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Name: Keith Theodosiou
Skills: Composer, Player
Phone: +44 (0)7786 982571
Address: 33 Rowlands Close, Cheshunt EN8 9NW, United Kingdom
Links: E-mail
 
I was classicaly trained on the piano when i was a child for 6 years then i started the guitar and tought myself.I write all sorts of music from dance to rock to classical.

 

Name: Roger Thorne
Skills: Arranger, Composer, Typesetter
Phone: +44 (0)7143 231150
Address: 18 Sundorne Crescent, Sundorne, Shrewsbury, Shropshire SY1 4JE, United Kingdom
Links: Website     E-mail
 
Thorne's Music offers a Professional Typesetting service for your Compositions, Arrangements and Transcriptions. Although we specialise in originating, arranging and publishing Brass Band Music, we accommodate every conceivable musical ensemble.

 

Name: Deborah Thurlow
Skills: Composer, Conductor, Player, Teacher, Producer
Phone: +1 (201) 287 0982
Address: 107 DeGraw Avenue, Teaneck, New Jersey 07666, United States
Links: Website     E-mail
 
Deborah Thurlow earned a CUNY BA through the Local 802 Music Program at Kingsborough CC/Lehman College in 1990 and a MFA in performance from SUNY Purchase in 1993. The horn teachers and performers that had a significant impact on her performance and skill technique were Lester Solomon, Harry Berv, William Purvis, David Jolley, Abby Mayer and Robert Watt.

She is a resident of Teaneck, New Jersey and a freelance musician in the New York area and in Europe. In 1999 she produced a two-day music event, Next Horn Wave , where she put together horn players from the East and West coasts and Europe to perform music devoted to the art of both contemporary and jazz improvisation. She has been favorably reviewed in the press, including the NY Times. In addition, her one act play with music, The Creative Void Of The Planet Earth , had an Equity Showcase run of seven performances in April 1997 by the New Media Repertory under the direction of Miranda MacDermot. In the past she has performed with the Pina Baush Ballet Company, Franz Kaman, David Amram, Anthony Davis, The New York Composers Orchestra, and many others too numerous to mention.

She studied both composition and orchestration with John Corigliano at Lehman College .She has received grants from Meet the Composer, ASCAP Awards, William Petshek Music Fund and the Puffin Cultural Foundation. Her works are published with Ensemble Publications/Nichols Music Company and DSM Producers who caters to the film and tv industry exclusively. She has received grants from Meet the Composer, William Petshek Music Fund, The Puffin Cultural Foundation and also Composer in Residence at Morehead State University in Kentucky in the summer of 1988 and has been reviewed favorably in the New York Times and other printed media. Her one act play with music The Creative Void Of The Planet Earth, had an Equity Showcase of seven performances in April of 1997 by the New Media Repertory under the direction of Miranda MacDermot. She has four recordings to her credit, Angelic Waves - Part 1 (2000), Angelic Waves - Part 2 (2003), Its Not The Way - song single (2007)are independent releases and I Am (2001), Patchworks (2004), The Darwin Effect (2008) on the Capstone Records label.

As music educator she has taught in numerous settings, privately, pubic schools, colleges and neighborhood performing arts schools. Presently, she is teaching general music and is director of band and choir at Memorial Middle School in West Paterson, New Jersey. She also teaches horn at the Newark School of the Arts in Newark, New Jersey.

 

Name: The Time Merchant
Skills: composer
Address: PO BOX 11097, Yardville, NJ 08620, United States
Links: Website     E-mail
 
I am a composor of electronic/atmospheric/experimental music. I hope someday to score music for films. For more information please refer to the web sit.

