John Cage

John Cage

male, deceased (1992)
John Milton Cage Jr. (September 5, 1912 - August 12, 1992) was an American composer. He is perhaps best known for his 1952 composition "4'33",...
George Crumb

George Crumb

male, 80 years old
George Crumb (born October 24, 1929) is an American composer of modern and avant garde music. He is noted as an explorer of unusual timbres and...
Ned Rothenberg

Ned Rothenberg

male, 53 years old
Ned Rothenberg (b. Boston, Massachusetts, 1956) is an American multi-instrumentalist and composer. He specializes in woodwind instruments,...
Frances-Marie Uitti

Frances-Marie Uitti

female
Composer-improviser-cellist Frances-Marie Uitti is renowned performer of contemporary music and is also famous for her extended technique using two...
Shelley Hirsch

Shelley Hirsch

female, 57 years old
Shelley Hirsch is a singer, performer, and composer. Central to Hirsch's work are her versatile vocal abilities, which are often enmeshed in a...

Günter Müller

male, 55 years old
Günter Müller is a percussionist and drummer active primarily in free improvisation. Müller was born in München, Germany in 1954 but has lived in S...
Caroline Kraabel

Caroline Kraabel

female
Caroline Kraabel is a London-based American composer, improviser, and saxophonist. She is known for her research into the implications of...

J. D. Parran

male
J. D. Parran is an American multi-woodwind player, educator, and composer specializing in jazz and free improvised music. He plays the soprano,...
Matthias Ziegler

Matthias Ziegler

male, 54 years old
Swiss flautist Matthias Ziegler (b. Bern, Switzerland, February 13, 1955) specializes in contemporary music for various sizes of flute (including...
Susan Alcorn

Susan Alcorn

female, 56 years old
Susan Alcorn is an American composer, improvisor, and pedal steel guitarist active in contemporary music and free improvisation. Alcorn started out...