MIDORI TAKADA - JAPÃO
BORN 21 DECEMBER
Midori Takada (Japanese: 高田みどり) is a Japanese composer and percussionist. She has been known to combine East Asian music and jazz. She performs solo as well as with groups, in particular, with Mkwaju Ensemble.
Her deep quests into traditional Asian and African percussive language are captured on a series of now highly sought after albums including her masterpiece Through The Looking Glass (1981/RCA) and her collaboration with Masahiko Satoh Lunar Cruise (1990/Epic-Sony).
In chime with the peak period ambient and Fourth World musics explored by Jon Hassell, Don Cherry and Brian Eno, but born of a distinctly Japanese ceremonial and meditative musical sensibility, her work has a crystalline quality that distills rhythms from around the world into minimalist instrumental dreamscapes.
Midori Takada (Japanese: 高田みどり) is a Japanese composer and percussionist. She has been known to combine East Asian music and jazz. She performs solo as well as with groups, in particular, with Mkwaju Ensemble.
Her deep quests into traditional Asian and African percussive language are captured on a series of now highly sought after albums including her masterpiece Through The Looking Glass (1981/RCA) and her collaboration with Masahiko Satoh Lunar Cruise (1990/Epic-Sony).
In chime with the peak period ambient and Fourth World musics explored by Jon Hassell, Don Cherry and Brian Eno, but born of a distinctly Japanese ceremonial and meditative musical sensibility, her work has a crystalline quality that distills rhythms from around the world into minimalist instrumental dreamscapes.
To coincide with the reissues she has made a triumphant return to concert hall and festival stages worldwide including sold out performances at London Barbican, Paris Palais de Tokyo and Berlin Hebbel am Ufer. She has established a peerless reputation for her theatrical and deeply spiritual minimalist percussion performances, where virtuoso technique, acoustic sensibility, choreographed lighting and movement combine to create a completely unique and transformative listening experience for audiences.
Most recently she collaborated with Lafawndah on the EP/video piece Le Renaud Bleu, her first new music in 20 years.
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Crossing by Midori Takada
Crossing by Midori Takada
VICTORIA BORISSOVA-OLLAS
BORN 21 DECEMBER
Victoria Borisova-Ollas is a Russian-born composer living in Sweden. Borisova-Ollas began her musical studies at an early age.
After graduating first from the Central School of Music in Moscow and then from the famous Tchaikovsky Conservatoire, she continued her composition studies in Sweden at the Malmö and Stockholm Music Colleges and in England at the Royal College of Music in London. In April 1998 her orchestral piece Wings of the Wind won second prize in the Masterprize, one of the most prestigious international competitions for composers.
It was broadcasted by BBC World Service, BBC Radio 3 broadcasting in 32 countries during the 1997-98 season. During the last ten years, Borisova-Ollas's music has been performed in Sweden, Russia, England, Finland, France, Slovenia, Germany, South Africa and USA by the London Symphony Orchestra, BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, Jena Philharmonic Orchestra, the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, the Swedish Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, The Raschèr Saxophone Quartet, Kammarensemblen and by other orchestras, ensembles and performers. Her works have been broadcasted by BBC Radio 3, Swedish Radio P2 and by other broadcasting companies in Finland, Russia, USA, Slovenia and Germany.
Her music is widely performed all around the world by orchestras such as London Symphony Orchestra, BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Munich Philharmonic Orchestra, Wiener Radio Symphony Orchestra, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, NHK Symphony Orchestra (Tokyo), Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra, and by other orchestras, ensembles and performers.
Her clarinet concerto Golden Dances of the Pharaohs was awarded two times, first from The Swedish Music Publishers Association's Annual Music Publisher's Award 2010 and next year, 2011 from The Royal Swedish Academy of Music/ Christ Johnson Prize. She also recieved The society of Swedish Composers Award/ Hilding Rosenbergs Prize 2009; The Swedish Music Publishers Association's Annual Music Publisher's Award 2008 for The Ground Beneath Her Feet, The Royal Academy of Music/ Minor Christ Johnson Prize for Symphony no.1 "the Triumph of Heaven" 2005.
Since 2008 Victoria Borisova-Ollas is member of the The Royal Swedish Academy of Music.
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Wings of the Wind by Victoria Borissova-Ollas
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