 

Name: Voya Toncitch
Skills: Composer, Player, Soloist, Writer (international concert pianist, musicologist, composer, critic)
Fax: +356 21 44 16 24
Address: Malta
Links: E-mail
 
TONCITCH, VOYA French international concert pianist, musicologist and composer. Numerous concerts, recitals, lecture-recitals on aesthetics and philosophy of contemporary music, piano master-classes worldwide, including France, Belgium, Holland, Great Britain, Republic of Ireland, Norway, Finland, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Portugal, Malta, as well as in Africa, India, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Philippines, New Zealand, Australia, South America, USA (New York, Washington, D.C. Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Wisconsin, Ohio, California.) Has recorded for broadcasting companies in Europe, North America, South America, Asia-Far East and Australia. Has premiered works by numerous composers, including Jean-Louis Dhaine, Bozidar Kantuser, Yvonne Hédoux, Wolfgang Andreas Schultz, Barbara Heller, Mia Zabelka, Zbynek Mateju, Hyo-shin Na, Chan Ka Nin, Julian Yu, Reinhold Weber, Spiros Mazis. His musicological essays, all written in French, are published in Switzerland, Germany, Spain, Italy and Canada. Some titles are quoted in reference works in encyclopaedias, The New Grove Dictionary of Music (Chopin, John Cage), Grove Dictionary of American Music (Cage), Das Grosse Lexicon der Musik Herder (Chopin), Guide to Reseurch Garland Publishing New York/London (Impressions sur impressionnisme), The Philosopher’s Index (“Philosophie de la musique contemporaine. Contribution à la recherche). His own compositions for orchestra, chamber ensembles, choir and solo instruments are published in Germany. Has sponsored scholarships to musicians from Third-World countries through competitions organized by French diplomatic and cultural services in India, Paraguay, the Philippines. Has organized International Composition Contest “Voya Toncitch Prize” in 1987, won by Lutz Glandien (Germany). Dedications by composers from France, Germany, Austria, Hungary, Czech Republic, USA. Has founded in 1981 a music section at the French Cultural Centre / Alliance Française in Calcutta and in 1983 the Contemporary Music Library in Asunción, Paraguay. Painter with exhibitions in Paris, La Rochelle, Nantes and other French cities and in Singapore.

 

Name: Sheridan Tongue
Skills: Composer
Address: London, United Kingdom
Links: Website     E-mail
 
Sheridan Tongue is a BAFTA nominated TV & Film Music Composer highly in demand, based just outside London with his own two studio complex Lodge Music.

He has scored television & film music for many high profile UK dramas, documentaries & films, including Spooks, Silent Witness, Sea of Souls, Dead Clever, Summerhill, Down to Earth, Cinderella, Twentieth Century Battlefields and Magnificent 7.

Sheridan’s classical training together with his adeptness and experience of working with cutting edge technology enables him to create highly individual scores. He has the ability to score in many musical styles, equally at home writing for orchestra or creating sample based scores.

Sheridan is highly committed, and this, combined with his ability to communicate with and adapt to the needs of the project, keep him in demand. He has in the past always inspired loyalty from producers and directors who appreciate his flexibility and willingness to meet the needs of the production.

 

Name: J Joe Townley
Skills: Composer
Address: PO Bo x50955, Los Angeles 90050, United States
Links: Website     E-mail
 
Listeners' reactions to J Townley--Piano Concerto No 2: "...probably one of the best "romantic" piano concertos of the XXIst century..." "...this equals if not beats Saint Saens piano concerto in G minor." " A masterpiece - Rachmaninoff himself couldn't have done it better. " " OMG!!! did you compose all this??!! It completely amazed me from the first movement.

 

Name: John P. Tracy
Skills: Arranger, Composer, Player, Singer, Soloist, Teacher, Writer
Phone: +1 250 475 1860
Address: 860 Short St.,, Victoria v8x-2v5, Canada
Links: E-mail
 
I was born in Toronto, Canada in 1954. I have NO formal musical training. I learned to play the "rock & roll" instruments (guitars, keyboards and percusion) by ear as well as teaching myself to read scores.After many "bands" formed then fell apart before the 2nd gig, I turned to songwriting as a means to put forth my feelings However, not everyone was comfortable with my "feelings" and I put my talent on hold while I "got a life". Well, one or two lives later and thanx to the computer age and midi I'm able once again to get my compositions down and also heard by the unsuspecting e-world!

