29 AUGUST 2019

ABBY HUTCHINSON PATTON - USA
BORN 29 AUGUST

Abby Hutchinson Patton (August 29, 1829 – November 24, 1892) was an American singer and poet.

Abby Hutchinson was born in Milford, New Hampshire, on August 29, 1829. She was the fourth daughter and the sixteenth and youngest child of Jesse Hutchinson (1778–1851) and Mary Hastings Leavitt (1783–1868). In 1839 Abby Hutchinson Patton made her first appearance as a singer in her native town. On that occasion the parents and their thirteen children took part.

In May 1843, the Hutchinson family first visited New York City. Their simple dress and manners and the harmony of their voices took the New Yorkers by storm. The Hutchinsons, imbued with the love of liberty, soon joined heart and hand with the Abolitionists, and in their concerts sang ringing songs of freedom. This roused the ire of their pro-slavery hearers to such an extent that they would demonstrate their disapproval by yells and hisses and sometimes with threats of personal injury to the singers, but the presence of Abby held the riotous spirit in check. With her sweet voice and charming manners she would go forward and sing "The Slave's Appeal" with such effect that the mob would become peaceful.

In August 1845, Abby went with her brothers, Jesse, Judson, John and Asa, to England. They found warm friends in William Howitt and Mary Howitt, Douglas William Jerrold, Charles Dickens, and others.

After her marriage Patton sang with her brothers on special occasions. At the outbreak of the Civil War, in 1861, Patton joined with her brothers in singing the songs of freedom and patriotism.

During her travels Patton was a frequent contributor to the American newspapers. She composed music to several poems, among which the best known are "Kind Words Can Never Die" and Alfred, Lord Tennyson's "Ring Out, Wild Bells." In 1891 she published a volume entitled "A Handful of Pebbles", consisting of her poems, interspersed with paragraphs and proverbs, containing the essence of her happy philosophy.

She was interested in the education of women and was an earnest believer in women's suffrage, which movement she has aided by tongue and pen.

Source: Wikipedia

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Kind words can never die by Abby Hutchinson Patton

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ANDREA CLEARFIELD -  USA
BORN 29 AUGUST   

Andrea Clearfield (born 1960) is an American composer of contemporary classical music. Regularly commissioned and performed by ensembles in the United States and abroad, her works include music for orchestra, chorus, soloists, chamber ensembles, dance, film and multimedia collaborations.

Clearfield was born on August 29, 1960 in Philadelphia, PA. Her parents loved music and often played chamber music in the living room. Clearfield started playing piano at age 5 and later played flute and timpani in the school bands and orchestras at Cynwyd Elementary, Bala-Cynwyd Junior High and Lower Merion High School. She also played in rock, folk and world music groups. Her father is a physician and her mother a painter, and she has one brother. Clearfield took an interest to composition early on, arranging pop songs from the radio for voices, strings and percussion.

Clearfield met her first "woman composer mentor," Margaret Garwood, when she attended Muhlenberg College. Clearfield later went on to earn a M.M. in Piano from the Philadelphia College of Performing Arts (now the University of the Arts), and subsequently received a D.M.A. in Composition from Temple University, where her principal teacher was Maurice Wright. Clearfield is the founder and host, since 1986, of the Philadelphia Salon concert series, featuring contemporary, classical, jazz, world, electronic, multimedia, and spoken word arts.

Clearfield writes for opera, orchestra, chorus, chamber ensembles, dance and multimedia collaborations and has composed a number of large-scale cantatas. Her style is lyrical and rhythmically compelling, with lush harmonies and contrasting fields of texture and sound color. Her work on the Golem Psalms includes the practice of gematria which she embeds into the composition. Clearfield's piece, Unremembered Wings, is based on the poetry of Pablo Neruda.

Source: Wikipedia and Andrea Clearfield Official Website

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Three songs for violin and double bass by Andrea Clearfield

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16 AUGUST 2019

ALEXANDRA DU BOIS - USA
BORN 16 AUGUST

Alexandra du Bois (born August 16, 1981) is an American composer, violinist and educator who has received international critical acclaim for her chamber, orchestral and vocal compositions. She currently lives in Manhattan in New York City.

