PAMELA HARRISON - UK
BORN 28 NOVEMBER
Pamela Harrison (28 November 1915 – 28 August 1990) was an English pianist, music teacher and composer.
Pamela Harrison was born in Orpington, England, and studied with Gordon Jacob and Arthur Benjamin at the Royal College of Music in London. During World War II, she worked as a school teacher.
Harrison's work was influenced by composers including E.J. Moeran, Arnold Bax and John Ireland, and French music. She made her debut as a composer with String Quartet in 1944 at the National Gallery concerts. She went on to produce a variety of music, including chamber, orchestral and vocal music, with settings including Baudelaire, Herrick, Dowson and Edward Thomas. Her work for small orchestra, A Suite for Timothy, was composed for the first birthday of her son.
Harrison died in a car accident in Firle, East Sussex.
Source: Pamela Harrison Official Website and Wikipedia
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Five Pieces for Flute and Piano by Pamela Harrison
MIRJAM TALLY - ESTONIA
BORN 28 NOVEMBER
BORN 28 NOVEMBER
Mirjam Tally, born November 28, 1976 in Tallinn, is an Estonian composer living in Sweden since 2006.
Her music is a flow of playful contrasts where a sense of humour and poetic use of sound are blended to mix. Beside writing works for contemporary music scene, she is active as a film composer. In recent years, importance of orchestral music has increased in her oeuvre. Mirjam Tally is also active as a performer: she has a duo “Unejõgi” (“Dream river”) together with Estonian folk musician Meelika Hainsoo. Elements of Estonian folk music are mixed with electroacoustic sounds, with influences of minimalism, glitch, drone and electronic pop.
She has graduated from the Estonian Academy of Music as a student of Lepo Sumera in 2000. Since 2006, Tally lives on the island of Gotland, Sweden. In 2009-2010, she was Composer in Residence at Swedish Radio P2 channel. In 2017, Tally was Composer in Residence at Studio Acusticum in Piteå, and at Västerås Sinfonietta, Sweden. In 2018, Tally´s album “Interferences” won the Manifest prize in Sweden, in category “best experimental”.
In 2009, Tally’s orchestral work “Turbulence” was selected as one of recommended works at International Rostrum of Composers. She has received 2 prizes for her work “Turbulence” – the Composer Prize of the Estonian Music Days Festival (2007) and the small Christ Johnson Music Prize (2008) by the Royal Swedish Academy of Music.
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Kuu Vari by Mirjam Tally
Kuu Vari by Mirjam Tally
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