 

Name: Joanna (Jo) Treasure
Skills: Composer, Player, Singer
Phone: 07939 127889
Fax: 01257 464320
Address: 4 New Acres, Newburgh, Lancs. WN8 7TU, United Kingdom
Links: E-mail
 
Joanna Treasure was born in 1961, the youngest of nine children, and was surrounded by music-making from infancy. She studied piano, French horn and singing, both solo and a capella. Her compositional talent was recognised in 1975 at Cheltenham Ladies’ College when she won first prize for her SATB setting of Solomon Grundy. She went on to study medicine at Cambridge and Guy’s Hospital and has continued to juggle her musical development with a demanding career in Pathology. She is a regular participant in the Canford Composers’ Workshop, where she studies with Malcolm Singer, and is a composer/performer member of COMA (Contemporary Music-Making for Amateurs). Jo’s music is essentially melodic and expressive. Her vocal writing shows great sensitivity to text, whether it is a setting of Latin or her own words. Pieces often grow from the need to return to and explore the experience of quite transient moments. Her music can savour a sense of stillness, rigorously analyse a recurring pattern, or unfold a glimpse of ecstasy. Jo is married with two sons and lives in Lancashire, UK.

 

Name: Nguyen Thu Trieu
Skills: Composer
Address: Vietnam
Links: E-mail

 

Name: Steve Tromans
Skills: Composer, Player, Improviser ((Free))
Phone: +44 (0)7940 343939
Address: Birmingham, United Kingdom
Links: Website     E-mail
 
Steve Tromans is a Birmingham (UK) based improviser (keyboard,piano,etc) and composer. In November 2000 he set up 'freebirdmusic' as a company dedicated to the promotion of free improvisation in Birmingham and along with fellow improviser and bass player, Mike Green, he runs a regular free improvisation night.

Graduated from Birmingham Conservatoire in 1997 with BMus(Hons) 1st Class. First Study Composition. Toured India 1996 and Bangladesh 1997 with John Mayer's Indo-Jazz Fusions. Also recorded two CD with Indo-Jazz Fusions for Nimbus Records, 'Asian Airs' and 'Raga-Tal', both feature a specially composed work by Steve.

Always willing to collaborate in ANY improvisation-based project. Especially keen to make contact with film-makers, poets, mime artists, dancers, etc.

 

Name: Hristo Spasov Tsanoff
Skills: Composer (Bulgarian classical composer)
Address: Sofia 1618, Bulgaria
Links: Website     E-mail
 
Biography: 1947 - born in Sofia,Bulgaria in Chrismas (7.January) in family of the engineer up precision mechanics and graduate of a university Vienna and Stuttgart Spas Naydenoff and the teacher Vasilka Tsoneva 1953 - start his study 1954-1961 - priavate student in composition with prof.Pancho Vladigerov 1953-1965 - he is learning violin with teacher Katia Dekova 1958-1965 - private lessons of piano 1968 - admited in Medical Academy - Sofia,Bulgaria 1977-1998 - warks like a military doctor and in the last yeras he is a brigade doctor (Colonel) 1987-1998 - make a study of his own method for concervative medication of morbus Buogeri (thrombargiitis S.endangiitis obeituranus) and developit.

Works: Symphony: Symphony No.1 with organ Symphony No.2 in g-moll Concerts: Piano No.1 in F-moll Piano No.2 in h-moll Violin No.1 Two Violins No.1 - in workmanship Violoncello No.1 in a-moll Opers: "When the millionc rise" on the occasion the 20 anniversarg from the execution of Nikola Vapcarov in 1962y. "Notre Dame de Paris" - in workmanship of Victor Hugo opera in seven scene with proloque,epiloque and 32 sort instruments and organ! Tuneral music: "Panichyda" - Bulgarien Requiem - in workmanship Requiem (with organ)- in workmanship Ballets: "The sun love of the icon-painet Zahariy" libreto: Dr.Hristo Spasov Tsanoff "Resurrection" over Leo Tolstoy libreto: Dr.Hristo Spasov Tsanoff Concert Minuatures: Seven concerts edudes for solo violin Seven concerts edudes for solo organ Concert edude for Oboe d'Amore,Corno ingl.,Viola d'Amore and Violoncello in C-dur Concert edude for two Oboe and Corno ingl. in Es-dur Classical string quartet Series songs usig poemas of Dimcho Debelyanoff

