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Joyce Beetuan Koh
Joyce Beetuan Koh (born June 9, 1968) is a Singaporean composer, sound artist, and educator. Koh's Career Koh studied composition at King's College London under the tutorship of David Lumsdaine. She also studied at The University of York with Nicola Lefanu, where she received her Ph.D. in 1997. Other notable events in Koh's career have included receiving a Nadia Boulanger scholarship, working alongside composer Brian Ferneyhough in 1995, and composing as a collaborationist with composers Tristan Murail in 1996 and with Hans Tutschku and Mikhail Malt in 1997–98. In subsequent years, Kho pivoted her career toward music education. Her first position in academia came in 2004, when she was offered a fellowship in residence at a small German music school, Herrenhaus Edenkoben. In 2007, Koh returned to her country of origin, Singapore, and became a founding faculty member in the music department of School of the arts, Singapore. She also helped found the Composers' Society of Sing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Singapore
Singapore (), officially the Republic of Singapore, is a sovereign island country and city-state in maritime Southeast Asia. It lies about one degree of latitude () north of the equator, off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, bordering the Strait of Malacca to the west, the Singapore Strait to the south, the South China Sea to the east, and the Straits of Johor to the north. The country's territory is composed of one main island, 63 satellite islands and islets, and one outlying islet; the combined area of these has increased by 25% since the country's independence as a result of extensive land reclamation projects. It has the third highest population density in the world. With a multicultural population and recognising the need to respect cultural identities of the major ethnic groups within the nation, Singapore has four official languages: English, Malay, Mandarin, and Tamil. English is the lingua franca and numerous public services are available only in Eng ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nanyang Academy Of Fine Arts
Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (NAFA); (Standard Chinese: 南洋艺术学院; ms, Akademi Seni Halus Nanyang; ta, நன்யாங் அகாடமி ஆஃப் ஃபைன் ஆர்ட்ஸ்) is a publicly-funded post-secondary arts institution, planned to be a constituent college of the University of the Arts Singapore (UAS) by 2024 along with the LASALLE College of the Arts in Singapore. NAFA offers courses at the secondary diploma and bachelor's degree levels. The NAFA diploma programmes provides comprehensive arts and design education appropriate of Singapore's polytechnic-level for students who had successfully completed their secondary school education, which is 10 years of studies in Singapore. As an industry-oriented alternative to a broader-based junior college education in Singapore, NAFA graduates in Singapore are sought after for work or many continue to complete university degrees. NAFA in Singapore admit the majority of their students after secondary ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
NTU Centre Of Contemporary Art
Ntu is a village in Nagaland, India. NTU may stand for: * National Taxpayers Union, a nonprofit organization in the United States * National Team Unity, a political party in Trinidad and Tobago * National Television Company of Ukraine, a Ukrainian television broadcaster * Naval Air Station Oceana, a military airport in Virginia Beach, Virginia, U.S. * Nephelometric Turbidity Unit, a measure of the cloudiness of a liquid * Network Termination Unit, a networking device that connects the PSTN to CPE * Nevada–Texas–Utah Retort, a shale oil extraction technology * New Threat Upgrade, a US Navy anti-air warfare ships system upgrade * NTU method uses the Number of Transfer Units to calculate the effectiveness of a heat exchanger Education * Nantong University, a university in Nantong, Jiangsu, China * Nanyang Technological University, an autonomous university in Singapore * National Taiwan University, a university in Taiwan * National Technological University, the National Uni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Étienne Turpin
Étienne, a French analog of Stephen or Steven, is a masculine given name. An archaic variant of the name, prevalent up to the mid-17th century, is Estienne. Étienne, Etienne, Ettiene or Ettienne may refer to: People Scientists and inventors * Étienne Bézout (1730–1783), French mathematician * Étienne Louis Geoffroy (1725–1810), French entomologist and pharmacist *Étienne Laspeyres (1834–1913), German professor of economics and statistics * Étienne Lenoir (1822–1900), Belgian engineer who invented the first internal combustion engine to be produced in numbers *Étienne Lenoir (instrument maker) (1744–1832), French scientific instrument maker and inventor of the repeating circle surveying instrument *Étienne Mulsant (1797–1880), French entomologist and ornithologist * Étienne Pascal (1588–1651), French lawyer, scientist and mathematician best known as the father of Blaise Pascal *Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (1772–1844), French naturalist *Étienne Pier ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Gallery Singapore
ms, Galeri Kebangsaan Singapura ta, சிங்கப்பூர் தேசிய கலைக்கூடம் , logo = National_Gallery_Singapore_logo.svg , image = Interior_of_the_National_Gallery_Singapore.jpg , caption = Interior of the National Gallery of Singapore with the airy corridors on 4 levels, the staircases and escalators, in the evening. , mapframe=yes , mapframe-caption=Interactive fullscreen map , mapframe-zoom=15 , mapframe-marker=museum , mapframe-wikidata=yes , coordinates= , established = , dissolved = , location = 1 St. Andrew's Road, Singapore 178957 , type = Art museum , collections = Singaporean and Eastern art , collection_size = Approx. 9,000 objects , visitors = 1,585,332 (2016) , architect = studioMilou Singapore CPG Consultants , director = Dr. Eugene Tan , chairperson = Hsieh Fu Hua , publictransit = City Hall Esplanade Clarke Quay , website = The National Gallery Singapore, often known exonymously as the National Ga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thalia Myers
