This is a list of Composer

Composer

A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...

s of 21st-century classical music

21st-century classical music

21st-century classical music is a diverse art form. Some elements of the previous century have been retained but there is a growing move towards post-modernism, polystylism and eclecticism, which seek to incorporate elements of all styles of music irrespective of whether these are "classical" or...

, sortable by name, year of birth and year of death.

The list includes composers who have made a significant impact on the world of classical music since 2001, whether through major festivals and promoters of contemporary music, broadcast media or commercial recording on widely distributed labels. These composers work in the Western tradition of art music as defined in the article on Classical music

Classical music

Classical music is the art music produced in, or rooted in, the traditions of Western liturgical and secular music, encompassing a broad period from roughly the 11th century to present times...

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List

Names	Birth	Death
Michel van der Aa Michel van der Aa Michel van der Aa is a Dutch composer of contemporary classical music.- Early years :Michel van der Aa trained as a recording engineer at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague...	1970
Keiko Abe Keiko Abe is a Japanese composer and marimba player. She has been a primary figure in the development of the marimba, in terms of expanding both technique and repertoire, and through her collaboration with the Yamaha musical instrument company, developed the modern five-octave concert marimba.- Biography...	1937
Hans Abrahamsen Hans Abrahamsen Hans Abrahamsen is a Danish composer.Born in Copenhagen, Abrahamsen first got to know music through playing the French horn at school. He went on to study music theory at the Royal Danish Academy of Music...	1952
José Antonio Abreu José Antonio Abreu José Antonio Abreu is a Venezuelan pianist, economist, educator, activist, and politician.-Politics and academics:...	1939
Antón García Abril Antón García Abril Antón García Abril is a Spanish composer and musician. In 1997 Plácido Domingo created the role of Lucero in his Divinas Palabras at the Teatro Real in Madrid.-Biography:...	1933
John Adams	1947
John Luther Adams John Luther Adams John Luther Adams is a composer whose music is inspired by nature, especially the landscapes of Alaska where he has lived since 1978.-Biography:...	1953
Mohamed Abdelwahab Abdelfattah Mohamed Abdelwahab Abdelfattah Mohamed Abdelwahab Abdelfattah is an Egyptian composer of contemporary classical music and educator. He is a member of Egypt's third generation of classical composers.-Biography:...	1962
Thomas Adès Thomas Adès Thomas Adès is a British composer, pianist and conductor.-Biography:Adès studied piano with Paul Berkowitz and later composition with Robert Saxton at Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London...	1971
Samuel Adler Samuel Adler (composer) Samuel Hans Adler is an American composer and conductor.-Biography:Adler was born to a Jewish family in Mannheim, Germany, the son of Hugo Chaim Adler, a cantor and composer, and Selma Adler. The family fled to the United States in 1939, where Hugo became the cantor of Temple Emanuel in...	1928
Kati Agócs Kati Agócs Kati Ilona Agócs is a composer of contemporary classical music and faculty member at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, Massachusetts.-Early life:...	1975
Ernani Aguiar Ernani Aguiar Ernani Henrique Chaves Aguiar is a Brazilian composer, choral conductor, and musicologist....	1950
Kalevi Aho Kalevi Aho Kalevi Aho is a Finnish composer.- Career :Born in Forssa, he studied composition at the Sibelius Academy under Einojuhani Rautavaara, receiving a diploma in 1971. He continued his studies for a year in Berlin with Boris Blacher...	1949
Robert Aitken Robert Aitken (composer) Robert Morris Aitken, is a Canadian composer and flautist. He began his career as a teenager playing in a number of orchestras, notably becoming the youngest principal flautist in the history of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra in 1958 at the age if 19. In 1971 he abandoned ensemble performance...	1939
Michael Alcorn Michael Alcorn Michael Alcorn is a composer and the current Director of the School of Music and Sonic Arts at Queen's University, Belfast. He was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland in 1962....	1962
Franghiz Ali-Zadeh Franghiz Ali-Zadeh Franghiz Ali-Zadeh is an Azerbaijani composer and pianist, currently living in Germany. She is best known for her works which combine the musical tradition of the Azerbaijani mugam and 20th century Western compositional techniques, especially those of Arnold Schönberg and Gara Garayev...	1947
Eduardo Alonso-Crespo Eduardo Alonso-Crespo Eduardo Alonso-Crespo is an Argentine composer of classical music.- Biography :Argentine composer and conductor Eduardo Alonso-Crespo was born in San Miguel de Tucumán in 1956, and grew up in the neighboring city of Salta, in Northwestern Argentina...	1956
Miguel Álvarez-Fernández Miguel Álvarez-Fernández Miguel Álvarez-Fernández is a sound artist, composer, theorist and curator based between Madrid and Berlin, where he has taught at the Electronic Music Studio of the Technical University of Berlin...	1979
Maryanne Amacher Maryanne Amacher Maryanne Amacher was an American composer and installation artist.-Biography:Amacher was born in Kane, Pennsylvania, to an American nurse and a Swiss freight train worker. As the only child, she grew up playing the piano. Amacher left Kane to attend the University of Pennsylvania on a full...	1943	2009
Charles Amirkhanian Charles Amirkhanian Charles Amirkhanian is an American composer. He is a percussionist, sound poet, and radio producer of Armenian extraction. He is mostly known for his electroacoustic and text-sound music...	1945
David Amram David Amram David Amram is an American composer, musician, conductor, and writer. As a classical composer and performer, his integration of jazz , ethnic and folk music has led him to work with the likes of Charlie Parker, Thelonious Monk, Dizzy Gillespie, Lionel Hampton, Willie Nelson, Langston...	1930
Gilbert Amy Gilbert Amy Gilbert Amy is a French composer and conductor. In 1954 he entered the Conservatoire de Paris where he was taught and influenced by Olivier Messiaen and Darius Milhaud and studied piano with Yvonne Loriod and fugue with Simone Plé-Caussade. His first compositions date from 1955...	1936
Beth Anderson Beth Anderson Beth Anderson is an American neo-romantic composer. She studied with John Cage, Terry Riley, Robert Ashley, and Larry Austin, among others. She was born in Lexington, Kentucky, USA and grew up in Mt. Sterling, Kentucky...	1950
Julian Anderson Julian Anderson Julian Anderson is a British composer and teacher of composition.-Biography:Anderson studied at Westminster School, then with John Lambert at the Royal College of Music, with Alexander Goehr at Cambridge University, privately with Tristan Murail in Paris, and on courses given by Olivier Messiaen,...	1967
Louis Andriessen Louis Andriessen Louis Andriessen is a Dutch composer and pianist based in Amsterdam. He teaches composition at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague...	1939
István Anhalt István Anhalt István Anhalt, is a Canadian composer.-Biography:Anhalt was born into a Jewish family in Budapest in 1919 and studied with Zoltan Kodaly before being conscripted into a forced labor camp during World War II...	1919
Theodore Antoniou Theodore Antoniou Theodore Antoniou , is a Greek composer and conductor. His works vary from operas and choral works to chamber music, from film and theatre music to solo instrumental works. In addition to his career as composer and conductor, he also holds the position of professor of composition at Boston University...	1935
Georges Aperghis Georges Aperghis Georges Aperghis is a Greek composer working primarily in the field of experimental music theater but has also composed a large amount of non-programmatic chamber music...	1945
Denis ApIvor Denis ApIvor Denis ApIvor was a British composer. He belonged to the generation of modernists that included Humphrey Searle and Elisabeth Lutyens....	1916	2004
Chaya Arbel Chaya Arbel Chaya Arbel was an Israeli composer. She is one of Israel's best known female classical composers and the recipient of the ACUM Prize.-Biography:...	1921	2007
Violet Archer Violet Archer Violet Archer, CM was a Canadian composer, teacher, pianist, organist, and percussionist. Born Violet Balestreri in Montreal, Quebec, her family changed their name to Archer. She died in Ottawa....	1913	2000
Dominick Argento Dominick Argento Dominick Argento is an American composer, best known as a leading composer of lyric opera and choral music...	1927
Craig Armstrong	1959
Gheorghi Arnaoudov	1957
Richard Arnell Richard Arnell Richard Anthony Sayer Arnell was an English composer of classical music. Arnell composed in all the established genres for the concert stage, and his list of works includes six completed symphonies and six string quartets.-Biography:Arnell was born in Hampstead, London...	1917	2009
Malcolm Arnold Malcolm Arnold Sir Malcolm Henry Arnold, CBE was an English composer and symphonist.Malcolm Arnold began his career playing trumpet professionally, but by age thirty his life was devoted to composition. He was ranked with Benjamin Britten as one of the most sought-after composers in Britain...	1921	2006
Vyacheslav Artyomov Vyacheslav Artyomov Vyacheslav Petrovich Artyomov also Artemov is a Russian and Soviet composer.-Biography:Artyomov first studied physics at the Moscow University, then later studied music. He graduated from the Moscow Conservatory in 1968 where studied composition with Nikolai Sidelnikov. He became a member of the...	1940
Alexander Arutiunian Alexander Arutiunian Alexander Grigorevich Arutiunian , also known as Arutunian, Arutyunyan, Arutjunjan or Harutiunian Alexander Grigorevich Arutiunian (Arm. Ալեքսանդր Գրիգորի Հարությունյան), also known as Arutunian, Arutyunyan, Arutjunjan or Harutiunian Alexander Grigorevich Arutiunian (Arm. Ալեքսանդր Գրիգորի...	1920
Robert Ashley Robert Ashley Robert Ashley , is a contemporary American composer, best known for his operas and other theatrical works, many of which incorporate electronics and extended techniques. Along with Gordon Mumma, Ashley was also a major pioneer of audio synthesis.Ashley was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan...	1930
Daniel Asia Daniel Asia Daniel Asia is an American composer.Daniel Asia was born in Seattle, Washington, in the United States of America. He received a B.A. degree from Hampshire College and a M.M. from the Yale University School of Music...	1953
Kenneth Atchley Kenneth Atchley Kenneth Atchley is an American composer, noise artist and reclusive member of the San Francisco Bay Area electronic music community....	1954
Lera Auerbach Lera Auerbach Lera Auerbach is a Russian-born American composer and pianist.-Early life & education:Auerbach was born in Chelyabinsk, a city in the Urals bordering Siberia. She holds degrees in piano and composition from The Juilliard School, where she studied piano with Joseph Kalichstein and composition...	1973
Larry Austin Larry Austin Larry Austin is a United States composer noted for his electronic and computer music works. He was a co-founder and editor of the avant-garde music periodical Source: Music of the Avant Garde...	1930
Richard Ayres Richard Ayres Richard Ayres is a British composer and teacher.Ayres was born in Cornwall, England in 1965. He followed Morton Feldman’s classes at the Darmstadt and Dartington summer schools. He studied composition, electronic music, and trombone at Huddersfield Polytechnic until 1989, graduating with...	1965
Svitlana Azarova Svitlana Azarova thumb|Svitlana AzarovaSvitlana Azarova is a Ukrainian/Dutch composer of contemporary classical music born January 9, 1976 in the Ukrainian SSR of the Soviet Union.-Early years:...	1976
Sérgio Azevedo Sérgio Azevedo Sérgio Azevedo is a Portuguese composer of contemporary classical music. He also writes articles and books about music, collaborates often with the National Radio Broadcasting, and is a teacher at the Escola Superior de Música de Lisboa since 1993.Born in Coimbra, Portugal in 1968, he studied...	1968
Milton Babbitt Milton Babbitt Milton Byron Babbitt was an American composer, music theorist, and teacher. He is particularly noted for his serial and electronic music.-Biography:...	1916	2011
Nicolas Bacri Nicolas Bacri Nicolas Bacri is a French composer. He has written works that include 6 symphonies, 8 string quartets, and 27 concertos.-Career:...	1961
Junsang Bahk Junsang Bahk Junsang Bahk is a celebrated Korean composer, also active in Austria....	1937
Simon Bainbridge Simon Bainbridge Simon Bainbridge is a British composer, and a professor and former head of composition at the Royal Academy of Music, London, and visiting professor at the University of Louisville, Kentucky in the United States.-Biography:...	1952
Claude Baker Claude Baker W. Claude Baker Jr. is an American composer of contemporary classical music.Claude Baker attained a B.M. degree, magna cum laude, from East Carolina University in 1970. He subsequently studied composition at the Eastman School of Music with Samuel Adler and Warren Benson, and holds M.M. and D.M.A...	1948
Leonardo Balada Leonardo Balada Leonardo Balada , is a Catalan American composer, now teaching and composing in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.-Life:...	1933
Osvaldas Balakauskas Osvaldas Balakauskas Osvaldas Balakauskas is a Lithuanian composer of classical music.- Career :Balakauskas graduated from Vilnius Pedagogical University in 1961. After his mandatory service in the Soviet Army between 1961 and 1964, he studied composition with Boris Lyatoshinsky and M. M. Skorik at Kiev Conservatory...	1937
Virko Baley Virko Baley Virko Baley is a renowned Ukrainian-American composer, conductor, and pianist. He was born in Radekhiv, Union of Soviet Socialist Republic , the only child of Petro and Lydia Baley. Before he had celebrated his first birthday, Hitler's army had invaded Poland and World War II had begun...	1938
Claude Ballif Claude Ballif Claude Ballif was a French composer.His music is known as a combination of tonality and serialism - a system that he named metatonality....	1924	2004
Alain Bancquart Alain Bancquart Alain Bancquart is a French composer. He had his musical formation at the "Conservatoire national supérieur de musique de Paris" with Darius Milhaud. He was a violist with the Orchestre National de France until 1973...	1934
Cacilda Borges Barbosa Cacilda Borges Barbosa Cacilda Campos Borges Barbosa was a Brazilian pianist, conductor and composer. She was one of the pioneers of electronic music in Brazil.-Life:...	1914	2010
Stephen Mark Barchan Stephen Mark Barchan Stephen Mark Barchan is a British composer and conductor.-Career:Barchan studied composition with Richard Steinitz and Edwin Roxburgh .Organisations who have presented his music include London Sinfonietta Collective, LSO Discovery, Park Lane...	1982
Vytautas Barkauskas Vytautas Barkauskas Vytautas Barkauskas is a Lithuanian composer and is a Professor of Composition of the Lithuanian Academy of Music, where he has taught since 1961.-Career:...	1931
Warren Barker Warren Barker Warren Barker was an American composer known for work in film, radio, and television. He also worked in Las Vegas, Nevada clubs...	1923	2006
Clarence Barlow Clarence Barlow Clarence Barlow is a composer of classical and electroacoustic works.-Biography:Barlow was born in Calcutta, a member of the anglophone minority, of British and Portuguese descent...	1945
James Barnes James Barnes (composer) James Charles Barnes is an American composer.Barnes studied composition and music theory at the University of Kansas, earning a Bachelor of Music in 1974, and Master of Music in 1975. He studied conducting privately with Zuohuang Chen...	1949
Natasha Barrett Natasha Barrett (composer) Natasha Barrett is a British composer and performer of electroacoustic art music. Her compositional aesthetics are derived from acousmatic issues, but in addition to acousmatic composition she composes for instruments and live electronics, sound installations, multi-media works and computer music...	1972
Richard Barrett Richard Barrett (composer) Richard Barrett is a British composer.-Biography:Barrett began to study music seriously only after graduating in genetics and microbiology at University College London in 1980 . From then until 1983 he took private lessons with Peter Wiegold...	1959
Gerald Barry	1952
Dennis Báthory-Kitsz Dennis Báthory-Kitsz Dennis Báthory-Kitsz Dennis Báthory-Kitsz (born March 14, 1949, Plainfield, New Jersey) Dennis Báthory-Kitsz (born March 14, 1949, Plainfield, New Jersey) (pseudonyms: Dennis Bathory, Dennis Kitsz, Dennis J. Kitsz, Dennis Bathory Kitsz, Kalvos Gesamte, Grey Shadé, D.B...	1949
Carola Bauckholt Carola Bauckholt Carola Bauckholt is a German composer. She was born in Krefeld, Germany, She worked at the theater at the Marienplatz in Krefeld and studied music with Mauricio Kagel the Cologne Musikhochschule from 1978-84....	1959
François Bayle François Bayle François Bayle is a composer of Musique concrète or acousmatic music.In the 1950s he studied with Olivier Messiaen, Pierre Schaeffer and Karlheinz Stockhausen. In 1960 he joined the Office de Radiodiffusion Télévision Française, and in 1966 was put in charge of the Groupe de Recherches Musicales...	1932
Sally Beamish Sally Beamish Sally Beamish is a British composer of chamber, vocal, choral and orchestral music. She has also worked in the field of music theatre, film and television, as well as composing for children and for her local community....	1956
Robert Beaser Robert Beaser Robert Beaser is an American composer.-Biography:Beaser was brought up in a non-musical family. His father was a physician and mother was a chemist. He grew up in Newton, Massachusetts where he distinguished himself at a young age as a percussionist, composer and conductor...	1954
Jeremy Beck Jeremy Beck Jeremy Beck is a dramatic and lyrical American composer of works for varying orchestral, chamber and vocal forces. The critic Mark Sebastian Jordan has said that "Beck was committed to tonality and a recognizable musical vernacular long before that became the hip bandwagon it is today. Indeed, [he...	1960
John Beckwith John Beckwith (composer) John Beckwith, CM is a Canadian composer, writer, pianist, teacher, and administrator.Born in Victoria, British Columbia, he studied piano with Alberto Guerrero at the Toronto Conservatory of Music in 1945. He received a Mus.B. in 1947 and a Mus.M. in 1961 from the University of Toronto...	1927
David Bedford David Bedford David Vickerman Bedford , was an English composer and musician. He wrote and played both popular and classical music....	1937
Eve Beglarian Eve Beglarian Eve Beglarian is a contemporary American composer, performer and audio producer of Armenian descent...	1958
David Behrman David Behrman David Behrman is a US composer and the producer of Columbia Records' Music of Our Time series. He was also a founding member of the Sonic Arts Union. He toured with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company and has worked with Ben Neill. He was a part of Robert Ashley's Music with Roots in the Aether...	1937
Luca Belcastro Luca Belcastro Luca Belcastro is an Italian composer of classical music.He graduated in Classical guitar and in Composition, with the highest grade. He attended specialization courses with Azio Corghi at the Accademia G...	1964
Barbara Benary Barbara Benary Barbara Benary is an American composer and ethnomusicologist specializing in Indonesian and Indian music.In 1976 she co-founded Gamelan Son of Lion with Philip Corner and Daniel Goode; she also constructed most of the group's instruments...	1946
Juraj Beneš Juraj Beneš Juraj Beneš was a Slovak composer, teacher, and pianist.He graduated from the university called Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava and was a pupil of Ján Cikker, who was one of the best known Slovak composers. Since 1983 Beneš taught at the same university.Beneš's work followed current...	1940	2004
George Benjamin George Benjamin (composer) George William John Benjamin, CBE is a British composer of classical music. He is also a conductor, pianist and teacher....	1960
Richard Rodney Bennett Richard Rodney Bennett Sir Richard Rodney Bennett, CBE is an English composer renowned for his film scores and his jazz performance as much as for his challenging concert works...	1936
Pascal Bentoiu Pascal Bentoiu Pascal Bentoiu is a Romanian Modernist composer.Bentoiu studied harmony, counterpoint and composition with Mihail Jora and piano with Theophil Demetriescu. He spent three years researching the rhythm and harmony of Romanian folk music at the Bucharest Folklore Institute and then began composing...	1927