Demo Audio Record: http://www.tsanoff-classic.com/audiomusic/Default.aspx

 

Name: Panos Tsikos
Skills: Composer, Singer, Teacher
Phone: +353 868 445 431
Address: Cork, Ireland
Links: Website     E-mail
 
Panos Tsikos was born in Greece. He studied French Literature at the Aristotle University of Thessalonica and music at the State Conservatoire of Thessalonika. He sang with Opera Thessalonikis (Il Campanello di Notte and Orfeo ed Euridice)before moving to London to gain a MMus and study Voice at the Trinity College of Music with Peter Knapp and Roger Vignoles as mentor. He has taken part in master classes by Opera 2005 in Cork, by Mary MacSweenny , by Eugene Asti, Simon Young, Will Hancox and Dolores Ziegler. Following his graduation, Panos studies with Robert Dean. He took part in several productions at Trinity performing major roles such as, Conte Almaviva in Le Nozze di Figaro, Papageno in Die Zauberflöte and Emilio in Nino Rotas Il Cappello di Paglie di Firenze (UK premier).

In 2004 he made his professional debut and has sung amongst others, Rodrigo in Don Carlos the Count in Marriage of Figaro and Figaro from Il Barbiere di Siviglia. In 2005 he was engaged to sing comprimario roles for the Holland Park Opera including, Domestico in Macbeth and ensemble in Andrea Chènier and Eugene Onegin. For Vox Lirica he sang Marquis d’ Obigny in La Traviata and Alidoro in La Cenerentola. He has sung concerts in the UK, Ireland and Greece and his repertoire includes Mozart’s Vesperae Solennes De Domenica, and the Requiem, Handel’s Messiah, Rossini’s Stabat Mater and Charpentier’s Te Deum.Other engagements include Soloist for the Thursford Christmas Spectacular (2004 and 2005) and film credits include Alexander directed by Oliver Stone, The Brief and Love and other Disasters.

Recently he sang in Cork Danillo from The Merry Widow and Mr Peachum from The Threepenny Opera, with Opera 2005 and in a concert tribute to Mozart with Cara O ‘Sullivan and Mary Hegarty to critical acclaim. In concert, on spring and summer 2006 he performed works of a modern composer inspired by ancient Greek music at the 20th Century theatre as part of the Inspirational Arts Festival of London as well as at the Athens Festival.

Future Engagements include: Singing Masetto from Don Giovani this autumn at the Cork Opera House. He has recently sung with the Opera of Mainz State Theatre in Germany. In November 2006 he also covered Figaro and sung Ambrogio from the Barber of Seville at the Cork Opera House with numerous concert apperances in Ireland, Greece and the UK. Panos is fluent in Greek, English, French, Italian, German (intermediate) and Russian (reading) and has worked with many choreographers in the past in a number of diverse productions. Last Updated Aug 2007

 

Name: Union of Bulgarian Composers
Skills: administrator, composer
Phone: +359 2 881560
Fax: +359 2 874378
Address: 2, Vazov Str, Sofia 1000, Bulgaria
Links: Website     E-mail
 
The Union of Bulgarian Composers is a non-profit creative association and one of its main objectives is to promote the creation, distribution and popularisation of new musical works. One of the most significant initiatives in this respect is the annual review of newly created works by Bulgarian composers entitled "New Bulgarian Music"

The Union of Bulgarian Composers regularly organises concerts of Bulgarian music at the Union's hall, together with Days of Bulgarian Music in various cities throughtou the country. In 1951 the Study of the Young Composer was created which arranges reviews of the works by young authors. Since 1980 they have been held regularly under the title Young Bulgarian Music. The Musicologists' Section is doing active research work on Bulgarian folklore, on the works by Bulgarian composers and the development of national musical culture.