The music of du Bois appears to consistently attract commissions of commemorative connotation; in honor of the 35th anniversary of the University Chorus at the University of Massachusetts – Boston in 2000, du Bois was commissioned to write Our Eyes for double a cappella choir; in honor of Kronos Quartet's 30th anniversary in 2003, du Bois was commissioned to write her first string quartet. Chosen from among the work of more than 300 composers from 32 countries as the inaugural recipient of the Kronos: Under 30 Project, du Bois wrote String Quartet: An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind for Kronos Quartet which she cites as a protest to the U.S . led invasion of Iraq. New York City's Kaufman Center commissioned du Bois' Cloud Watching in honor of their 50th anniversary in 2004; The Beaux Arts Trio commissioned her first piano trio (L'apothesose d'un reve) in honor of their 50th anniversary in 2004; Bargemusic commissioned Soleil sur Mer as part of their 30th anniversary celebration in 2007; during the 1000th anniversary of the founding of the city of Hanoi in 2010, du Bois' Within Earth, Wood Grows for chamber orchestra was premiered at the Hanoi Opera House by Southwest Chamber Music on March 19, 2010. Du Bois was Composer-in-Residence with Southwest Chamber Music in connection with their Ascending Dragon Music Festival.

More recently, du Bois was commissioned by cellist Wendy Sutter (of Songs and Poems by Philip Glass) for a multi-movement cello work," the Savannah Music Festival for a second chamber work commission featuring violinist Daniel Hope, Present Music and PALS Children's Chorus for choral/instrument works, and the Anchorage Symphony and Cabrillo Festival Orchestra for orchestral works. Alexandra du Bois' compositions have been performed on five continents at venues including Carnegie Hall, New York; Concertgebouw, Amsterdam; Barbican Hall, London; Théâtre de la Ville, Paris; Kursaal Centre, San Sebastian; Smetana Hall, Prague; Teatro Gran Rex, Buenos Aires and Hanoi Opera House, Hanoi, Vietnam, De Oosterpoort, Groningen and Muziekcentrum Frits Philips, Eindhoven.

Source: Wikipedia and Official Website.

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Noctiluent Song for String Orchestra by Alexandra du Bois

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CONSUELO DIEZ -  SPAIN
BORN 16 AUGUST   

Consuelo Diez has born in Madrid, Spain, on 16th August 1958. She is a Composer and lecturer. She studied at Madrid Royal Music Conservatory with professors like Anton Garcia Abril Roman Alis, C. Bernaola, L. de Pablo and C. Halffter, J. She also studied art history at the Madrid Complutense University, and graduated with a Master of Arts from Hartt School of Music (USA) and a Doctorate in Musical Arts from Hartford University (USA). After completing her studies, Diez returned to work as a composer in Madrid. She directed for several years the electroacoustic music program "El canto de los Adolescentes" in RNE-Radio 2 and was musical adviser to TVE. 

She was a founder of the Laboratory of Computer and Electroacoustic Composition of the Community of Madrid from 1988 to 1996 and from 2001 onwards. From 1992 to 1996 she was director of the Conservatory "Adolfo Salazar" (Madrid), where she taught Composition and Electroacoustic Music since 1988. From 1997 to 2001 she was director of the Center for the Dissemination of Contemporary Music and the International Contemporary Music Festival of Alicante (Ministry of Culture). 

In 1998 she was elected to the Executive Committee of the European Conference of Promoters of New Music (ECPNM) and in 2001 she was appointed member of the International Honour Committee of the Fondazione Adkins Chiti: Donne in Musica. In 2004 she was appointed director of the International Music Festival of La Mancha (Quintanar de la Orden, Toledo). Since 2006 she is Music Advisor in Ministry of Culture of the Community of Madrid. Her works have been performed in Spain, France, Italy, Germany, Finland, Portugal and among other countries, having been recorded by various entities such as RNE, TVE, Canal Clásico (TV), CBA, LIEM-CDMC among others and published in Mundimusica, Nadir and Arte Tripharia (Spain).
Source: Wikipedia e Donne in Music

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Cartas a la oscuridad nos 1,2,5 e 6 by Consuelo Diez

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15 AUGUST 2019

AILSA DIXON -  UK
BORN 15 AUGUST   

Born in 1932, Ailsa Dixon began composing before reading music at Durham University, and later studied with Paul Patterson, Professor of Composition at the Royal Academy of Music. ​

Her works include a two-act opera, several pieces for string quartet, songs, chamber music and instrumental works including a sonata for piano duet. Her compositions have been performed by the Brindisi Quartet, Ian Partridge and Lynne Dawson among others.

