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• Akiho, Andy
  ...’s “News Hour with Jim Lehrer” and by organizations such as Bang on a Can, American Composers Forum, and The Society for New Music. ...usic Northwest Festival, and Avaloch Farm Music Institute, where he is the Composer-in-Residence. Akiho's debut CD No One To Know One, on innova Recordings, fe
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• Drum Ceremony
  [[Image:changethistothecomposername.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Composer Name]] <!-- fill in the name of the file (it can be a .jpg or a .gif) as well as the composer's name in the fields above. You may delete this text once this is done.-->
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• Proto, Frank
  [[Image:composername.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Composer Name]] Teachers: Self-taught composer
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• Leonard, Stanley
  ...hony, two world premier performances of commissioned works, as well as two American premieres. He performed with the PSO on more than fifty recordings. Pittsbu ...l known method Pedal Technique for the Timpani. Stanley is a member of the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers. He performs and conducts his
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• Mackey, John
  [[Image:composername.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Composer Name]] ...Dallas Theater Center, New York City Ballet, the Dallas Wind Symphony, the American Bandmasters Association, and many universities, high schools, middle school
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• Hibbard, William
  ...mmendation of Excellence Award from Broadcast Music Inc (BMI). In 1990 the American Composers Alliance conferred its Laurel Leaf Award upon the Center for New ...r soprano, trumpet and violin was selected by the U.S. jury as one of five American works to be submitted for the 1977 ISCM Festival in Bonn, Germany. In 1988
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• Laurello, Michael
  Michael Laurello (b. 1981) is an American composer, recording/mixing engineer, and pianist whose music reflects his fascinatio ...h Anniversary National Conference, participation in the Nashville Symphony Composer Lab, participation in the EarShot Berkeley Symphony Readings, a Baumgardner
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• Brehm, Alvin
  <!-- Enter the composer's biography here --> ...Chamber Orchestra, and the Y Orchestra. He has been guest composer at the American Academy in Rome, Chairman of the National Endowment Chamber Music and New M
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• Schankler, Isaac
  Isaac Schankler is a composer, accordionist, and electronic musician living in Los Angeles. Their music h ...n, the American Composers Forum, the Atlantic Center for the Arts, and the American Prize. Schankler is a past winner of the USC Sadye J. Moss Composition Priz
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• Planchart, Alejandro
  ...(born July 29, 1935) is a Venezuelan-American musicologist, conductor, and composer. He is considered to be one of the leading scholars on the music of Guillau ...e music of Guillaume Du Fay and other Renaissance topics, as well as Latin American music and aspects of 20th century music. With the Cappella Cordina he issue
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• MacCallum, John
  ...on trio, the recording of which was supported by a grant from the American Composer’s Forum, and The Delicate Texture of Time (2012-13) for eight players com .... In 2007, while working on his doctorate, John was awarded a FACE (French American Cultural Exchange) Fellowship to work at the Centre International de Réche
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• Ewazen, Eric
  ...the League of Composers--International Society of Contemporary Music, and Composer-In-Residence with the Orchestra of St. Luke's in New York City. He has been <!-- Enter the composer's biography here -->
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• Becker, Bob
  <!-- Enter the composer's biography here --> ...heki. In addition, he has worked closely with some of the most significant American exponents of Indian classical music - sitarist Peter Row, bansuri flutist S
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• Hennagin, Michael
  Composer of twentieth-century classical music Michael Hennagin was born in The Dalle He served as the University of Oklahoma's composer-in-residence and professor of music theory and composition from 1972 to 199
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• Childs, Mary Ellen
  ...ed first place awards at the International Multi-Image Festival and at the American Film and Video Festival, and her electronic Standpoints, a collaboration wi ...the Walker Art Center, two commissioning grants from Lila Wallace/Meet the Composer (1992, 1996), and three commissions from the prestigious Rockefeller Multi-
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• Rossi, Mick
  Pianist, composer, percussionist, conductor and arranger Mick Rossi, a member of the Philip G ...and grants include Grammy nomination as Orchestrator/Keyboardist, Meet The Composer, State Council on the Arts, and the Eubie Blake Scholarship. He holds a B.A
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• Theofanidis, Christopher
  ...is, Detroit, and California Symphonies, and many others. He also served as Composer of the Year for the Pittsburgh Symphony during their 2006-2007 Season, for ...rizes, a Fulbright Fellowship to France, a Tanglewood Fellowhship, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters' Charles Ives Fellowship. In 2007 he was nomina
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• Cloud-Polyphonies
  <!-- fill in the name of the file (it can be a .jpg or a .gif) as well as the composer's name in the fields above. You may delete this text once this is done.--> ...d the idea of inviting me to write a percussion sextet for a consortium of American Universities, my first thoughts were that a percussion sextet could be the
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• Fox, James M.
