Cadenza Musicians Directory
Composers

Name: Bruno Vlahek
Skills: Composer, Soloist (Pianist & Composer)
Links: Website     E-mail

 

Name: Terry Vosbein
Skills: Arranger, Composer
Phone: +1 540 463 8851
Fax: +1 540 463 8104
Address: Department of Music, Washington and Lee University, Lexington 24450, United States
Links: Website     E-mail
 
New Orleans born composer, Terry Vosbein has received numerous commissions to write new works from such organizations as the Cleveland Orchestra and the Cleveland Museum of Art. He has composed works for orchestra, wind ensemble, various chamber ensembles and choir.

Vosbein has received performances at music festivals throughout the United States and Canada. During 1998 and 1999 he was awarded summer residencies at La Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris, where he composed a concerto for violin and orchestra one year and a sonata for solo piano the next. In the fall of 2001 he was awarded a fellowship at University College in Oxford, to compose a concerto for cello and orchestra.

Since January of 1996 Vosbein has been teaching music composition and jazz studies at Washington and Lee University. He received his Doctorate in composition from the Cleveland Institute of Music, where he was a student of Donald Erb, and where he taught in the theory and composition departments.

In addition to his activities as a composer, Vosbein has been an active jazz bassist and arranger for the past twenty-five years, performing and arranging for a wide variety of ensembles, including the Glenn Miller Orchestra and the Atlanta Pops. He traveled "on the road" for many years, performing in a wide range of genres: country western twang, big band swing, disco fever, country club wallpaper, plus a never ending assortment of jazz combos and studio encounters.

 

Name: Jay Vosk
Skills: Composer
Phone: +1 520 623 1331
Address: 1416 East 10th Street, Tucson 85719, United States
Links: Website     E-mail
 
Jay Vosk has written over 80 works for a variety of genres including orchestral, chamber and choral. His recent commissions include a string quartet for members of the National Symphony Orchestra, a work for bassist Betram Turetzky and a piece for native flutist R. Carlos Nakai.

Jay is published by Kjos, Seesaw, Tuba-Euphonium Press and Dorn Productions. His Notturnp for Soprano Sax and Piano appears on a CD of saxophone music on the AUR label.

 

Name: P. Kellach Waddle
Skills: composer, conductor, soloist
Phone: +1 512 416 9726
Address: 1720 s lakeshore #204, austin tx 78741, United States
Links: Website     E-mail
 
P.Kellach Waddle has written over 100 works since 1985 and his music has seen over 200 performances. While also writing for traditional media, Mr. Waddle concentrates most of his output for instruments and combinations often neglected by other 20th century composers, not to mention the standard Canon. To this end Mr. Waddle has written and had published over 40 solo and chamber works for his own instrument, the double bass as well as writing Concerti for Bassoon, Contrabassoon, Bass Clarinet, Bass Trombone and Tenor Sax. He has also written solo/chamber works for Tuba, Amglocken, Chimes, Vibraphone and Cymbals.

In addition to his activities as a composer and orchestral/chamber music bassist as well as soloist, Mr. Waddle now has an active career as a conductor. After a number of Guest Conducting Appearances (most notably at the Julliard School in Lincoln Center in Feb. of 1998) he was named Music Director of the Austin Philharmonic as of the 1999-2000 season. He has been Principal Guest Conductor of The Contemporary Orchestra Of Cleveland since 1997.

Mr. Waddle holds certificates from Rice University, Cincinnati Conservatory and The University of Texas at Austin where he also served as Assistant Teacher of Bass from 1992 to 1998. Information about Mr. Waddle's upcoming performances as well as a complete bio and list of works is available on his website.

 

Name: Abraham Zalman Walker
Skills: Composer
Phone: +1 (254) 728 3492
Address: 16438 N. HWY 377 , Stephenville, TX. 76401, United States
Links: E-mail
 
b. Dec. 30, 1948. Raised by overbearing mother, who forced music on him beginning at age 4 (piano) organ at 6. Relocated to Italy from U.S. to study with L. Dallapiccalo, Afterwords with L. Nono. Finally relocated to France, where studies were arranged with O. Messiaen.

Did not compose in any meaningful way from 20 years of age to 48 years of age. Since have produced numerous works ranging from Solo instrumental works to works for Full Orchestre, Choir, soloist. .. .. .. .. ..

Currently, very interested in working with indiviuals in the development of works for their needs for specific occasions and spaces.