​In July 2017 her anthem for choir, These Things Shall Be, was premiered by the London Oriana Choir at the Cutty Sark in London, as part of the Five15 project promoting work by women composers.

​Ailsa died in August 2017. A tribute to her life and music formed part of a remembrance concert by the London Oriana Choir in November, together with a performance of These Things Shall Be. Since then, a revival of interest in her music has led to performances of choral, vocal and instrumental works in concerts in Oxford, Cambridge, Bristol and London, and festivals from Romsey Abbey and Little Missenden to Brecon and the Wye Valley.

Source: Official Website and Meet the Artist Online

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Nocturnal Scherzo by Ailsa Dixon

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MARION BAUER - USA
BORN 15 AUGUST

Marion Eugénie Bauer (15 August 1882 – 9 August 1955) was an American composer, teacher, writer, and music critic. A contemporary of Aaron Copland, Bauer played an active role in shaping American musical identity in the early half of the twentieth century.

As a composer, Bauer wrote for piano, chamber ensembles, symphonic orchestra, solo voice, and vocal ensembles. She gained prominence as a teacher, serving on the faculty of New York University (then Washington Square College) where she taught music history and composition from 1926–1951. In addition to her position at NYU, Bauer was affiliated with Juilliard as a guest lecturer from 1940 until her death in 1955. Bauer also wrote extensively about music: she was the editor for the Chicago-based Musical Leader and additionally authored and co-authored several books including her 1933 text Twentieth Century Music.

Bauer's music includes dissonance and extended tertian, quartal, and quintal harmonies, though it rarely goes outside the bounds of extended tonality, save for her brief experimentation with serialism in the 1940s. During her lifetime, she enjoyed many performances of her works, most notably the New York Philharmonic premiere of Sun Splendor in 1947 under the baton of Leopold Stokowski and a 1951 New York Town Hall concert devoted solely to her music.

Source: Wikipedia and The Art Song Project

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Sun Splendor by Marion Bauer

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14 AUGUST 2019

BEATA MOON - USA
BORN 14 AUGUST

Beata Moon (born 1969) is a Korean-American classical pianist and composer.

Moon was born in North Dakota and raised in Indiana. She made her musical debut at age 8 with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra. Moon trained as a pianist at the Juilliard School with Adele Marcus earning both her bachelor's and master's degrees there. She is self-taught as a composer.

Moon's compositions are compared to post-minimalist, but defy a strict definition of genre.

She released Perigee & Apogee in 2001 on the Albany label and Earthshine on her own label, Bibimbop Records in 2004. In 2007, Naxos Records added a CD of her works for solo piano, performed by Moon herself, to their catalog of important 21st-century composers. Her work has been acclaimed by Kyle Gann, Gramophone, Allmusic, and others.

Moon has frequently collaborated with choreographer Henning Rübsam and his company SENSEDANCE. "After Yet Another Fall" (1992), "Dolphins and Antelopes" (1996), "Moonpaths" (1998), "Dinner is West" (2005) and "Tenancy" (2011) are among her commissions for the company. Rübsam choreographed to other works by Moon, including her "In Transit" from 1999 which was used for the choreographer's "Amaranthine Road" (2007).

She also has gained notability for performing a series of "Whodunit?" concerts at such venues as the Kennedy Center, in which the program notes are not provided until the end of the concert.
Source: Wikipedia and Beata Moon's Website.

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Insomnia Tips by Beata Moon

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CELIA SWART -  NETHERLANDS
BORN 14 AUGUST   

Celia Swart (1994, Vlissingen) is a Dutch contemporary music composer and a modern jazz saxophonist.

By playing the saxophone since the age of nine, Celia has been surrounded by pop, jazz and classical music. Growing up, she has played in pop/jazz bands, a big band and a harmony orchestra. Around the age of 14 she took piano lessons and found her love for composing.

In 2018 Celia completed her bachelor degree in composition at the Royal conservatory in The Hague, where she has studied with Guus Janssen, Martijn Padding, Peter Adriaansz, Diderik Wagenaar and John Ruocco.

