One of the composer-faculty members for this year’s Intimacy of Creativity (IC) will be Philadelphia composer David Ludwig. He’s bringing the Curtis 20/21 Ensemble for Hong Kong University of Science and Tech (HKUST) Music Department’s live workshop for composers and
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Opera composer Elena Langer started her music education in Russia at the Gnessin College of Music before going on to the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatoire. She completed her studies in London at the Royal College of Music and the Royal Academy
Sri Lankan composer Tanya Ekanayaka (b. 1977) started as a pianist, making her debut with the Symphony Orchestra of Sri Lanka at age 16. All of her university work has been based around linguistics, concluding with a Ph.D. in Linguistics
Gilad Hochman, one of Israel’s leading young composers, will be the guest composer for one week of Hong Kong University of Science and Technology’s annual Intimacy of Creativity festival. Intimacy of Creativity (IC), is where composers and performers meet for
One of the most widely heard composers from the Middle East is Dana Al Fardan. Every month, over 2 million people hear her music because, as Official Qatar Airways Composer, her music is played during the boarding and disembarking process
Composer and arranger Daryl Runswick has been involved in all manners of music from the mid-1960s until today. He’s been in jazz ensembles, played as a session musician, and has been a composer of film and TV music. He’s worked
William Cole is a recent graduate of Cambridge and a new student in the Masters in Composition and Conducting at the Royal Academy of Music in London. We spoke with him recently to talk about what a new composer does
Matthew Kaner is one of a handful of young British composers who have passed through that country’s long list of development opportunities and begun to forge a distinctive musical voice. Like many composers of his generation you can hear idiomatic