| Name:
| Alan Charles Duguid
| | Skills:
| Composer, Conductor (A young conductor and composer from Aberdeen)
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| +44 (0)1224 861848
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| 57 Friarsfield Road, Aberdeen AB159LB, United Kingdom
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| | I'm a young musician from Aberdeen who is preparing to study Composition and Conducting at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama.
Despite being still quite young, I have composed various pieces, mainly for small ensembles designed to be both challanging to the player while being incorporating areas of entertainment which are identifiable to a wider audience. My recent works include "Fanfare and Jubilation", "Little Suite" both for which are for Wind Quintet, and "Contest Tryptich" for Brass Quartet. The two Wind Quintet pieces both won there categories in the Aberdeen Music Festival with an outstanding classification and "Contest Tryptich" is to be performed at the Schools Solos and Quartets finals by the Cults Academy Brass Quartet.
On the Conducting front, I currently conduct the Aberdeen City Youth Wind Quintet and the GCO Wind Quintet. In addition, I have in the past conducted the Bon-Accord Silver Brass Band, the Aberdeen University Wind Band, the Cults Academy Wind Quintet and the Grampian Concert Orchestra. Despite my interest in small ensembles, I am interested in taking some larger groups, with which I can develop my Conducting ability.
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| Name:
| Samar Dutt
| | Skills:
| Conductor, Publisher, Soloist, Teacher
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| 03323504289
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| 21,Beadon Street,, Kolkata,West Bengal,India. 700 006
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| | I am a Western Classical Pianist & Music Director & 20 Music Book author & Piano Teacher,i take my class in my house once in a week,my fees@Rs,500/= per month.
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| Name:
| Sharon G. Eng
| | Skills:
| Conductor, Soloist, Teacher
| | Phone:
| +62-21-765-9887
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| +62-21-765-9887
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| c/o JIS, Jl. Terogong Raya #33, Cilandak, Jakarta Selatan 12430, Indonesia
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| | American violist, Sharon Eng, is a seasoned international strings educator, chamber recitalist, clinician and conductor. She has performed world premieres of solo viola works and has appeared as a viola soloist, chamber recitalist and guest master clinician in 11 countries on six continents.
Ms. Eng is currently director of the strings program at Jakarta International School. She completed her Bachelor and Master degrees in viola performance at the Juilliard School whee she was a five-year scholarship student of William Lincer and later, Paul Doktor.
Ms. Eng is co-founder of Classical Nuances, a unique trio comprising of piano, oboe and viola which has performed throughout Asia, Australia, and parts of North America, Europe and the Middle East.
Under her baton the Jakarta International School's flagship string orchestra, the JIS Sinfonia, has performed for thousands of listeners in Bangkok, Manila, Shanghai, Vienna and Salzburg. Please contact Sharon Eng at classical_nuances@yahoo.com
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| Name:
| Julio Estrada
| | Skills:
| Composer, Conductor, Teacher, Writer, Scholar
| | Address:
| PARROQUIA 462, CD. DE MEXICO 03100
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| | JULIO ESTRADA. Born in Mexico City, 1943. His family was exiled from Spain in 1941. Composer, theoretician, historian, pedagogue, he began his musical studies in Mexico (1953-65), where he studied composition with Orbón. In Paris (1965-69) he studied with Boulanger, Messiaen and attended courses and lectures of Xenakis. In Germany he studied with Stockhausen (1968) and with Ligeti (1972) Ph. D. in Music and Musicology at Strasbourg University (1994).
He has wrote about a hundred of articles based on his research. Some have been translated into English, French, German, Italian and Japanese. He is the General Editor of La Música de México (Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas, IIE / UNAM, México 1984, ca. 2000 p.) He wrote with Jorge Gil Musica y Teoria de Grupos Finitos, 3 Variables Booleanas, with an English abstract (IIE UNAM, Mexico 1984). He has postulated a General Theory of Intervallic Classes, applicable to macro and micro-intervallic scales of duration and of pitch. In the field of the continuum he has developed new methods of multidimensional graphic register of the components of a continuum between rhythm and sound and a continuum between order and chaos, and sound and noise. El sonido en Rulfo (The sound in Juan Rulfo’s literature) is the research base for his opera Pedro Páramo.