Thalia Myers (born in the West of England in 1945) is a British concert pianist, teacher and animateur. Her solo recordings include six albums of contemporary works, as well as music by Haydn and Chopin. She is the initiator of the highly successful Spectrum anthologies, published by the ABRSM, and the Chamber Music Exchange. References "Thalia Myers Profile" Royal College of Music, Junior Department External links * "Thalia Myers releases" iTunes "Thalia Myers 'radio'" Last.fm {{DEFAULTSORT:Myers, Thalia 1945 births Living people British classical pianists British women pianists Date of birth missing (living people) 21st-century classical pianists 21st-century women pianists ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frode Haltli
Frode Haltli (born 15 May 1975 in Levanger), is a Norwegian accordion player. Biography Haltli started to play the accordion at the age of seven and over the following few years he won several national competitions and scholarships and was awarded first prize in Norwegian TV's ' ''1991''. He studied the accordion at The Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo from 1994 and at the Royal Danish Conservatory of Music in Copenhagen, where he debuted with a concert in 2000. He was awarded the Young Soloist of the Year prize 2001 by the Norwegian Concert Institute at the Bergen International Festival 2000, as well as second prize in the prestigious International Gaudeamus Interpreters Competition in the Netherlands. His debut album '' Looking on Darkness'' (2002) was awarded Spellemannprisen (a Norwegian Grammy) for the best contemporary music album. He also received the French Prix Gus Viseur in 2004 for the same album. His next album ''Passing images'' (2007) featured his own inter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prodromos Symeonidis
Prodromos (Greek for "forerunner") may refer to: * a title of John the Baptist * Prodromoi, a light cavalry unit in Ancient Greece * Prodromos, Paros * Prodromos, Cyprus * Prodromos (neighborhood in Larnaca), Cyprus * Prodromus, a preliminary publication * Prodromos, Mount Athos, an Athonite skete belonging to the Great Lavra Monastery * Prodromos Monastery, in Arcadia Notable people * Theodore Prodromos ( 1100 – c. 1168), Byzantine writer * Prodromos Bodosakis-Athanasiadis (1890–1979), Greek businessman * Prodromos Dreliozis (born 1975), Greek basketball player * Prodromos Kathiniotis, Greek television celebrity and singer * Prodromos Meravidis (1910–1981), Greek film director * Prodromos Nikolaidis Prodromos "Makis" Nikolaidis (alternate spelling: Nikolaides) (Greek: Πρόδρομος "Μάκης" Νικολαΐδης; born July 13, 1978) is a former Greek-Cypriot professional basketball player. At a height of 2.01 m (6'7") tall, and 102&n ... (born 1978), Greek-Cy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nieuw Ensemble
The Nieuw Ensemble ( or ; English: New Ensemble) is a Dutch musical ensemble. It was founded in 1980 in Amsterdam. It has a unique instrumental structure, using plucked instruments such as mandolin, guitar and harp in combination with wind, string and percussion. Ed Spanjaard has been the principal conductor since 1982. Almost 500 pieces have been written for the ensemble. The ensemble has dedicated programmes to the works of a single composer, such as Luciano Berio, Pierre Boulez, Elliott Carter, Franco Donatoni, Brian Ferneyhough, Mauricio Kagel, Ton de Leeuw, György Kurtág, Theo Loevendie and Luigi Nono. Since 1991, programmes featuring new works written especially for the ensemble by Chinese composers such as Tan Dun, Qu Xiao-Song, Xu Shuya, Chen Qigang and Guo Wenjing have appeared. In 1997, the group toured China with concerts in Shanghai and Beijing. The Nieuw Ensemble has performed at the Venice Biennale The Venice Biennale (; it, La Biennale di Venezi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stavanger Symphony Orchestra
The Stavanger Symphony Orchestra ( no, Stavanger Symfoniorkester, SSO) is a symphony orchestra based in Stavanger, Norway. The SSO principal venue is the Stavanger Concert Hall (Stavanger konserthus), performing in the Fartein Valen concert hall. History The Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation founded the orchestra in 1938 as the ''Stavanger musikerforenings orkester'', for radio broadcasts. The orchestra's first artistic leader was the violinist Gunnar Knudsen, from 1938 to 1945. In 1965, the orchestra's name was changed to the ''Symfoniorkestret i Stavanger'', and again in 1982 to its present name. Past artistic leaders of the orchestra have included Susanna Mälkki (2002–2005), and more recently the American conductor Steven Sloane (2007–2013). Christian Vásquez was chief conductor from 2013 to 2019. In addition to its chief conductor, the SSO has appointed conductors with a formal principal responsibility for early music programming, including Frans Brüggen (1990– ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Budapest Symphony Orchestra
The Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra (also known earlier as Budapest Symphony Orchestra) ( hu, Magyar Rádió Szimfonikus Zenekara; MRZE) is a Hungarian radio orchestra. It is part of the Hungarian Television and Broadcasting Organisation, Magyar Rádió. History The Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra (also known earlier as Budapest Symphony Orchestra) / was founded in 1943 by conductor Ernst von Dohnányi. by Robert Adelson, 2012. Originally a salon orchestra was established by the Hungarian Radio In 1936, leading it István Bertha as the conductor, Miklós Fehér, Tibor Ney as the concert master. The future symphony orchestra was founded partially by the memb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BBC Symphony Orchestra
The BBC Symphony Orchestra (BBC SO) is a British orchestra based in London. Founded in 1930, it was the first permanent salaried orchestra in London, and is the only one of the city's five major symphony orchestras not to be self-governing. The BBC SO is the principal broadcast orchestra of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). The orchestra was originally conceived in 1928 as a joint enterprise by the BBC and the conductor Sir Thomas Beecham, but the latter withdrew the next year and the task of assembling and training the orchestra fell to the BBC's director of music, Adrian Boult. Among its guest conductors in its first years was Arturo Toscanini, who judged it the finest orchestra he had ever conducted. During and after the Second World War, Boult strove to maintain standards, but the senior management of the post-war BBC did not allocate the orchestra the resources to meet competition from new and well-funded rivals. After Boult's retirement from the BBC in 1950, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