Esteban Benzecry Esteban Benzecry Esteban Benzecry is an Argentine classical composer.-Early years:Argentinean composer born in Lisbon in 1970 , after growing up in Argentina he has lived in France since 1997, and obtained French nationality in 2011....	1970
Arthur Berger Arthur Berger Arthur Victor Berger was an American composer who has been described as a New Mannerist.-Biography:Born in New York City, of Jewish descent, Berger studied as an undergraduate at New York University, during which time he joined the Young Composer's Group, as a graduate student under Walter Piston...	1912	2003
Luciano Berio Luciano Berio Luciano Berio, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI was an Italian composer. He is noted for his experimental work and also for his pioneering work in electronic music.-Biography:Berio was born at Oneglia Luciano Berio, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI (October 24, 1925 – May 27, 2003) was an Italian...	1925	2003
Michael Berkeley Michael Berkeley Michael Berkeley is a British composer and broadcaster on music.-Early life:His father was the composer Sir Lennox Berkeley...	1948
Bart Berman Bart Berman Bart Berman is a Dutch-Israeli pianist and composer, best known as an interpreter of Franz Schubert and 20th century music....	1938
Derek Bermel Derek Bermel Derek Bermel is an American composer, clarinetist and conductor whose music blends various facets of world music, funk and jazz with largely classical performing forces and musical vocabulary...	1967
Charles Roland Berry Charles Roland Berry Charles Roland Berry is an American composer. He studied music history and music composition at the University of California with and Peter Racine Fricker. Mr. Fricker taught him the intricate details of serialist music, and to discipline his musical imagination...	1957
Christophe Bertrand Christophe Bertrand Christophe Bertrand was a French composer of contemporary classical music.-Biography:Christophe Bertrand was a French pianist and composer of mainly chamber works born in 1981...	1981	2010
Gilbert Biberian Gilbert Biberian Gilbert Biberian is a British guitarist and composer.Born in Istanbul of Greek/Armenian descent, Mr Biberian's ethnic roots are integral to his compositions. He studied at Trinity College of Music, graduating in 1968. In 1965 a French Government grant took him to France to study with Ida Presti...	1944
Harrison Birtwistle Harrison Birtwistle Sir Harrison Paul Birtwistle CH is a British contemporary composer.-Life:Birtwistle was born in Accrington, a mill town in Lancashire some 20 miles north of Manchester. His interest in music was encouraged by his mother, who bought him a clarinet when he was seven, and arranged for him to have...	1934
Easley Blackwood, Jr.	1933
David Blake David Blake (composer) David Blake is a British composer born in London in 1936. Following National Service Blake learnt Mandarin Chinese and spent one year in Hong Kong. He went on to read music at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where his teachers were Patrick Hadley, Peter Tranchell and Raymond Leppard...	1936
Sylvie Bodorová Sylvie Bodorová Sylvie Bodorová is a Czech composer.-Biography:Bodorová studied composition at the Janáček Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Brno and as a post-graduate later on at the Music Academy in Prague...	1954
Konrad Boehmer Konrad Boehmer Konrad Boehmer is a Dutch composer and writer of German birth.Boehmer was born in Berlin. His music reflects his Marxist political agenda, which is made explicit in many of his writings from the late 1960s and 1970s...	1941
Philippe Boesmans Philippe Boesmans -Life:Boesmans was born in Tongeren and studied piano at the Conservatory in Liège, where he was also introduced to serial composing techniques by Pierre Froidebise. However, it was only after coming into contact with the "Liège Group" in 1957 that he began to write music, as a self-taught composer...	1936
William Bolcom William Bolcom William Elden Bolcom is an American composer and pianist. He has received the Pulitzer Prize, the National Medal of Arts, two Grammy Awards, the Detroit Music Award and was named 2007 Composer of the Year by Musical America. Bolcom taught composition at the University of Michigan from 1973–2008...	1938
Cornelis de Bondt Cornelis de Bondt Cornelis de Bondt is a Dutch composer. Born in The Hague, de Bondt attended the Royal Conservatory there and currently teaches composition and music theory at the same institution.-References:...	1953
Daniel Börtz Daniel Börtz Daniel Börtz is a Swedish composer.He studied composition under Hilding Rosenberg, Karl-Birger Blomdahl and Ingvar Lidholm. Among his works are the operas Bacchanterna , Marie Antoinette and Goya .-References:*...	1943
Hans-Jürgen von Bose Hans-Jürgen von Bose Hans-Jürgen von Bose is a German Composer.-Life:After an unsettled adolescence, Bose entered the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt in 1969, where he received instruction in piano and music theory...	1953
Ned Bouhalassa Ned Bouhalassa Ned Bouhalassa is a composer of film scores, television scores, and electroacoustic music. Bouhalassa is a Canadian citizen, and has been residing in Montreal since 1967....	1962
Pierre Boulez Pierre Boulez Pierre Boulez is a French composer of contemporary classical music, a pianist, and a conductor.-Early years:Boulez was born in Montbrison, Loire, France. As a child he began piano lessons and demonstrated aptitude in both music and mathematics...	1925
Denys Bouliane Denys Bouliane Denys Bouliane is a Canadian composer and conductor.-Biography:He is a graduate of Laval University . He studied music composition in the Neue Musik Theater class of Mauricio Kagel in Cologne followed by studies with György Ligeti until 1985...	1955
Hendrik Bouman Hendrik Bouman Hendrik "Henk" Bouman is a Dutch harpsichordist, fortepianist, conductor and composer of music written in the baroque and classical idioms of the 17th & 18th Century.- Biography :...	1951
Guy Bovet Guy Bovet Guy Bovet is a Swiss organist and composer.Bovet studied under Marie Dufour in Lausanne, Pierre Segond in Geneva and Marie-Claire Alain in Paris. From 1979 to 1999 he taught Spanish organ music at the University of Salamanca, and since 1989 he has been Professor of Organ at the Musikhochschule in...	1942
Anne Boyd Anne Boyd Anne Elizabeth Boyd AM is an Australian composer and Professor of Music at the University of Sydney.-Early life:Anne Boyd was born in Sydney to James Boyd and Annie Freda Deason Boyd ....	1946
Glenn Branca Glenn Branca Glenn Branca is an American avant-garde composer and guitarist known for his use of volume, alternative guitar tunings, repetition, droning, and the harmonic series. In 2008 he was awarded an unrestricted grant from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts.-Beginnings: 1960s and early 1970s:Branca...	1948
Henry Brant Henry Brant Henry Dreyfuss Brant was a Canadian-born American composer. An expert orchestrator with a flair for experimentation, many of Brant's works featured spatialization techniques.- Biography :...	1913	2008
Anthony Braxton Anthony Braxton Anthony Braxton is an American composer, saxophonist, clarinettist, flautist, pianist, and philosopher. Braxton has released well over 100 albums since the 1960s...	1945
Martin Bresnick Martin Bresnick Martin Bresnick is a composer of contemporary classical music, film scores and experimental music.-Education and early career:Bresnick was born and raised in the Bronx, and is a graduate of New York City's specialized High School of Music and Art. He was educated at the University of Hartford ,...	1946
Willem Breuker Willem Breuker Willem Breuker was a Dutch jazz bandleader, composer, arranger, saxophonist, and bass clarinetist....	1944
Leo Brouwer Leo Brouwer Juan Leovigildo Brouwer Mezquida is a Cuban composer, conductor and guitarist. He is the grandson of Cuban composer Ernestina Lecuona Casado.-Biography:...	1939
Stephen Brown Stephen Brown (composer) Stephen John Brown is a Canadian composer. He holds ARCT Diplomas in both Theory and Composition from the Royal Conservatory of Music and is an Associate of the Canadian Music Centre...	1948
David Bruce David Bruce (composer) David Bruce is a British-American composer.Bruce began his undergraduate studies in music in 1988 at Nottingham University , before moving on to the Royal College of Music where he obtained a Masters Degree in Composition, studying with Tim Salter and George Benjamin; and a PhD in Composition at...	1970
Karl Gottfried Brunotte Karl Gottfried Brunotte Karl Gottfried Brunotte is a German composer and music philosopher, particularly noted for his contributions to church music.-Biography:Brunotte finished school in Bad Homburg...	1958
Elisabetta Brusa Elisabetta Brusa Elisabetta Olga Laura Brusa is an Italian composer.Brusa was born in Milan, and as a child wrote 32 piano pieces. At the Milan Conservatory she formally studied composition with Bruno Bettinelli, and Azio Corghi, graduating in 1980...	1954
Joanna Bruzdowicz Joanna Bruzdowicz Joanna Bruzdowicz is a Polish composer.-Life:Bruzdowicz studied at the Warsaw Music High School, at the State Higher School of Music ; she earned her M.A. in 1966...	1943
Gavin Bryars Gavin Bryars Richard Gavin Bryars is an English composer and double bassist. He has been active in, or has produced works in, a variety of styles of music, including jazz, free improvisation, minimalism, historicism, experimental music, avant-garde and neoclassicism.-Early life and career:Born in Goole, East...	1943
Gunnar Bucht Gunnar Bucht Gunnar Henrik Bucht , a Swedish composer and musicologist. Studied composition with Karl-Birger Blomdahl, Carl Orff, Max Deutsch among others.-External links:*...	1927
Boudewijn Buckinx Boudewijn Buckinx Boudewijn Buckinx is a Belgian composer and writer about music.Buckinx attended the Antwerp Conservatory, and from 1964 studied composition and serial music with Lucien Goethals in Ghent, where he also studied electronic music at the IPEM...	1945
Geoffrey Burgon Geoffrey Burgon Geoffrey Alan Burgon was a British composer notable for his television and film themes.-Life and career:Burgon was born in Hampshire in 1941, and taught himself the trumpet in order to join a jazz band at school...	1941	2010
Diana Burrell Diana Burrell Diana Burrell is an English composer.-Life and career:She was born in Norwich and attended Norwich High School for Girls before studying music at Cambridge University. She began her career as a viola player, but soon became well known for her compositions and became a full-time composer.Her first...	1948
Keith Burstein Keith Burstein Keith Burstein is an English composer, conductor and music theorist. He is noted for his championing of tonal music as a valid contemporary composing style and for the humanitarian dimension of his compositions....	1957
Sylvano Bussotti Sylvano Bussotti Sylvano Bussotti is an Italian composer of contemporary music whose work is unusually notated and often creates special problems of interpretation.Born in Florence, Bussotti learned to play the violin as a child, becoming a prodigy...	1931
Javier Busto Javier Busto Javier Busto Sagrado was born in Hondarribia in the Basque Country of Spain.-Career:Busto graduated as a medical doctor from Valladolid University. In 1995 he created and founded the women's choir Kanta Cantemus Korua...	1949
Nigel Butterley Nigel Butterley Nigel Henry Cockburn Butterley AM is an Australian composer and pianist.-Life and career:Butterley learnt to play the piano at the age of five. He attended Sydney Grammar School, but as music wasn't taught at the school at that time, he also sought training from the Sydney Conservatorium of Music....	1935
Rodrigo Cadiz Rodrigo Cadiz Rodrigo F. Cádiz is a composer and engineer from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, where he studied with Alejandro Guarello, Aliosha Solovera and Pablo Aranda. He obtained his Ph.D...	1972
Christian Calon Christian Calon Christian Calon is a French-born Canadian composer who is active in electroacoustic music. He has worked extensively in large computer-based studios in Canada and Europe and has received commissions from the Canada Council, the Groupe de Musique Expérimentale de Marseille, and the Ministère des...	1950
Jacques Calonne Jacques Calonne Jacques Calonne is a Belgian artist, composer, singer, actor, logogramist, and writer.-Life:Calonne studied music from 1944–46 at the conservatories of Mons and Brussels, with amongst others the composer André Souris, who introduced him to the surrealist movement...	1930
Gérard Calvi Gerard Calvi Gérard Calvi is a French composer.Interested in music from an early age, Calvi's first composing work was for the French production The Patron in 1949...	1922
Allison Cameron Allison Cameron (composer) Allison Cameron one of Canada's most notable composers of contemporary classical music. She is also a performer of free improvisation and experimental music....	1963
Charles Camilleri Charles Camilleri Charles Camilleri was a Maltese composer, long acknowledged as Malta's national composer.Camilleri was born in Ħamrun and, as a teenager, had already composed a number of works based on folk music and legends of his native Malta...	1931	2009
Bruno Canino Bruno Canino Bruno Canino is an Italian classical pianist and composer.-Early life:Bruno Canino was born in Naples, Italy in 1935, where he studied piano with Vincenzo Vitale. He continued his musical education in Milan, studying both piano and composition. His teachers included Enzo Calace and Bruno Bettinelli...	1935
Robert Carl Robert Carl Robert Carl is an American composer who currently resides in Hartford, Connecticut, where he is chair of the composition department at the Hartt School of Music, University of Hartford.-Music:...	1954
Wendy Carlos Wendy Carlos Wendy Carlos is an American composer and electronic musician. Carlos first came to notice in the late 1960s with recordings made on the Moog synthesizer, then a relatively new and unknown instrument; most notable were LPs of synthesized Bach and the soundtrack for Stanley Kubrick's film A...	1939
Michael Carnes Michael Carnes Michael Page Carnes is an American composer of contemporary classical music.-Life and career:Carnes was born in North Carolina. The son of a piano teacher, he received his first formal musical training on trumpet in the public schools. He formed and played in several rock bands beginning in the...	1950
Roberto Carnevale Roberto Carnevale Roberto Carnevale is an Italian composer, pianist and conductor.- Biography and career :Born in Catania, he started studying piano at the age of seven. He took a degree in Arts at the University of Catania and he attended the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena...	1966
Edwin Carr Edwin Carr (composer) Edwin Carr was a composer of classical music from New Zealand.-Biography:Edwin Carr was born in Auckland and was educated at Otago Boys' High School from 1940 to 1943. He studied music at Otago University from 1944-5 and Auckland University College from 1946, then left with his degree unfinished...	1926	2003
Elliott Carter Elliott Carter Elliott Cook Carter, Jr. is a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning American composer born and living in New York City. He studied with Nadia Boulanger in Paris in the 1930s, and then returned to the United States. After a neoclassical phase, he went on to write atonal, rhythmically complex music...	1908
Sara Carvalho Sara Carvalho Sara Carvalho is a Portuguese composer of contemporary classical music.Born in Porto, Portugal she received her first musical training at the age of three and started composing in 1984. In 1995 she graduated with a First Class Degree in Composition, Music and Teaching from the University of Aveiro...	1970
Philip Cashian Philip Cashian Philip Cashian is an English composer. He is the head of composition of the Royal Academy of Music.-Biography:Born in Manchester in 1963, Cashian studied at Cardiff University, the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and in 1997 received a DMus from Durham University.His teachers have included...	1963
John Casken John Casken John Casken is an English composer, born in Barnsley, Yorkshire, England.Casken read music at the University of Birmingham, studying composition and contemporary music with John Joubert and Peter Dickinson. He then went on to study in Poland with Andrzej Dobrowolski on a Polish government...	1949
Jacques Castérède Jacques Castérède Jacques Castérède is a French composer.He studied at Lycée Buffon in Paris. He gained his baccalaureat in elementary mathematics, before he entered Paris National Conservatory of Music in 1944 and began studying piano under Armand Ferté, composition under Tony Aubin, analysis under Olivier Messiaen...	1926
Daniel Catán Daniel Catán Daniel Catán was a Mexican composer of Russian Sephardic Jewish descent known particularly for his operas and his creative friendship with the tenor Plácido Domingo.-Career:...	1949
Richard Causton	1971
Friedrich Cerha Friedrich Cerha Friedrich Cerha is an Austrian composer and conductor.-Biography:Cerha was born in Vienna.He received his education at the Viennese Music Academy and at the University of Vienna...	1926
Jean-Pascal Chaigne Jean-Pascal Chaigne Jean-Pascal Chaigne is a French composer.Following initial studies at the Conservatoire National de Région de Tours and the University of Tours, he was admitted to the Paris Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris where he obtained first prizes in analysis, harmony,...	1977
Evan Chambers Evan Chambers Evan Chambers is a composer, traditional Irish fiddler, and Professor of Composition at the University of Michigan. He received a Doctorate in music composition from the University of Michigan...	1963
Derek Charke Derek Charke Derek Charke is a Canadian classical composer and flutist.-Life:Derek Charke’s music is recognized as an important and original contribution to the Canadian music scene. Derek’s compositions increasingly pair electroacoustic elements, many derived from environmental sounds, with acoustic instruments...	1974
Rhys Chatham Rhys Chatham Rhys Chatham is an American composer, guitarist, and trumpet player, primarily active in avant-garde and minimalist music. He is best known for his "guitar orchestra" compositions...	1952
Stephen Chatman Stephen Chatman Stephen Chatman is an American composer residing in Canada.-Biography:Chatman was born in Faribault, Minnesota, and studied with Joseph R. Wood and Walter Aschaffenburg at the Oberlin Conservatory and with Ross Lee Finney, Leslie Bassett, William Bolcom, and Eugene Kurtz at the University of...	1950
Brian Cherney Brian Cherney Brian Cherney is a Canadian composer currently residing in Montreal, Quebec. He studied at the University of Toronto where he was a pupil of John Weinzweig, Samuel Dolin, and John Beckwith. In 1972 he joined Schulich School of Music of McGill University, where he has taught analysis and...	1942
Mary Ellen Childs Mary Ellen Childs Mary Ellen Childs is an American composer and multimedia artist and founder of the ensemble Crash...	1957
Unsuk Chin Unsuk Chin Unsuk Chin , is a South Korean composer of classical music, based in Berlin, Germany. She was awarded the Grawemeyer Award in 2004 and the Arnold Schönberg Prize in 2005.- Biography :...	1961
Michel Chion Michel Chion Michel Chion born in 1947 in Creil, France, is a composer of experimental music. He teaches at several institutions within France and currently holds the post of Associate Professor at the University of Paris III: Sorbonne Nouvelle where he is a theoretician and teacher of audio-visual...	1947
Henning Christiansen Henning Christiansen Henning Christiansen was a Danish composer and an active member of the Fluxus-movement. He worked with artists such as Joseph Beuys and Nam June Paik, as well as with his wife Ursula Reuter Christiansen...	1932	2008
James Clapperton James Clapperton James Clapperton is a Scottish composer and pianist.-Biography:James Clapperton was born in Aberdeen in 1968. In 1984 he performed an arrangement of Stravinsky's 'Rite of Spring' made by himself and David Horne for piano duet at the Dartington Summer School. Witold Lutoslawski, Michael Tippett and...	1968
Aldo Clementi Aldo Clementi -Life:Aldo Clementi was born in Catania, Italy. He studied the piano, graduating in 1946. His studies in composition began in 1941, and his teachers included Alfredo Sangiorgi and Goffredo Petrassi. After receiving his diploma in 1954, he attended the Darmstadt summer courses from 1955 to 1962...	1925	2011
Gloria Coates Gloria Coates Gloria Coates is an American composer who has moved to, and has subsequently been living in Munich, Germany since 1969...	1938
Julian Cochran Julian Cochran thumb|200px|Julian Cochran in 1998Julian Cochran is an English-born Australian composer.Cochran's earlier works show stylistic influences from Impressionist music and his later works are more noticeably influenced by Classical music and folk music of Eastern Europe...	1974
Allen Cohen Allen Cohen (composer) Allen Cohen is an American composer, arranger, conductor, vocal coach, pianist and university professor.-Education:Cohen holds his B.A. degree in Music and Drama from Ripon College and M.F.A...
