MABEL MAMBRETTI - ARGENTINA
BORN 29 NOVEMBER
Mabel Mambretti is an argentinian composer and was born in Buenos Aires. She is also a musicologist, music critic and pedagogue, Mabel began studying piano, solfeggio and music theory in her city with Elizabeth Bagnes and Helvecia Braga. Graduated from the Carlos Lopes Buchardo Conservatory, she studied composition, musicology and criticism at the Faculty of Music of the Catholic University of Argentina. She also got a degree in Music Composition in Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
Mabel was invited by the Venezuelan government to be the Head of the Department of Musical Organology at the Latin American Institute of Ethnomusicology. There, she also taught musicology, musical organology and other subjects.
Back in Argentina, she joined the faculty of Carlos Lopes Buchardo National Conservatory of Music. She has published articles in Argentine magazines such as Obertura, Polifonía and Reencuentro.
Her compositions have been performed in Argentina, Uruguay, Chile, Brazil, Venezuela, Puerto Rico, USA, Spain, France, England and Belgium.
She is a member of the board of the Asociación Compositores Unidos de Argentina, as well as the board of the Editorial Argentina of Composers and the Argentine Union of Music Composers.
Mabel was invited by the Venezuelan government to be the Head of the Department of Musical Organology at the Latin American Institute of Ethnomusicology. There, she also taught musicology, musical organology and other subjects.
Back in Argentina, she joined the faculty of Carlos Lopes Buchardo National Conservatory of Music. She has published articles in Argentine magazines such as Obertura, Polifonía and Reencuentro.
Her compositions have been performed in Argentina, Uruguay, Chile, Brazil, Venezuela, Puerto Rico, USA, Spain, France, England and Belgium.
She is a member of the board of the Asociación Compositores Unidos de Argentina, as well as the board of the Editorial Argentina of Composers and the Argentine Union of Music Composers.
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L'Esperance by Mabel Mambretti
ISSIE BARRATT - UK
BORN 29 NOVEMBER
BORN 29 NOVEMBER
Issie Barratt (born 29 November 1964) is a British composer, known for her work in Big Band jazz and jazz education.
Issie has been awarded commissions by the Philharmonia Orchestra, The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Bohuslän Big Band, The PRS Foundation for New Music, Delta Sax Quartet, 4th Dimension String Quartet, Voice of the North, North Cheshire Wind Orchestra, Vortex Foundation Big Band, Swiss Gemeinderat of Unterägeri, Trinity College of Music’s Contemporary Jazz Ensemble, Conservatoires UK Big Band and Youth Music with performances often featuring artists such as Anders Bergcrantz, Tim Garland, Mark Lockheart, Joe Locke, Dennis Rollins, Carl Rütti, Steve Waterman and Annie Whitehead.
Issie was responsible for establishing Trinity College of Music’s Jazz Faculty in 1999, which she continued to run until 2006, before holding the position of Senior Jazz Fellow until 2012. As well as directing ensembles from Trinity College of Music, Barratt has also co-directed the Conservatoires UK Big Band 2003-2008 performing annually at Leeds College of Music’s International Jazz conference (alongside fellow artists and educators Bob Mintzer, Tim Garland, Mike Hall, Julian Joseph, Gerard Presencer, Mike Gibbs and Mark Donlon), appearing with CUK Big Band Tim Garland the International Association of Jazz Educators’s Conference in 2008. Issie has also lead various projects at the Royal Academy of Music, the Royal Northern College of Music and the Royal College of Music, contributed to the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music’s jazz syllabi and written several research papers on jazz related topics. Since September 2006 Barratt has held the position of Founding Artistic Director for the National Youth Jazz Collective (initially funded by Youth Music before becoming an Arts Council England National Portfolio Organisation in 2015). Issie's also an active Board Director of BASCA (the British Academy of Composers and Songwriters) and chair of BASCA's Jazz Committee, Jazz adjudicator for Music for Youth’s annual national festival, Issie is the founding director of Fuzzy Moon Records. She was winner of Jazz Educator of the Year at the 2014 Parliamentary Awards.
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The Man with gun he tangos by Issie Barratt
The Man with gun he tangos by Issie Barratt
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