  ...swept open spaces of the American West," and Frank J. Oteri, editor of the American Music Center's NewMusicBox, wrote, "Easily the most beautiful thing I heard ...ands, and subsequently has visited universities across the U.S. as a guest composer. He co-edited, with Barney Childs and Elliot Schwartz , the second (expande
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• Steiger, Rand
  ...stra, Talea Ensemble, and the Los Angeles Philharmonic, where he served as Composer Fellow. Soloists he has composed for include Matthew Barley, Maya Beiser, C ...Puckette, the leading computer music researcher of his generation. He was Composer-in-Residence at the California Institute for Telecommunications and Informa
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• Cage, John
  <!-- Enter the composer's biography here --> ...rnia, U.S.—died August 12, 1992, New York, New York), American avant-garde composer whose inventive compositions and unorthodox ideas profoundly influenced mid
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• Shawver, Alex
  ...med a cosmopolitan array of influences on his development as a teacher and composer. ...ent years, Alex has been particularly interested in 20th- and 21st-Century American music, especially that of the Minimalist movement associated with living co
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• Deane, Christopher
  ...en, Quest, and Haunted Landscapes. Deane served as a percussionist for the American Dance Festival from 1992 to 1996. He has also served as faculty percussioni ...,”“Quest,”and“Haunted Landscapes.” Deane served as a percussionist for the American Dance Festival from 1992–96. He also served as faculty percussionist for
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• Fiday, Michael
  ...e and elsewhere by a diverse range of performers such as Atlanta Symphony, American Composers Orchestra, Oakland East Bay Symphony, Percussion Ensemble of The ...of numerous awards, grants and residencies from, among others, BMI, ASCAP, American Composers Forum, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, The MacDowell Colon
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• Ross, Walter
  ...tudied under Robert Palmer and Karel Husa), he received an Organization of American States Fellowship to study composition privately under Alberto Ginastera in In 1997 he wrote a cantata featuring the poetry of Rita Dove, American Poet Laureate. She sang as the soloist at the premier with the Charlottesvi
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• Erickson, Frank
  [[Image:composername.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Composer Name]] ...d Publishers), Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, Pi Kappa Lamda, Phi Beta Mu, and the American Bandmasters Association.<ref>[http://www.windrep.org/Frank_Erickson Frank E
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• Mackey, Steven
  Country: Frankfurt, Germany; American <br /> ...d New Jersey Symphony Orchestra among others.<ref>http://www.boosey.com/cr/composer/Steven+Mackey</ref>
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• Colgrass, Michael
  ...re his wide-ranging performance venues included the New York Philharmonic, American Ballet Theater, Dizzy Gillespie, the Modern Jazz Quartet, the original West ...s do exercises from this book. His newest book, “Adventures of an American Composer,” is published by Meredith Music and distributed by the Hal Leonard Corpo
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• Price, William
  [[Image:composername.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Composer Name]] ...awards, the 2004 Percussive Arts Society Composition Competition, the 2002 American Composers Forum Sonic Circuits Competition, the 2007 Alabama Music Teachers
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• Stark, Bruce
  The music of American composer/pianist Bruce Stark (born in San Diego and raised in Lakeside, California) ...have been featured in the 2011 National Flute Association Convention, The American Piano Festival in Maryland, The International Trombone Festival, the Canber
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• Stein, Leon
  ...mmission Award Contest in 1950 for his Symphony No. 2, a work described by composer and critic Peggy Glanville-Hicks as music of "considerable power." ...ks Structure and Style and Anthology of Musical Forms, and a member of the American Composers Alliance and the Society of Composers, Inc.