 

Name: Stephan Karl Waller
Skills: Arranger, Composer, Conductor, Teacher, Writer
Address: United States
Links: Website     E-mail
 
Without the advantages of formal musical training but raised in a musical family, Stephan Karl Waller taught himself to read music and play the piano by the age of 7. By pre-adolescence he had begun to write music and play a large array of musical instruments, including guitar, percussion, bass, saxophone, bassoon, mandolin, banjo, and lute. Recognizing Stephan's talent, his father, a Jazz, Big Band, and Dixieland drummer made sure he took an instrument in school. This step led the young musician into clarinet studies until he graduated from high school, after which he began a full-time music career via club dates, concert tours, recording, and frequent television and radio appearances. In 1985, disillusioned with the popular music scene and consumed by a hunger to expand musically, he began teaching himself to compose classical music. "I spent a year virtually sequestered with tomes on theory, harmony, counterpoint, orchestration, conducting, and music history. I learned from the best: Bach, Handel, Mozart, Beethoven, Tchaikowsky, and Orff, and I taught myself first by imitating them, then by exploring my own inner musical sensations. I hand-copied Mozart's 39th symphony in its entirety in an effort to understand it."

Barely a year had passed when Waller gained the attention of the Conductor and Music Director of a significant metropolitan orchestra, who expressed that in his 30 years on the podium, and in the classroom, he had never before encountered such native talent in someone who was self-taught. He subsequently encouraged Waller to enroll in a degree program. He was immediately placed in the Music Department's final semester courses.  Soon after, the maestro invited him to become his sole private pupil, gratis, and hired him as Conductor's Assistant with the symphony. A solid friendship quickly grew between the maestro and his pupil, based on mutual esteem and a deep love of music, and Waller found himself taken into the warmth of his mentor's family. "My mentor was a genius, and that's a word I don't toss around because it is so over-used nowadays. Through his integrity, his passionate devotion to music and his selfless, sensitive guidance of my musical evolution, I acquired more education than I could at any university. He taught me more than music as a textbook subject -- he taught me about life, music as life, art as life, and myself as an artist. He took what I instinctively knew and gave it a name. I'm reminded of the scene in "The Miracle Worker" when Annie Sullivan finally teaches Helen Keller the word for 'water'. It is not an overstatement for me to say, that is what my mentor did for me, only with music."

Waller's music, which centers on harmony and classical symmetry, is made up of memorable melodies and playful themes  drawn from the vitality and simplicity of folk music. His slow movements are tender, sometimes plaintive and full of longing, while his faster movements are almost childlike, though never boisterous.  More somber moments evoke deep, mystical feelings and, although one can sense his affinity with the Classical era, one may also hear the sustained chords, pedal tones, and progressions he assimilated through the Rock and Folk music of the Sixties and Seventies. "The Beatles, Donovan, Joni Mitchell, the Electric Light Orchestra, the Alan Parsons Project, and Rick Wakeman all influenced me. My path as a musician has been a steady, straightforward climb from the music of my youth to what I am composing today. Some have teasingly called me a mystic, but I believe that to be an artist in any medium one must be at least part mystic, or magician, or alchemist, or something, because we create sense, order, and beauty from a sea of chaos. I live with one foot in one world and one foot in quite another. I'm not always sure which is the most solid and I think this shows in my music."

During the spring of 1994, Waller spent some time in Vienna, where he researched a project he'd had in his mind for a number of years. Considered by many to be the newest and freshest Mozart expert on the web, he began writing Night Music, a novel based on the life of his favorite composer. It is different from other books, however, in that it is written as Mozart's semi-fictional, autobiography. Its publication is forthcoming. He has also written for musical journals, newsletters, and periodicals. Since the Summer of 1998, Waller has anonymously portrayed Mozart in a number of online forums. He began in the "Historicus Forum" which was created by Carl Reimann. When that venue disbanded, Waller formed his own forum, "The Parnassus Salon," which is currently attended by nearly thirty characters from the pages of history. But he is best known for his portrayal at "Mozart's Own Website," a popular and entertaining site where one may actually ask questions of the composer. A third venue is "The Mozart Salon," where one may speak with "Mozart" as casually as if he were in one's livingroom. "I didn't realize it at the time, but I had been preparing to write Night Music since about 1984. I thought I was digesting all I could learn about Mozart out of an obsession. After all I learned about him during that ten-year period, the book demanded to be written. My time in Vienna was very peculiar. I stayed in a hotel only three doors down the Schulerstrasse from the house in which Mozart lived during his most successful period. Every morning the fiakers rolled beneath my windows on their way to the Stephansplatz, and opera students strolled by late at night, singing serenades to Mozart's empty windows. I felt lost in time, almost like a ghost as I walked the streets of the Inner City, averting my attention from any signs of the 20th century. I avoided being a tourist and became Viennese by degrees. It was an incredible experience. When I returned home, the book simply wrote itself."

