WOMEN COMPOSERS 365 DAYS A YEAR

Showing posts with label 28 November. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 28 November. Show all posts

Composers of the week: From 22 to 28 November

Saturday, 28 November 2020

Donne 365 celebrates women composers everyday!

Now, every Saturday we will post the composers from the last 7 days. In these posts, you can also find the link to the composers we presented in 2019.

Check here the composers from the last week (22 to 28 November) and learn more about these amazing women who made/are making history in music!

NOVEMBER 22

HANNAH LASH - USA
Born 22 November


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AILEM CARVAJAL - USA
Born 20 November

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NOVEMBER 23

MARTA GARCIA RENART - MÉXICO
Born 23 November


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SASKIA BLADT - GERMANY
Born 23 November

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NOVEMBER 24

DEBORAH CHEETHAM - AUSTRALIA
Born 24 November


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THERESE BIRKELUND ULVO - NORWAY
Born 24 November

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NOVEMBER 25

ELENI KARAINDROU - GREECE
Born 25 November


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ANA PANDEVSKA - NORTH MACEDONIA
Born 25 November

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NOVEMBER 26

LORI ARDOVINO - USA
Born 26 November


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RUCSANDRA POPESCU - ROMANIA
Born 26 November

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NOVEMBER 27

MABEL WHEELER DANIELS - USA
Born 27 November


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ISABELLE PANNETON - CANADA
Born 27 November

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NOVEMBER 28

SEVDA IBRAHIMOVA - AZERBAIJAN
Born 28 November


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TATIANA PAVLOVNA SERGEYEVA - RUSSIA
Born 28 November

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28 NOVEMBER 2019

Thursday, 28 November 2019



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.


♫ LISTEN

Five Pieces for Flute and Piano by Pamela Harrison




MIRJAM TALLY - ESTONIA
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 PiteÃ¥, and at VästerÃ¥s 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.

♫ LISTEN

Kuu Vari by Mirjam Tally

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