Jonathan Cole Jonathan Cole Jonathan Cole is a British composer and professor of composition at the Royal College of Music.-Biography:...	1970
Nicolas Collins Nicolas Collins Nicolas Collins is a composer of mostly electronic music and former student of Alvin Lucier. He received a B.A. and M.A...	1954
Juan Colomer Juan J. Colomer Juan José Colomer is a Spanish composer.- Personal life :Juan Colomer started his music studies at age 8 in his local music school, "Sociedad Musical de Alzira." He continued his studies in the Conservatorio Superior de Música de Valencia, where he graduated in trumpet & composition...	1966
Liviu Comes Liviu Comes Liviu Comes was a Romanian composer and musicologist.He studied music at the Municipal Music Conservatory in Târgu Mureş , later at the Cluj Music Conservatory...	1918	2004
Graziella Concas Graziella Concas Graziella Concas is an Italian pianist and composer.- Biography and career :She started studying piano at the age of five. Later she studied piano under Franca Zinghinì-Spinnicchia at the Catania Musical Institute ‘Vincenzo Bellini’, and composition under Angela Giuffrida...	1970
Justin Connolly Justin Connolly Justin Connolly is a British composer and teacher.He was educated at Westminster School, and then briefly studied law at the Middle Temple before deciding on a career in music...	1933
Marius Constant Marius Constant Marius Constant was a Romanian-born French composer and conductor. Known primarily for his television soundtracks, his most widely heard score was the iconic Twilight Zone theme song....	1925	2004
Sidney Corbett Sidney Corbett Sidney Corbett is an American composer based in Germany.- Biography :He studied music and philosophy at the University of California, San Diego, and earned his doctorate from Yale University in 1989. From 1985-88 Corbett studied at the Musikhochschule in Hamburg with György Ligeti...	1960
Frank Corcoran Frank Corcoran Frank Corcoran is an Irish composer. His output includes chamber, symphonic, choral and electro-acoustic music, through which he explores particularly Irish issues like language and history...	1944
Roque Cordero Roque Cordero Roque Cordero was a Panamanian composer.-Life:Born in Panama City, he studied composition under Ernst Krenek and conducting under Dimitri Mitropoulos, Stanley Chapple, and Leon Barzin before becoming director of the Institute of Music and Artistic Director and conductor of the National Symphony of...	1917	2008
John Corigliano John Corigliano John Corigliano is an American composer of classical music and a teacher of music. He is a distinguished professor of music at Lehman College in the City University of New York.-Biography:...	1938
Vladimir Cosma Vladimir Cosma Vladimir Cosma was born April 13, 1940 in Bucharest, Romania, into a family of musicians.His father, Teodor Cosma, was a pianist and conductor, his mother a writer-composer, his uncle, Edgar Cosma, composer and conductor, and one of his grandmothers, pianist, a student of the renowned Ferrucio...	1940
Edward Cowie Edward Cowie Edward Cowie is an English composer, author, Natural Scientist, and painter-Biography:Cowie was born in Birmingham, England in 1943 and spent most of his early life in the rural countryside...	1943
Noah Creshevsky Noah Creshevsky -Biography:Trained in composition by Nadia Boulanger in Paris and Luciano Berio at the Juilliard School, Creshevsky has lived and worked in New York since 1966. He taught at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York for thirty-one years, serving as Director of the Brooklyn College Center...	1945
Gordon Crosse Gordon Crosse Gordon Crosse is an English composer.-Biography:Crosse was born in Bury, Lancashire and in 1961 graduated from St Edmund Hall, Oxford with a first class honours degree in Music. He then undertook two years of postgraduate research on early fifteenth-century music before beginning an academic...	1937
George Crumb George Crumb George Crumb is an American composer of contemporary classical music. He is noted as an explorer of unusual timbres, alternative forms of notation, and extended instrumental and vocal techniques. Examples include seagull effect for the cello , metallic vibrato for the piano George Crumb (born...	1929
Andrew Culver	1953
Alvin Curran Alvin Curran Composer Alvin Curran , is the co-founder, with Frederic Rzewski and Richard Teitelbaum, of Musica Elettronica Viva, and a former student of Elliott Carter. Curran's music often makes use of electronics and environmental found sounds....	1938
Joe Cutler Joe Cutler Joe Cutler is a British composer who studied music at the Universities of Huddersfield and Durham, before a scholarship at the Chopin Academy in Warsaw, Poland. He has taught composition at the Birmingham Conservatoire since 2000, and since 2005 he has been the Head of Composition there...	1968
Chaya Czernowin Chaya Czernowin Chaya Czernowin is an Israeli composer, and Walter Bigelow Rosen Professor of Music at Harvard University....	1967
Henryk Czyż Henryk Czyz Henryk Czyz was a Polish musician with a high reputation for conducting and teaching.He was born in Grudziądz. He was also a composer in his own right and wrote a number of books which are highly regarded...	1923	2003
Alexandre Danilevsky Alexandre Danilevsky Alexandre Danilevsky is a Russian-French composer of classical music, lutenist, viola da gamba and vielle player, active in France ....	1957
Michael Daugherty Michael Daugherty Michael Kevin Daugherty is an American composer, pianist, and teacher. Influenced by popular culture, Romanticism, and Postmodernism, Daugherty is one of the most colorful and widely performed American concert music composers of his generation...	1954
Mario Davidovsky Mario Davidovsky Mario Davidovsky is an Argentine-American composer. Born in Argentina, he emigrated in 1960 to the US, where he lives today...	1934
Robert Davidson Robert Davidson (composer) Robert Davidson is an Australian composer. He studied composition with Terry Riley in 1995 following studies with Philip Bračanin at the University of Queensland...	1965
Hugh Davies Hugh Davies Hugh Seymour Davies was a musicologist, composer, and inventor of experimental musical instruments.Davies was born in Exmouth, Devon, England. After attending Westminster School, he studied music at Worcester College, Oxford from 1961 to 1964. Shortly after he traveled to Cologne, Germany to work...	1943
Peter Maxwell Davies Peter Maxwell Davies Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, CBE is an English composer and conductor and is currently Master of the Queen's Music.-Biography:...	1934
Tansy Davies Tansy Davies Tansy Davies is a British composer.As a youth, Davies sang and played guitar in a rock band. She developed an interest in composition in her teens, and subsequently began music studies at the Colchester Institute in French horn and composition...	1973
Victor Davies Victor Davies Victor Albert Davies is an award winning Canadian composer, pianist, and conductor, best known for his opera Transit of Venus.-Biography:...	1939
Anthony Davis Anthony Davis (composer) Anthony Davis, better known as Tony Davis , is an American composer, jazz pianist, and student of gamelan music.-Biography:...	1951
Carl Davis Carl Davis Carl Davis CBE is an American born conductor and composer who has made his home in the UK since 1961. In 1970 he married the English actress Jean Boht....	1936
Brett Dean Brett Dean Brett Dean is a contemporary Australian composer, violist and conductor.-Career:Dean studied at the Queensland Conservatorium where he received a Medal of Excellence. From 1985 to 1999, Dean was a violist in the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. In 2000, he decided to pursue a career as a freelance...	1961
Raymond Deane Raymond Deane Raymond Deane is an Irish composer of classical music.-Biography:He was brought up on Achill Island and has lived in Dublin, Basel, Cologne, Berlin, Oldenburg, Paris and Fuerth....	1953
Michel Decoust Michel Decoust Michel Decoust is a French composer and conductor.Decoust studied from 1956 to 1965 with Jean Rivier and Darius Milhaud at the Paris Conservatoire, as well as at the Cologne Courses for New Music in 1964–65, with Pierre Boulez and Karlheinz Stockhausen...	1936
David Del Tredici David Del Tredici David Del Tredici, born March 16, 1937 in Cloverdale, California, is an American composer. According to Del Tredici's website, Aaron Copland said David Del Tredici "is that rare find among composers — a creator with a truly original gift...	1937
Norman Dello Joio Norman Dello Joio - Life :He was born Nicodemo DeGioio in New York City to Italian immigrants. He began his musical career as organist and choir director at the Star of the Sea Church on City Island in New York at age 14. His father was an organist, pianist, and vocal coach and coached many opera stars from the...	1913	2008
Ratko Delorko Ratko Delorko Ratko Delorko is a German pianist, composer, producer and conductor. He was born in Hamburg in 1959 and studied in Düsseldorf, Cologne and Munich...	1959
Michael Denhoff Michael Denhoff Michael Denhoff is a German composer and cellist.-Life:Denhoff has lived and worked in Bonn since 1982. He studied at the Musikhochschule in Cologne, where his teachers included Günter Bialas and Hans Werner Henze , Siegfried Palm and Erling Blöndal Bengtsson and the Amadeus Quartet...	1955
Donnacha Dennehy Donnacha Dennehy ,Donnacha Dennehy is a composer, born in Dublin in 1970. He gained his secondary education in Templeogue College, Dublin. He studied Music at Trinity College, Dublin and later pursued graduate studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign...	1970
Dejan Despić Dejan Despic Dejan Despić is an internationally acclaimed Serbian composer, music theoretician, writer and pedagogue. He studied composition with Marko Tajčević and conducting with Mihajlo Vukdragović at the Belgrade Music Academy , where he later became a professor . He composed more than 170 works in all...	1930
Frédéric Devreese Frédéric Devreese Frédéric Devreese is a Dutch-born Belgian composer of mostly orchestral, chamber and piano works that have been performed throughout the world; he is also active as a conductor....	1929
Matthew Dewey Matthew Dewey Matthew Ingvald Dewey is an Australian composer and singer.-General information:Dewey is an Australian composer and singer who studied composition with Professor Douglas Knehans at the University of Tasmania and composition/theatrical design/singing with Greek-Australian composer/designer...	1984
David Diamond David Diamond (composer) David Leo Diamond was an American composer of classical music.-Life and career:He was born in Rochester, New York and studied at the Cleveland Institute of Music and the Eastman School of Music under Bernard Rogers, also receiving lessons from Roger Sessions in New York City and Nadia Boulanger in...	1915	2005
Robert Dick	1950
Peter Dickinson Peter Dickinson (musician) Peter Dickinson is an English composer, musicologist, and pianist.-Biography:He was born in Lytham St Annes, Lancashire, and studied organ at Queens' College, Cambridge, where he was a student of Philip Radcliffe...	1934
Oscar van Dillen Oscar van Dillen Oscar Ignatius Joannes van Dillen is a Dutch composer, conductor, and instrumentalist.-Education:Van Dillen studied North-Indian classical music with Jamaluddin Bhartiya at the Tritantri School in Amsterdam and bansuri with Gurbachan Singh Sachdev at the Bansuri School of Music in Berkeley,...	1958
James Dillon James Dillon (composer) James Dillon, born October 29, 1950 in Glasgow, Scotland, is a Scottish composer often regarded as belonging to the New Complexity school. Dillon studied art and design, linguistics, piano, acoustics, Indian rhythm, mathematics and computer music, but is self-taught in composition.Honors include...	1950
Violeta Dinescu Violeta Dinescu Violeta Dinescu is a Romanian composer, pianist and professor, living in Germany since 1982.-Romania:Violeta Dinescu began her studies of music in 1972 at the conservatory Ciprian Porumbescu in Bucharest, composition with Myriam Marbe. In 1978 she received her master's degree, with distinction...	1953
Paul Dirmeikis Paul Dirmeikis Paul Dirmeikis is a Francophone poet, composer, singer, and painter who lives in Brittany. He is of Lithuanian ancestry , and a member of the Lithuanian Composers Union....	1954
Charles Dodge Charles Dodge (composer) Charles Dodge is an American composer best known for his electronic music, specifically his computer music. He is a former student of Darius Milhaud and Gunther Schuller.-Education and teaching career:...	1945
Paul Dolden Paul Dolden Paul Dolden is an electroacoustic music composer born January 23, 1956 in Ottawa, Canada, and currently living in Montréal, Canada.Paul Dolden is an electroacoustic music composer born January 23, 1956 in Ottawa, Canada, and currently living in Montréal, Canada.Paul Dolden is an electroacoustic...	1956
Paul Doornbusch Paul Doornbusch Paul Doornbusch is a largely algorithmic composer and performer of contemporary music, often fusing electroacoustic and computer music with instrumental music...	1960
Avner Dorman Avner Dorman Avner Dorman is an Israeli born composer of contemporary classical music.- Biography :Avner Dorman holds a Doctorate in Music Composition from the Juilliard School where he studied as a C.V. Starr fellow with John Corigliano...	1975
James Douglas James Douglas (composer) James Douglas is a Scottish classical composer.Douglas was born in Dumbarton. He was brought up in Edinburgh and moved to live in North West Scotland in 2006. Douglas has composed over 2000 works including music for a wide variety of instruments and a number of choral pieces...	1932
John W. Downey John W. Downey John W. Downey was a contemporary classical composer, conductor, pianist and educator. His works have been performed extensively in Western and Eastern Europe, South America, Australia, Africa, the Middle East, Israel, Asia, Mexico and Canada, as well as throughout the United States.- Biography...	1927	2004
Patrick Doyle Patrick Doyle Patrick Doyle is a Scottish musician and film score composer. A longtime collaborator of actor/director Kenneth Branagh, Doyle is known for his work scoring such critically acclaimed films as Henry V , Sense and Sensibility , Hamlet , and Gosford Park , as well as noteworthy blockbusters as Harry...	1953
Dimitris Dragatakis Dimitris Dragatakis Dimitris Dragatakis was a Greek composer of classical music.He was born in Platanousa, Epirus in 1914 and studied the violin from 1930 to 1939 at the Greek National Conservatory in Athens...	1914	2001
Arnold Dreyblatt Arnold Dreyblatt Arnold Dreyblatt is an American composer and visual artist. He studied music with Pauline Oliveros, La Monte Young, Alvin Lucier and media art with Steina and Woody Vasulka. He has been based in Berlin, Germany since 1984...	1953
George Dreyfus George Dreyfus George Dreyfus AM is an Australian contemporary classical, film and television composer.-Life:The Dreyfus family moved in 1935 to Berlin to enable a better education for their two sons...	1928
William Duckworth	1943
Hugues Dufourt Hugues Dufourt Hugues Dufourt is a French composer and philosopher associated with the Spectral school of composition. Born in Lyon on September 28 1943, Dufourt studied piano and composition at the Geneva Conservatory....	1943
Iancu Dumitrescu Iancu Dumitrescu Iancu Dumitrescu is a Romanian avant-garde composer.- Life and works :Dumitrescu received a master's degree in composition in Bucharest; Alfred Mendelssohn was among his teachers...	1944
Kyle Bobby Dunn Kyle Bobby Dunn Kyle Bobby Dunn is a composer, arranger, and live performer of modern and neo-classical based drone music. He has performed in live and exclusive outdoor settings, including Banff National Park, since 2000 and has released music on various international recording labels.His work has been described...	1986
Joël-François Durand Joël-François Durand Joël-François Durand is a French composer.-Biography:Born in Orléans, Durand studied mathematics, music education and piano in Paris, then composition with Brian Ferneyhough in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany , and at Stony Brook University, New York, with Arel and Semegen...	1954
Frédéric Durieux Frédéric Durieux Frédéric Durieux is a noted French composer of orchestral, vocal and chamber works. He is currently professor of composition at the Paris Conservatoire National Supérieur.-External links:***...	1959
Pascal Dusapin Pascal Dusapin Pascal Dusapin , is a French composer born in Nancy. He is one of France's best-known living composers; his works have been performed worldwide....	1955
Henri Dutilleux Henri Dutilleux Henri Dutilleux is one of the most important French composers of the second half of the 20th century, producing work in the tradition of Maurice Ravel, Claude Debussy, and Albert Roussel, but in a style distinctly his own...	1916
David Earl David Earl David Earl is a South African composer and pianist. He was educated at Rondebosch Boys' High School. He made his professional debut at the age of sixteen when he broadcast Bach, Chopin and Chabrier on the SABC. In 1968, he performed Felix Mendelssohn's Piano Concerto No 1 with the Cape Town...	1951
Dennis Eberhard Dennis Eberhard Dennis Eberhard was an American composer. In his youth he was crippled by polio, which contributed to respiratory problems that contributed to his death in 2005...	1943	2005
Gerald Eckert Gerald Eckert Gerald Eckert is a German composer, cellist, and painter. He currently lives in Eckernförde.-Biography:Eckert, born in Nuremberg, studied Mathematics at the University of Erlangen, violoncello and conducting at the conservatory of Nürnberg. Then he studied of composition with Nicolaus A...	1960
Ross Edwards Ross Edwards (composer) Ross Edwards is an Australian composer of a wide variety of music including orchestral and chamber music, choral music, children's music, opera and film music. He is not to be confused with a British up and coming singer-songwriter of the same name.-Life:Ross Edwards was born in Sydney...	1943
Moritz Eggert Moritz Eggert Moritz Eggert is a German composer and pianist.- Life :Moritz Eggert began his studies in piano and composition in 1975 at Dr. Hoch's Konservatorium in Frankfurt , at the Musikhochschule Frankfurt and at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München...	1965
Margriet Ehlen Margriet Ehlen Margriet Ehlen is a Dutch poet and a composer, conductor and educator of classical music.-Life and career:She has composed for a large variety of instruments, yet is particularly active in composition for voice. These works extend from solo vocalists to choir music. Many of her compositions for...	1943
Søren Nils Eichberg Søren Nils Eichberg Søren Nils Eichberg is a German/Danish composer. In 2010 he was announced as the first composer-in-residence of the Danish National Symphony Orchestra in the orchestra's history.He studied piano and orchestra conducting in Copenhagen and Cologne....	1973
Ludovico Einaudi Ludovico Einaudi Ludovico Einaudi OMRI is an Italian contemporary music composer and pianist.-Biography:Born in Turin, Italy, Einaudi's mother played to him on the piano as a child. He began his musical training at the Conservatorio Verdi in Milan, gaining a diploma in composition in 1982...	1955
Brian Elias Brian Elias Brian Elias is a British composer.- Career highlights :*1965 - commenced informal composition studies with Elisabeth Lutyens.*1984 - L’Eylah premiered at the BBC Proms....	1948
Dror Elimelech Dror Elimelech Dror Elimelech is an Israeli psychiatrist, psychotherapist, and poet, and a composer and performer of contemporary classical music....	1956
Amos Elkana Amos Elkana Amos Elkana is an Israeli composer and improviser.-Biography:Amos Elkana was born in the United States but grew up in Israel.He began playing guitar and studying music at age 15...	1967
Jean-Claude Éloy Jean-Claude Éloy Jean-Claude Éloy is a French composer of instrumental, vocal and electroacoustic music.In his work Éloy realized one of the most significant syntheses of 20th-century music: between electronic and acoustic music, between Western and non-Western traditions...	1938
Huib Emmer Huib Emmer Huib Emmer is a Dutch composer. He also plays electric guitar and electric bass guitar.From 1976 to 1986 Emmer was a member of the Dutch minimal ensemble Hoketus and he has performed since 1988 in the ensemble LOOS...	1951
Péter Eötvös Peter Eötvös Péter Eötvös is a Hungarian composer and conductor.Eötvös was born in Odorheiu Secuiesc/Székelyudvarhely, Szeklerland, Transylvania . He studied composition in Budapest and Cologne. From 1962, he composed for film in Hungary. Eötvös played regularly with the Stockhausen Ensemble between 1968 and...	1944
Heimo Erbse Heimo Erbse Heimo Erbse was a German composer from Rudolstadt.Erbse studied in Weimar, and then worked from 1947-1950 in the theater before studying under Blacher in 1950. He lived most of his life in Austria.- Works :...	1924	2005
Hans-Ola Ericsson Hans-Ola Ericsson Hans-Ola Ericsson is a Swedish organist and composer.-Career:Ericsson studied church music at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm, and continued his organ and composition studies at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg in Germany. He also studied privately with Luigi Nono and Olivier Messiaen...	1958
Iván Erőd Iván Eröd Iván Erőd, also Iván Eröd , is an Hungarian-Austrian composer and pianist.- Career :Erőd studied at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music with Pál Kadosa and Ferenc Szabó . He emigrated to Austria in 1956 and studied there at the Vienna Music Academy, with Richard Hauser and Karl Schiske...	1936
Andrei Eshpai Andrei Eshpai Andrei Yakovlevich Eshpai is an ethnic Mari composer.Eshpai was born at Kozmodemyansk, Mari El. A Red Army World War II veteran, he studied piano at Moscow Conservatory from 1948 to 1953 under Vladimir Sofronitsky, and composition under Nikolai Rakov, Nikolai Myaskovsky and Evgeny Golubev...	1925
Karlheinz Essl Karlheinz Essl Karlheinz Essl is an Austrian composer, performer, sound artist, improviser and composition teacher.- Biography :Essl was born in Vienna. His studies at the University of Music in Vienna included: composition , electro-acoustic music and double bass...	1960
Julio Estrada Julio Estrada Julio Estrada Velasco was born in Mexico City, April 10, 1943. His family was exiled from Spain in 1941. He is a composer, theoretician, historian, pedagogue, and interpreter.-Life:...	1943
Pierre Even Pierre Even Pierre Even is a Luxembourgian composer.He is a descendant of the Even family from Beaufort, Luxembourg and Metz...	1946
Eric Ewazen Eric Ewazen Eric Ewazen is an American composer and teacher. Ewazen studied composition under Samuel Adler, Milton Babbitt, Gunther Schuller, Joseph Schwantner, Warren Benson, and Eugene Kurtz at the Eastman School of Music and The Juilliard School...	1954
Robert Farnon Robert Farnon Robert Joseph Farnon was a Canadian-born composer, conductor, musical arranger and trumpet player. As well as being a famous composer of original works , he was recognised as one of the finest arrangers of his generation...	1917	2005
Gareth Farr Gareth Farr Gareth Vincent Farr ONZM is a New Zealand composer and percussionist. He has released a number of classical CDs and composed a number of works performed by the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra and Royal New Zealand Ballet...	1968
Alfio Fazio Alfio Fazio Alfio Fazio is an Italiancomposer of contemporary music.Fazio graduated in classical guitar and composition at Milan Academy of Music. He has studied guitar with Anselmo Bersano and composition in Rome with Paolo Arcà and in Milan with Niccolò Castiglioni, attending at the same time the Faculty of...	1959
Brian Ferneyhough Brian Ferneyhough Brian John Peter Ferneyhough is an English composer. His music is characterized by the extensive use of complex rhythmic tuplet notation which features in all his works...	1943
Luc Ferrari Luc Ferrari Luc Ferrari was of an Italian heritage but French born composer, particularly noted for his tape music.-Biography:...	1929	2005
Lorenzo Ferrero Lorenzo Ferrero Lorenzo Ferrero is a contemporary Italian composer with a predilection for opera, a librettist, author, and book editor. He started composing at an early age and wrote over a hundred compositions thus far, including twelve operas, three ballets, and numerous orchestral, chamber music, solo...	1951
Joshua Fineberg Joshua Fineberg Joshua Fineberg is an American composer of contemporary classical music.-Biography:Joshua Fineberg was born in Boston, Massachusetts. He began his musical studies at the age of five...	1969
Michael Finnissy Michael Finnissy Michael Finnissy is an English composer and pianist. His music is characterised by the range of extremes often found in his work; opposing binary structures are found commonly, often seen as juxtaposing textures, register and tempi...	1946
Elena Firsova Elena Firsova Elena Olegovna Firsova is a Russian composer.-Life:She was born in Leningrad into the family of physicists Oleg Firsov and Viktoria Lichko. She studied music in Moscow with Alexander Pirumov, Yuri Kholopov, Edison Denisov and Philip Herschkowitz...	1950
David First David First David First is an American composer. His music most often deals with drones and interference beats, the latter aligning his music with that of Alvin Lucier...	1953
Graham Fitkin Graham Fitkin Graham Fitkin is a British composer, pianist and conductor. His compositions fall broadly into the minimalist and postminimalist genres...	1963
Joseph Fitzmartin Joseph Fitzmartin Joseph P. Fitzmartin is an American composer and arranger. He is one of the founders and the Music Director of the Keystone State Boychoir as well as Choral Director at the William Penn Charter School in Philadelphia....	1943
David Flynn David Flynn David Flynn is an Irish composer and musician with a number of major awards and commissions to his name. His recent music is noteworthy for merging the influence of traditional Irish music with contemporary classical music and jazz...	1977
George Flynn George Flynn George Flynn is a distinguished American composer and pianist. Born in Montana in 1937, he grew up in Montana and Washington. He studied and taught at Columbia University, New York City, and from 1977 to 2001 headed the Department of Composition at DePaul University in Chicago. His works cover a...	1937
Henry Flynt Henry Flynt Henry Flynt is a philosopher, avant-garde musician, anti-art activist and exhibited artist often associated with Conceptual Art, Fluxus and Nihilism.-Background:...	1940
Andrew Ford Andrew Ford Andrew Ford is an English and Australian composer, writer and radio presenter.He was Composer-in-residence with the Australian Chamber Orchestra , held the Peggy Glanville-Hicks Composer Fellowship from 1998 to 2000 and was awarded a two-year fellowship by the Music Board of the Australia Council...	1957
Joseph Dillon Ford Joseph Dillon Ford Joseph Dillon Ford is an American composer, author, and educator.He holds undergraduate degrees in music and graduate degrees in both musicology and landscape architecture...	1947
Carlo Forlivesi Carlo Forlivesi Carlo Forlivesi is an Italian composer, performer and researcher.Forlivesi was born in Faenza, Emilia-Romagna. He studied at Bologna Conservatory, Milan Conservatory and the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia of Rome...	1971
Malcolm Forsyth Malcolm Forsyth Malcolm Forsyth, CM was a South African and Canadian trombonist and composer. His daughter is National Arts Centre Orchestra cellist Amanda Forsyth....	1936
Lukas Foss Lukas Foss Lukas Foss was a German-born American composer, conductor, and pianist.-Music career:He was born Lukas Fuchs in Berlin, Germany in 1922. His father was the philosopher and scholar Martin Fuchs...	1922	2009
Yorgos Foudoulis Yorgos Foudoulis Yorgos Foudoulis is a Greek classical guitarist and composer. His professional activities include performing, master classes, editing, and recording....	1964
John Frandsen	1956
Don Freund Don Freund Don Freund is an American composer and Professor of Composition at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music...	1947
Johannes Fritsch Johannes Fritsch Johannes G. Fritsch was a German composer.At the age of seven, Fritsch found a violin in the attic of his uncle's house in Bensheim-Auerbach, Germany, and began lessons with a village music teacher named Knapp...	1941
Kenneth Fuchs Kenneth Fuchs Kenneth Fuchs is an American composer, conductor, and educator. He currently serves as Professor of Music Composition at the University of Connecticut ....	1956
Ellen Fullman Ellen Fullman Ellen Fullman is a composer, instrument builder, and performer. She was born in Memphis, Tennessee, and is currently based in the San Francisco Bay Area...	1957
Beat Furrer Beat Furrer Beat Furrer is an Austrian composer and conductor of Swiss birth.Born in Schaffhausen, Switzerland, Furrer relocated to Vienna in 1975 to pursue studies with Roman Haubenstock-Ramati and Otmar Suitner . In 1985 he co-founded what is now one of Europe's leading contemporary music ensembles,...	1954
Bernhard Gál Bernhard Gál Bernhard Gál is an Austrian artist, composer and musicologist.-Biography:Bernhard Gál works between the categories, creating music for instruments and electro-acoustic compositions, as well as art installations. Many of his intermedia art projects and sound installations present combinations of...	1971
Kyle Gann Kyle Gann Kyle Eugene Gann is an American professor of music, critic and composer born in Dallas, Texas. As a critic for The Village Voice and other publications he has been a supporter of progressive music including such Downtown movements as postminimalism and totalism.- As composer :As a composer his...	1955
Roberto García Morillo Roberto Garcia Morillo Roberto García Morillo was an Argentine composer, musicologist, music professor and music critic.-Biography:Morillo was born in Buenos Aires...	1911	2003
Fernando García	1930
John Gardner John Gardner (composer) John Linton Gardner, CBE is an English composer of classical music.-Biography:Gardner was born in Manchester, England and brought up in Ilfracombe, North Devon. His father Alfred Linton Gardner was a local GP and amateur composer who was killed in action in the last months of the First World War....	1917
Peter Garland Peter Garland Peter Garland is a composer best known for publishing Soundings Press, one of the few sources of new music scores and articles while in print...	1952
Rifaat Garrana Rifaat Garrana Mohamed Garrana Rifaat is an Egyptian composer of classical music, a member of that nation's second generation of such composers.He began playing the trumpet at age 12, studying it later at the Institute for Dramatic Music. He later studied with Hans Hickmann and Menato in Cairo.His works feature...	1924
Giorgio Gaslini Giorgio Gaslini Giorgio Gaslini is an Italian jazz pianist and composer.He began performing at 13 and recorded with his jazz trio at 16. In the 1950s and 1960s Gaslini performed with his own quartet...	1929
Anthony Gatto Anthony Gatto (composer) Anthony Gatto is an American composer of music for theater, dance, film, opera, and concert music. He is also the founder of The Festival Dancing in Your Head. His quintet for guitar and string quartet "Black Dog/Lucky Dog" was performed by the new-music string quartet Ethel with Mark Stewart...