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• Peterson, Russell
  ...ERSON (b. 1969) An accomplished classical/jazz saxophonist, bassoonist and composer, Russell Peterson holds degrees from Youngstown State University (Ohio), Le ..."MOUNTAIN ROADS" is available on Albany Records. Russell's first solo CD "AMERICAN BREATH" is on Barking Dog Records and features the music of David Maslanka,
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• Thomas, Andrew
  <!-- Enter the composer's biography here --> Andrew William Thomas (b. October 8, 1939 in Ithaca, NY) is an American composer. He studied with Karel Husa at Cornell University, with Nadia Boulanger in
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• Siegel, Wayne
  ...grant in composition from the Danish Art Council, working as a free-lance composer in the years that followed. After two years as administrative director of t <!-- Enter the composer's biography here -->
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• Kraft, William
  <!-- Enter the composer's biography here --> ...h the orchestra, he was Assistant Conductor for 3 years, and served as its composer-in-residence from 1981-1985, during which time he founded and directed the
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• Cowell, Henry
  <!-- Enter the composer's biography here --> ...ell was a true American original, and one of the most important figures in American music of the twentieth century. Born in Menlo Park, California in 1897 to a
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• Gehlhaar, Rolf
  ...(born 30 December, 1943) in Breslau (now Wrocław, Poland), is an American composer. ...about the same time began to compose for fun (Schürmann 1976, 20). He took American citizenship in 1958 and studied at Yale University and the University of Ca
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• Becker, John J.
  ...], [[Carl Ruggles]], [[Henry Cowell]], and [[Wallingford Riegger]] as "The American Five" of "ultra-modern" music.<ref>http://composers.com/john-j-becker</ref> <!-- Enter the composer's biography here -->
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• Kupferman, Meyer
  <!-- Enter the composer's biography here --> ...g on the “Pale” between Kiev, Odessa and Eastern Poland. Fanny's flight to American first brought her to the mid-west where she worked in the mills and factori
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• Russo, William
  ...03), better known as Bill Russo during his earlier career, was an American composer, conductor, jazz musician, arranger, teacher and author from Chicago, Illin ...for soloist, chorus, dancers, and rock band, The Civil War paralleled the American Civil War and the martyrdom of President Lincoln with the turbulent civil r
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• Johnston, Benjamin
  Johnston, Ben (b. March 15, 1926, Macon, Georgia). Esteemed American composer of mostly chamber, choral and vocal works that have been performed througho ...clude a Guggenheim Fellowship (1959). He has received commissions from the American Music Center, the Concord String Quartet, the Merce Cunningham Dance Compan
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• Kramer, Jonathan
  ...duced and hosted several local and national radio programs and represented American Public Radio three times at the International Rostrum of Composers in Paris ...just completed a book on postmodern music and a cello composition for the American Holocaust Museum.
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• Snider, Robert C.
  [[Image:composername.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Composer Name]] ...ssociation, the Midwest Clinic, the Western International Band Clinic, the American Band College, and on three Percussive Arts Society International Convention
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• Hodkinson, Sydney
  Hanson Institute for American Music for pianist Barry Snyder , to be premiered in the Fall of 2006, the c catalogs of Theodore Presser, American Composers Alliance, Associated Music Publishers (G. Schirmer),
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• Husa, Karel
  ...and Phoenix Records, among others.<ref>http://www.musicsalesclassical.com/composer/short-bio/Karel-Husa</ref> <!-- Enter the composer's biography here -->
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• Mincek, Alex
  ...ent of a Guggenheim Fellowship, Alpert Award, and multiple awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His music has also been recognized through com ...e has collaborated with ensembles including the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, American Composers Orchestra, Janacek Philharmonic, Ensemble Recherche, Ensemble Lin
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• Tenney, James
  ...ve Reich's Pendulum Music (1967) on May 27, 1969, at the Whitney Museum of American Art, alongside Michael Snow, Richard Serra and Bruce Nauman. Tenney also pe <!-- Enter the composer's biography here -->
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• Gordon, Michael
  ...nstruments divided into four microtonally tuned groups. Under the baton of composer/conductor John Adams, The Ensemble Modern Orchestra toured Sunshine of your ...Los Angeles Philharmonic, and Gotham (about New York City) in 2004 for the American Composers Orchestra. Gordon and Morrison are reunited in the 2014/15 season
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• Oliveros, Pauline
  ...to the universe and facets of sounds. Since the 1960's she has influenced American music profoundly through her work with improvisation, meditation, electroni <!-- Enter the composer's biography here -->
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• Price, Paul
  [[Image:PaulPrice.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Composer Name]] ...and Conductors awarded him a citation for his "outstanding contribution to American music." These two awards well describe Paul Price's importance to contempor
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