The Union of Bulgarian Composers is a continuator of the "Contemporary Music" Society, which has been founded in 1933 and existed until 1944. Since 1947 it renewed its activities under the name of Union of Bulgarian Composers, Musicologists and Concert Artists. In 1954 the union was renamed as Union of Bulgarian Composers with two sections - of composers and musicologists. In the life of the Union take part composers, musicologists, prominent Bulgarian musicians - singers, instrumentalists and conductors who work actively for the promotion of the contemporary Bulgarian music.

 

Name: Claudio Vaira
Skills: Composer, Teacher
Address: Carrara 54033, Italy
Links: Website     E-mail
 
Claudio Vaira studied Composition with Piero Luigi Zangelmi, Edoardo Farina, and Azio Corghi, receiving from each Master enrichment of his spirituality, with a patient artistic training. He wrote more than 100 works, many of them commissioned by eminent interpreters, and won numerous national and international composer’s competitions, obtaining the approval of committees made up of some of the most popular names of the contemporary music: Marcello Abbado, Bruno Bettinelli, Giacomo Manzoni, Luciano Chailly, Carmelo Bernaola, Edison Denisow, Helmut Lachenmann, Soltan Szokolay, Roman Vlad, Enzo Restagno, Giorgio Ferrari, Daniel Vega, Luigi Celeghin, Vittorio Fellegara, Makoto Shinoara, Andrej Szollosy, Guido Turchi, Niccolò Castiglioni, Carson Kievman, Michail Kosler, Valentino Miserachs ... He has dedicated recent new compositions to young Italian and British performers of great talent. His music has always been appreciated by the Italian and European public, and was executed also in Russia and South America. He recorded various CDs, and is Professor of Composition at the Institute of High Culture P. MASCAGNI Livorno – Italy.

My music incorporates all the elements of songs and silence, thanks to the existence and the universe. Next projects: "Gesualdo-bells", for piano 4 hands dedicated to Ilio and Caterina Barontini "6 chinese haiku", for soprano and cello dedicated to Maya Sapone and Evva Mizerska "Do you like the spring-water?", for cello and piano dedicated to Evva Mizerska "5 personaggi in cerca d'autore", for 2 guitars dedicated to Simona Costantino and Roberto Masini "Leaving_girl_leaf", for solo cello dedicated to Evva Mizerska 5 preludi e fughe , for organ dedicated to Giulia Biagetti Nefertiti tace, for organ dedicated to Giorgio Revelli Ω RI ro, for solo tape dedicated to Rita Giannotti Dimensioni del silenzio, for percussion and tape dedicated to Jonathan Faralli Music-poetry in New Zeland dedicated to David Howard "La piccola fiammiferaia", children's opera dedicated to all children in the world

 

Name: Andersen Viana
Skills: Composer, Manager, Publisher, Teacher, Writer, Music Producer
Phone: +55 31 3221.3855
Fax: +55 31 3221.3855
Address: rio doce 355 ap.601 - s.lucas- belo horizonte, minas gerais 30240.220, Brazil
Links: Website     E-mail
 
Composer, arranger, conductor and music producer. Son of Sebastian Viana (revisor and assistant of composer Heitor Villa-Lobos). Maestro Viana taught him flute and many subjects in music. He has studied privately and took courses in several official institutions with: Ennio Morricone, Radamés Gnatalli, Luca Salvadori, Arthur Bosmans, David Machado, Max Rostal, Paulo Bosísio, Violeta Hemsy de Gainza, Oiliam Lanna, among others.

His first composition was of religious in nature composed at 12. In the 80’s he has worked at the Brazilian Musical Theatre as musician, arranger and musical director, working close to directors and authors such as Luis A. Martinez, Manuel Puig(Kiss of the Spider Woman - an Oscar Winner), Barcos, Bia Lessa, F. Marinho, among others. In June of 2001, his musical work was the theme for a Master Degree Thesis on the Rio de Janeiro University.

At the present, he has 142 works composed in almost all the music styles from solos, jazz ensembles, vocal and electronic music up to the symphonic forces.

 

Name: Barton Viar
Skills: Composer, Singer, Soloist
Address: United States
Links: E-mail
 
Well composed with outstanding time and care, Barton's music is classically centered, rooted in Memphis blues and is bright and airy with attractive complex melodies of extraordinary depth. The artist indeed combines extremely accurate guitar playing with wonderful keyboards and lush non-lyrical heavenly sensual female and male vocals provided either by Mimi and/or Barton.