Eric Gaudibert Eric Gaudibert Eric Gaudibert is a Swiss composer.He studied piano and composition in the conservatory of Lausanne particularely with Denise Bidal and Hans Haug, and later in Paris in the Ecole Normale de Musique with Alfred Cortot, Henri Dutilleux and Nadia Boulanger...	1936
Allain Gaussin Allain Gaussin Allain Gaussin is a noted French composer. A laureate of the Paris Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique, where he studied with Olivier Messiaen, his works are frequently performed in France and abroad.-External links:*...	1943
Hartmut Geerken Hartmut Geerken Hartmut Geerken is a German musician, composer, writer, journalist, playwright, and filmmaker.-Life:...	1939
Rolf Gehlhaar Rolf Gehlhaar Rolf Gehlhaar in Breslau , is an American composer.Gehlhaar is the son of a German rocket scientist, who emigrated to the United States in 1953 to work at a rocket-development research centre in New Mexico...	1943
Harald Genzmer Harald Genzmer Harald Genzmer was a German composer of contemporary classical music.-Biography:Born in Blumenthal, near Bremen, Germany, he studied composition with Paul Hindemith at the Berlin Hochschule für Music beginning in 1928.From 1938 he taught at the Volksmusikschule Berlin-Neukölln...	1909	2007
Steven Gerber Steven Gerber Steven R. Gerber is an American composer of classical music.-Biography and career:Steven Gerber wrote such works as the contrapuntal Fantasy for Solo Violin, which has been recorded on both the CRI and Naxos labels, and Piano Trio, commissioned by the Hans Kindler Foundation.His early works are...	1948
Stefano Gervasoni Stefano Gervasoni Stefano Gervasoni is an Italian composer.A protégé of Luigi Nono, Gervasoni studied at the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory in Milan. In 1995 he became composer in residence at the Villa Médicis in Rome...	1962
Frans Geysen Frans Geysen -Biography:Frans Geysen was born in Oostham, and studied music at the Lemmens Institute in Mechelen, and at the conservatories of Antwerp and Ghent. In 1962 he became professor of harmony and analysis at the Lemmens Institute, and since 1975 has taught at the Royal Conservatory in Brussels...	1936
Emmanuel Ghent Emmanuel Ghent Emmanuel Ghent was a pioneering composer of electronic music and a psychiatric practitioner, researcher, and teacher.-Biography:Emmanuel Ghent was born on May 15, 1925 in Montreal, Quebec. He grew up in Montreal and attended McGill University to study medicine. After graduating, he moved to New...	1925	2003
Valentin Gheorghiu Valentin Gheorghiu Valentin Gheorghiu is a Romanian classical pianist and composer.-Biography:Gheorghiu was born in Galaţi, Romania in 1928. He was first a pupil of Constanţa Erbiceanu at the Bucharest Academy of Music and then of Lazare Lévy at the Conservatoire National de Musique in Paris, France...	1928
Jon Gibson	1940
Michael Gielen Michael Gielen -Professional career:Gielen was born in Dresden, Germany, to opera director Josef Gielen. Through his mother, Rose, he is the nephew of Eduard Steuermann and Salka Steuermann Viertel. He began his career as a pianist in Buenos Aires, where he studied with Erwin Leuchter and gave an early...	1927
Angelo Gilardino Angelo Gilardino Angelo Gilardino is an Italian composer, guitarist and musicologist.During his concert career, from 1958 to 1981, he premiered hundreds of new works for the guitar. He taught at the Liceo Musicale G. B. Viotti in Vercelli from 1965 to 1981, and held a professorship at the Antonio Vivaldi...	1941
Anthony Gilbert Anthony Gilbert (composer) Anthony Gilbert is a British composer.-Biography:Gilbert, who was born in London, trained initially as a translator, then studied composition with Mátyás Seiber privately, and with Alexander Goehr and Anthony Milner at Morley College . He also studied with Gunther Schuller...	1934
Jacob Gilboa Jacob Gilboa Yehuda Jacob Gilboa was born as Erwin Goldberg and was an Israeli composer.Gilboa was born in Košice, Slovakia. Some years later he lived in Vienna, where he received training in playing the piano. In 1938 he emigrated to Palestine, where he initially studied in Haifa at the Institute for Technology...	1920	2007
Janice Giteck Janice Giteck -Biography:Giteck grew up in Hicksville, Long Island and moved to Arizona when she was twelve years old. She attended Mills College, completing her Master's in 1969 and studying under Darius Milhaud. She later studied under Olivier Messiaen, and following this she studied percussion with Daniel...	1946
Werner Wolf Glaser Werner Wolf Glaser Werner Wolf Glaser was a German-born Swedish composer, conductor, pianist, professor, music critic, and poet.-Life:...	1913	2006
Paul Glass Paul Glass -Biography:Born in Los Angeles, California, Glass was the son of silent film actor and film executive Gaston Glass. He was educated at the University of Southern California , and was taught by Ingolf Dahl, and Goffredo Petrassi in Rome...	1934
Philip Glass Philip Glass Philip Glass is an American composer. He is considered to be one of the most influential composers of the late 20th century and is widely acknowledged as a composer who has brought art music to the public .His music is often described as minimalist, along with...	1937
Srul Irving Glick Srul Irving Glick Srul Irving Glick, CM was a Canadian composer, radio producer, conductor, and teacher.Born in Toronto, Ontario, he received a Bachelor of Music from the University of Toronto 1955, and a Masters of Music , honorary FRCCO...	1934	2002
Sylvia Glickman Sylvia Glickman Sylvia Foodim Glickman was a pianist, composer, teacher, and prominent promoter of music by women composers....	1932	2006
Vinko Globokar Vinko Globokar Vinko Globokar is a French avant-garde composer and trombonist of Slovene descent.His work is noted for its use of unconventional and extended techniques, closely allying him to contemporaries Salvatore Sciarrino and Helmut Lachenmann...	1934
Gilles Gobeil Gilles Gobeil Gilles Gobeil is an electroacoustic music composer born September 27, 1954, in Sorel, Canada, and currently living in Montreal, Canada.Gilles Gobeil is an electroacoustic music composer born September 27, 1954, in Sorel, Canada, and currently living in Montreal, Canada.Gilles Gobeil is an...	1954
Vladimír Godár Vladimír Godár Vladimír Godár is a Slovak composer who is active in the fields of contemporary classical music and film music. He is also known for his collaboration with the Czech violinist, singer and composer Iva Bittová. As an academic, he is a writer, editor and translator of books on historical music...	1956
Heiner Goebbels Heiner Goebbels Heiner Goebbels is a German composer, music director and professor at Justus-Liebig-University in Gießen and at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland....	1952
Alexander Goehr Alexander Goehr Alexander Goehr is an English composer and academic.Goehr was born in Berlin in 1932, the son of the conductor and Schoenberg pupil Walter Goehr. In his early twenties he emerged as a central figure in the Manchester School of post-war British composers. In 1955–56 he joined Oliver Messiaen's...	1932
Lucien Goethals Lucien Goethals -Life:Lucien Goethals was born in Ghent, but spent his formative years in Argentina, where he studied at the Dima Conservatory of Buenos Aires. When he returned to Belgium, he continued his studies at the Royal Conservatory in Ghent up to 1956, where he earned his first prize in organ, music...	1931
Friedrich Goldmann Friedrich Goldmann Friedrich Goldmann was a German composer and conductor.-Life:Born on 27 April 1941, in Siegmar-Schönau, Chemnitz, Goldmann’s music education began in 1951 when he joined the Dresdner Kreuzchor...	1941
Jerry Goldsmith Jerry Goldsmith Jerrald King Goldsmith was an American composer and conductor most known for his work in film and television scoring....	1929	2004
Osvaldo Golijov Osvaldo Golijov Osvaldo Noé Golijov is a Grammy award–winning composer of classical music.-Biography:Osvaldo Golijov was born in and grew up in La Plata, Argentina, in a Jewish family that had emigrated to Argentina in the 1920s from Romania and Russia.Golijov has developed a rich musical language, the result of...	1960
Howard Goodall Howard Goodall 210px|thumb|Howard Goodall at St. John the Baptist Church in Devon, United Kingdom, May 2009Howard Lindsay Goodall CBE is a British composer of musicals, choral music and music for television...	1958
Daniel Goode Daniel Goode Daniel Goode is an American composer and clarinetist.Daniel Goode was born in New York City. After graduating in 1957 from Oberlin College, he studied composition at Columbia University with Henry Cowell and Otto Luening, receiving an MA 1962...	1936
Ron Goodwin Ron Goodwin Ronald Alfred Goodwin was a British composer and conductor known for his film music. He scored over 70 films in a career lasting over fifty years....	1925	2002
Michael Gordon Michael Gordon (composer) Michael Gordon is an American composer and co-founder of the Bang on a Can festival and ensemble. His music is associated with the genres of totalism and post-minimalism.-Early life:...	1956
Henryk Górecki Henryk Górecki Henryk Mikołaj Górecki was a composer of contemporary classical music. He studied at the State Higher School of Music in Katowice between 1955 and 1960. In 1968, he joined the faculty and rose to provost before resigning in 1979. Górecki became a leading figure of the Polish avant-garde during...	1933	2010
Annette Vande Gorne Annette Vande Gorne Annette Vande Gorne is a Belgian electroacoustic music composer currently living in Ohain, Belgium.-Biography:Annette Vande Gorne was born in Charleroi, Belgium. She initially studied music at the conservatories of Mons and Brussels, and privately with Jean Absil...	1946
Annie Gosfield Annie Gosfield Annie Gosfield is a New York composer who specializes in using detuned or out of tune samples and industrial noises. Her work often contains improvisation and frequently uses extended techniques and/or altered musical instruments...	1960
John Kenneth Graham John Kenneth Graham American composer John Kenneth Graham , studied at Southeastern Louisiana University and Louisiana State University, writes orchestral tableaux of American legend and folklore. His primary emphasis is the symphony and sonata-allegro form, particularly development techniques and tonal expression...	1955
Harold Gramatges Harold Gramatges Harold Gramatges was a Cuban composer, pianist, and teacher.Gramatges was born in Santiago, Cuba...	1918	2008
Jay Greenberg Jay Greenberg Jay "Bluejay" Greenberg is an American composer who entered the Juilliard School in 2002.-Life and work:...	1991
Jonny Greenwood Jonny Greenwood Jonathan Richard Guy "Jonny" Greenwood is an English musician and composer, best known as a member of the English rock band Radiohead. Greenwood is a multi-instrumentalist, but serves mainly as lead guitarist and keyboard player. In addition to guitar and keyboard, he plays viola, harmonica,...	1971
Mark Gresham Mark Gresham Mark Gresham is an American composer and music journalist.In 2003 he was recipient of ASCAP's Deems Taylor Award for Sounds Like Home, an article about American composer Jennifer Higdon, published in Creative Loafing Atlanta...	1956
Deirdre Gribbin Deirdre Gribbin Deirdre Gribbin is a composer from Northern Ireland. She studied at Queen's University Belfast where, at the age of twenty, she began to compose. Further studies were in London and in Denmark...	1967
Eric Gross Eric Gross Eric Gross AM was an Austrian-Australian pianist and composer.-Biography:Gross was born in Vienna and emigrated to England in 1938. From the age of fourteen, he worked as a pianist in bands and orchestras...	1926	2011
Stefans Grové Stefans Grové Stefans Grové is a South African composer. "He is regarded by many as Africa's greatest living composer, possesses one of the most distinctive compostional voices of our time".-Early life:...	1922
HK Gruber Heinz Karl Gruber Heinz Karl Gruber is an Austrian composer, bass player and singer, born in Vienna on 3 January 1943 and a leading figure of the so-called Third Viennese School.-Career:...	1943
Sofia Gubaidulina Sofia Gubaidulina Sofia Asgatovna Gubaidulina, is a Russian composer of half Russian, half Tatar ethnicity.Gubaidulina's music is marked by the use of unusual instrumental combinations...	1931
Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen -Biography:Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, and is the son of the sculptor Jørgen Gudmundsen-Holmgreen. He studied at the Royal Danish Conservatory in Copenhagen, with Høffding, Westergaard, and Hjelmborg, graduating in 1958 .He won the Nordic Council Music Prize in 1980...	1932
Jean Guillou Jean Guillou Jean Victor Arthur Guillou is a French composer, organist, pianist, and pedagogue.-Life:Following autodidactic studies in piano and organ performance, Guillou became organist at the church St. Serge in Angers at age 12. From 1945-1955, he studied at the Paris Conservatoire under Marcel Dupré,...	1930
Henry Gwiazda Henry Gwiazda Henry Gwiazda is a composer who specializes in virtual audio, the simulation of a three dimensional sound space in either headphones or precisely positioned speakers. He composes what may be called musique concrète, using samples usually without "tinker[ing]" with them.Gwiazda is credited with...	1952
Georg Friedrich Haas Georg Friedrich Haas Georg Friedrich Haas is an Austrian composer of spectral music.He grew up in Tschagguns and studied composition with Gösta Neuwirth, Iván Erőd, and piano with Doris Wolf at the Musikhochschule in Graz...	1953
Daron Hagen Daron Hagen Daron Aric Hagen , is an American composer, conductor, pianist, educator, librettist, and stage director of contemporary classical music and opera.- Early life and education :...	1961
André Hajdu	1932
Georg Hajdu Georg Hajdu Georg Hajdu is a German composer of Hungarian descent. His work is dedicated to the combination of music, science and computer technology. He is noted for his opera Der Sprung – Beschreibung einer Oper and the network music performance environment Quintet.net.-Biography:Hajdu was born to Hungarian...	1960
Lorant Hajdu Lorant Hajdu Lóránt Hajdu is a Hungarian composer and pensionary piano and composition teacher.- Life :Lóránt Hajdu was born in Bucharest, Romania, to a Hungarian family in 1937. In his early childhood they moved to Budapest, Hungary. He studied piano with Clara Chitz and composition with István Szelényi at...	1937
Naji Hakim Naji Hakim Naji Subhy Paul Irénée Hakim is a Lebanese-French organist, composer, and improviser. He studied under Jean Langlais, and succeeded Messiaen as organist at the Église de la Sainte-Trinité, Paris.-Biography:...	1955
Cristóbal Halffter Cristóbal Halffter Cristóbal Halffter Jiménez-Encina is a Spanish composer. He is the nephew of two other composers, Rodolfo and Ernesto Halffter.-Life:...	1930
Emily Hall Emily Hall Emily Hall is a composer of classical music, electronica and songs. Her music has been performed by the Duke Quartet, the London Symphony Orchestra, the Brodsky Quartet, the London Sinfonietta, and the Philharmonia; it has been broadcast on BBC Radio 3, BBC Radio 4 and France Culture...	1976
Peter Michael Hamel Peter Michael Hamel Peter Michael Hamel is a German composer. His works have been associated with the Minimalist style of composition, and in the late 1970s with the New Simplicity movement....	1947
Marc-André Hamelin Marc-André Hamelin Marc-André Hamelin, OC, CQ, is a French Canadian virtuoso pianist and composer.Born in Montreal, Quebec, Marc-André Hamelin began his piano studies at the age of five. His father, a pharmacist by trade who was also a pianist, introduced him to the works of Alkan, Godowsky, and Sorabji when he was...	1961
Jan Hanuš Jan Hanuš Jan Hanuš was a prolific Czech composer of the 20th century. Almost every category of composition is represented among his works, many of which are overtly political, expressing in turn anti-Nazi, anti-Fascist and anti-Communist sentiments.-Biography:Hanuš studied composition independently with...	1915	2004
John Harbison John Harbison John Harris Harbison is an American composer, best known for his operas and large choral works.-Life:...	1938
Kevin F. Harris Kevin F. Harris Kevin Harris is a retired composer of classical music from Northern Virginia. He specialized in music of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, not unlike the music of Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven or Schubert. Harris is best known for his Adagio for a Nation in D minor, a piece which he composed...	1965
Jonty Harrison Jonty Harrison Jonty Harrison is an electroacoustic music composer born April 27, 1952 in Scunthorpe, UK, and currently living in Birmingham, UK.Jonty Harrison is an electroacoustic music composer born April 27, 1952 in Scunthorpe, UK, and currently living in Birmingham, UK.Jonty Harrison is an electroacoustic...	1952
Lou Harrison Lou Harrison Lou Silver Harrison was an American composer. He was a student of Henry Cowell, Arnold Schoenberg, and K. P. H. Notoprojo Lou Silver Harrison (May 14, 1917 – February 2, 2003) was an American composer. He was a student of Henry Cowell, Arnold Schoenberg, and K. P. H. Notoprojo Lou Silver Harrison...	1917	2003
Stephen Hartke Stephen Hartke Stephen Paul Hartke is an American composer. He grew up in Manhattan, where his first piano teacher was Mary Miley, and has lived in California since the 1980s...	1952
Jonathan Harvey Jonathan Harvey (composer) Jonathan Harvey is a British composer. He has held teaching positions at universities and music conservatories in Europe and the USA and is frequently invited to teach in summer schools around the world.-Life:...	1939
Svatopluk Havelka Svatopluk Havelka Svatopluk Havelka was a Czech composer.-Biography:Svatopluk Havelka was born at Vrbice in the Karviná district. He studied composition privately with Karel Boleslav Jirák from 1945 to 1947, while a student of musicology at the Faculty of Philosophy of Charles University under Josef Hutter and...	1925	2009
Hikaru Hayashi Hikaru Hayashi is a contemporary Japanese composer, pianist and conductor. He is the cousin of flautist Ririko Hayashi.Hayashi entered Tokyo University of the Arts as a composition student but did not complete his studies. Studying under Hisatada Otaka, he produced many compositions including orchestral works...	1931
Anthony Hedges Anthony Hedges Anthony Hedges is an English composer whose output covers most musical genres. His orchestral music includes two symphonies, a Sinfonia Concertante, concertinos for Flute, Horn, Trumpet, Bassoon, Variations on a theme of Rameau, together with a substantial number of light music compositions...	1931
David Philip Hefti David Philip Hefti David Philip Hefti , winner of the prestigious Gustav Mahler Competition and of the George Enescu Competition, studied at the Conservatories of Winterthur, Zurich and Carlsruhe, taking composition, conducting, clarinet and chamber music. His mentors included Wolfgang Rihm, Cristóbal Halffter,...	1975
Paavo Heininen Paavo Heininen Paavo Heininen is a Finnish composer and pianist. He studied at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, where he was taught composition by Aarre Merikanto, Einojuhani Rautavaara, Einar Englund, and Joonas Kokkonen...	1938
Mikko Heiniö Mikko Heiniö -Life:Heiniö was born in in Tampere, and studied composition with Joonas Kokkonen and piano with Liisa Pohjola at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki from 1971 to 1975, and then studied composition with Witold Szalonek in West Berlin from 1975–77 while at the same time beginning studies in musicology...	1948
Walter Hekster Walter Hekster Walter Hekster is a Dutch composer, clarinetist and conductor of classical music, specializing in contemporary classical music....	1937
Robert Helps Robert Helps Robert Helps was an American pianist and composer....	1928	2001
Gerard Hengeveld Gerard Hengeveld Gerard Hengeveld was a Dutch classical pianist, music composer and educationalist. He is especially known for his compositions of study material for piano. Other compositions include two piano concertos, a violin sonata, and a sonata for cello...	1910	2001
Pierre Henry Pierre Henry Pierre Henry is a French composer, considered a pioneer of the musique concrète genre of electronic music.-Biography:...	1927
Hans Werner Henze Hans Werner Henze Hans Werner Henze is a German composer of prodigious output best known for "his consistent cultivation of music for the theatre throughout his life"...	1926
Jerry Herman Jerry Herman Jerry Herman is an American composer and lyricist, known for his work in Broadway musical theater. He composed the scores for the hit Broadway musicals Hello, Dolly!, Mame, and La Cage aux Folles. He has been nominated for the Tony Award five times, and won twice, for Hello, Dolly! and La Cage...	1933
Paul Hertel Paul Hertel Paul Hertel is an Austrian composer. He is a recipient of the Theodor Körner-Preis, Staatsstipendium der Republik Österreich, and has an Honorary Degree as the Best Composer of Film Music at the 12th International Fajr Film Festival....	1953
Michael Hersch Michael Hersch Michael Nathaniel Hersch is an American composer and pianist.-Biography:Initial inspiration and musical educationBorn in Washington, D.C., and raised in Reston, Virginia, Hersch was introduced to classical music at the age of 18 by his younger brother Jamie, who showed him a videotape of Georg...	1971
Jacques Hétu Jacques Hétu Jacques Hétu, OC was a Canadian composer and music educator from Trois-Rivières, Quebec. He was nominated for a 1989 Juno Award in the Best Classical Composition category...	1938
