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Andrey Pavlovich Petrov
2 September 1930—15 February 2006
Petrov is mainly known as a composer of film music. "Radda and Loiko" "The Station Master" "The Shore of Hope" Beware of... [→read more]
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Latest composer news
- Willem Breuker dies after disease
(23 July 2010)The well-known Dutch musician and composer Willem Breuker has died, 65 years old. He had been ill for some time.
Breuker was an important figure in the international improvised music scene. He founded his own orchestra in 1974. This "Willem Breuker Kollektief" was one of the first ensembles in The Netherlands that brought improvised music for a big audience. The orchestra played around the whole world.
Breuker has won many music prizes,among which the VPRO/Boy Edgar Prize in 1993.
[Source: www.limburger.nl]
- Elgar £20 note no longer valid
(1 July 2010)As of today (1 July 2010) the British will no longer be able to pay with the £20 bank note picturing Edward Elgar. It is being replaced by one with the image of economist Adam Smith.
The removal of this composer from the bank notes means that the arts are no longer represented on British paper money, much to the dislike of some.
[Source: www.journallive.co.uk]
- 2010 NEA Opera Award for Philips Glass
(29 June 2010)Phillip Glass is one of four recipients of the 2010 Opera Award of the NEA. The award is $25,000. The Opera Honors of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) were launched three years ago, and has been awarded earlier to singers Leontyne Price and Marilyn Horne, composers John Adams and Carlisle Floyd, and conductors James Levine and Julius Rudel.
The awards ceremony, which is open to the public, will take place on 22 October at the Kennedy Center in Washington.
[Source: weblogs.baltimoresun.com]
- Turkish award for Arvo Pärt
(9 June 2010)On Monday the Estonian composer Arvo Pärt has been awarded the the second honoree of this year’s İstanbul International Music Festival.
Pärt received the Lifetime Achievement Award of the 38th festival from the hands of the Turkish President Abdullah Gül and his Estonian colleague, Toomas Hendrik Ilves. This took place during a ceremony ahead of the premiere performance of “Adam’s Lament,” Pärt’s newest symphonic work.
The composition is dedicated to İstanbul, and had its world premiere at the historic Aya İrini Museum.
[Source: www.todayszaman.com]
- Death of Arne Nordheim, 78 years old
(8 June 2010)Last Saturday, 5 June, the Norwegian composer Arne Nordheim died in Oslo. He was 78 years old.
Nordheim studied in Oslo, Copenhagen and Paris. He also studied electronic music with Gaudeamus in Bilthoven, The Netherlands.
[Source: www.nrc.nl]
- Benjamin Lees dies of heart failure
(2 June 2010)Benjamin Lees, who taught composition in the early 1960s at the Peabody Institute and later worked on the faculties of Juilliard and Manhattan schools of music, died of heart failure on 31 May.
Lees was born in Manchuria of Russian parents, but grew up in California, USA.
[Source: weblogs.baltimoresun.com]