In Mexico, since 1974 he became researcher in music at the Institute of Aesthetics, IIE/UNAM, where he was appointed as the Chair of several projects: Mexican Music History, Mexican Music Archives and Music: Interactive Computer System for Research and Composition for the study of the combinatory potential of scales. He is member of the National Scholars System of the Mexican Education Ministry since 1984 and member of the Science Academy of Mexico since 1997. He created a Composition Seminar at UNAM, where he teaches Compositional Theory and Philosophy of Composition. He has been a visiting professor at Stanford, California, San Diego, New Mexico, Musikwissenschaft Institut, Rostock, Darmstadt, Veruela, Scola Civica di Milano or the Centre de Création Musical Iannis Xenakis. In January 2001 he became research director of the CEMAMu, research center created by Iannis Xenakis. His works are mainly published by Editions Salabert, France. The French Ministry of Culture decorated him with the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (1981, 1986).
“The techniques and theories I have developed are based on mathematics and acoustics ; the more neutral they remain, the better they serve the description of the imaginary : it is my ear that gives birth to my music, which becomes the accurate, almost phonographic representation, of every detail coming from my inner hearing experiences.” His music is associated to compositional research on diverse fields ; i.e. : scales, Suite, piano (1960); improvisational processes: Persona, vocal trio (1969); compositional mechanos, Memorias for a Keyboard (1971); finite groups theory, Melódica, (1973), Canto mnémico (1973-83); networks theory, Canto tejido, piano (1974), Canto alterno, cello (1978), Ensemble'yuunohui, strings (1983-90); new instrumental developments, Canto oculto, violin (1977); intervallic identities, Canto naciente, brass octet (1975-78); continuum macro-timbre and space sound distribution, eolo'oolin, six percussionists (1981-90); continuum, eua'on ; rhythm-sound components polyphony, the four yuunohui (1983-90); topological continuum variations, ishini’ioni, string quartet (1984-90); continuum-discontinuum modulation, yuunohui’tlapoa, harpsichord (1994-97); Pre-Columbian ceremonial conception of music, opera Pedro Páramo : “Doloritas” (1992-).
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| Name:
| Alessandro Fabbri
| | Skills:
| Arranger, Composer, Conductor, Player, Teacher (drumset, arranger, composer)
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| | He starts playing professional since 1980 as freelance with many italian and american musicians such as Massimo Urbani, Larry Nocella, Claudio Fasoli, Tiziana Ghiglioni, Pietro Tonolo, Harry "sweet" Edison, Al Cohn, Bobby Watzon, Lee Konitz, Kenny Wheeler, Steve Grossman, Dave Holland, Albert Mangelsdorff, Bruno Tommaso, Steve Lacy, Jack Walrath, Gary Smulyan, Brian Carrot.
Since 1983 he has been writing and arranging for some of the groups which he works with. As arranger, he was finalist in "Scrivere in Jazz", a competition for big band arrangers held in Sassari, Sadegna, Italy in 1992 and in 1994. In 1998 wins first prize in "Barga jazz", an international competionos for composers and arrangers.
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| Name:
| Brian Farley
| | Skills:
| Accompanist, Arranger, Composer, Conductor, Player, Soloist, Teacher (as above)
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| | Trained Trinity College of Music, London. Highly experienced worldwide over 30 years in Major Cruise line production shows, London West End and national musicals including "Evita", "Pickwick" and all forms of recording and live performance in all styles on piano and keyboards. Arranger and Orchestrator.
