Tan Dun

Tan Dun

male, 52 years old
contemporaryclassical, BAFTA winner, Best Original Music Score Academy Award winner, chinese, hero, Han Chinese…Classical composer
Tan Dun is a Chinese contemporary classical composer, most widely known for his Grammy and Oscar-award winning scores for the movies "Crouching...
Lukas Ligeti

Lukas Ligeti

male
Stanford University, Roy Nathanson, George Lewis, Henry Kaiser, university of the witwatersrand, jazz…Classical composer, Contemporary classical music, contemporaryclassical
Lukas Ligeti is a composer and percussionist. His work incorporates elements of jazz, contemporary classical, and various world musics. Ligeti...
Aidan Baker

Aidan Baker

male
ambient music, musician, ambient/doom metal, Canadian experimental musician, post-rock, doom metal…contemporaryclassical
Aidan Baker is a Canadian experimental musician and writer. Aidan, a resident of Toronto, Canada, has been recording and releasing music since 1999...

Lauren Newton

female
University of Oregon, Vienna Art Orchestra, European musician, Women in jazz, Kindertotenlieder, Adriana Hölszky…contemporaryclassical, Contemporary classical music
Lauren Newton is an avant-garde jazz and contemporary classical singer, composer and teacher, best known as a founding member of the Vienna Art...
Erik Lindgren

Erik Lindgren

male
Cleanup from September 2006, Jordan Marsh, Guildhall School of Music, American Broadcasting Company, Keyboard instrument, keyboards…contemporaryclassical
Erik Lindgren is American composer and keyboards player. He runs Arf Arf Records, and has led (or been a member of) several ensembles: The Moving...
Jan Degaetani

Jan Degaetani

female, deceased (1989)
Ancient Voices of Child, Contemporary classical music, contemporaryclassical, song cycle, atonal, sprechstimme
Jan (Janice) DeGaetani (b. Massillon, Ohio, July 10, 1933; d. Rochester, New York, September 15, 1989) was an American mezzo-soprano known for her...
Ric Graebner

Ric Graebner

male
composer, British, southampton university, contemporaryclassical, Arditti Quartet, Lontano
Ric Graebner is a British contemporary classical music composer based in Brighton. He studied at the Universities of Cambridge and York, and...
George Dreyfus

George Dreyfus

male, 81 years old
Contemporary classical music, Order of Australia, wuppertal, Member of the Order of Australia, Classical composer, Australian…contemporaryclassical
George Dreyfus AM (born July 22, 1928, Wuppertal, Germany) is a contemporary classical, film and television composer in Australia.
Luc van Hove

Luc van Hove

male
composer, Classical composer, Contemporary classical music, contemporaryclassical, Wilrijk
Luc Van Hove (born 1957, Wilrijk, Belgium) is a composer. Van Hove studied at the Royal Conservatory of Antwerp. His works are in a broadly...
Michel Strauss

Michel Strauss

male, 58 years old
Yale University, Conservatoire de Paris, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Sandor Vegh, Serge Collot, French classical cellist…contemporaryclassical, Contemporary classical music
Michel Strauss (born 1951, Paris) is a French cellist. Strauss was educated by Paul Tortelier and Maurice Gaudron at the Conservatoire de Paris,...