The Delian Society was an international community of composers, performers, academics, independent scholars,

recording engineer An audio engineer (also known as a sound engineer or recording engineer) helps to produce a recording or a live performance, balancing and adjusting sound sources using equalization, dynamics processing and audio effects, mixing, reproduction, ...

s, music publishers, and amateurs dedicated to revitalizing and promoting

tonality Tonality is the arrangement of pitches and/or chords of a musical work in a hierarchy of perceived relations, stabilities, attractions and directionality. In this hierarchy, the single pitch or triadic chord with the greatest stability is call ...

in contemporary art music. The society was founded on 23 January 2004 by American composer

Joseph Dillon Ford Joseph Dillon Ford (born February 6, 1952 in Americus, Georgia, US, died March 8, 2017) was an American composer and author. He held undergraduate degrees in music and graduate degrees in both musicology and landscape architecture. Although he foc ...

and takes its name from the Greek Island of

Delos The island of Delos (; el, Δήλος ; Attic: , Doric: ), near Mykonos, near the centre of the Cyclades archipelago, is one of the most important mythological, historical, and archaeological sites in Greece. The excavations in the island are ...

, legendary birthplace of

Apollo Apollo, grc, Ἀπόλλωνος, Apóllōnos, label=genitive , ; , grc-dor, Ἀπέλλων, Apéllōn, ; grc, Ἀπείλων, Apeílōn, label=Arcadocypriot Greek, ; grc-aeo, Ἄπλουν, Áploun, la, Apollō, la, Apollinis, label= ...

, god of music and light. Members have collaborated in producing an ongoing series of Delian Suites for various soloists and ensembles.

Members

As of 2010, the society's members included:Delian Society
Member List
Retrieved 17 January 2014. * Michael Conway Baker * Elisabetta Brusa *

Jean Chatillon Jean Chatillon (13 September 1937 – 16 January 2019) was a Canadian composer and music educator. Early life Chatillon was born into a family of musicians, in 1937, in Nicolet, Quebec. In 1951 he began to play piano and to compose.

Grant Colburn Grant Colburn (born in Wisconsin in 1966) is an American composer, pianist and harpsichordist. He studied harpsichord with Igor Kipnis and composition with Irwin Sonenfield. He is the author of six published collections of neo-baroque and neo-renai ...

Edward Gold Edward Gold (July 25, 1936 to March 2, 2022), was an American pianist and composer. Early life Gold was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York and lived most of his adult life in Manhattan. Education He attended public schools and majored in ...

Anthony Linden Jones Anthony Linden Jones (born 1959 in Sydney, Australia) is a composer, conductor and performer living in the Hawkesbury region, on the north west fringe of Sydney. He composes for concert pieces, film scores, songs, music for theatre and dance, an ...

Roman Turovsky-Savchuk Roman Turovsky-Savchuk (Ukrainian: Роман Туровський-Савчук) is an American artist-painter, photographer and videoinstallation artist, as well as a lutenist-composer,

References

External links

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