Jennifer Higdon Jennifer Higdon Jennifer Higdon is an American composer of classical music. Higdon has received many awards, including the 2010 Pulitzer Prize in Music for her Violin Concerto and the 2010 Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Classical Composition for her Percussion Concerto.-Biography:Higdon was born in Brooklyn,...	1962
Jackson Hill Jackson Hill (composer) Jackson Hill, born in Birmingham, Alabama in 1941, is an American composer primarily of symphonic, ensemble, and vocal music.-Biography:Hill was a Morehead Scholar at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill . A composer from the age of 14, he studied composition with Iain Hamilton at Duke...	1941
John S. Hilliard John S. Hilliard John Stanley Hilliard is an American composer.Born into a family of musical amateurs, John Hilliard began his musical training by studying piano at the age of 6 from his cousin, a local piano teacher...	1947
Joe Hisaishi Joe Hisaishi , known professionally as , is a composer and director known for over 100 film scores and solo albums dating back to 1981.While possessing a stylistically distinct sound, Hisaishi's music has been known to explore and incorporate different genres, including minimalist, experimental electronic,...	1950
Christopher Hobbs Christopher Hobbs Christopher Hobbs is an English experimental composer, best known as a pioneer of British Systems music.-Life and career:...	1950
Gilad Hochman Gilad Hochman Gilad Hochman is an Israeli classical music composer.Gilad Hochman was born to an Odessa native father and a Paris native mother and currently resides in Berlin, Germany. Hochman began his musical life at the age of 6, studying the piano...	1982
Alun Hoddinott Alun Hoddinott Alun Hoddinott CBE , was a Welsh composer of classical music, one of the first to receive international recognition.-Life and works:...	1929	2008
York Höller York Höller York Höller is a German composer and Professor of composition at the Hochschule für Musik Köln.-Biography:Between 1963 and 1970 Höller studied at the Cologne Musikhochschule: composition with Joachim Blume and Bernd Alois Zimmermann, piano with Else Schmitz-Gohrand Alfons Kontarsky, and orchestral...	1944
Heinz Holliger Heinz Holliger Heinz Holliger Heinz Holliger Heinz Holliger (born 21 May 1939 is a Swiss oboist, composer and conductor.-Biography:He was born in Langenthal, Switzerland, and began his musical education at the conservatories of Bern and Basel. He studied composition with Sándor Veress and Pierre Boulez...	1939
Robin Holloway Robin Holloway Robin Greville Holloway is an English composer.-Early life:From 1952 to 1957, he was a chorister at St Paul's Cathedral...	1943
Simeon ten Holt Simeon ten Holt Simeon ten Holt is a Dutch composer. Ten Holt studied with Jakob van Domselaer, eventually developing a highly personal style of minimal composition...	1923
Simon Holt Simon Holt Simon Holt is a British composer.-Biography:Holt was educated at Bolton School. Shortly after graduating from the Royal Northern College of Music, he became firmly established on the new music circuit with a series of commissions and fruitful collaborations with the London Sinfonietta and the Nash...	1958
Bo Holten Bo Holten Bo Holten is a Danish composer and conductor.He has been the principal conductor for the vocal ensembles Ars Nova and Musica Ficta , as well as guest-conductor for the BBC Singers...	1948
Joaquín Homs Joaquin Homs Joaquim Homs i Oller , was a Catalan Spanish composer.He was born in Barcelona, and studied cello until 1922. Afterwards, he self-educated himself in composition before studying on-and-off from 1931 to 1938...	1906	2003
Sarah Horick Sarah Horick Sarah Horick is a composer of contemporary concert music. She received her Bachelor of Music degree in Music Theory and Composition from Furman University in 2006 where she studied with Mark Kilstofte. She earned a Master of Music in Composition and a Master of Arts in Music Theory at Florida...	1984
David Horne David Horne (composer) David Horne is a Scottish composer, pianist, and teacher.A resident composer with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic for four years, he has been awarded several commissions...	1970
Josef Maria Horváth Josef Maria Horváth Josef Maria Horváth is a Hungarian composer, pianist, and conductor.-Life:At the Jesuit School of his hometown he learned to play the organ. After high school he studied Piano, Composition, and Conducting at the Liszt Academy in Budapest. In 1956 he was awarded his diploma with distinction, and...	1931
Toshio Hosokawa Toshio Hosokawa is a Japanese composer of contemporary classical music.-Biography:Hosokawa studied with Yun Isang at the Berlin University of the Arts. Since 1998, Hosokawa has served as Composer-in-Residence at the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra. In 2004, Hosokawa became a guest professor at Tokyo College of Music...	1955
Mehdi Hosseini Mehdi Hosseini Seyed Mehdi Hosseini Bami is a contemporary Persian composer and Musicologist.-Biography:...	1979
Luc van Hove Luc van Hove Luc Van Hove is a Belgian composer.Van Hove studied at the Royal Conservatory of Antwerp. His works are in a broadly contemporary classical style and written in a range of forms and for a variety of ensembles.-External links:...	1957
Egil Hovland Egil Hovland Egil Hovland is a Norwegian composer.Hovland was born in Råde. He studied at the Oslo conservatory with Arild Sandvold and Bjarne Brustad, in Copenhagen with Vagn Holmboe, in Tanglewood with Aaron Copland, and in Florence with Luigi Dallapiccola. He has been the organist and choir leader in...	1924
Leslie Howard Leslie Howard (musician) Leslie Howard AM is an Australian pianist and composer. He is best known for being the only pianist to have recorded the complete solo piano works of Franz Liszt, a project which included more than 300 premiere recordings...	1948
Leonid Hrabovsky	1935
Klaus Huber Klaus Huber Klaus Huber is a Swiss composer.Huber was born in Bern, Switzerland. One of the leading figures of his generation in Europe, he has written extensively for chamber ensembles, choirs, soloists and the orchestra as well as the theater...	1924
Nicolaus A. Huber Nicolaus A. Huber Nicolaus A. Huber is a German composer.From 1958 to 1962 Huber studied music education at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München and subsequently composition with Franz Xaver Lehner and Günter Bialas. He pursued his education further with Josef Anton Riedl, Karlheinz Stockhausen and, above...	1939
Bertold Hummel Bertold Hummel Bertold Hummel was a German composer of modern classical music.- Life :Bertold Hummel was born November 27, 1925 in Hüfingen . He studied at the Academy of Music in Freiburg from 1947 to 1954, taking composition with Harald Genzmer, and cello with Atis Teichmanis...	1925	2002
Franz Hummel Franz Hummel Franz Hummel is a German composer and pianist.From his youth, Hummel was interested in music and, in particular, the works of Richard Strauss, Eugen Papst and Hans Knappertsbusch. In Munich and Salzburg he studied both composition and piano...	1939
Ilja Hurník Ilja Hurník Ilja Hurník is a contemporary Czech composer and essayist. He entered the Prague Conservatory, then went on to the Prague Academy of Arts, where he studied with Ilona Štěpánová-Kurzová, daughter of Vilém Kurz.His 1953 sonata da camera, for flute, oboe, cello and harpsichord, has been recorded on...	1922
Karel Husa Karel Husa Karel Husa is a Czech-born classical composer and conductor, winner of the 1969 Pulitzer Prize and 1993 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award in Music Composition...	1921
Miriam Hyde Miriam Hyde Miriam Beatrice Hyde AO, OBE was an Australian composer, pianist, poet and music educator.She composed over 150 works for piano, songs and other instrumental and orchestral works and performed as a concert pianist with eminent conductors including Sir Malcolm Sargent, Sir Bernard Heinze and...	1913	2005
Shin-ichiro Ikebe Shin-ichiro Ikebe is a Japanese composer of contemporary classical music. He has written the scores for many films by Akira Kurosawa and other Japanese film directors, including Kagemusha , MacArthur's Children , Kurosawa's Dreams , Rhapsody in August , Madadayo , and Warm Water Under a Red Bridge .He studied...	1943
Ilaiyaraaja Ilaiyaraaja Ilaiyaraaja is an Indian film composer, singer, and lyricist mainly in the Tamil film Industry. He is regarded as one of the finest music composers in India. Ilaiyaraaja is also an instrumentalist, conductor, and a songwriter...	1943
Márton Illés Márton Illés Márton Illés , is a Hungarian composer and pianist.Illés received musical training in piano, composition and percussion in Győr from 1981 to 1994. In 1993 he spent one academical term at the conservatory of Zurich wit pianist Hadassa Schwimmer. He studied the piano with László Gyimesi at the...	1975
Andrew Imbrie Andrew Imbrie Andrew Welsh Imbrie was an American composer of contemporary classical music.-Career:Imbrie was born in New York on April 6, 1921, and began his musical training as a pianist when he was 4. In 1937, he went to Paris to study briefly with Nadia Boulanger...	1921	2007
Kamran Ince Kamran Ince Kamran N. İnce is a Turkish-American composer.- Life :Ince was born in Glendive, Montana, and at the age of six moved with his family to Turkey. He entered the Ankara State Conservatory at the age of ten, in 1971, where he began studying cello and piano, and took composition lessons with İlhan Baran...	1960
Maki Ishii Maki Ishii was a Japanese composer of contemporary classical music, and brother of composer Kan Ishii.-Biography:Born in Tokyo, Ishii studied composition privately and conducting with Watanabe from 1952 to 1958 in Tokyo, then moved to Berlin, where he continued his studies under Boris Blacher and Josef Rufer...	1936	2003
Manuel Rocha Iturbide Manuel Rocha Iturbide Manuel Rocha Iturbide is a Mexican composer and sound artist.-Biography:Manuel Rocha Iturbide was born in 1963 in Mexico City, he started musical studies when he was 13 years old. In 1983, after studying musical pedagogy in Lyon France for one year, he decided to start a career as composer at the...	1963
Guus Janssen Guus Janssen Guus Janssen is a Dutch composer of contemporary music and a recording artist. A pianist and harpsichordist, he is also active as a jazz performer....	1951
Maurice Jarre Maurice Jarre Maurice-Alexis Jarre was a French composer and conductor.Although he composed several concert works, he is best known for his film scores, and is particularly known for his collaborations with film director David Lean. Jarre composed the scores to all of Lean's films since Lawrence of Arabia...	1924	2009
Zoltán Jeney Zoltán Jeney Zoltán Jeney is a Hungarian composer.Jeney first studied piano and attended Pongrácz's composition classes at the Debrecen Secondary Music School, later continuing composition studies with Ferenc Farkas at the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music in Budapest , and the pursuing postgraduate studies with...	1943
Karl Jenkins Karl Jenkins -Other works:*Adiemus: Live — live versions of Adiemus music*Palladio *Eloise *Imagined Oceans *The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace...	1944
David C. Johnson	1940
Tom Johnson Tom Johnson (composer) Tom Johnson , is an American minimalist composer, a former student of Morton Feldman.-Career:His pieces are most often based simply on mathematical and logical processes, such as tiling, which he attempts to make as clear as possible...	1939
Ben Johnston	1926
Fergus Johnston Fergus Johnston Fergus Johnston is an Irish composer and member of Aosdána. He studied for both a degree in music and a Master's Degree in Music and Media Technology at Trinity College Dublin and has a PhD in composition from the National University of Ireland, Maynooth...	1959
Betsy Jolas Betsy Jolas Betsy Jolas is a French composer.Betsy Jolas was born in Paris. Resident in the United States from 1940 until 1946, she studied composition with Paul Boepple and piano with Helen Schnabel. On her return to France she continued her studies with Simone Plé-Caussade, Darius Milhaud and Olivier...	1926
David Evan Jones David Evan Jones David Evan Jones is a composer of chamber music, opera, and computer music, and professor of music at UCSC. His notable compositions include Scritto, which features digitally manipulated vowel sounds. He has also written one chamber opera, Bardos, which premiered in Seoul, South Korea in 2004.-...	1959
Samuel Jones Samuel Jones (composer) Samuel Jones is an American composer and conductor.-Biography:Samuel Jones, a native of Mississippi , graduated from the Central High School in Jackson and received his undergraduate degree with highest honors at Millsaps College. He acquired his professional training at the Eastman School of...	1935
Bradley Joseph Bradley Joseph Bradley Joseph is an American composer, arranger, and producer of contemporary instrumental music. His compositions include works for orchestra, quartet, and solo piano, while his musical style ranges from "quietly pensive mood music to a rich orchestration of classical depth and breadth".Active...	1965
John Joubert John Joubert (composer) John Joubert is a British composer of South African descent, particularly of choral works. He has lived in Moseley, a suburb of Birmingham, England, for over 40 years. A music academic at the universities of Hull and Birmingham for 36 years, Joubert took early retirement in 1986 to concentrate on...	1927
Mauricio Kagel Mauricio Kagel Mauricio Kagel was a German-Argentine composer. He was notable for his interest in developing the theatrical side of musical performance .-Biography:...	1931	2008
Imants Kalniņš Imants Kalninš Imants Kalniņš is one of the most important composers in the history of Latvian music. Having studied classical, as well as choral music, he has written six symphonies, several operas , oratorios, cantatas, choir songs, a lot of movie and theater music...	1941
Alexander Kaloian Alexander Kaloian Alexander Kaloian born 1962 in Los Angeles, California is an Armenian composer, residing dually in the United States and the Republic of Armenia...	1962
Shigeru Kan-no Shigeru Kan-no is a Japanese composer and conductor living in Germany.-Biography:Shigeru Kan-no was born in Fukushima, Japan. He now lives as a free-lance composer and conductor in Westerwald, Germany. His repertoire includes over 100 operas and 700 concert pieces. He is also a talented musician, able to play...	1959
Giya Kancheli Giya Kancheli Giya Kancheli , born 10 August 1935, in Tbilisi, is a Georgian composer resident in Belgium.Since 1991, Kancheli has lived in Western Europe: first in Berlin, and since 1995 in Antwerp, where he is composer-in-residence for the Royal Flemish Philharmonic....	1935
Nikolai Kapustin Nikolai Kapustin Nikolai Girshevich Kapustin is a Ukrainian Russian composer and pianist....	1937
Richard Karpen Richard Karpen Richard Karpen is an American composer of electronic and acoustic music. He is also known for developing computer applications for music and composition.- Biography :...	1957
Yuri Kasparov	1955
Georg Katzer Georg Katzer Georg Katzer is a German composer. He was one of the pioneers of electronic new music in the German Democratic Republic .-Biography:...	1935
Hiba Kawas Hiba Kawas Hiba Al Kawas is a Lebanese operatic soprano, composer and academic.-Biography and career:...	1972
Donald Keats Donald Keats Donald Keats is an American composer, teacher, and pianist.-Biography:Keats attended Yale University as an undergraduate, where he studied with Quincy Porter and Paul Hindemith. He completed his MA at Columbia University, where he studied with Otto Luening and Henry Cowell...	1929
Nigel Keay Nigel Keay Nigel Keay was born in Palmerston North, New Zealand in 1955. He has been a freelance musician since 1983 working as a composer, violist, and violin teacher...	1955
Milko Kelemen Milko Kelemen Milko Kelemen is a Croatian composer.- Life :Milko Kelemen studied under Stjepan Šulek in Zagreb, under Olivier Messiaen in Paris and Wolfgang Fortner in Freiburg amongst others....	1924
Daniel Kellogg Daniel Kellogg Daniel Kellogg is an American composer.Kellogg is currently Assistant Professor of Music at the College of Music of the University of Colorado at Boulder, teaching music composition, counterpoint and orchestration.-Life:...	1976
Bryan Kelly Bryan Kelly Bryan Kelly is a composer whose compositions include evening canticles in C and A flat for Church of England evensong. His Magnificat and Nunc dimittis in C incorporate Latin American rhythms...	1934
Rudolf Kelterborn Rudolf Kelterborn Rudolf Kelterborn is a Swiss musician and composer.-Life:Kelterborn studied in Basel, Detmold, Salzburg, and Zürich, among other places, with the composers Walther Geiser, Willy Burkhard, Boris Blacher, Günter Bialas, and Wolfgang Fortner...	1931
Talivaldis Kenins Talivaldis Kenins Tālivaldis Ķeniņš was a Canadian composer born in Latvia.Kenins's father was a lawyer, poet and government official, and his mother was a journalist. He first began playing piano at the age of five, and his first compositions followed at age eight...	1919	2008
John Kenny	1957
Aaron Jay Kernis Aaron Jay Kernis Aaron Jay Kernis is an American composer and professor at the Yale School of Music.-Biography:Aaron Jay Kernis is Jewish, was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and studied at the Manhattan School of Music, the San Francisco Conservatory, and Yale University .,Notable works include the...	1960
Yuri Khanon Yuri Khanon Yuri Khanon is a pen name of Yuri Feliksovich Soloviev-Savoyarov , a Russian composer. Prior to 1993, he wrote under a pen name Yuri Khanin, but later transformed it into Yuri Khanon, spelling it in a pre-1918 Russian style as ХанонЪ. Khanon was born on Juny 16, 1965 in Leningrad...	1965
Tikhon Khrennikov Tikhon Khrennikov Tikhon Nikolayevich Khrennikov was a Russian and Soviet composer, pianist, leader of the Union of Soviet Composers, who was also known for his political activities...	1913	2007
Wojciech Kilar Wojciech Kilar Wojciech Kilar ; b. 17 July 1932 in Lwów, Poland) is a Polish classical and film music composer.-Biography:Wojciech Kilar is one of Poland’s esteemed composers. Born in 1932 in Lwów . His father was a gynecologist and his mother was a theater actress...	1932
Alastair King Alastair King Alastair King is a British composer, perhaps best known for his music for film and television.He studied music at Bath College of Higher Education, graduating in 1991...	1967
Geoffrey King Geoffrey King (composer) Geoffrey King is a British composer and teacher.-Biography:Born in Croydon, England, King's first musical studies were at the Royal School of Church Music at Addington Palace. Later, at the Royal College of Music, he studied with Humphrey Searle, Justin Connolly and Alexander Goehr...	1949
Leon Kirchner Leon Kirchner Leon Kirchner was an American composer of contemporary classical music. He was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for his String Quartet No. 3.Kirchner was born in Brooklyn, New York...	1919	2009
Volker David Kirchner Volker David Kirchner Volker David Kirchner is a German composer and violist.-Biography:Kirchner studied at the Peter Cornelius Conservatory in Mainz from 1956 to 1969 under Günter Kehr and Günter Raphael...	1942
Hikari Kiyama Hikari Kiyama is a Japanese contemporary music composer.-Brief biography:Kiyama graduated from Joto Municipal High School in 2002, and from Tokyo College of Music in 2006. He has since studied at the Koninklijk Conservatorium in The Hague. His teachers have included Koujiba Tomiko, Minoru Miki, Beat Furrer, Joji...	1983
Giselher Klebe Giselher Klebe Giselher Wolfgang Klebe was a German composer. He composed more than 140 works, among them 14 operas, 8 symphonies, 15 solo concerts, chamber music, piano works, and sacred music.-Biography:...	1925	2009
Phil Kline Phil Kline Phil Kline is an American composer. After graduating from Columbia University with a degree in English Literature, he formed the New York No Wave band The Del-Byzanteens in the early 1980s with filmmaker Jim Jarmusch and painter James Nares, collaborated with photographer Nan Goldin on the...
Alexander Knaifel	1943
Douglas Knehans Douglas Knehans Douglas Knehans is an Australian/American composer and academic.Between 2008 and 2010 he was Dean of the College-Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati.-External links:* ²* ¹...	1957
Oliver Knussen Oliver Knussen Oliver Knussen CBE is a British composer and conductor.-Biography:Oliver Knussen was born in Glasgow, Scotland. His father, Stuart Knussen, was principal double bass of the London Symphony Orchestra. Oliver Knussen studied composition with John Lambert, between 1963 and 1969 and also received...	1952
Erland von Koch Erland von Koch Erland von Koch was a Swedish composer.-Life and career:Born in Stockholm as the son of composer Sigurd von Koch , Erland von Koch studied at the Stockholm Conservatory from 1931 to 1935 and subsequently passed the advanced choirmaster and organist examinations...	1910	2009
Akil Mark Koci Akil Mark Koci Akil Mark Koci is a Kosovar Albanian composer and music writer.- Education :...	1936
Hans Kockelmans Hans Kockelmans Hans Kockelmans is a Dutch composer, teacher, and performer of Early Classical and electronic music.He studied baroque lute with Mijndert Jape, as well as electronic music, and classical guitar at the Maastricht conservatory....	195?