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| Name:
| David Fligg
| | Skills:
| Composer, Conductor, Teacher, Writer
| | Phone:
| +44 (0)113 222 3423
| | Address:
| Leeds College of Music, Leeds LS2 7PD, United Kingdom
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| | David Fligg is a Lecturer in Composition, Harmony and Music History at Leeds College of Music. He has given lectures and talks for many of the UK's leading music and arts organisations, covering a wide range of music topics. He is a writer of CD-notes, programme notes and music journal articles. He has also run choral workshops, and is a freelance conductor. As a composer, his many compositions include an opera, 'Esau and Jacob', in collaboration with the librettist Pamela Melnikoff, and a Symphony.
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| Name:
| Marco Antonio Flores-Bravo
| | Skills:
| Composer, Conductor, Teacher
| | Phone:
| 56-41-2983117
| | Address:
| Concepcion 4030000, Chile
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| | Conductor, Composer, Choral Conductor and Music Teacher. Graduated in Concepcion University in 1998. He studied with great masters like Guillermo Scarabino (Argentina), Emily Freemann-Brown (USA) and Eduardo Moubarak (Chile).
He composes music for orchestra, chamber music, opera and drama.
Master in Drama Studies (Universidad del desarrollo - Chile)
At this moments he is the conductor of the Catholic University Chamber Orchestra in Concepcion.
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| Name:
| Gediminas Gelgotas
| | Skills:
| Composer, Conductor, Soloist
| | Phone:
| +37068018019
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| S.Skapo str. 3-6, Vilnius LT-01122, Lithuania
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| | The musical activity of GEDIMINAS GELGOTAS is of extreme range. It includes the studies of composition, piano, vocal singing and conducting at Lithuanian Music and Theatre Academy, frequent concerts of his works, improvisational music and piano performances, choir mastering, singing and conducting in several Lithuanian collectives.
GEDIMINAS GELGOTAS' active and wide-ranging musical life is a proof of striving to experience and live through the existence of music in different forms, situations and roles, it is a source of an unfading enthusiasm, endless energy and joy of life.
GEDIMINAS' character coincides with his musical characteristics. As it is in life, his works and art of performance are characterized by expression, suggestion, wide amplitude of emotions ranging from gentle and subtle performance to sultry fiendish elements.
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| Name:
| Cristian Gentilini
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| Composer, Conductor
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| Grizzana Morandi 40030, Italy
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| | Born in Vergato (Bo), he earned a degree in classic guitar at the Conservatory of Music “G. B. Martini” of Bologna, under the guide of M° Eugenio Becherucci. He specialized with professors A. Ponce, A. Diaz and O. Ghiglia. At the same institution G.B. Martini he took the degree in choral music and choir conduction (M° Pier Paolo Scattolin) and the degree in composition (M° Francesco Carluccio). He attended master classes of choir conductions (G. Graden, L. Larsen, G. Grun and F. Heyerick).
He performs both as a choir conductor and as a guitar player. In october 2003 he was among the 12 final contestants at the International Competition “Mariele Ventre” for choir conduction. Since 2003, in addition to performing, he is a teacher of musical education in middle school. Founder and director of the vocal ensemble “Ars Cantus” (Bologna), he awarded the 1st Absolute Prize at the 3rd National Contest “Riviera Etrusca”.
He awarded also many Prizes as composer in National and International Contests: 2nd prize at the National Competition of composition “Mozart oggi” 2006; 1st prize at the National Competition of choir composition “Simone Gentile” 2006; 2nd prize at the Internationational Competition of choir composition organized by FTSC (Lugano, 2007); 3th prize at III International Composers Competition “Musica Sacra” – (Cambridge, 2007).
He is the conductor of the Choir “A.N.A.” of Vergato and of the “Corale Polifonica S. Rita” of Bologna. Since 2005 he is founder and co-director of the Chamber Choir “Eclectica”, specialized in the contemporary choral repertoire.