 

Name: John Walsh
Skills: Arranger, Composer, Player, Writer
Phone: +353 12869127
Address: Dublin, Ireland
Links: Website     E-mail
 
John Walsh's work encompasses Film, Television and Advertising. As well as composing, John has worked for many years as a studio producer and guitarist touring with a number of successful bands. He studied classical guitar at the Royal Irish Academy of Music.

His television drama work includes 'Proof' - the gripping 4 x 1 hr crime drama series which to date has broadcast in more than one hundred countries worldwide, 'Rebellion'- the 3 x 1 hr series which tells the story of the 1798 Irish Rebellion and the BAFTA award winning BBC TV series 'Custer's Last Standup'. He has scored numerous Short Films including the awarding winning 'Prey Alone' and 'Venom'.

His music has featured in a number of high profile commercials and in 2008 he was commissioned by the International Olympic Committee to score the official worldwide advertising campaign promoting the 2008 Olympic Games. Other campaigns include the Jameson International Film Festival commercial and global campaigns for Guinness, Baileys and the Spanish Lottery. His work for the national Irish broadcaster (RTE) includes title music for The Premiership, The Six Nations and The World Cup.

 

Name: Huw Warren
Skills: composer, pianist
Phone: +44 (0)1766 514798
Fax: +44 (0)1766 514795
Address: Ty Nanney, tremadog, Gwynedd LL49 9PS, United Kingdom
Links: Website     E-mail
 
Born in Swansea in 1962,Huw Warren has an eclectic background in Jazz/Improvised music and experimental contemporary music.Major works include A Barrel Organ far from Home (1997) - a suite of pieces for nine piece ensemble inspired by photographs of pioneering english photographer John Topham,(available on CD as Babel BDV 9718): Riot (1998) -for 6 pianos and commissioned by Piano Circus:Steamboat bill Jnr (1998) a new score for the classic Buster Keaton silent commissioned by Birmingham Film Festival:Take the Fire (1999) - new music for Jean Cocteau monologues, first performed at the Lyric Theatre, London :Lullaby Exit Bear(2000) a commission from the Royal Shakespeare Company as part of their millenium celebrations.

Huw Warren is particulary interested in breaking down barriers between musical styles and attitudes.Described by Mojo magazine as where the "unclassifiable meets the unpredictable", he has also been involved as a player and composer in a wide variety of creative collaborations with performers as varied as The Orlando Consort, June Tabor, Perfect Houseplants, Billy Jenkins, Andrew Manze, Mose se Fan Fan, Billy Bragg and Steve Arguelles.

 

Name: John William Watson
Skills: Accompanist, Arranger, Composer, Player, Teacher
Phone: +1 732 672 6478
Address: 577 Ashland Rd. , Middlesex 08846, United States
Links: E-mail
 
John has been an active musician for over 11 years. He plays piano, trumpet, guitar, electric bass, flute, and clarinet. He previously studied at Raritan Valley Community College then transferred to William Paterson University of New Jersey where he is currently acquiring his Bachelor of Music degree in music education. Among his credits include musically directing over 13 shows for community theaters as well as teaching private lessons.

 

Name: Stephen Watson
Skills: composer
Links: Website     

 

Name: Megan Weeder
Skills: Arranger, Composer, Player, Teacher (Violin/ Electric violin)
Phone: +1 (212) 717 7590
Address: N.Y.C., United States
Links: E-mail
 
Megan Weeder is currently a freelance violinist based in New York City. Classically-trained since the age of five, Megan's broad base of musical performance styles include pop, rock, bluegrass, gypsy-jazz and Middle Eastern.

Megan is at ease in the studio, and is proficient at both reading music and improvising parts or arrangements. She has recorded for record companies such as RCA and Virgin, as well as assorted Indie labels such as Flat Earth and Secretly Canadian.

A very versatile player, Megan is also professional and easy to work with.

 

Name: Dave Wiggins
Skills: Arranger, Composer, Player, Teacher (Guitar, Bass and Keyboard)
Phone: +44 (0)1535 661582
Address: 24 Cliffe Crescent, Keighley, West Yorks BD20 5LB, United Kingdom
Links: Website     E-mail
 
Played guitar from age 17.After hearing Hank Garland became interested in jazz.Played guitar and bass in various local bands over the years, but at the age of 55 I have turned to writing and recording.

