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Peter Machajdík
Peter Machajdík (born 1 June 1961) is a Slovak composer of classical music, performer and sound artist. He was born and grew up in Bratislava, Slovakia. He has received critical acclaim for his chamber, orchestral, electronic, choral, and theatre works. In the 1990s, he took part in seminars with Vinko Globokar, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Clarence Barlow, Konrad Boehmer, and others. In 1992, he was the guest of the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program. Machajdik has composed music in nearly all genres, including orchestra, band, chorus, chamber music, works for solo instrument, works for piano and organ, as well as liturgical works and hymns. Moreover, he has created a number of graphic notations, including the Dialogue with... series which is based on letters received from composer colleagues with additional visual elements added. While in this series the written content of the letters may appear as audible text, other graphic notations are purely visual (like Wold). Others agai ...
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Bratislava
Bratislava (German: ''Pressburg'', Hungarian: ''Pozsony'') is the Capital city, capital and largest city of the Slovakia, Slovak Republic and the fourth largest of all List of cities and towns on the river Danube, cities on the river Danube. Officially, the population of the city is about 475,000; however, some sources estimate daily number of people moving around the city based on mobile phone SIM cards is more than 570,000. Bratislava is in southwestern Slovakia at the foot of the Little Carpathians, occupying both banks of the Danube and the left bank of the Morava (river), River Morava. Bordering Austria and Hungary, it is the only national capital to border two sovereign states. The city's history has been influenced by people of many nations and religions, including Austrians, Bulgarians, Croats, Czechs, Germans, Hungarian people, Hungarians, Jews and Slovaks. It was the coronation site and legislative center and capital of the Kingdom of Hungary from 1536 to 1783; elev ...
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Clarence Barlow
Clarence Albertson Barlow (also Klarenz; 27 December 1945 – 29 June 2023) was a British composer of classical and electroacoustic works. He was an academic teacher internationally, at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague from 1990 and at the University of California, Santa Barbara, from 2006, among others. He taught at the Darmstädter Ferienkurse from 1982 to 1994. Life Early life and education Barlow was born on 27 December 1945 in Calcutta, British India.Clarence Barlow
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Of English, Portuguese, and French colonial descent, he wrote his first compositions in 1957. He studied piano, music theory and natural sciences. In 1965 he received a science degree from

Pawel Przytocki
Pavel ( Bulgarian, Russian, Serbian: Павел; Czech, Slovene, and (although Romanian also uses Paul); ; ; ) is a male given name. It is a Slavic cognate of the name Paul (derived from the Greek Pavlos). Pavel may refer to: People Given name *Pavel I of Russia (1754–1801), Emperor of Russia *Paweł Adamowicz (1965–2019), Polish politician * Paweł Brożek (born 1983), Polish footballer * Paweł Cibicki (born 1994), Swedish footballer * Paweł Deląg (born 1970), Polish actor *Pavel Durov (born 1984), Telegram founder *Paweł Fajdek (born 1989), Polish hammer thrower *Pavel Haas (1899-1944), Czech composer who was murdered during the Holocaust *Paweł Jasienica (1909–1970), Polish historian, journalist, essayist and soldier *Paweł Kisielow (born 1945), Polish immunologist *Pavel Kuzmich (born 1988), Russian luger *Paweł Łukaszewski (born 1968), Polish composer *Paweł Mąciwoda (born 1967), Polish bassist for the German rock band Scorpions *Paweł Mykietyn (bor ...
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Florian Ludwig
Florian Ludwig (born 1970) is a German conductor focused on opera. He was music director at the Oper Hagen from 2008 to 2016, and has worked as a guest conductor internationally. He has been professor of orchestral conducting at the Hochschule für Musik Detmold since 2015. Life and career Ludwig was born in 1970 in Gerolzhofen, Franconia, the son of Kantor Klaus Uwe Ludwig. He made music early, playing recorder and piano and singing in the church's children's choir. His father discouraged the idea of becoming a professional musician, and he first enrolled to study physics and astronomy. He then studied at the Musikhochschule München, conducting with Hermann Michael and Lied accompaniment with Helmut Deutsch, graduating with distinction in 1996. He was admitted to a master class in conducting that he completed in 1998. He worked with conductors including Colin Davis and Franz Welser-Möst. With a 1997 scholarship from the city of Munich, he studied with Wolfgang Sawallisch ...