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| Name:
| Ferruccio Ernesto Mariono Germani
| | Skills:
| Composer, Conductor
| | Phone:
| +1 724 652 7949
| | Address:
| 741 Addis Street , New Castle PA 16101, United States
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| Name:
| Chris Gibbons
| | Skills:
| Arranger, Composer, Conductor, Player, Teacher
| | Phone:
| +44 (0)1926 647855
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| +44 (0)1926 647855
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| Garden Cottage, Kineton CV35 0LB, United Kingdom
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| | Educated at Royal Opera House, Covent Garden and in recording studios in London and USA. Specialist in Jazz / World styles but equally at home in acoustic or electronic music environments. Film library credits include Path to 9/11 with Harvey Keitel. Runs own studio catering for corporate and private clients in a relaxed and friendly manner.
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| Name:
| Peter Gilbert-Dyson
| | Skills:
| Conductor
| | Phone:
| +44 (0)20 8777 6382
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| +44 (0)20 8777 9894
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| 57 Ravenswood Avenue, West Wickham, Kent BR4 0PN, United Kingdom
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| | Peter Gilbert-Dyson, conductor, manager and founder of The Belmont Ensemble of London studied at the Royal Academy of Music with Colin Metters, George Hurst, Sir Colin Davis, Horst Neumann, Sir Simon Rattle, Sir Roger Norrington, Leonard Slatkin, Claus Peter Flor and Russian pedagogue Ilya Musin.
He is a regular guest conductor with the Latvian Philharmonic and has appeared with the New Queens Hall Orchestra (Live on BBC Radio 3), Macedonian Philharmonic, Guatemala Symphony, South Bohemian Cahmber Orchestra, Philharmonie Ceske Budjedovice, Ulster Orchestra, Winbledon and Havant Symphonies and all the orchestras at the Royal Academy of Music.
Choirs conducted include - BBC Singers (Radio 3) Philharmonia Chorus, New London Singers, Tallis Chamber Choir, Codina Singers, Joyful Company of Singers, Chameleon Arts Chorus, Sevenoaks Philharmonic Choir.
Broadcasts include BBC TV and Radio, Classic FM, ITV, Channel 4 TV as well as Latvian, Czech and Guatemalan Radio.
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| Name:
| John Kenneth Graham
| | Skills:
| Administrator, Arranger, Composer, Conductor, Player, Publisher, Teacher, Writer, Enthusiast (Musical tableaux of American culture and folklore)
| | Phone:
| 1-(406)-222-5318
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| 308 Upstairs South B Street, Livingston, MT 59047, United States
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| | Born in Baton Rouge, LA July 26, 1955. Largely self-taught, began writing music at age twelve. First actual works were for symphonic band and some drum cadences. Keyboard abilities by ear led to his becoming a pianist/keynoardist for two rock/jazz bands while in college (Southeastern Louisiana University/Hammond, LA). In 1982, moved to Baton Rouge abd began playing piano for local restaurant. Also composed commercial jingle for nationwide advertising, and wrote and conducted the dedication music for the installation of the WWII vessel, USS KIDD. Subsequent enrollment in LSU produced several student works, including a string quartet. Began working as fulltime composer/arranger for Christian Life Fellowship, a large charismatic church in Baton Rouge where he played timpani during services. This lasted into 1986, and resulted in the compilation of over 300 arrangements of worship choruses custom-written for church orchestra.
Experiences in Austin, TX and Anderson, SC led to travel to Yellowstone National Park in 1988, after which he domiciled in Berkeley, CA and worked on a student symphony. Having gained ethnomusicological tools to study folklore at Berkeley, he began devising methods of poetically describing Americana in musical terms, and began writing works descriptive of his own experiences and impressions made during his travels. To date, two symphonies are completed as part of a nine-symphony cycle. Numerous other works are planned, including several concertos and ensemble works. While a large orchestral pallette is his medium of choice, he is also adept at writing big band and Latin-styled dance music, primarily as a result of having been an avid percussionist.