I have written and recorded 3 albums, the latest being SHOCKHAZARD. This is available in mp3 format via napster.

Although not currently teaching, I have had many pupils in the past who have become good guitarists.

 

Name: John Hywel Williams
Skills: Composer, Conductor, Teacher
Phone: +44 (0)1554 772979
Address: 6 Harries Avenue, Llanelli SA15 3LF, United Kingdom
Links: Website     E-mail
 
When The Times of London described John Hywel Williams in an interview as “the Svenagali of the baton”, they captured, in those simple words, his lifelong magic and passion for choral singing – whether in the role of conductor, director, trainer, lecturer, educationalist, composer or adjudicator.

It is this passion, coupled with a strong philosophy for the international language of music, that has seen John Hywel Williams drive the development of numerous choirs and choral initiatives and pioneer the export of Welsh choral singing around the world with countless national and international performances at world leading concert halls and a stream of radio and television broadcasts and recordings.

Graduating from the University of Wales with qualifications from the Royal Academy of Music, The London College of Music and the Trinity College London, John Hywel Williams led the field by taking the very first British choir behind the Iron Curtain of Eastern Europe in the early years of the Cold War and the first British choir to undertake a concert tour of Moscow – receiving national media attention on his choral adventures.

In addition to his achievements with his own choirs, John Hywel Williams has also has been a guest conductor and adjudicator at numerous choral and singing competitions and festivals in the United Kingdom, Western and Eastern Europe. In recognition of his achievements and services to music, John Hywel Williams received the Fellowship of Rotary International and was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.

 

Name: Michael Glenn Williams
Skills: Accompanist, Composer, Publisher (Composer, pianist, publisher)
Address: Newbury Park, CA, United States
Links: Website     E-mail
 
Michael Glenn Williams composes for a wide range of musical styles and purposes, from prize winning contemporary classical symphonic concert music, concert choir, chamber and solo piano works to avant-garde electronic music, tonal and free atonal, Christian, Hebrew and popular songwriting, jazz and free jazz, television and film. His new jazz group "1 40 4 20" has released two albums: "Jazz Trespassers" and "Wet", to critical acclaim. Michael G. Williams’ music and piano performance is featured on the recent movies "Wonderland", "Wicker Park", and "The Limey" from Universal Pictures.

As a columnist, his articles have appeared in Electronic Music Educator, Klavier and Computer Music Journal. Michael G. Williams is well known in the computer industry as an expert in operating system design, system hardware design and computer chip functional design. He serves full time as Principal Technical Architect for Nokia‘s Enterprise Systems division. He was the author of the music, MIDI sequencing, typesetting and printing program SuperScore, and consulted on the design of the original music font for general use "Sonata" with Adobe Systems. His name appears in two IEEE international computer standards, and he serves as officer in the current IEEE 802.21 standard.

 

Name: Andrew Malcolm Wilson
Skills: Composer
Phone: +44 (0)1822 610689
Address: Dalfors, Down Road, Tavistock, Devon PL19 9AG, United Kingdom
Links: E-mail
 
Andrew Wilson was born in 1960 and after holding a Junior Exhibution at Trinity College of Music, London he went on to study at London University where Brian Dennis and Martin Neary were among his teachers: for composition and organ respectively. Since graduating he has held a number of important teaching and organist posts and is currently Director of Music at Kelly College and conductor of the Kelly Choral Society.

Andrew Wilson's compositions have enjoyed considerable success wherever they have been played. They span all forms of chamber, orchestral and vocal music. He particularly enjoys fulfilling commissions for particular artists: such as "Trio Camerata" for whom his "Divertimento" was written and the Ten Tors Orchestra who commissioned "Drake's Drum" for Chorus, soprano and Orchestra.

Notable musicians who have included works by Andrew Wilson in their repertoires include Ian Mitchell (the Clarinet Sonata) and Rachael Ager (the Oboe Sonata).

Andrew is always pleased to discuss ideas for new works with potential commissioners and supply samples of his work.

 

Name: Brian S Wilson
Skills: Composer, Conductor
Phone: +1 (707) 664 2468
Address: 6557 Jubilee Court, Rohnert Park, CA 94928, United States
Links: Website     E-mail
 
Composer/conductor Brian Scott Wilson cites his primary musical influences as Igor Stravinsky, Charles Mingus and Edgard Varese. Wilson's compositional outreach extends to all genres, from orchestral to jazz, opera and wind band. His many awards include first prize in the International Trombone Association Composition Competition.