Zoltán Kocsis Zoltán Kocsis Zoltán Kocsis is a Hungarian pianist, conductor, and composer.Born in Budapest, he started his musical studies at the age of five and continued them at the Béla Bartók Conservatory in 1963, studying piano and composition...	1952
Graeme Koehne Graeme Koehne Graeme Koehne is an Australian composer and music educator. He is best known for his orchestral and ballet scores, which are characterised by direct communicative style and embrace of triadic tonality...	1956
Gottfried Michael Koenig Gottfried Michael Koenig Gottfried Michael Koenig is a contemporary German-Dutch composer.-Biography:Koenig studied church music in Braunschweig, composition, piano, analysis and acoustics in Detmold, music representation techniques in Cologne and computer technique in Bonn. He attended and later lectured at the...	1926
Jan Koetsier Jan Koetsier Jan Koetsier was a Dutch composer and conductor.In 1950, Koetsier became the first Kapellmeister of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. As a composer, he wrote chamber music, and orchestral and choral works, as well as the opera Frans Hals...	1911	2006
Panayiotis Kokoras Panayiotis Kokoras Panayiotis Kokoras is a Greek composer, musician, teacher, writer and Vice President of HELMCA -Studies:Kokoras studied composition with I. Ioannidi, K. Varotsi and Anri Kergomard as well as classical guitar with E. Asimakopoulo in Athens. In 1999 he moved to England, for postgraduate studies at...	1974
Pınar Köksal Pınar Köksal Ayşe Pınar Köksal is a female Turkish composer of Turkish classical music. She lives in Ankara.-Life:Pınar Köksal was born in Adana, and because her father was a civil servant her childhood was spent in different parts of Anatolia...	1946
Barbara Kolb Barbara Kolb Barbara Kolb is an American composer. Her music uses sound masses and often creates vertical structures through simultaneous rhythmic or melodic units . She was the first American woman composer to win the Prix de Rome. She received her B.M. and M.M...	1939
Pierre Kolp Pierre Kolp Pierre Kolp is a Belgian composer and music pedagogue, born in Cologne , 23 March 1969.-Biography:After obtaining a mathematics and science diploma, Kolp studied organ and composition , Belgium...	1969
Jo Kondo Jo Kondo Jō Kondō is a Japanese composer of contemporary classical music.Kondo studied composition from 1968 to 1972 with Yoshio Hasegawa and Hiroaki Minami at the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music. He won the third prize and made his debut in Japan-Germany Contemporary Music Festival in 1969...	1947
Marek Kopelent Marek Kopelent Marek Kopelent is a renowned Czech contemporary composer, who is considered to be at the forefront of the "New Music" movement.-Biography:Kopelent was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, on 28 April 1932...	1932
Constantine Koukias Constantine Koukias Constantine Koukias is a Greek-Australian composer and flautist.He is the co-founder and Artistic Director of IHOS Music Theatre and Opera, based in Hobart, Tasmania. He is well known for his innovative work in contemporary opera and other forms...	1965
Zygmunt Krauze Zygmunt Krauze - Biography :Polish composer and pianist , who studied composition and piano at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw and with Nadia Boulanger in Paris. He is known as a composer of unistic music, based on the theory of unistic art adopted from the painting of Wladyslaw Strzeminski...	1938
Joseph-François Kremer Joseph-François Kremer Joseph-François Kremer is a French composer, conductor, violinist and musicologist.-Biography:Joseph-François Kremer was born in Lyon in 1954. Currently director of the Conservatoire Darius Milhaud of the City of Antony . He is associated with an original movement in Postmodernism, cited in the...	1954
Johannes Kretz Johannes Kretz Johannes Kretz is an Austrian composer and teacher for computer music and music theory. He lives and works in Vienna and created various compositions in the fields of new music, among those: music theatre, orchestra works, chamber music, sacred music and works with electronics.- education :*...	1968
Ladislav Kubík Ladislav Kubik Ladislav Kubík is a contemporary Czech-American composer. His style is associated with other post-war Eastern European composers, such as Krzysztof Penderecki and Witold Lutosławski....	1946
Hanna Kulenty Hanna Kulenty Hanna Kulenty is a Polish composer of contemporary classical music. Since 1992, she has worked and lived both in Warsaw and in Arnhem .- Musical education :...	1961
Gary Kulesha Gary Kulesha Gary Kulesha is a Canadian composer, pianist, conductor, and educator. Since 1995, he has been Composer Advisor to the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. He has been Composer-in-Residence with the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony and the Canadian Opera Company . He was awarded the National Arts Centre...	1954
Petri Kuljuntausta Petri Kuljuntausta Petri Kuljuntausta is a composer, musician, sound artist and author of three books on electronic music and sound art. Since 1990's he has belonged to a new generation of composers in Finland interested in experimental and electronic music....	1961
Andreas Kunstein Andreas Kunstein Andreas Kunstein is a composer who was born in Brühl . In his youth, he received piano lessons and wrote his first compositions. After finishing high school, he studied History and Philosophy in Düsseldorf....	1967
Ladislav Kupkovič Ladislav Kupkovic Ladislav Karol Kupkovič is a Slovak composer and conductor.-Life:Kupkovič was born in Bratislava, and studied violin and conducting there, first at the conservatory, then at the Academy of Performing Arts. He played violin in the Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra from 1960 to 1965, and then began to...	1936
György Kurtág György Kurtág György Kurtág is a Hungarian composer of contemporary music.- Biography :György Kurtág was born in Lugoj in the Banat region, Romania.In 1946, he began his studies at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest, where he met his wife, Márta, and also György Ligeti, who became a close friend...	1926
Bronius Kutavičius Bronius Kutavicius Bronius Kutavičius is a Lithuanian composer. He has written numerous oratorios and operas, among them The Last Pagan Rites, Lokys the Bear and The Gates of Jerusalem...	1932
Hanspeter Kyburz Hanspeter Kyburz Hanspeter Kyburz is a contemporary Swiss composer of classical music, known for applying electronic music techniques to his productions....	1960
Joan La Barbara Joan La Barbara Joan La Barbara is an American vocalist and composer associated with contemporary music. She is a former student of Helen Boatwright...	1947
Osvaldo Lacerda Osvaldo Lacerda Osvaldo Lacerda ) is a Brazilian composer. He began piano study at nine, and in 1963, he became the first Brazilian composer to receive a Guggenheim Fellowship.-References:...	1927
Juan Sebastian Lach Juan Sebastian Lach Juan Sebastian Lach is a Mexican composer of classical, microtonal and electroacoustic works.He has played keyboards and piano in jazz and rock bands in Mexico. He is perhaps best known as one of the members of the progressive Guadalajara-based band Santa Sabina...	1970
Helmut Lachenmann Helmut Lachenmann Helmut Lachenmann is a German composer associated with musique concrète instrumentale.-Life and works:...	1935
Ezra Laderman Ezra Laderman Ezra Laderman is an American composer of classical music.-Biography:His parents, Isidor and Leah, both emigrated to the United States from Poland. Though poor, the family had a piano. Ezra writes, "At four, I was improvising at the piano; at seven, I began to compose music, writing it down...	1924
Bernhard Lang Bernhard Lang Bernhard Lang is an Austrian composer of the experimental and avant-garde school, particularly advocating a style he has self-termed "repetition-perpetrator"....	1957
David Lang David Lang (composer) David Lang is an American composer living in New York City. He was awarded the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Music for The Little Match Girl Passion.-Biography:...	1957
István Láng István Láng István Láng ; born 1 March 1933) is a Hungarian composer.-Life:Born in Budapest, Láng studied composition there from 1950 to 1958 at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music, first with János Viski and later with Ferenc Szabó . After graduating, he worked as a freelance composer until 1966...	1933
Vanessa Lann Vanessa Lann Vanessa Lann has been a composer and pianist since the age of five. She studied at the Tanglewood Institutewith Ruth Schonthal. She also attended the Westchester Conservatory of Musicat Harvard University, where her main teachers were Earl Kim, Peter Lieberson, and Leon Kirchner...	1968
Paul Lansky Paul Lansky Paul Lansky is an American electronic-music or computer-music composer who has been producing works from the 1970s up to the present day .-Biography:...	1944
André Laporte André Laporte André Laporte is a Belgian composer.-Biography:Laporte studied music with Edgard de Laet, Flor Peeters, and Marinus De Jong at the Lemmens Institute in Mechelen, and musicology and philosophy at the Catholic University of Leuven from 1953 to 1957...	1931
Patrick Larley Patrick Larley Patrick Larley is a British composer.- Biography :Born in Frodsham, Cheshire, England, though lived in Fearnhead in Warrington. Parents were Ian and Helen Larley and Patrick was the second youngest of four children. Patrick Larley studied organ and singing at the Royal Manchester College of Music...	1951
Morten Lauridsen Morten Lauridsen Morten Johannes Lauridsen is an American composer. He was composer-in-residence of the Los Angeles Master Chorale and has been a professor of composition at the University of Southern California Thornton School of Music for more than 30 years.-Biography:Lauridsen was born February 27, 1943, in...	1943
Elodie Lauten Elodie Lauten Elodie Lauten is a composer described as postminimalist or a microtonalist.-Biography:Born in Paris, France, Lauten was classically trained as a pianist since age 7. She received a Master's in composition from New York University where she studied Western composition with Dinu Ghezzo and Indian...	1950
James Lavino James Lavino James Lavino is an American composer, known especially for his choral music and his music for film and television.-Life and career:...	1973
Mario Lavista Mario Lavista Mario Lavista is a Mexican composer and writer. He has had numerous pieces published, especially chamber music, but also incidental music for plays, film scores, orchestral pieces, and vocal music....	1943
Henri Lazarof Henri Lazarof Henri Lazarof is a Bulgarian composer.Born in Sofia, Bulgaria his formal musical training began in Israel under Paul Ben-Haim. After a short stint in Rome, Lazarof settled in the United States, studying with Harold Shapero and Arthur Berger at Brandeis University...	1932
Mary Jane Leach Mary Jane Leach Mary Jane Leach is an American composer based in New York City. She has been a member of the Downtown Ensemble, composer in residence at Sankt Peter, Köln, and has recordings on XI, New World Records, and Lovely Music. In the late 1970s Leach composed mainly with tape, overdubbing her own playing...	1949
Anne LeBaron Anne LeBaron Alice Anne LeBaron is an United States composer and harpist.-Biography:Anne LeBaron holds a B.A. in music from the University of Alabama , an M.A. in music from the State University of New York at Stony Brook , and a D.M.A. from Columbia University...	1953
Celso Garrido Lecca Celso Garrido Lecca Celso Garrido Lecca is a Peruvian composer. He was born in Lima and studied composition with Rodolfo Holzmann in Peru's National Conservatory. He concluded his studies in Chile. He was admitted into Universidad de Chile's Theathre Institute as composer and music advisor, and worked there for 10...	1926
Claude Ledoux	1960
Nicola LeFanu Nicola LeFanu Nicola LeFanu is a British composer, academic, lecturer and director.-Life:Nicola LeFanu was born in England to William LeFanu and Elizabeth Maconchy . She studied at St Hilda's College, Oxford, before taking up a Harkness Fellowship at Harvard. In 1972 she won the Mendelssohn Scholarship...	1947
David Leisner David Leisner David Leisner is a classical guitarist, composer, teacher at the Manhattan School of Music and one of the leading authorities on focal dystonia, due to being impaired by the injury for 12 years and recovering through methods that he developed and now teaches his students.-Biography:David Leisner...	1953
John Anthony Lennon John Anthony Lennon John Anthony Lennon is an American composer of contemporary classical music based in Georgia. He was raised in Mill Valley, California, and is a professor of composition at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia...	1950
Georges Lentz Georges Lentz Georges Lentz is a contemporary composer and sound artist, born in Luxembourg in 1965, and is that country's internationally best known composer. Since 1990, he has been living in Sydney, Australia...	1965
Peter Scott Lewis Peter Scott Lewis Peter Scott Lewis is an American composer of contemporary classical music. His works have been commissioned and/or performed by the Rotterdam Philharmonic; Chamber Symphony of Princeton; Berkeley Symphony; Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center; Alexander, Orion, and Ciompi String Quartets;...	1953
Ulrich Leyendecker Ulrich Leyendecker Ulrich Leyendecker is a German composer of classical music. His output consists mainly of symphonies, concertos, chamber and instrumental music.-Life:...	1946
Lowell Liebermann Lowell Liebermann Lowell Liebermann is an American composer, pianist and conductor.At the age of sixteen, Liebermann performed at Carnegie Hall, playing his Piano Sonata, op. 1...	1961
György Ligeti György Ligeti György Sándor Ligeti was a composer of contemporary classical music. Born in a Hungarian Jewish family in Transylvania, Romania, he briefly lived in Hungary before becoming an Austrian citizen.-Early life:...	1923	2006
Douglas Lilburn Douglas Lilburn Douglas Gordon Lilburn ONZ FRCM was a New Zealand composer.-Early life:Lilburn was born in Wanganui. He attended Waitaki Boys' High School from 1930 to 1933, before moving to Christchurch to study journalism and music at Canterbury University College...	1915	2001
Liza Lim Liza Lim Liza Lim is an Australian composer.Lim writes concert music as well as music theatre and has collaborated with artists on a number of installation and video projects...	1966
Paulo Costa Lima Paulo Costa Lima Paulo Costa Lima is a composer from Salvador, Bahia. He has been a professor of composition at the School of Music of the Federal University of Bahia since 1979.-References:...	1954
Magnus Lindberg Magnus Lindberg Magnus Lindberg is a Finnish composer and pianist. He is currently the composer-in-residence at the New York Philharmonic.-Education:...	1958
Dan Locklair Dan Locklair Dan Locklair is an American composer. He holds the position of Composer-in-Residence at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina where he is also a Professor of Music...	1949
Annea Lockwood Annea Lockwood Annea Lockwood is a New Zealand born American composer. She taught electronic music at Vassar College. Her work often involves recordings of natural found sounds...	1939
Theo Loevendie Theo Loevendie Theo Loevendie is a Dutch composer and clarinet player.Loevendie studied composition and clarinet at the Conservatoire of Amsterdam. Initially he concentrated on jazz music. As off 1968 he also wrote concert music, among which operas, concertos and chamber music...	1930
Paolo Longo Paolo Longo Paolo Longo is an Italian composer and conductor.-Life:He studied composition, piano and conducting in Trieste, where he graduated in 1990 with highest honors...	1967
Jimmy Lopez Jimmy Lopez Jimmy Lopez is a classical music composer from Lima, Peru. He has won several international awards and pieces composed by him have been performed by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Aspen Concert Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra of...	1978
Bent Lorentzen Bent Lorentzen (composer) - Life :Bent Lorentzen was born in Stenvad, a village in eastern Jutland. He studied musicology at the university in Aarhus and at the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen. He was a pupil of Knud Jeppesen, Finn Høffding, Vagn Holmboe and Jörgen Jersild...	1935
Alexina Louie Alexina Louie Alexina Louie, OC, FRSC is a Canadian composer of Chinese descent who has written many pieces for orchestra, as well as pieces for solo piano.-Biography:Alexina Louie was born in Vancouver and received an...	1949
Alvin Lucier Alvin Lucier Alvin Lucier is an American composer of experimental music and sound installations that explore acoustic phenomena and auditory perception. A long-time music professor at Wesleyan University, Lucier was a member of the influential Sonic Arts Union, which included Robert Ashley, David Behrman, and...	1931
David Lumsdaine David Lumsdaine David Lumsdaine is an Australian composer. He studied at the New South Wales Conservatorium of Music . He moved to England in 1952 and for a while shared a flat with fellow expatriate, the poet Peter Porter, with whom he collaborated on several projects including the cantata Annotations of...	1931
Arkady Luxemburg Arkady Luxemburg Arkady Luxemburg is one of the most prolific and renowned living Moldovan composers. He received a Master of Arts degree in 1964 at the Academy of Music in Kishinev, Moldova in the former Soviet Union, where he received degrees in piano performance, composition, and music theory...	1939
Andrew McBirnie Andrew McBirnie Andrew McBirnie is a British composer, educator and administrator.He studied at the University of Bristol with Adrian Beaumont and at the Royal Academy of Music with Justin Connolly, gaining a PhD in Composition from the University of London. He also studied at Tanglewood with Henri Dutilleux,...	1971
John McCabe John McCabe (composer) John McCabe CBE is an English composer and pianist.- Biography :John McCabe was born in Huyton, Liverpool, Merseyside. A prolific composer from an early age, he had written thirteen symphonies by the time he was eleven...	1939
Bill McGlaughlin Bill McGlaughlin William "Bill" McGlaughlin is an American composer, conductor, music educator, and Peabody Award-winning classical music radio host...	1943
Edward McGuire Edward McGuire (composer) Edward McGuire is a Scottish composer.He studied composition with James Iliff at the Royal Academy of Music in London from 1966 to 1970 and then with Ingvar Lidholm in Stockholm in 1971....	1948
Peter Machajdik Peter Machajdik Peter Machajdík is a contemporary Slovak composer and sound artist. He grew up in Bratislava, Slovakia and lives in Berlin, Germany....	1961
François-Bernard Mâche François-Bernard Mâche François-Bernard Mâche is a French composer of contemporary music. Born into a family of musicians, he is a former student of Émile Passani and Olivier Messiaen and has also received a diploma in Greek archaeology and a teaching certificate...	1935
Tod Machover Tod Machover Tod Machover , is a composer and an innovator in the application of technology in music. He is the son of Wilma Machover, a pianist and Carl Machover, a computer scientist....	1953
John Mackey John Mackey (composer) John Mackey is an American composer of classical music, with an emphasis on music for wind band, as well as orchestra. For several years, he focused on music for modern dance and ballet.-Background:...	1973
Steven Mackey Steven Mackey Steven Mackey is an American composer, guitarist, and music educator.-Life:As a musician growing up listening to and performing vernacular American musics as well as classical music, Mackey's compositions are informed by rock and jazz, though in an avant-garde vein...	1956
John McLeod John McLeod (composer) John McLeod is a contemporary composer based in Edinburgh, who writes music in many media including film and television...	1934
James MacMillan	1959
Gordon McPherson Gordon McPherson Gordon McPherson is a Scottish composer. He studied at the University of York, England, returning there for his doctorate, continuing with post-doctoral research at the Royal Northern College of Music....	1965
Stuart MacRae Stuart MacRae Stuart MacRae is a British composer.- Education and career :Stuart MacRae studied at Durham University with Philip Cashian and Michael Zev Gordon, and subsequently with Simon Bainbridge and Robert Saxton at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama...	1976
Frederik Magle Frederik Magle Frederik Magle is a Danish composer, concert organist, and pianist. He studied composition and music theory with Leif Thybo and attended the Royal Danish Academy of Music where he studied composition and organ...	1977
Javier Torres Maldonado Javier Torres Maldonado Javier Torres Maldonado is a Mexican-Italian composer internationally recognized for mostly of his orchestral, chamber, vocal and electro-acoustic works.-Biography:...	1968
Daan Manneke Daan Manneke Daan Manneke is a Dutch composer and organist.Manneke studied organ and composition from 1963 to 1967 at the Brabant Conservatory in Tilburg, under H. Houët and Louis Toebosch and Jan van Dijk then studied organ with Belgian organist Kamiel d’Hooghe in Brussels, followed by composition with Ton...	1961
Philippe Manoury Philippe Manoury Philippe Manoury is a French composer.-Biography:Philippe Manoury was born in Tulle. His first composition studies were at the Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris, with Gérard Condé and Max Deutsch. He continued his studies from 1974 to 1978 at the Conservatoire de Paris with Michel Philippot, Ivo...	1952
Edward Manukyan Edward Manukyan Edward Manukyan is an Armenian-born composer residing in Southern California, United States...	1981
Matteo Marchisano-Adamo Matteo Marchisano-Adamo Matteo Marchisano-Adamo is an American sound designer, film editor and composer. He was born in Flint, Michigan.-Biography:...	1973
Bunita Marcus Bunita Marcus Bunita Marcus, born May 5, 1952 in Madison, Wisconsin, began studying composition at the age of sixteen and worked in both electronic and instrumental mediums while at the University of Wisconsin. In 1981 she received a Ph.D...	1952
Neil March Neil March -Life:He was born in Hemel Hempstead of Welsh and English parents. He studied music from a young age and played in various orchestras and ensembles before turning his back on the classical world in his late teens for the lure of the burgeoning Post-Punk scene....	1963
Pierre Mariétan Pierre Mariétan Pierre Mariétan is a Swiss composer.-Biography:Mariétan studied first at the Geneva Conservatory in 1955–60 with Marescotti, and later with, amongst others, Pierre Boulez, Bernd Alois Zimmermann, Gottfried Michael Koenig, Henri Pousseur, and Karlheinz Stockhausen, and his earliest works are...	1935
Ingram Marshall Ingram Marshall Ingram Marshall is an American composer and a former student of Vladimir Ussachevsky and Morton Subotnick. Son of Bernice Douglas and Harry Reinhard Marshall, Sr. He was a talented soprano in the Boy's Choir at the Mt. Vernon Community Church, and was influenced early by noted music instructor,...	1942
Donald Martino Donald Martino Donald Martino was a Pulitzer Prize winning American composer.Born in Plainfield, New Jersey, Martino studied composition with Ernst Bacon, Roger Sessions, Milton Babbitt, and Luigi Dallapiccola...	1931	2005
Steve Martland Steve Martland Steve Martland is an English composer.-Life and Music :Martland was born in Liverpool, England and studied composition at Liverpool University and in the Netherlands with Louis Andriessen...	1959
Tauno Marttinen Tauno Marttinen Tauno Marttinen was a Finnish composer of contemporary classical music.Born in Helsinki, Marttinen studied in Viipuri and Helsinki. His earliest works are mainly late romantic. His output includes ten symphonies, several concertos, operas and chamber music, among others...	1912	2008
Vladimir Martynov Vladimir Martynov Vladimir Martynov is a Russian composer, born on February 20, 1946 in Moscow, known for his music in the Concerto, Orchestral Music, Chamber Music and Choral Music genres....	1946
Diego Masson Diego Masson Diego Masson is a French conductor, composer, and percussionist.The son of artist André Masson and brother of the singer and actor Luís Masson, Diego Masson studied piano and composition at the Paris Conservatoire...	1935
Martin Matalon Martin Matalon Martin Matalon is an Argentine composer and musician, and recipient of the 2005 Grand Prix des Lycéens and 2001 Prix de L'Institut de France Académie des Beaux Arts...	1958
Yoritsune Matsudaira Yoritsune Matsudaira was a Japanese composer of contemporary classical music.Matsudaira was descended, on his father's side of the family, from the Matsudaira clan, related to the Tokugawa clan who ruled Japan as shogun during the Edo Period , and on his mother's side of the family from the Fujiwara family, who were...	1907	2001