Two non-commercial CD's have been completed, SINFONIA (classical) and LOVE BITES (dance/jazz-fusion) as of 2004, and two more are about to be released; SOUL OF THE SKY (classical) and TANGO MANGO (dance/jazz fusion). The former current CD includes seven new pieces for orchestra, the title cut of which is "Soul of the Sky," a fourteen-minute symphonic poem for choir, organ, orchestra and percussion. The title cut for the latter current CD, "Tango Mango," features 'cello and jazz band in true Argentine form. Other notable pieces include "Uncle Don (piano, tenor sax, rhythm/brass section)," "Big Al (You No Like Chinese Food (piano, jazz orhestra)," and "Cowboy Heaven (guitars, organ, rock accompaniment)."
Mr. Graham currently lives in Livingston, MT, about an hour's drive north of Yellowstone National Park. Together with his wife, Laurene, they run a small film/media production company, Eaglefeather Media Productions.
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| Name:
| Tigran Hakhnazaryan
| | Skills:
| Conductor
| | Phone:
| +79032092225
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| Russia
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| | Chief Conductor of the Komi Republic State Opera & Ballet Theatre Music Director & Conductor of the Komi Republic Chamber Orchestra Principal Guest Conductor of the Tambov Symphony Orchestra Tigran Hakhnazaryan especially known for introducing both to orchestral and operatic repertoire. His large repertoire includes all epochs from baroque to contemporary music, symphonic works as well as the chamber orchestra repertoire, operas and ballets. In 2001, being already well-recommended, 23 years old conductor has been invited to temporarily to fulfill the duties of Music director and Chief conductor of the National Symphonic Orchestra of the Republic of Bashkortostan. During the first half of the 2001-2002 concert season Mr. Tigran Hakhnazaryan had successfully conducted over 30 symphonic concerts in various russian cities, receiving great acclaim from the audience and musical critics. In 2003 he received an honorable invitation to lead the 2003-2004 Season’s opening concert with the National Symphony Orchestra of the Republic of Bashkortostan. The same year he was invited by Cherepovets Symphony Orchestra to conduct their 2003-2004 season’s opening concert as well. As guest conductor Mr. Tigran Hakhnazaryan is regularly and successfully cooperating with various symphonic and chamber orchestras, among which are the Armenian Philharmonic Orchestra, Donetsk Philharmonic Orchestra, Karelian Philharmonic Orchestra, Kislovodsk Philharmonic Orchestra, Volgograd Philharmonic Orchestra, Yerevan Symphony Orchestra, Tambov Symphony Orchestra, Moscow Slobodkin Centre Orchestra, Moscow Chamber Orchestra “Impression”. As an engaged conductor he has participated in different international festivals. Since 2010, after phenomenal production of Verdi’s La Traviata, Mr. Tigran Hakhnazaryan was appointed Chief Conductor of the Komi Republic State Opera & Ballet Theatre, during which he performed dozens of opera, operetta, ballet performances, concerts; such works as Bizet’s Carmen, Leoncavallo’s Il Pagliacci, Puccini’s La Boheme, Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin, The Queen of Spades, Sleeping Beauty, Swan Lake, Rimsky-Korsakov’s The Tsar’s Bride, Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro, Donizetti’s Don Pasquale; J.Strauss Die Fledermaus, Lehar’s Die Lustige Witwe, Calman’s Countess Mariza, etc. Music director & conductor of the opera production Le Domino Noir by Daniel Auber. On April-May 2011 in the XXI International opera and ballet festival "Syktyvkarsa Tulys” (Syktyvkar’s spring) Mr. Tigran Hakhnazaryan successfully conducted various opera, ballet performances and concerts with participation of the world-renowned stars: the Bolshoi Theatre singers, USSR People’s artists Makvala