In her music are narrative- and film influences important parts, and she also creates multi-media works with visuals of her illustrations and stop-motion animation.

In 2018 she was nominated for the Tera de Marez Oyens Award for her composition Boven Hoge Gebouwen, which was written for Kluster5 and in 2019 she is nominated for the International Rostrum of Composers 2019.

Source: Celia Swart Website

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High Hours by Celia Swart

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13 AUGUST 2019

TERRY WINTER-OWENS - USA
BORN 13 AUGUST

Terry Winter Owens was an American composer and music educator.

Her music has been described as "... hauntingly beautiful ... with a magnetic quality which draws both performer and audience into a different world." The Bangkok Times specially noted the "remarkably evocative sonorities" of her music. Owens's catalogue includes works for piano, two pianos, chamber and vocal ensembles, and symphony orchestra.

Influenced by the Post-Webernian school in the 1950s, Owens's music evolved over the years in a modal direction which she calls the Resonant Continuum. Her compositions are transparent in texture with soaring pointillistic phrases. She also composed in traditional, historical idioms exemplified by her Homage To Corelli written in the Baroque style and an album of piano pieces, Serenades to the Composers in 19th century harmonic and stylistic idioms.

She was a free-lance editor for various publishers and prepared orchestral/vocal scores from hand-written manuscripts for the Kurt Weill Foundation. She taught piano and composition privately and was on the faculty of the Neighborhood Music School, New York and the Music Institute of Staten Island. She was awarded teaching grants by the New York State Council on the Arts. Owens was a native of New York and received a BA in Music from The City College of NY. She did graduate work in Musicology at New York University. She studied piano with Lisa Grad and composition with Ralph Shapey.

Source: Wikipedia and Terry Winter Owens' Website.

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Anthem to the stars by Terry Winter-Owens

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SARAH HOPKINS -  NEW ZEALAND
BORN 13 AUGUST   

Sarah Hopkins (b. 1958) is a unique Australian composer-performer, highly acclaimed for her visionary music and inspiring performances for cello, harmonic overtone singing, handbells, choir and the celestial Harmonic Whirlies of her own creation.

With a strong background and training in classical music, over the years she has moved into the realm of holistic music and developed a very distinctive compositional voice. Her solo, ensemble, choral and orchestral compositions demonstrate an expansive and pure musical style which resonates with the space and energy of the Australian landscape as well as the inner landscape of the human psyche.

Her unique style of cello playing embraces many new and ancient sounds including musical bird calls, deep earthy drones, lush heartfelt melodies and the haunting rhythms of the didgeridoo which Sarah emulates on her cello.

Vocally she specialises in harmonic overtone singing - a magical, other-worldly sound which has its roots in Mongolia and Tibet. Sarah also produces celestial music playing her Harmonic Whirlies weaving together intricate patterns of movement and sound, music and dance.

Sarah lives in Brisbane and tours nationally and internationally, performing her own original music, running workshops in Holistic Music and Harmonic Overtone Singing and working as an artist-in-residence.

Source: Sarah Hopkins Website

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Remember the Joy by Sarah Hopkins

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12 AUGUST 2019

IRENE M. GIBLIN - USA
BORN 12 AUGUST

Irene Marie Giblin (August 12, 1888 – May 12, 1974), also known as Irene Giblin O'Brien, was an American pianist and composer of ragtime. She published a total of ten pieces between 1905 and 1911. Her song "Chicken Chowder" of 1905 was her biggest success.

Giblin was a popular young woman in the Irish-American community in St. Louis. She worked at music stores Grand Leader and Stix, Baer and Fuller, playing the piano for several hours a day to convince the customers to buy the latest scores.

Giblin published a total of ten ragtime songs over a period of six years, from 1905 to 1911. Among them, "Sleepy Lou" and "The Aviator Rag" were popular sellers. However, it was her first rag, "Chicken Chowder" (1905) that was her most successful. She published her last rag in 1911, "The Dixie Rag".

In 2018, the San Francisco Conservatory of Music marked the 150th birthday of Scott Joplin, along with the 130th birthdays of May Aufderheide and Irene Giblin, with a special concert of their works.