Colin Matthews Colin Matthews Colin Matthews OBE is an English composer of classical music.-Early life and education:Matthews was born in London in 1946; his older brother is the composer David Matthews. He read classics at the University of Nottingham, and then studied composition there with Arnold Whittall, and with Nicholas...	1946
David Matthews David Matthews (composer) David Matthews is an English composer of mainly orchestral, chamber, vocal and piano works.- Life :He was born in London into a family that was 'not especially' musical; the desire to compose did not manifest itself until he was sixteen, and for a time he and his younger brother Colin Matthews,...	1943
Siegfried Matthus Siegfried Matthus Siegfried Matthus is a German composer and opera director living in Berlin and is one of Germany's most often performed contemporary composers.- Biography :Matthus attended secondary school in Rheinsberg, followed by studies at the Hochschule für Musik...	1934
Nicholas Maw Nicholas Maw John Nicholas Maw was a British composer.-Biography:Born in Grantham, Lincolnshire, Maw was the son of Clarence Frederick Maw and Hilda Ellen Chambers. He attended the Wennington School, a boarding school, in Wetherby in the West Riding of Yorkshire. His mother died of tuberculosis when he was 14...	1935	2009
John Mayer John Mayer (composer) John Mayer was an Indian composer known primarily for his fusions of jazz with Indian music...	1930	2004
Richard Meale Richard Meale Richard Graham Meale, AM, MBE was an Australian composer of instrumental works and operas.-Biography:Meale was born in Sydney and studied piano with Winifred Burston at the NSW State Conservatorium of Music, as well as clarinet, harp, music history and theory, before studying at the University of...	1932	2009
Johan de Meij Johan de Meij Johannes Abraham de Meij is a Dutch conductor, trombonist, and composer, best known for his Symphony No. 1, nicknamed "The Lord of the Rings" symphony.- Biography :...	1953
Chiel Meijering Chiel Meijering Chiel Meijering is a Dutch composer. He studied composition with Ton de Leeuw, percussion with Jan Labordus and Jan Pustjens, and piano at the Amsterdam Conservatory of Music....	1954
László Melis László Melis László Melis is a Hungarian composer and violinist. He writes primarily in the minimal style and his compositions are often characterized by a propulsive, bouncy quality...	1953
Misha Mengelberg Misha Mengelberg Misha Mengelberg is a Dutch jazz pianist and composer. He won the Gaudeamus International Composers Award in 1961.-Biography:...	1935
Gian Carlo Menotti Gian Carlo Menotti Gian Carlo Menotti was an Italian-American composer and librettist. Although he often referred to himself as an American composer, he kept his Italian citizenship. He wrote the classic Christmas opera, Amahl and the Night Visitors, among about two dozen other operas intended to appeal to popular...	1911	2007
Wim Mertens Wim Mertens Wim Mertens is a Flemish Belgian composer, countertenor vocalist, pianist, guitarist, and musicologist.-Life and work:Mertens was born in Neerpelt, Belgium...	1953
Jean-Christian Michel Jean-Christian Michel Jean-Christian Michel is a composer and clarinetist. His compositions are influenced by jazz and by the music of Johann Sebastian Bach.Michel has received 3 diamond discs, 7 platinum discs and 10 golden discs. He is a "Full Member" of the SACEM...	1938
Winfried Michel Winfried Michel Winfried Michel is a German recorder player, composer, and editor of music.Michel studied with Ingetraud Drescher, Nikolaus Delius, and Frans Brüggen. He is lecturer for the recorder at the Staatliche Hochschule Münster and at the Musikakademie Kassel...	1948
Minoru Miki Minoru Miki is a Japanese composer and artistic director, particularly known for his promotional activities in favour of Japanese traditional instruments and some of their performers....	1930
Kenneth G. Mills Kenneth G. Mills Kenneth George Mills was a Canadian metaphysical/philosophical speaker and author. An exponent of the oral tradition, he gave spontaneous lectures and poetry for over 37 years. At the same time, he became noted for his accomplishments in music, particularly as the conductor of the choral ensemble...	1923	2004
John Mitchell John Mitchell (composer) John Mitchell is an American classical composer. He is the son of John Stewart Mitchell, pianist and cousin of Canadian novelist W. O. Mitchell and Hungarian-born singer Teresa Hideg Mitchell. He studied music composition at the University of California, Los Angeles with Dr...	1941
Roscoe Mitchell Roscoe Mitchell Roscoe Mitchell is an African American composer, jazz instrumentalist and educator, mostly known for being "a technically superb—if idiosyncratic—saxophonist." He has been called "one of the key figures" in avant-garde jazz who has been "at the forefront of modern music" for the past...	1940
Luca Miti Luca Miti Luca Miti is an Italian composer and pianist.He studied jazz piano, extended vocal techniques and baroque flute a bec. From 1980 he's working as a composer and performer of contemporary music. His work is centered on a deep research on, over and beyond "sound"...	1957
Akira Miyoshi Akira Miyoshi Akira Miyoshi is a Japanese composer.Miyoshi was a child prodigy on piano, studying with Kozaburo Hirai and Tomojiro Ikenouchi. He studied French literature at the University of Tokyo, and then at the Paris Conservatory with Henri Challan and Raymond Gallois-Montbrun from 1955 to 1957. He was...	1933
Dary John Mizelle Dary John Mizelle Dary John Mizelle is an American composer.Mizelle studied trombone as well as composition and participated in the New Music Ensemble at the University of California, Davis, where he participated in a course led by Karlheinz Stockhausen...	1940
Andrea Molino Andrea Molino Andrea Molino is an Italian composer and conductor. He has first attracted international attention through a video/music theatre work, , a project about capital punishment, and later through the multimedia music theatre projects and .He has been Musical Director of the Pocket Opera Company...	1964
Meredith Monk Meredith Monk Meredith Jane Monk is an American composer, performer, director, vocalist, filmmaker, and choreographer. Since the 1960s, Monk has created multi-disciplinary works which combine music, theatre, and dance, recording extensively for ECM Records.-Life and work:Meredith Monk is primarily known for her...	1942
Xavier Montsalvatge Xavier Montsalvatge Xavier Montsalvatge i Bassols was a Spanish Catalan composer and music critic. He was one of the most influential music figures in Catalan music during the latter half of the 20th century.-Life:...	1912	2002
Luigi Morleo Luigi Morleo Luigi Morleo is an Italian percussionist and composer of contemporary music, who lives in Bari and teaches in Bari Conservatory of Music - Niccolò Piccinni....	1970
Angela Morley Angela Morley Angela Morley was an English composer and conductor. Morley was born in Leeds, Yorkshire in 1924, and played saxophone in a number of dance bands, and in 1944 became a member of Geraldo's band....	1924	2009
Ennio Morricone Ennio Morricone Ennio Morricone, Grand Officer OMRI, , is an Italian composer and conductor, who wrote music to more than 500 motion pictures and television series, in a career lasting over 50 years. His scores have been included in over 20 award-winning films as well as several symphonic and choral pieces...	1928
Louis Moyse Louis Moyse Louis Moyse was a famous French flute player and composer. He was the son of influential French flutist Marcel Moyse. He was a co-founder of the Vermont Marlboro Music Festival and was a teacher to top flutists all over the world. He died of heart failure at age 94.Louis Moyse was born in...	1912	2007
Nico Muhly Nico Muhly Nico Muhly is a contemporary classical music composer, who has worked and recorded with classical and pop/rock musicians. He currently lives in the Lower East Side section of Manhattan in New York City.-Early years:...	1981
Veli Mukhatov	1916	2005
Gráinne Mulvey Gráinne Mulvey Gráinne Mulvey is an Irish composer.-Biography:She studied with Eric Sweeney at Waterford Regional Technical College, Hormoz Farhat at Trinity College Dublin and Agustín Fernández at Queen's University, Belfast. In 1999 she gained a DPhil in Composition at the University of York under Nicola LeFanu...	1966
Gordon Mumma Gordon Mumma Gordon Mumma is an American composer. He cofounded Ann Arbor's Cooperative Studio for Electronic Music with Robert Ashley, was a musician with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company and was a member of the Sonic Arts Union with Ashley, Alvin Lucier, and David Behrman...	1935
Tristan Murail Tristan Murail Tristan Murail is a French composer. His father, Gérard Murail, is a poet and his mother, Marie-Thérèse Barrois, a journalist. One of his brothers, Lorris Murail, and his younger sister Elvire Murail, aka Moka, also write, and his younger sister Marie-Aude Murail is a French children's writer...	1947
Roberto Musci Roberto Musci Roberto Musci is a music composer, performer, saxophonist and guitar player.Musci studied saxophone and guitar. From 1974 to 1985 he travelled around the world to study African, Indian, and Near & Far Eastern music, to make field recordings and collect musical instruments...	1956
Thea Musgrave Thea Musgrave Thea Musgrave CBE is a Scottish composer of opera and classical music.-Biography:Born in Barnton, Edinburgh, Thea Musgrave studied at the University of Edinburgh and in Paris as a pupil of Nadia Boulanger...	1928
Paweł Mykietyn	1971
Vyacheslav Nagovitsyn Vyacheslav Nagovitsyn Vyacheslav Lavrent'yevich Nagovitsin is a Russian composer born in Magnitogorsk . He was a student of Dmitri Shostakovich at the Leningrad Conservatory that he graduated in 1966 . In 1963-1964 he worked in Ulan-Ude Opera and Ballet Theater...	1939
Armen Nalbandian Armen Nalbandian Armen Nalbandian is a jazz pianist, composer & humanitarian.-Music:In addition to the piano, he has been known to perform on the prepared Fender Rhodes mechanical piano, and contributes to produce jazz, improvised and experimental music in California...	1978
Trisdee na Patalung Trisdee na Patalung Trisdee na Patalung is a Thai composer and conductor. He is the Music Director of the Bangkok Baroque Ensemble and the Resident Conductor of the Orpheus Choir of Bangkok....	1986
Onutė Narbutaitė Onute Narbutaite Onutė Narbutaitė is a Lithuanian composer. She graduated in 1979 and from the early 1980s has been working as a freelance composer in Vilnius. Her compositions include Sinfonia col triangolo, completed in 1996...	1956
Paul Nauert Paul Nauert Paul Edward Nauert is an umpire in Major League Baseball.Nauert previously worked the Appalachian League , the Midwest League , the Florida Instructional League , the Southern League , and the International League .He umpired his first National League game on May 19, 1995, and became part of...	1967
Olga Neuwirth Olga Neuwirth Olga Neuwirth is an Austrian composer.As a child at the age of seven, Neuwirth began lessons on trumpet. She later studied composition in Vienna at the Vienna Academy of Music and Performing Arts under Erich Urbanner, while studying at the Electroacoustic Institute...	1968
Jonathan Newman Jonathan newman Jonathan Newman is a British filmmaker and writer.Newman owns a film company called Serendipity based at Ealing Studios.Newman made his first feature film at the age of 25. Being Considered starred James Dreyfus and David Tennant...	1972
Dimitri Nicolau Dimitri Nicolau Dimitri Nicolau was a composer, stage director, conductor, musicologist, writer and professor. He was born in Keratea, Greece and became a naturalized citizen of Italy...	1946
Svend Hvidtfelt Nielsen Svend Hvidtfelt Nielsen Svend Hvidtfelt Nielsen is a Danish composer and organist. He studied composition with Ib Nørholm, Per Nørgård, Hans Abrahamsen and Karl Aage Rasmussen at the Royal Music Academies of Copenhagen and Aarhus. He is an associate professor in Music Theory at the University of Copenhagen.-External...	1958
Serge Nigg Serge Nigg -Biography:After initial studies with Ginette Martenot, Nigg entered the Paris Conservatory in 1941 and studied harmony with Olivier Messiaen and counterpoint with Simone Plé-Caussade. In 1945, he met René Leibowitz, who introduced him to the twelve-tone technique of composition...	1924	2008
Joy Nilo Joy Nilo Joy T. Nilo is a leading Filipino composer who specializes in a cappella Choral Music. Also a sought after orchestrator, his works range from traditional to modern, ethnic to electronic, serious to popular...	1970
Bo Nilsson Bo Nilsson Bo Nilsson , is a Swedish composer and lyricist.Bo Nilsson first drew notice as a composer at the age of 18 when his "Zwei Stücke" were performed in a 1956 West German Radio “Musik der Zeit” concert in Cologne...	1937
Nobuo Uematsu Nobuo Uematsu is a Japanese video game composer, best known for scoring the majority of titles in the Final Fantasy series. He is considered as one of the most famous and respected composers in the video game community...	1959
Pehr Henrik Nordgren Pehr Henrik Nordgren Pehr Henrik Nordgren was a Finnish composer.-Life:Pehr Henrik Nordgren received composition lessons starting from 1958 in Helsinki and studied musicology at the university from 1962 to 1967, as well as receiving private tuition from Joonas Kokkonen from 1965 to 1969...	1944
Arne Nordheim Arne Nordheim Arne Nordheim was a Norwegian composer who had since 1982 been living in the Norwegian State's honorary residence, Grotten, next to the Royal Palace in Oslo. Nordheim received numerous prizes for his compositions, and was elected an honorary member of the International Society for Contemporary...	1931	2010
Jesper Nordin Jesper Nordin Jesper Nordin, born 6 July 1971 in Stockholm, is Swedish composer. His music mixes traditional Swedish folk music, rock music, electroacoustics and improvisation...	1971
Per Nørgård Per Nørgård Per Nørgård is a Danish composer.-Biography:Nørgård studied with Vagn Holmboe at the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen, and subsequently with Nadia Boulanger in Paris. To begin with, he was strongly influenced by the Nordic styles of Jean Sibelius, Carl Nielsen and Vagn Holmboe...	1932
Ib Nørholm Ib Nørholm Ib Nørholm is a Danish composer and organist.Nørholm studied with Vagn Holmboe at the Royal Danish Academy of Music, where he later taught , becoming a professor in 1981...	1931
Robert Normandeau Robert Normandeau Robert Normandeau is a Canadian electroacoustic music composer.Normandeau studied at the Université Laval in Quebec City, and at the Université de Montréal, where he studied with Marcelle Deschênes and Francis Dhomont...	1955
Christopher Norton Christopher Norton Christopher Norton is a New Zealand-born British pianist and composer.Norton obtained a degree in music from the University of Otago in 1974. He taught music in Wellington high schools, worked as a composer-in-Schools for a year, then free-lanced as a composer, arranger and pianist.He moved to the...	1953
Emmanuel Nunes Emmanuel Nunes -Biography:Nunes was born in Lisbon, where he studied composition, first from 1959 to 1963 at the Academia de Amadores de Música with Francine Benoit, and then with Fernando Lopes Graça at the University . He then attended courses at the Darmstädter Ferienkurse , and in 1964 moved to Paris...	1941
Patrick Nunn Patrick Nunn Patrick Nunn , is a British composer and educator.-Biography:Nunn read music at Dartington College of Arts studying under Frank Denyer between 1988 and 1991 taking additional tuition with Louis Andriessen at Dartington International Summer School and with Gary Carpenter at the Welsh College of...	1969
Michael Nyman Michael Nyman Michael Laurence Nyman, CBE is an English composer of minimalist music, pianist, librettist and musicologist, known for the many film scores he wrote during his lengthy collaboration with the filmmaker Peter Greenaway, and his multi-platinum soundtrack album to Jane Campion's The Piano...	1944
Knut Nystedt Knut Nystedt Knut Nystedt is an orchestral and choral composer.Nystedt was born in Kristiania , Norway, and grew up in a Christian home where hymns and classical music were an important part of everyday life. His major compositions for choir and vocal soloists are mainly based on texts from the Bible or sacred...	1915
Gonzalo de Olavide Gonzalo de Olavide Gonzalo de Olavide y Casenave was a Spanish composer born in Madrid.-Biography:Olavide studied composition initially with Victorino Echevarría at the Conservatorio Superior de Madrid, then in Belgium at the conservatories of Antwerp and Brussels...	1934	2005
César de Oliveira César de Oliveira César de Oliveira is a Portuguese composer.-External links:* biographical page, accessed 10 February 2010* profile...	1977
Pauline Oliveros Pauline Oliveros Pauline Oliveros is an American accordionist and composer who is a central figure in the development of post-war electronic art music....	1932
Joseph O'Neill Joseph O'Neill (composer) Joseph O'Neill is an English composer of music, specialising in choral, keyboard instrument and chamber ensemble works....	1988
Marco Oppedisano Marco Oppedisano Marco Oppedisano is an American guitarist and composer whose compositions focus on the innovative use of electric guitar in the genre of electroacoustic music. Since 1999, his musique concrète/acousmatic music compositions have utilized multitrack recording and extended performance techniques for...	1971
Chris Opperman Chris Opperman Chris Opperman is an award-winning composer who has recently emerged into the mainstream. Opperman is known mostly for his work orchestrating the music of guitar heroes Steve Vai and Mike Keneally for their respective performances with Holland's Metropole Orkest...	1978
Leo Ornstein Leo Ornstein Leo Ornstein was a leading American experimental composer and pianist of the early twentieth century...	1892	2002
Juan Orrego-Salas Juan Orrego-Salas Juan Antonio Orrego Salas is a Chilean composer of contemporary classical music and musicologist.He was a student of Randall Thompson and Aaron Copland in the United States, and later he settled in that country in the early 1960s to work at Indiana University, where he co-founded the Latin...	1919
Nigel Osborne Nigel Osborne Nigel Osborne MBE, FRCM is a British composer.He serves as Reid Professor of music at the University of Edinburgh and has been teaching at the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover.He studied composition with Kenneth Leighton ,...	1948
Luis de Pablo Luís de Pablo Luis de Pablo is a Spanish composer.He was born in Bilbao, living in Madrid from age six and starting to compose aged 12. Although he received composition lessons from Maurice Ohana and Max Deutsch, he was essentially an autodidact in composition...	1930
Martijn Padding Martijn Padding Martijn Padding is a Dutch composer. Taught by Louis Andriessen , Geert van Keulen and Fania Chapiro . He also studied sonology at the University of Utrecht. He is a teacher at the Royal Conservatory in Den Haag.-References:*-External links:**...	1956
Paul Panhuysen Paul Panhuysen Paul Panhuysen is a Dutch composer, visual and sound artist. He founded and directed Het Apollohuis, an art space that functioned during the 80's and 90's having artists doing sound installations, sound sculptures, and concerts about free improvisation, experimental music, and electronic...	1934
Roxanna Panufnik Roxanna Panufnik Roxanna Panufnik is a British composer of Polish heritage. She is the daughter of the composer and conductor Sir Andrzej Panufnik....	1968
Vangelis Papathanasiou Vangelis Evangelos Odysseas Papathanassiou is a Greek composer of electronic, progressive, ambient, jazz, pop rock and orchestral music, under the artist name Vangelis...	1943
Hilda Paredes Hilda Paredes Hilda Paredes is one of Mexico's leading contemporary composers, and has received many prestigious awards for her work...	1957
Åke Parmerud Åke Parmerud Åke Parmerud is a Swedish composer, musician, and multimedia artist noted for his acoustic and electronic works, which have been performed mostly in Europe, Mexico, and Canada. He is also noted for the design of stage and acoustics as well as interactive media and software...	1953
Arvo Pärt Arvo Pärt Arvo Pärt is an Estonian classical composer and one of the most prominent living composers of sacred music. Since the late 1970s, Pärt has worked in a minimalist style that employs his self-made compositional technique, tintinnabuli. His music also finds its inspiration and influence from...	1935
Jiří Pauer Jirí Pauer Jiří Pauer was a Czech composer.Pauer studied first with Otakar Šín, then from 1943 to 1946 at the Prague Conservatory with Alois Hába, and finally with Pavel Bořkovec at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. He later taught for many years at the Academy where his pupils included composer...	1919	2007
Sergei Pavlenko Sergei Pavlenko Sergei Pavlenko is a portrait painter of Russian origin and now based in Britain.-Biography:Pavlenko graduated in Painting from St. Petersburg Academy of Fine Arts in 1988...	1952
Alla Pavlova Alla Pavlova Alla Pavlova is a Russian composer of Ukrainian origin, best known for her symphonic work. Pavlova currently resides in Brooklyn, New York.-Soviet life:...	1952
Maggi Payne Maggi Payne Maggi Payne is a composer, flutist, video artist, recording engineer/editor, and historical remastering engineer who creates electroacoustic, instrumental, and vocal works, and works involving visuals ....	1945
Carlo Pedini Carlo Pedini Carlo Pedini is an Italian classical composer.-Biography:Carlo Pedini studied music independetly for a number of years before attendeng Perugia Conservatory with Fernando Sulpizi, specialising and earning his Diploma in Siena in Città di Castello...	1956
Krzysztof Penderecki Krzysztof Penderecki Krzysztof Penderecki , born November 23, 1933 in Dębica) is a Polish composer and conductor. His 1960 avant-garde Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima for string orchestra brought him to international attention, and this success was followed by acclaim for his choral St. Luke Passion. Both these...	1933
George Perle George Perle George Perle was a composer and music theorist. He was born in Bayonne, New Jersey. Perle was an alumnus of DePaul University...	1915	2009
Nick Peros Nick Peros Nick Peros is a Canadian classical composer with an extensive catalogue of works that includes symphonic, orchestral, choral, vocal and chamber genres...	1963
William P. Perry William P. Perry William P. Perry is an American composer and television producer.-Life and career:Born in Elmira, New York in 1930, he attended Harvard University and studied with Paul Hindemith, Walter Piston, and Randall Thompson...	1930
Morris Pert Morris Pert Morris David Brough Pert was a Scottish composer, drummer/percussionist, and pianist who composed in the fields of both contemporary classical and jazz-rock music...	1947	2010
Goffredo Petrassi Goffredo Petrassi Goffredo Petrassi was an Italian composer of modern classical music, conductor, and teacher. He is considered one of the most influential Italian composers of the twentieth century.-Life:...	1904	2003
Ivo Petrić Ivo Petric Ivo Petrić is a Slovenian composer of European classical music.Petrić was educated at the Academy of Music in Ljubljana from 1952 to 1958. After completing his studies at the Academy, he conducted and toured with the Slavko Osterc chamber music ensemble until 1982...	1931
Riccardo Piacentini Riccardo Piacentini Riccardo Piacentini is an Italian composer and pianist.- Biography :He graduated in 1980 in Composition and Piano at Turin and Alessandria Conservatories, as well as in Literature and Music History at Turin University with a thesis on the orchestral works of Goffredo Petrassi...	1958
Daniel Pinkham Daniel Pinkham Daniel Rogers Pinkham, Jr. was an American composer, organist, and harpsichordist. Pinkham was one of America's most active composers during his lifetime...	1923	2006
Pēteris Plakidis Peteris Plakidis Pēteris Plakidis is a Latvian composer and pianist.-Early life:Plakidis was educated at the Emīls Dārziņš College of Music before studying as an undergraduate in the Composition Department at the Jāzeps Vītols State Conservatory...	1947
Johnterryl Plumeri	1945
Larry Polansky Larry Polansky Larry Polansky is a composer, guitarist, mandolinist, and a professor at Dartmouth College. He is a founding member and co-director of . He co-wrote HMSL with Phil Burk and David Rosenboom....	1954
Andrew Poppy Andrew Poppy Andrew Poppy is an English composer, pianist, and record producer.-Biography:From 1974 to 1979 he studied music at Royal Holloway College and Goldsmiths College University of London, studying piano with Susan Bradshaw and earning a B.M...	1954