Kasrashvili and Zurab Sotkilava; the Mariinsky Theatre leading singers Yekaterina Shimanovich, Natalia Evstafieva, Eduard Tsanga, Vladimir Vaneev; Prague State Opera baritone Damir Basyrov & others. Mr. Tigran Hakhnazaryan conducted the TSO 2010-2011 concert season’s closing concert in common with the winner of the XIII International Tchaikovsky Competition pianist Miroslav Kultyshev. Younger brother cellist Narek Hakhnazaryan, the winner and holder of several special prizes of the XIV International Tchaikovsky Competition in 2011, which was held under the patronage of Maestro Valery Gergiev, is a permanent soloist in concerts under Tigran Hakhnazaryan’s baton. In 2011 received honorable Thank you letter from the President of Republic Komi for outstanding conducting skills during republic’s anniversary concerts. Tigran Hakhnazaryan was born in 1978 in the family of musicians. Having graduated from the Musical School & Lyceum of Foreign Languages in Yerevan, Republic of Armenia, Tigran Hakhnazaryan entered the Yerevan State Conservatory named after Komitas, violin class (professor Souren Hakhnazaryan) and symphonic conducting department (professor, National artist of the Russian Federation, Emin Khachaturyan). In 2000 he graduated with honors from the Yerevan State Conservatory by both specialities. Having brilliantly conducted the Yerevan Symphonic Orchestra during his diploma concert at the Big Hall of the Philharmonic, Armenia, had a wide feedback in the press and recommended by the examination commission for post-graduate course, which was completed with honors in 2002. In 1998-1999 he worked on probation at the Saint-Petersburg State Conservatory named after Rimsky-Korsakov under the guidance of legendary teacher Ilya Musin, whose outstanding pupils are such well-known conductors as Yuri Temirkanov, Valery Gergiev, Semyon Bychkov, Vassily Synaisky and others. At the same time Mr. Hakhnazaryan cooperates with the Saint-Petersburg State Conservatory symphonic orchestra. In 2004 Tigran Hakhnazaryan participated in the “First international conducting master classes” of the outstanding conductor Kurt Masur, which was held in Wroclav, Poland.
“An excellent school, precise, certain, confident and expressive motions, as whole immersion in the music.” «Vecherniaya Ufa» (Bashkortostan, Russia) “ ....the conductor Tigran Hakhnazaryan reacted on all nicety of interpretation and demonstrated the skill to consolidate the pianist’s peculiar rendition and rich palette of orchestra rendition.” «Golos Armenii» ( Armenia) “…young conductor Tigran Hakhnazaryan is amazingly emotional, plastic and connected with the orchestra and the audience. He is probably the brightest of today’s interpreters of musical classics of Aram Khachaturian.” «Respublika Bashkortostan» (Russia) “Under Tigran Hakhnazaryan’s guidance the orchestra sounds melodiously and organic…” «Aravot» (Yerevan, Armenia) “T. Hakhnazaryan conducted sensible, rich and artistic… with whole-hearted love and was fascinated by sounds fireworks.” «Hayastan» (Armenia)
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| Name:
| William Dawson Halsey
| | Skills:
| Accompanist, Arranger, Choir, Composer, Conductor
| | Phone:
| +1 (212) 568-0848
| | Address:
| 255 Cabrini Blvd #3D, New York, NY 10040, United States
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| | William Halsey is a composer, organist and pianist active in the New York City area. He has written and/or arranged many chorus pieces and songs, including "Oz Yoshir Moshe" a choral setting of the Song of Miriam, and "La Tumba de Julio Jaramillo" six arrangements of songs sung by the Ecuadorean master. He runs an opera workshop that performed in bicentennial celebrations for Meyerbeer, Halevy and Donizetti. He has been the music director at St John Cantius RC Church and the director of the Spanish choir at Our Lady of Perpetual Help in Brooklyn.