All his influences are captured, from eastern spiritual, blues, southern rock, metal, rock-a-billy, blue-grass, Celtic and even hip-hop, using modern electric and ancient acoustic sting instruments. From the first note of his work, I was captivated by the simplicity and beauty of an extraordinary musician. Naturally roused tones are used to create a sound that is unique, otherworldly, and elegant. The resulting whole is an opulent, sensually arousing tapestry.

 

Name: Roger Arve Vigulf
Skills: composer, soloist (clarinet)
Phone: +4733391569
Fax: +4733391317
Address: Slemdalsvn. 95B, Oslo 0373, Norway
Links: Website     E-mail
 
Roger Arve Vigulf is one of the leading contemporary clarinetist in Norway,and he is also known for his brilliant performances of classical music. He has received brilliant critics for his performance of the Mozart Concerto. Vigulf has colleborate with many international composers, and he has been soloist at many festivals. He has played principal clarinet in The Norwegian Radio Orchestra, played in the Norwegian Chamber Orchestra, and has been 1.clarinetplayer in The Kristiansund Opera/Theatre Orchestra. He work now as freelance soloist, teacher, composer. His first CD "Profiles" was released in February 2000 with 4 World Premières. Vigulf has study at Eastern Concervatory of Music in Oslo with Professor Richard Kjelsrup and with Lee Morgan in Copenhagen.Vigulf is member of Trio Bela together with Geir Henning Braaten-piano and Harald Aadland-violin.

 

Name: Simon Vincent
Skills: Composer, Player (Composer, Performer (piano, electronics))
Address: Ebertystrasse 41, Berlin 10249, Germany
Links: Website     E-mail
 
Simon Vincent (born 1967, London) studied contemporary classical and electroacoustic composition with Denis Smalley at the University of East Anglia, where he gained both his BA and MMus, and later with Karlheinz Stockhausen in Kürten.

Since his return to London in 1993, he has been active in a variety of musical settings ranging from live electroacoustic composer/performer and dj (Ministry of Sound Radio, FM4-Austria, Resonance FM, Progression Sessions, Rotterdam Film Festival, ICA, Glastonbury Festival, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival) to guest and visiting composer/performer/lecturer at City University (London), International Bartok Seminar and Festival Series (Hungary), Visiones Sonoras Festival (Mexico), “Beyond Boundaries: Media, Culture and Identity in Europe” Conference at Bahcesehir University (Istanbul).

In 1997, he established VISIONOFSOUND, releasing his own electroacoustic works, which have gained critical praise in publications including The Wire, Time Out, Straight No Chaser, Jazzwise, Knowledge and Mojo.

His compositions/performances comprise both electroacoustic and instrumental musics.

 

Name: Jordi Vives i Batlle
Skills: Composer, Player, Scientist
Address: 37 Pinewoods, Gilgarran, Workington (Cumbria) CA14 4RE, United Kingdom
Links: Website     E-mail
 
My name is Jordi Vives i Batlle and I am a composer who lives in Cumbria, United Kingdom. I have been composing music since 1995. During that time I have earned a Diploma in Music from the Open University. Some of my most recent scores include piano music, piano and solo instrument (clarinet, saxophone), works for string quartet and various works for chamber ensembles. My style has been described as having modern tendencies towards the atonal/serial, but also leaning in the Classical/Romantic tradition.

I have a number of works in a web site, http://members.sibelius#music.com/jvives/, which is part of the Scorchmusic self-publishing venture set up by Sibelius/Scorch. One of these works (clarinet fantasia) is actually being rehearsed for a prospective public performance. In addition to my self-published works I have substantial manuscripts in various stages of revision including a string quartet in G minor and a twelve-tone (serial) piano sonata, among others. I have also an interest in film music.

I wonder if you would be so kind to visit my web page. This would allow you to listen to some of my music (after downloading from site the free Scorch 2 plugin) and perhaps leave a review or two for me to read.

 

 


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