Source: Wikipedia

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Chicken Chowder by Irene M. Giblin

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NINA MAKAROVA -  RUSSIA
BORN 12 AUGUST   

Nina Vladimirovna Makarova (Russian: Нина Владимировна Макарова; 12 August [O.S. 30 July] 1908, Yurino, Nizhny Novgorod Governorate – 15 January 1976, Moscow) was a Russian composer who had great interest in Russian and Mari folksongs. She studied under Nikolai Myaskovsky, like composer Aram Khachaturian, who she married in 1933. Her nickname was "Gayane" (Гаянэ). She conducted her symphony in Moscow on 12 June 1947. She also co-composed several pieces with her husband, including the Music to M. Aliger's Play "A Tale of Truth" (1947) and Music to Yu. Chepurin's Play "Spring Stream" (1953).

Nina and Aram's son, Karen, became an art critic.

Source: Wikipedia

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Symphony in D Menor by Nina Makarova

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6 AUGUST 2019

BARBARA STROZZI - ITALY  
BORN 6 AUGUST

Barbara Strozzi (also called Barbara Valle; baptised 6 August 1619 – 11 November 1677) was an Italian singer and composer. Her Baroque compositions were published in her lifetime.

Giulio Strozzi, a poet and librettist, recognised Barbara as his adopted daughter. She was most likely the illegitimate daughter of Strozzi and Isabella Garzoni, his long-time servant and heir. She was baptised in the church of Santa Sofia in the Cannaregio district (sestiere) of Venice. 

Giulio encouraged his daughter's musical talent, even creating an academy in which Barbara’s performances could be validated and displayed publicly. He seemed to be interested in exhibiting her considerable vocal talents to a wider audience. However, her singing was not her only talent. She was also compositionally gifted, and her father arranged for her to study with composer Francesco Cavalli.

It is conceivable that Strozzi may have been a courtesan, although she may have merely been the target of jealous slander by her male contemporaries. She appears to have led a quiet, if not slightly unusual life; there is evidence that at least three of her four children were fathered by the same man, Giovanni Paolo Vidman (also spelled Widmann). He was a patron of the arts and supporter of early opera. After Vidman's death it is likely that Strozzi supported herself by means of her investments and by her compositions. He did not, apparently, leave anything to her or her children in his will.

Strozzi died in Padua in 1677 aged 58. She is believed to have been buried at Reemitted. When she died without leaving a will, her son Giulio Pietro claimed her inheritance in full.

Strozzi was said to be "the most prolific composer – man or woman – of printed secular vocal music in Venice in the Middle of the century."Her output is also unique in that it only contains secular vocal music, with the exception of one volume of sacred songs. She was renowned for her poetic ability as well as her compositional talent. Her lyrics were often poetic and well-articulated.

Nearly three-quarters of her printed works were written for soprano, but she also published works for other voices.Her compositions are firmly rooted in the seconda pratica tradition. Strozzi’s music evokes the spirit of Cavalli, heir of Monteverdi. However, her style is more lyrical, and more dependent on sheer vocal sound.Many of the texts for her early pieces were written by her father Giulio. Later texts were written by her father's colleagues, and for many compositions she may have written her own texts.

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Che si può fare by Barbara Strozzi 

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ELIZABETH ALEXANDER -  USA 
BORN 6 AUGUST   

Elizabeth Alexander (born August 6, 1962) is an American composer. Her works include orchestral, chamber, piano and vocal works. She is best known for her over 80 choral pieces, which have been performed internationally by thousands of choirs. Alexander is also known for her liturgical works, and themes centering on social justice.

Sarah Elizabeth Alexander was born in South Carolina in 1962. After several years in South and North Carolina, her family moved to the Ohio River city of Portsmouth, Ohio in 1972. Trained as a classical pianist, Alexander studied composition with Jack Gallagher and received her Bachelor of Music in Composition from The College of Wooster in 1984. She received her doctorate in Music Composition from Cornell University in 1987, where she studied with noted composers Steven Stucky, Karel Husa, and Yehudi Wyner. She currently resides in St. Paul, Minnesota, and is one of the most performed composers in the Unitarian Universalist Musicians Network.

