Composers of the week: From 12 to 18 September

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Every Friday in 2020 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 this week (12 to 18  September) and learn more about these amazing women who made/are making history in music!

SEPTEMBER 12

MIRIAM CARPINETTI - BRAZIL

Born 12 September

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DANAË XANTHE VLASSE - FRANCE

Born 12 September

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SEPTEMBER 13

ELIZABETH KUFFERATH - GERMANY

Born 13 September

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ELISABETH KUYPER - THE NETHERLANDS

Born 13 September

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SEPTEMBER 14

MARIA GREVER - MÉXICO

Born 14 September

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DANA CRISTINA PROBST - RUMANIA

Born 14 September

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SEPTEMBER 15

CAROLINE SZETO - AUSTRALIA

Born 15 September

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EVIJA SKUKE - LATVIA

Born 15 September

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SEPTEMBER 16

NAGAKO KONISHI - JAPAN

Born 16 September

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CANARY BURTON - USA

Born 16 September

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SEPTEMBER 17

KAREN P THOMAS - USA

Born 17 September

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ELLEN ARKBRO - SWEDEN

Born 17 September

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SEPTEMBER 18

CELIA TORRÁ - URUGUAY

Born 18 September

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HELEEN VERLEUR - THE NETHERLANDS

Born 18 September

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08 SEPTEMBER 2019

HELEEN VERLEUR - THE NETHERLANDS

BORN 08 SEPTEMBER

Heleen Verleur is pianist, composer and Suzuki pianoteacher. She studied classical piano and composition in The Netherlands. While Heleen has always written music for piano, she is also active as a composer of diverse musical genres. She composed music to books of the Dutch children’s author Sanne de Bakker, jazz piano, pianotrio’s, sonata’s, as well as orchestral work. Her work has been broadcast on Dutch radio and has been performed in The Netherlands and abroad. With her compositions Heleen won prizes in 2006, 2009, 2013 and 2014.

Source: Helen Verleur Website

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Capricious Blues by Heleen Verleur

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ELEANOR CORY -  USA
BORN 08 SEPTEMBER

Eleanor Cory’s work has been recognized by awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts, Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust, Fromm Foundation of Harvard University, Aaron Copland Fund, Alice M. Ditson Fund of Columbia University, Morse Grant of Yale University, MacDowell Colony, and PSC-CUNY Research Foundation. She has received an American Composers Alliance Recording Award, the Miriam Gideon Award from the International Association of Women in Music, as well as prizes from the Hollybush, Kucyna, and Music of Changes International Competitions, and the Davenport, and New Jersey Guild of Composers Competitions.

Her music is recorded on three solo CDs: Chasing Time (Albany CD 1031, 2008) Of Mere Being (CRI, 2002) and Images, (Soundspells, 1996) as well as on the CRI American Masters Series: Eleanor Cory and Ellen Taaffe Zwilich (CRI CD 621); ACA Recording Award Winners (CRI SD 459); and The Music of Eeanor Cory and Edward Cohen (CRI SD 542).

Source: Composers.com

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Things Are by Eleanor Cory

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