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| Name:
| Mena Hanna
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| Composer, Conductor, Singer, Soloist
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| United States
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| | Mena Mark Hanna was born in London, June 1984, of Coptic Egyptian parentage. He has studied privately with Matthew Greenbaum, Robert Saxton, and Salvatore Sciarrino and has attended composition courses of Milton Babbitt, Sir Harrison Birtwistle, and Helmut Lachenmann. He has received a Master of Studies in Musicology with Distinction from Merton College, Oxford University, and is currently pursuing a DPhil in Music Composition at Oxford as a Marshall Scholar. His research interests lie in Coptic chant and speculation on music before the Frankish era, and music as liturgical and spiritual rite.
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| Name:
| Richard Hare
| | Skills:
| Accompanist,Conductor,Player (Pianist/Organist)
| | Phone:
| +44 (0)20 8835 2224
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| 45a Ross Road Wallington, Surrey SM6 8QP, United Kingdom
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| | A dynamic young choral conductor and accompanist working in London and the south east of england (mainly Surrey and Kent). Trained at the Royal Academy of music as an organ scholar. Drawing on a vast knowledge of most choral styles, any type of choral conducting considered.
Also available for solo organ, piano and harpsichord recitals.Specialist fields including early english and twentieth century french organ music.
An excellent talent for improvisation/harmonisation
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| Name:
| Johann Friedrich Wolfgang Alexandr Hasler
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| Composer, Conductor
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| Calle 45A #25-48, apto. 603, Santafé de Bogotá, Colombia
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| | JOHANN HASLER is one of the leading composers of the younger generation in Colombia. He was born in 1972 in Medellín, Colombia, son of German and Chilean immigrants. He started his musical studies at age 4, and has continued them hitherto, studying among others with composers Blas Emilio Atehortúa and Guillermo Gaviria, as well as with musicologists Ellie Anne Duque and Egberto Bermúdez. He started composing at age 14, and has to the date composed more than 120 works for nearly every instrumental, vocal and electronic combination. Some of his works fall clearly in the so called 'contemporary' style of classical music, while others are neo-tonal, either neo-romantic or neo-medieval /neo-renaissance. In 1994 he was awarded a grant from Indiana University and the United States Information Service to attend the Inter-American composition workshop 'Words and Music' where he worked and studied for three weeks with other composers from the Americas, among them Tania León, Mario Lavista and George Crumb. Later that year he was awarded the National Prize of Composition of Colombia for his work "Tres piezas para percusión, arpa, celesta y piano" (Three pieces for percussion, harp, celesta and piano) which was printed next year by the Colombian Institute of Culture, Colcultura. During the following years Hasler was quite active in the Colombian electro-acoustic scene, being selected for the last round of the National Competition of Electro Acoustic Composition in 1995, having his works broadcasted through several Colombian broadcasting companies. In 1996 he obtained the National Prize of Composition for the second time, this time with his work "Délires", for baritone and chamber ensemble. He made his debut as a conductor with this piece, conducting it in the most important theatre of Colombia, the Teatro Colón de Bogotá, the 24th. of October, 1996. In 1999 he obtain a government grant to compose the first full-length Colombian Opera in over 30 years, and he is currently working on this project.
Several of his percussion compositions have been published by Beruskens Muziekuitgeverij of the Netherlands, Oude Pastorienstraat 34/ 5993 XX Maasbre/ The Netherlands and are available through this publisher's distributors in France, Switzerland, Belgium and Germany.
He currently works as Assistant Conductor for the Opera of Colombia, in Bogotá, and wishes to expand his musical scope specializing in opera conducting.
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| Name:
| Derek Hasted
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| Composer, Conductor, Teacher
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| | I'm a guitar teacher, composer and arranger. My website at www.derek-hasted.co.uk has free ensemble guitar music plus lessons, articles and jokes - please visit it and download my ensembles. You can order my published material there too and get details of forthcoming concerts and classes. I run hago, the Hampshire Area Guitar Orchestra at www.hago.org.uk
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