Choral music makes up the core of Alexander's works and performances, noted for her "accessible style that is well tailored to the requirements of both semi-pro and amateur choruses." Her style combines the regional influences from her childhood with classical form. These melodic sensibilities include spirituals, jazz and blues from the American South, and Celtic-American folk music of Northern Appalachia, styles prevalent in her most performed octavos, "When the Song of the Angels Is Stilled," "Where There Is Light in the Soul," "Faith Is the Bird That Feels the Light," and "If You Can Walk You Can Dance."

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A Piece of Cheese by Elizabeth Alexander

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4 AUGUST 2019

JULIANA HALL - USA 
BORN 4 AUGUST

American art song composer Juliana Hall is a prolific and highly-regarded composer of vocal music, whose songs have been described as “brilliant” (Washington Post), “beguiling” (Times of London), and “the most genuinely moving music of the afternoon” (Boston Globe).

Hall began composition studies as a 26-year-old graduate student majoring in piano performance at the Yale School of Music. Her teachers – Martin Bresnick, Leon Kirchner, and Frederic Rzewski – encouraged her to change careers, and in 1987 she received her Master’s degree in Composition.

Following Yale, Hall completed her studies with Dominick Argento in Minneapolis. While there, in 1987, she received her first commission (from the Schubert Club of Saint Paul) for a song cycle for star soprano Dawn Upshaw; in 1989 she received a second commission, for Metropolitan Opera baritone David Malis, and was also awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship.

Since then Hall has composed song cycles for numerous singers, including baritones Christopher Dylan Herbert and Richard Lalli; bass baritone Simon Chalifoux; countertenors Brian Asawa and Charles Humphries; mezzo sopranos Stephanie Blythe, Molly Fillmore, Clara Osowski, and Kitty Whately; sopranos Gwen Detwiler, Maggie Finnegan, Steffi Fischer, Martha Guth, Amy Petrongelli, Pamela Jordan Schiffer, and Laura Strickling; tenors Joel Burcham and Andrew Fuchs; and the vocal duo Feminine Musique (soprano Korliss Uecker and mezzo Tammy Hensrud), among many others.

Hall also received SongFest’s 2017 Sorel Commission, and was the Fall Island Vocal Arts Seminar’s 2018 Guest Composer as well as CollabFest’s 2018 Resident Composer.

Several art song organizations have presented concerts devoted to Hall’s music in recent years, including Sparks & Wiry Cries’ “Casement Fund Song Series” in New York City in 2016, the Contemporary Undercurrent of Song Project (CUSP) in Princeton in 2017, London’s “ReSung” art song series in 2018, and Calliope’s Call in Boston in 2019.

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At that hour when all things have repose by Juliana Hall  

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KRISTINA ARAKELYAN - HUNGARY/ARMENIA 
BORN  4 AUGUST   

Kristina Arakelyan is an award-winning composer and pianist. Kristina studied music composition at the Royal Academy of Music and the University of Oxford, generously supported by the Raffy Manoukian trust, the Luys foundation and St Peter’s College choral scholarship.

Aged 15, Kristina won first prize in the BBC Proms Inspire Young Composers’ competition, resulting in a broadcast on BBC Radio 3 of her choral composition performed by the BBC Singers. In July 2011, she was commissioned by Music for Youth to write a choral piece for Canzonetta Girls’ Choir which was performed at the Schools Prom in the Royal Albert Hall. Kristina's other awards include Overall Cup winner of the EPTA Composition Competition (2009), the David Cox prize (2012), First Prize in the Shakespeare 400 Orchestra of the Swan competition (2014). Kristina was commissioned by Grace Francis to write a piano piece which was broadcast on BBC Radio 3 (March 2015) and subsequently in Flagler College Radio in St. Augustine, Florida (August 2015). Kristina received first prize in the older age category of the NCEM Composer's award with her lute song "Penelope".

Kristina has had masterclasses most notably with John Adams, Bernard d'Ascoli, Steven Osborne and Sir Peter Maxwell Davies. Kristina's compositions have been heard on BBC Radio 3 and the Royal Albert Hall, Wigmore Hall, Steinway Hall, St John's Smith Square, Conville and Caius College (Cambridge), St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Southbank Centre, in concert halls in Mexico, Spain, Belgium, Croatia and Armenia.

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Two pieces for Saxophone, Violin & Piano by Kristina Arakelyan

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