ILZA NOGUEIRA - BRAZIL
BORN 12 DECEMBER
Ilza Nogueira is a Brazilian composer, music educator and musicologist with specialty in the area of music analysis.
Ilza Nogueira was born in Salvador, Bahia. She studied composition under Ernst Widmer at the School of Music and Performing Arts of the Federal University of Bahia. After graduation in 1972, she won a scholarship from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and continued her studies in composition at the Academy of Music in Cologne (1974–1977) with Mauricio Kagel. She also obtained Master of Arts (1983) and Doctor of Philosophy (1985) degrees from the State University of New York at Buffalo (USA), where she studied under Lejaren Hiller and Morton Feldman. After completing her studies, she took a position teaching music at the Federal University of Paraíba where she retired from the faculty in 1998.
The majority of her compositions are in chamber music with a predilection for mixed groupings with voice. Her works have been included in all recognized venues of contemporary music in Brazil, such as the Biennial of Contemporary Brazilian Music, Encounters of Latin American Composers and Performers, International Encounters of Female Composers, Panorama of Brazilian Music Now and the Festival Virtuosi.
Nogueira is a senior scholar of the National Counsel for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) and a Member of the Brazilian Academy of Music (holding chair n. 27). As a musicologist, Nogueira writes books, articles and critical reviews on contemporary music, focusing on Bahian composers. Her research project “Historical Landmarks of Contemporary Composition in Bahia” runs three series of publications: 1) critical editions accompanied by analytical essays; 2) theoretical essays accompanied by critical reviews; 3) web catalogues.
In November 2014 Ilza Nogueira was elected President of the Brazilian Academy of Music Theory and Analysis - TeMA.
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Interfaces by Ilza Nogueira
JULIE GIROUX - USA
BORN 12 DECEMBER
BORN 12 DECEMBER
Julie Ann Giroux is an American composer of orchestral, choral, chamber, and numerous concert band works.
Giroux graduated from Ouachita Parish High School, in Monroe, Louisiana and earned a Bachelor of Music in Performance from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. During her college years, Giroux composed several concert band works which were published by Southern Music Company. Immediately after graduation she traveled to Los Angeles, California and began orchestrating under the employ of American composer Bill Conti for the Television Mini Series North and South. While in Los Angeles Giroux studied with several composers and orchestrators including Bill Conti, Jack Eskew and Greg McRitchie.
From 1985 to 1997, Julie Giroux orchestrated for television and films including April Fool's Day, Dynasty, North and South, North and South Book II, The Karate Kid Part II, Broadcast News, Masters of the Universe, White Men Can't Jump, and Blaze.
In 1997, Giroux began to compose heavily for concert bands and orchestras publishing exclusively with Musica Propria.
In 2009, Giroux, an accomplished pianist, performed her latest work Cordoba for Solo Piano and Concert Band in 5 U.S. cities and attended the premier of Arcus IX, a work for Solo F Tuba and Concert Band at Blinn College in Brenham, Texas.
Her 2009 Film and documentary orchestrations and compositions include the ongoing project "Call for Green China" which primarily funded by World Bank was recorded, performed and broadcast live in China in 2007. In 2009 the project was extended with new musical material, recorded and set to tour 7 cities in China where the show will be performed live.
Giroux is a Member of American Bandmasters Association (ABA)and an honorary brother of the Omicron chapter of Kappa Kappa Psi at West Virginia University. She was initiated into the fraternity on April 2, 2005 and in December, 2017 she was awarded the Distinguished Service to Music Medal.
Julie Giroux currently resides in Madison, Mississippi and continues to compose, orchestrate and arrange for television, movies, video games, wind bands and orchestras.
Source: Wikipedia and Julie Giroux Official Website
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Shine by Julie Giroux
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