BEATRIZ BILBAO - VENEZUELA
BORN 08 DECEMBER
Beatriz Bilbao is a Venezuelan composer. She was born in Caracas, Venezuela, and studied piano with Judith James and Gerty Haas, composition with Modesta Bor, and conducting with Alberto Grau and Gonzalo Castellanos in Venezuela. She continued her studies at Indiana University Music School with Frederick Fox, Juan Orrego Salas and John Eaton and at the New England Conservatory of Music and the Cluj Napoca Conservatory in Romania.
She won several prizes, including 1995 Ramón Delgado Palacios National Prize for her piano work Secuencias Mestizas; 1994 Munizipal Prizes for Trilogía Aborígen and Four Color Dances; and 1989 First Symphonic Composition Contest Seguros la Previsora prize for Concierto de las Tres Esferas.
After completing her studies, Bilbao worked as a composer and music teacher. In 1991 she took a teaching position at the Instituto Universitario de Estudios Musicales (IUDEM) in Caracas and from 2001–02 served as director of the Ministry of Culture's Prudencio Esáa Music School. Her music has been performed internationally.
Bilbao works with both electronic media and acoustic instruments, composing for orchestra, chamber ensembles, electroacustics, electronics, vocal and piano performance.
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Danza Parishará by Beatriz Bilbao
SHEREE CLEMENT - USA
BORN 08 DECEMBER
BORN 08 DECEMBER
Sheree Clement is an american composer and teacher.
Sheree grew up in the West Hills neighborhood of Baltimore, Maryland. She studied Piano, Musicianship and Composition at the Peabody Preparatory Division, and continued her studies at the University of Michigan School of Music and then Columbia University, where she created work in the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center. Her awards include a Goddard Lieberson Award from the American Academy and Institute of Arts & Letters and a Fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation.
Sheree’s music shares stories, often with multiple, conflicting narratives and re-tellings, in sequence or concurrently. The music peers into the emotional space within the stories, to tell the truths within. She has written for a wide range of ensembles, from large orchestra, sinfonietta, pierrot-plus, string quartet, chorus, and voice, plus analog and digitally generated fixed media and chamber opera. She lives in New York City.
She has completed commissioned works for APNM/ Ensemble Pi, The Orchestra of the League of Composers, Janet Smarr Pape, mezzo-soprano, Lois Martin, viola, Saar Berger, horn, Parnassus and The Jubal Trio. Eliza Garth’s recording of Sheree’s Thirteen Piano Preludes is available on Albany Records. Her Chamber Concerto, for sinfonietta, is available on CRI /New World Records.
Source: New Music USA and Sheree Clement Official Website
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Stories I Cannot Tell You by Sheree Clement
Stories I Cannot Tell You by Sheree Clement
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