Visit his web site: www.brianswilson.com

 

Name: Paul Witney
Skills: composer, teacher
Address: Sydney, Australia
Links: Website     E-mail
 
Paul Witney obtained his Bachelor of Music Education at Newcastle Conservatorium and University, graduating in 1996. During his time at Newcastle he received tuition from Professor Robert Constable, and several works were performed by the Conservatorium Percussion Quartet, "No Strings Attached" wind quintet, and various chamber groups.

In 1996 Paul's piece "Come To The Edge" received a highly commended in the 2MBS Young Composers award, and in 1997 won this award with his piece "Zero Through Nine". Paul is currently studying with Michael Smetanin.

 

Name: Allison Deane Woyiwada
Skills: Composer, Conductor, Publisher, Teacher
Phone: +1 613 235 6813
Fax: +1 613 566 7354
Address: 23 Centennial Blvd., Ottawa/Ontario K1S 0M6, Canada
Links: E-mail
 
I have been a music teacher in Canada since 1973. I have taught students from Grades 1 to 8. I am also a writer of children's musicals and children's music.

I own and operate my own publishing company for the music for children that I write. The company is called Progressive Measures. I publicize my musicals throughout Canada, Great Britain and Australia. I have written 14 musicals and 2 song collections for children.

All of my original music is composed and recorded from computer. The product includes a CD which has every song recorded twice, once with vocals for rehearsal and once with no vocals for performance.

The two song collections I have are called "Songs for Special Occasions" and "Chant - Chantons", a collection of French songs.

 

Name: Roger Wright
Skills: Accompanist, Composer, Player, Soloist, Teacher, Pianist (Concert Pianist)
Phone: +1 (323) 933 1693
Fax: +1 (323) 933 1634
Address: United States
Links: Website     E-mail
 
The Washington Post has called Mr. Wright “a major pianist” and his work “a gorgeous display of effortlessly flowing melody, rhapsodic bravura and electrifying passagework….freshly conceived and spontaneous.”

Mr. Wright gained international attention when he won the 24th Frinna Awerbuch International Piano Competition in New York City, which led to his debut at Carnegie's Weill Recital Hall. His international reputation was further enhanced when he was eliminated from the finals of the 2000 Sydney International Piano Competition of Australia.

The decision of the jury precipitated mass protests from listeners who followed the competition via national radio broadcast and worldwide web cast. In response to this unprecedented outpouring of support, the ABC, the competition's principal sponsor, marketed a debut recording of Wright's performances at the competition. His recording of Between Five Bells from this CD earned composer Peter Sculthorpe the Australian Performing Rights Association's (APRA) Award for the Most Performed Contemporary Classical Composition of 2001. From Australia, he returned to North America where he was a finalist at the 3rd Esther Honens International Piano Competition in Canada and the Audience Favorite at the 2001 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition in Fort Worth. Most recently, he won the gold medal at the San Antonio International Piano Competition and the awards for Best Performance of the Commissioned Piece and Best Performance of a Romantic Work.

Mr. Wright has been performing to the acclaim of audiences worldwide since his debut with the Houston Symphony at the age of eighteen. Recent performances include recitals in Charleston (SC), Chicago, Cincinnati, Houston, Fort Worth, Los Angeles, New York, San Antonio and San Diego. His performances have been broadcast on ABC Australia, CBC Radio Canada, 105.1 K-Mozart in Los Angeles, WFMT-FM Chicago, WQXR in New York City, and on David Dubal's celebrated series Reflections from the Keyboard. A versatile performer, Wright savors the opportunity to play with chamber groups and ensembles and collaborates frequently with Camerata San Antonio, a group comprised of outstanding string players from the San Antonio Symphony. He has also toured in the United States and Germany with Hudson Shad, the celebrated Comedian Harmonists

 

Name: Eudoxia Ypsilanti
Skills: Arranger, Composer, Music Copyist (Finale,Sibelius,MuseScore)
Phone: 2108649490
Address: 28 Proteos Street, Athens Greece, Greece
Links: Website     E-mail
 
I was born on July 10th 1980. I did my first piano lessons at 13 years old. I had the pleasure, close to remarkable teachers, to study piano, harmony, counterpoint, fugue, composition, music technology, orchestration and film scoring.

From 2004 until now I have composed the music for perfomances,fairytales,movies and soundtracks.

Since 2008 engaged professionally with transcriptions and orchestrations of music works , as well as music engraver for Edition Orpheus (2008), Cambia (2011), Edition Nordstern (2013) & Ayotte Custom Music Engraving (2013)

 

 


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