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Hanna Kulenty

Kulenty Hanna, composer, born on 18th March 1961 in Białystok. In 1980-86 she studied composition with Włodzimierz Kotoński at the Music Academy in Warsaw, then in 1986-88 - composition with Louis Andriessen at the Royal Conservatoire of Music and Dance in the Hague. She also participated in International Courses for Young Composers organised by the International Society for Contemporary Music (ISCM/SIMC), Polish Section, as well as the Summer Courses of New Music in Darmstadt. In 1990-91 she worked in Berlin as a Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst scholarship holder.

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Malek Jandali

Malek Jandali (Arabic: مالك جندلي‎) (b. 1972), is a Syrian composer and pianist considered to be among the most versatile and creative musicians in the Arab world. He is the first Syrian and only Arab musician to arrange music based on the oldest music notation in the world, which was discovered in the Bronze City of Ugarit, Syria. Official Website:
http://www.malekjandali.com/

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Cornelis de Bondt

Cornelis de Bondt, born on December 9th 1953 in The Hague, The Netherlands, studied at the Royal Conservatory in that same city. He followed lessons in music theory with Hein Kien, Ineke Kien-Vermaas and Diderik Wagenaar and studied composition under, among others, Jan van Vlijmen and Louis Andriessen.
In 1984 he concluded his studies and was awarded the prize for composition.
Since 1988 he has been employed by the Royal Conservatory as a teacher of music theory.

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Mauricio Kagel

Mauricio Kagel (born in Buenos Aires, December 24, 1931, died in Cologne, September 18, 2008) was an Argentine composer who has lived in Germany for most of his career. He was most famous for his interest in developing the theatrical side of musical performance. Many of his pieces give specific theatrical instructions to the performers, such as to adopt certain facial expressions while playing, to make their stage entrances in a particular way, to physically interact with other performers and so on.

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Guy Pearson

Guy Pearson (8th May, 1959) is a British-born pianist and songwriter. As a composer of songs and instrumental music, he exhibits an expressive style which draws on a broad range of musical influences. He is both studio artist and live performer and has contributed to soundtracks for theatre, documentary film & television. In describing himself as a lyrical minimalist and a musical maximalist he goes on to explain that '..

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Peter Ablinger

Peter Ablinger is an Austrian composer. Ablinger was born in Schwanenstadt, Austria in 1959. He began studying graphic arts and was enthused by free jazz, but completed his studies in composition with G

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Morten Lauridsen

Morten Lauridsen (born February 27, 1943 in Colfax, Washington) is an American composer with Danish roots. He grew up in Portland, Oregon, and attended Whitman College and the University of Southern California, where he studied advanced composition. He is a long-time professor and Chair of the Department of Composition at USC, and was also Composer in Residence of the Los Angeles Master Chorale from 1994 to 2001.

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