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Anu Tali
Anu Tali (born June 18, 1972) is an Estonian conductor and one of the founders of the Nordic Symphony Orchestra. Life and career Tali was born in Tallinn. Her mother Anne Tali is a prominent mathematician. Her twin sister Kadri Tali is a music manager and the former director of the Estonian National Symphony Orchestra. She started her musical training as a pianist, and graduated from the Tallinn Music High School in 1991. She continued her studies in the Estonian Music Academy as a conductor with Kuno Areng, Toomas Kapten and Roman Matsov. From 1998 to 2000, she studied at the St. Petersburg State Conservatory with Ilya Musin and later with Leonid Korchmar. She began conducting studies in 1995 with Jorma Panula at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki. In 1997, Tali and her twin sister Kadri Tali founded the Estonian-Finnish Symphony Orchestra, with Anu Tali as the orchestra's conductor and Kadri Tali as its manager. The orchestra later took on the name of the Nordic Symphony O ...
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Benjamin Bayl
Benjamin Bayl is a Dutch and Australian conductor who works with symphony and chamber orchestras, opera houses and period instrument orchestras in Europe, Asia and Australia. Early life and education In 1997, Bayl was the first Australian to become Organ Scholar of King's College, Cambridge, and he later studied at the Royal Academy of Music with Colin Metters and George Hurst. Career In his earlier years he played basso continuo for Concerto Copenhagen, Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, The English Concert, The Sixteen, Gabrieli Consort & Players and His Majestys Sagbutts & Cornetts. In 2006 he was appointed Assistant Conductor to the Budapest Festival Orchestra and Iván Fischer at the beginning of his career. He is a founder and conductor of Australian Romantic & Classical Orchestra (formerly orchestra seventeen88), Artistic Director of Odissea Orchestra & Choir and was founder and Artistic Director of London's Orchestra of the City and Saraband Consort. He co ...
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David Moss (musician)
David Moss (born January 21, 1949, in New York City) is an American composer, percussionist and self-taught vocalist, founder of the David Moss Dense Band; co-founder and artistic director of the ''Institute for Living Voice'', Antwerp. His performances are noted for their innovative style, multimedia approach and improvisation. Moss has lived in Berlin, Germany since 1991, when he received a fellowship from the prestigious Berlin Artist Program of the DAAD. Biography Between 1963 and 1968 Moss studied percussion at Hartt College of Music and Hartford Symphony with Joe Porcaro, Al Lepak, Richard Lepore. In the following years he took percussion with Tanjore Ranganathan at Wesleyan University and composition with Bill Dixon at Bennington College. From 1971 to 1973, Moss played percussion for the Bill Dixon Ensemble. In the early 1980s he played on the first album by The Golden Palominos. Since his education has finished, he performed in many cities worldwide; in 1991 and 19 ...
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Floraleda Sacchi
Floraleda Sacchi (June 14, 1978) is an Italian harpist, composer and musicologist born in Como. Biography She studied music in Italy, the United States and Canada, with Lisetta Rossi, Alice Giles, Judy Loman, Alice Chalifoux. She has won prizes, in Italy and abroad, at 16 music competitions. Between 1998 and 2012 she performed more than 600 concerts in Europe, North and South America, and Asia in concert halls and festivals. She plays pedal harp (also electro and Celtic harp), as well as historical instruments (single and double action pedal harp). She has written articles on musicology related to the harp and harpists. A book by her, entitled '' Elias Parish Alvars, Life, Music, Documents'' published in 1999, received the Harpa Award (Prague 1999). She has edited 18th and 19th century harp music, bringing to the public several forgotten composers (such as Sophia Dussek or Alphonse Hasselmans). She is the author of shows uniting music and acting, including ''Mystery Tal ...
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Yes (band)
Yes are an English progressive rock band formed in London in 1968. Comprising List of Yes band members, 20 full-time musicians over their career, their most notable members include lead singer Jon Anderson, bassist Chris Squire, guitarists Steve Howe and Trevor Rabin, drummers Bill Bruford and Alan White (Yes drummer), Alan White, and keyboardists Tony Kaye (musician), Tony Kaye and Rick Wakeman. The band have explored several musical styles and are often regarded as progressive rock pioneers. Since February 2023, the band's line-up consists of Howe, keyboardist Geoff Downes, bassist Billy Sherwood, singer Jon Davison, and drummer Jay Schellen. Founded by Anderson, Squire, Bruford, Kaye, and guitarist Peter Banks, Yes began performing a mix of original songs and covers of Rock music, rock, Pop music, pop, Blues, blues, and Jazz, jazz songs, as showcased on their first two albums, ''Yes (Yes album), Yes'' (1969) and ''Time and a Word'' (1970). A change of direction in 1970 after ...
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