includes a rigorous listing of all set-classes (called Intervallic Prime Forms) with details notes and observations on their properties.
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PERNILE LOUISE SEJLUND - DENMARK
BORN 12 NOVEMBER
BORN 12 NOVEMBER
Pernille Louise Sejlund started her musical carrier in Radio Denmark’s Girls Choir.
In addition to singing Pernille has always composed music and enjoyed experimenting with music when playing the piano. At the age of 19 she was awarded 1st prize in a composition competition and at the age of 22 she repeated her achievement when she once again won 1st prize.
That triggered something in her and she started to devote herself much more intensely to composing music which in 2011 gave her a Master in composition from The Royal Academy of Music, Copenhagen.
One of her most dedicated musical projects is her climate project. It began during COP15 in Copenhagen 2009 together with climate expert and meteorologist Jesper Theilgaard. A ping-pong concert between spoken words by Jesper and music/songs by Pernille in a set-up for singers, harp, flute and electronics. In 2014 she composed more music and recorded it and released her first album called “Time for Reflection”.
In the same year she received the prestigious Sonning Music Scholarship and was festival composer of the year at Rudersdal Sommerkoncerter.
Pernille also makes musical arrangements for bands and artists as well as co-writings. As a singer she has her main focus on her duo with the talented pianist and composer Rune Thorsteinsson.
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