Francis Pott Francis Pott Francis Pott, born 25 August 1957, is a British composer, pianist, senior academic and university administrator.-Life:He held open music scholarships at Winchester College and Magdalene College, Cambridge, studying composition at the latter with Robin Holloway and Hugh Wood while also pursuing...	1957
Henri Pousseur Henri Pousseur Henri Pousseur was a Belgian composer.-Biography:Pousseur studied at the Academies of Music in Liège and in Brussels from 1947 to 1953. He was closely associated with Pierre Froidebise and André Souris...	1929	2009
Yves Prin Yves Prin Yves Prin is a French composer and conductor of classical music.-Life:He studied piano with Yves Nat and conducting with Louis Fourestier at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris where he won several first prizes....	1933
Simon Proctor Simon Proctor Simon Proctor is a British composer, pianist, and flautist, known for his works for unusual instruments.His best known work, the Concerto for Serpent and Orchestra, was written in 1987 when the composer was attached to the University of South Carolina...	1959
John Psathas John Psathas John Psathas is a New Zealand composer, son of Greek immigrant parents.He has works in the repertoire of such high profile musicians as Evelyn Glennie, Michael Houstoun, Michael Brecker and the New Juilliard Ensemble, and is one of New Zealand's most frequently performed composers...	1966
John Purser John Purser John Purser, born in 1942 in Glasgow, Scotland, is an eminent composer, musicologist, and music historian. He is also a playwright.He initiated the reconstruction which commenced in 1991 of the Iron Age Deskford Carnyx, producing a replica which was first played in 1993 by trombonist John Kenny.The...	1942
Qu Xiao-Song Qu Xiao-Song Qu Xiao-Song is a Chinese composer of contemporary classical music.He is a 1983 graduate of the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing, where he studied composition with Du Mingxin...	1952
Peer Raben Peer Raben Peer Raben was a composer best known for his work with German film-maker Rainer Werner Fassbinder.-Life:Raben was born Wilhelm Rabenbauer in Viechtach, Bavaria...	1940
Alexandre Rabinovitch-Barakovsky Alexandre Rabinovitch-Barakovsky Alexandre Rabinovitch-Barakovsky is a Russian-born composer who lives in Switzerland. He is one of the first composers of minimalism ; "La Belle Musique N.3" is the first work for orchestra in the minimalist field...	1945
Eliane Radigue Eliane Radigue Eliane Radigue is a French electronic music composer. She started her work in the 1950s and her first creations were presented in the late 1960s. Until 2000 her work was almost exclusively created on a single synthesizer, the ARP 2500 modular system and tape...	1932
Osmo Tapio Räihälä Osmo Tapio Räihälä Osmo Tapio Everton Räihälä is a Finnish composer of contemporary music. He has mainly written instrumental music for various chamber music line-ups, fourconcertos as well as for symphony orchestra...	1964
Štěpán Rak Štepán Rak Štěpán Rak is a Rusyn-born Czech classical guitarist and composer. He is well known for the technical innovations that he uses in his compositions.-Interviews:** * -Photos:...	1945
Imant Raminsh Imant Raminsh Imant Karlis Raminsh is a Canadian composer of Latvian descent, best known for his choral compositions. Born in Ventspils, Latvia, he came to Canada in 1948 and became a naturalized citizen in 1954...	1943
Shulamit Ran Shulamit Ran Shulamit Ran is an Israeli-American composer. She moved from Israel to New York at 14, as a scholarship student at the Mannes College of Music. Her Symphony won her the Pulitzer Prize...	1949
Alexander Raskatov Alexander Raskatov Alexander Mikhailovich Raskatov is a Russian composer.-Life:Alexander Raskatov, a son of a leading journalist of the magazine Krokodil, studied composition under Albert Leman at the Moscow Conservatory. In 1990 he was composer in residence at Stetson University and 1998 in Lockenhaus...	1953
Karl Aage Rasmussen Karl Aage Rasmussen Karl Aage Rasmussen is a Danish composer and writer.Quotation and particularly collage played an important role in his music from the early 70s, but increasingly he used pre-existing musical material in new connections and for new purposes, most often in a densely woven montage of small idioms...	1947
Einojuhani Rautavaara Einojuhani Rautavaara Einojuhani Rautavaara is a Finnish composer of contemporary classical music, and is one of the most notable Finnish composers after Jean Sibelius.-Life:...	1928
John Rea John Rea (composer) John Rea is a Montreal-based composer who notably won the Jules Léger Prize for New Chamber Music in both 1981 and 1992. He obtained his Bachelors degree at Wayne State University , his Master of Music degree at the University of Toronto , and his PhD at Princeton University. His children's opera...	1944
Ray Reach Ray Reach Raymond Everett Reach, Jr. is an American pianist, vocalist and educator residing in Birmingham, Alabama, now serving as Director of Student Jazz Programs for the Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame, director of the Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame All-Stars and President and CEO of Ray Reach Music and Magic City...	1948
Gardner Read Gardner Read Gardner Read was an American composer and musical scholar....	1913	2005
H. Owen Reed H. Owen Reed Herbert Owen Reed is an American composer, conductor, and author.-Education:Reed was raised in rural Odessa, Missouri, where his first exposure to music was his father's playing of the old-time fiddle...	1910
Steve Reich Steve Reich Stephen Michael "Steve" Reich is an American composer who together with La Monte Young, Terry Riley, and Philip Glass is a pioneering composer of minimal music...	1936
Aribert Reimann Aribert Reimann Aribert Reimann is a German opera composer, pianist and accompanist, known especially for his literary operas. His version of King Lear was written at the suggestion of Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau who sang the title role....	1936
Sergio Rendine Sergio Rendine Sergio Rendine is an Italian composer of operas, symphonic, ballet and chamber music.-Biography:Rendine started his musical studies at the age of five with his father, Furio Rendine and his grandfather Salvatore Papaccio .He was pupil of Domenico Guaccero at the Santa Cecilia Conservatory in Rome...	1954
Roger Reynolds Roger Reynolds Roger Reynolds is an American composer born July 18, 1934 in Detroit, Michigan. He is a professor at the University of California at San Diego. He received an undergraduate degree in engineering physics from the University of Michigan where he later studied composition with Ross Lee Finney...	1934
Wolfgang Rihm Wolfgang Rihm Wolfgang Rihm is a German composer.Rihm is Head of the Institute of Modern Music at the Karlsruhe Conservatory of Music and has been composer in residence at the Lucerne Festival and the Salzburg Festival...	1952
Richard Rijnvos Richard Rijnvos -Education and influences:Rijnvos studied composition at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague with Jan van Vlijmen and Brian Ferneyhough.He received a DAAD scholarship and attended a postgraduate course at the Musikhochschule in Freiburg....	1964
Terry Riley Terry Riley Terrence Mitchell Riley, is an American composer intrinsically associated with the minimalist school of Western classical music and was a pioneer of the movement...	1935
André Ristic André Ristic André Ristic is a Canadian composer, pianist, accordion player, and music theorist. He has won several awards, including the Jules Léger Prize for New Chamber Music in 2000 for his work Catalogue de bombes occidentales, the Prix opus for Composer of the Year in 2002, and the Prix Québec-Flandre in...	1972
George Rochberg George Rochberg George Rochberg was an American composer of contemporary classical music.-Life:Rochberg was born in Paterson, New Jersey. He attended the Mannes College of Music, where his teachers included George Szell and Hans Weisse, and the Curtis Institute of Music, where he studied with Rosario Scalero and...	1918	2005
Arturo Rodas Arturo Rodas - Biography:Rodas studied at the National Conservatory in Quito, took private composition lessons with Gerardo Guevara, and also graduated in Law at the Universidad Central del Ecuador. Between 1978 and 1980 he was assistant to the French composer José Berghmans in Quito and Paris. He studied at...	1954
Robert Rønnes Robert Rønnes Robert Rønnes is a Norwegian classical bassoonist.-Bassoonist:He studied with Knut Bjærke and Torleif Nedberg at the Norwegian State Academy of Music and with Roger Birnstingl at the Geneva Conservatory...	1959
Jan Van der Roost Jan Van der Roost Jan Van der Roost is a Belgian composer.Van der Roost was educated at the Lemmensinstituut in Leuven , and followed further studies at the Royal Conservatory in Ghent and the Royal Flemish Conservatory in Antwerp. Since 1984 Van der Roost is a professor of counterpoint and fugue at the...	1956
Ned Rorem Ned Rorem Ned Rorem is a Pulitzer prize-winning American composer and diarist. He is best known and most praised for his song settings.-Life:...	1923
António Chagas Rosa António Chagas Rosa António Chagas Rosa is a Portuguese composer of contemporary classical music, considered one of the leading figures of contemporary musical writing of his generation....	1960
Ney Rosauro Ney Rosauro Ney Rosauro is a Brazilian composer and percussionist.His compositions include solos for marimba, vibraphone and multi-percussion setups, as well as music for percussion ensembles and orchestras...	1952
David Rosenboom David Rosenboom David Rosenboom is an American composer and a pioneer in the use of neurofeedback, cross-cultural collaborations and compositional algorithms...	1947
Michael Rosenzweig Michael Rosenzweig (composer) Michael Rosenzweig, born 1951 in Oranjezicht , a district of Cape Town, is a South African composer, conductor and jazz musician.-Education:...	1951
Christopher Rouse	1949
Mikel Rouse Mikel Rouse Mikel Rouse is an American composer. He has been associated with a Downtown New York movement known as totalism, and is best known for his operas, including Dennis Cleveland, about a television talk show host, which Rouse wrote and starred in.Rouse writes music that is idiomatically and...	1957
Stéphane Roy Stéphane Roy Stéphane Roy is a Canadian electroacoustic music composer and writer on music. An associate composer of the Canadian Music Centre, his works have received awards from international competitions in Canada, the USA, and Europe...	1959
Poul Ruders Poul Ruders Poul Ruders is a Danish composer.Ruders trained as an organist, and studied orchestration with Karl Aage Rasmussen. Ruders's first compositions date from the mid-1960s...	1949
John Rutter John Rutter John Milford Rutter CBE is a British composer, conductor, editor, arranger and record producer, mainly of choral music.-Biography:Born in London, Rutter was educated at Highgate School, where a fellow pupil was John Tavener. He read music at Clare College, Cambridge, where he was a member of the...	1945
Peter Ruzicka Peter Ruzicka Peter Ruzicka is a German composer and conductor of classical music.Peter Ruzicka was born in Düsseldorf on July 3, 1948. He received his early musical training at the Hamburg Conservatory. He studied composition with Hans Werner Henze and Hans Otte...	1948
Alexey Rybnikov	1945
Frederic Rzewski Frederic Rzewski Frederic Anthony Rzewski is an American composer and virtuoso pianist.- Biography :Rzewski began playing piano at age 5. He attended Phillips Academy, Harvard and Princeton, where his teachers included Randall Thompson, Roger Sessions, Walter Piston and Milton Babbitt...	1938
Kaija Saariaho Kaija Saariaho Kaija Saariaho is a Finnish composer.Kaija Saariaho studied composition in Helsinki, Freiburg and Paris, where she has lived since 1982. Her studies and research at IRCAM have had a major influence on her music and her characteristically luxuriant and mysterious textures are often created by...	1952
Aulis Sallinen Aulis Sallinen Aulis Sallinen is a Finnish contemporary classical music composer. He writes in a modern, though tonal and not experimental music style. He studied at the Sibelius Academy, where his teachers included Joonas Kokkonen...	1935
Esa-Pekka Salonen Esa-Pekka Salonen Esa-Pekka Salonen is a Finnish orchestral conductor and composer. He is currently Principal Conductor and Artistic Advisor of the Philharmonia Orchestra in London and Conductor Laureate of the Los Angeles Philharmonic.-Early career:...	1958
Örjan Sandred Örjan Sandred Örjan Sandred is a Swedish composer and is currently an Associate Professor in Composition at the at the University of Manitoba in Canada.- Biography :...	1964
Jan Sandström Jan Sandström (composer) Jan Sandström is a Swedish classical music composer, known for the so-called Motorbike Concerto for trombone and orchestra and his choral setting of Es ist ein Ros entsprungen.-Career:...	1954
Sven-David Sandström Sven-David Sandström Sven-David Sandström is a Swedish composer best known for his compositions operas, oratorios, battets, and choral works, as well as orchestral works.Sandström studied art history and musicology at Stockholm University...	1942
Gustavo Santaolalla Gustavo Santaolalla Gustavo Alfredo Santaolalla is an Argentine musician, film composer and producer. He has won two Academy Awards for Best Original Score in two consecutive years, for Brokeback Mountain in 2005 and Babel in 2006.-Life and career:...	1952
László Sáry László Sáry László Sáry is a Hungarian composer and pianist. In the 1970s he began composing in a minimal style.-External links:**...	1940
Kentaro Sato Kentaro Sato For the manga character see Kentaro Osada., aka Ken-P, is a Los Angeles-based award-winning composer/conductor/orchestrator/clinician of media music and concert music . His works have been broadcast, performed, and recorded in North and South America, Asia, and Europe by well-known groups...	1981
Rebecca Saunders Rebecca Saunders -Biography:Saunders studied violin and composition at the University of Edinburgh. This was followed by a scholarship from the DAAD from 1991 to 1994 to study composition at the Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe with Wolfgang Rihm, and in 1997 a doctorate in composition with Nigel Osborne.She has...	1967
David Sawer David Sawer David Sawer is a British composer of opera and choral, orchestral and chamber music.-Biography:Sawer was born in Stockport, England. He studied music at the University of York where he began composing for contemporary music-theatre pieces. He continued his studies with Mauricio Kagel in Cologne...	1961
Eric W. Sawyer Eric W. Sawyer Eric W. Sawyer or Eric Sawyer is an American composer, pianist and associate professor of music at Amherst College. He has studied as an undergraduate at Harvard College, where he was selected as a Harvard Junior Fellow...	1962
Robert Saxton Robert Saxton -Biography:After early advice and encouragement from Benjamin Britten, Robert Saxton took private composition lessons with Elisabeth Lutyens. He went on to study with Robin Holloway at Cambridge University, with Robert Sherlaw Johnson as a post-graduate at Oxford University, and later with Berio....	1953
Fazıl Say Fazil Say Fazıl Say , is a Turkish pianist and composer born in Ankara, Turkey.-Biography:Born in 1970 in Ankara, Turkey, Fazıl Say started playing the piano at the age of four. He continued his music training in Ankara State Conservatory as a student of Special Status for Highly Talented Children and...	1970
R. Murray Schafer R. Murray Schafer Raymond Murray Schafer is a Canadian composer, writer, music educator and environmentalist perhaps best known for his World Soundscape Project, concern for acoustic ecology, and his book The Tuning of the World...	1933
Peter Schat Peter Schat Peter Schat was a Dutch composer.Schat studied composition with Kees van Baaren at the conservatories in Utrecht and The Hague from 1952 until 1958, and then went on to study in London with Mátyás Seiber in 1959 and with Pierre Boulez in Basle in 1960–61...	1935	2003
Peter Schickele Peter Schickele Johann Peter Schickele is an American composer, musical educator, and parodist. He is best known for his comedy music albums featuring his music that he presents as music written by the fictional composer P. D. Q...	1935
Volker Ignaz Schmidt Volker Ignaz Schmidt Volker Ignaz Schmidt is a composer of contemporary music.Volker Ignaz Schmidt started composing in 1986 and has been a member of different rock and jazz bands playing piano, keyboards, trumpet as well as song writing....	1971
Dieter Schnebel Dieter Schnebel Dieter Schnebel is a composer. From 1976 until his retirement in 1995, Schnebel served as professor of experimental music at the Berlin Hochschule der Künste.-Career:...	1930
Avi Schönfeld Avi Schönfeld Avi Schönfeld is a Dutch-Israeli pianist and composer. He was born in Lodz, Poland on December 15, 1947.-Life:Schönfeld gave his first concerts in his native Poland before at the age of 19 going to Israel to become a pupil of the Bartók disciple Ilona Vincze-Kraus...	1945
Barry Schrader Barry Schrader Barry Schrader is an American composer specializing in electro-acoustic music. His compositions for electronics, dance, film, video, mixed media, live/electro-acoustic music combinations, and real-time computer performance have been presented throughout the world...	1945
Gunther Schuller Gunther Schuller Gunther Schuller is an American composer, conductor, horn player, author, historian, and jazz musician.- Biography and works :...	1925
Meinrad Schütter Meinrad Schütter Meinrad Schütter was a Swiss composer. He studied with Willy Burkhard during World War II and with Paul Hindemith from 1950 to 1954....	1910	2006
Kurt Schwaen Kurt Schwaen Kurt Schwaen was a German composer.-Professional career:Schwaen studied piano, organ and composition under Fritz Lubrich. From 1929 to 1933 he studied at the universities of Berlin and Breslau, where his teachers included Curt Sachs and Arnold Schering...	1909	2007
Joseph Schwantner Joseph Schwantner Joseph C. Schwantner is a Pulitzer Prize winning American composer and educator and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He was awarded the 1970 Charles Ives Prize....	1943
Eric J. Schwartz Eric J. Schwartz Eric J. Schwartz is an American composer specializing in frequently eerie and/or wacky experimental chamber music. He is the Artistic Director of Forecast Music, and the Music Director of the University of North Carolina School of the Arts School of Dance...	1976
Salvatore Sciarrino Salvatore Sciarrino Salvatore Sciarrino is an Italian composer of contemporary classical music.-Biography:In his youth, Sciarrino was attracted to the visual arts, but began experimenting with music when he was twelve. Though he had some lessons from Antonino Titone and Turi Belfiore, he is primarily self-taught as a...	1947
Peter Sculthorpe Peter Sculthorpe Peter Joshua Sculthorpe AO OBE is an Australian composer. Much of his music has resulted from an interest in the music of Australia's neighbours as well as from the impulse to bring together aspects of native Australian music with that of the heritage of the West...	1929
Tolib Shakhidi Tolib Shakhidi Tolib-khon Shakhidi or Tolib Shahidi is a Tajik, Russian, and Soviet composer who was born in the city of Dushanbe, Tajik SSR. He is a son of the founder of Professional Tajik Academic Music - Ziyodullo Shakhidi....	1946
Ravi Shankar Ravi Shankar Ravi Shankar , often referred to by the title Pandit, is an Indian musician and composer who plays the plucked string instrument sitar. He has been described as the best known contemporary Indian musician by Hans Neuhoff in Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart.Shankar was born in Varanasi and spent...	1928
Harold Shapero Harold Shapero Harold Samuel Shapero is an American composer.-Early years:Born in Lynn, Massachusetts, Shapero and his family later moved to nearby Newton. He learned to play the piano as a child, and for some years was a pianist in dance orchestras. With a friend, he founded the Hal Kenny Orchestra, a swing-era...	1920
Ralph Shapey Ralph Shapey Ralph Shapey was an American composer and conductor. He is well-known for his work as a composition professor at the University of Chicago, where he founded and directed the Contemporary Chamber Players...	1921	2002
Alex Shapiro Alex Shapiro Alex Shapiro composes acoustic and electroacoustic music favoring combinations of modal harmonies with chromatic ones, and often emphasizing strong pulse and rhythm...	1962
Vache Sharafyan Vache Sharafyan Vache Sharafyan , is one of the most important living composers from Armenia. Author of a number of symphonic, chamber, vocal, choral compositions that were performed widely by many nowadays leading musicians such as Yo-Yo Ma, Yuri Bashmet, among others...	1966
Rodion Shchedrin Rodion Shchedrin Rodion Konstantinovich Shchedrin is a Russian composer. He was one оf the leading Soviet composers, and was the chairman of the Union of Russian Composers from 1973 until 1990.-Life and Works:...	1932
Alexander Shchetynsky Alexander Shchetynsky Alexander Shchetynsky is a Ukrainian composer. Born on 22 June 1960 in Kharkiv, in the Ukrainian SSR of the Soviet Union. His work list includes compositions in various forms ranging from solo instrumental to orchestral, choral pieces and operas....	1960
Sinyan Shen Sinyan Shen Sinyan Shen is an American physicist and classical composer.-Life:Born in Singapore to the parents of Shanghai background, Sinyan Shen studied music at very early age and mastered the vertical fiddle family of instruments...	1949
Bright Sheng Bright Sheng Bright Sheng is a Chinese-American composer, conductor, and pianist. He has lived in the United States since 1982 and is on faculty at the University of Michigan. In 1999, the White House commissioned Sheng to compose a piece to honor the Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji at a state dinner hosted by...	1955
Charles Shere	1935
Vladislav Shoot Vladislav Shoot Vladislav Shoot is a Russian-British composer of contemporary classical music...	1941
Howard Shore Howard Shore Howard Leslie Shore is a Canadian composer, notable for his film scores. He has composed the scores for over 80 films, most notably the scores for The Lord of the Rings film trilogy, for which he won three Academy Awards. He is also a consistent collaborator with director David Cronenberg,...	1946
Alan Shulman Alan Shulman Alan Shulman was an American composer and cello virtuoso. He wrote a considerable amount of symphonic music, chamber music, and jazz music. Trumpeter Eddie Bailey said, "Alan had the greatest ear of any musician I ever came across. He had better than perfect pitch...	1915	2002
Roberto Sierra Roberto Sierra Roberto Sierra is a composer of contemporary classical music.Sierra studied composition in Europe, notably with György Ligeti in Hamburg, Germany...	1953
Valentin Silvestrov Valentin Silvestrov Valentyn Vasylyovych Sylvestrov is a Ukrainian pianist and composer of contemporary classical music.-Education:Sylvestrov began private music lessons at age 15...	1937
Thomas Simaku	1958
Aleksandar Simić Aleksandar Simic Aleksandar Simić is an accomplished Serbian composer; according to the US State Department website, he has established a reputation as one of the leading classical composers of the late 20th and early 21st centuries...	1973
Ezra Sims Ezra Sims Ezra Sims is one of the pioneers in the field of microtonal composition. He invented a system of notation which was adopted by many microtonal composers after him, including Joseph Maneri....	1928
Alvin Singleton Alvin Singleton Alvin Singleton is a composer from the United States. Born and raised in New York, he received his music education from New York University and the Yale School of Music . From 1971 to 1985 he lived overseas, and then he returned to the United States after being appointed as the Atlanta Symphony...	1940
Urmas Sisask Urmas Sisask Urmas Sisask is an Estonian composer.One of the major inspirations for his music is astronomy.Based on the trajectories of the planets in the solar system, he created the "planetal scale", a mode consisting of the Musical notes C#, D, F#, G#, and A...	1966
Larry Sitsky Larry Sitsky Lazar Sitsky AM, usually referred to as Larry Sitsky, born 10 September 1934, is an Australian composer, pianist, and music educator and scholar...	1934
Steven Sivyer Steven Sivyer Steven Sivyer is a composer and organist currently based in Kent. He is the director of music at St.Mary of Charity, Faversham Parish Church and runs a successful church choir. The choir has received many awards from the RSCM including the highest Gold Award with two successful candidates in 2007....	1974
Howard Skempton Howard Skempton Howard Skempton is a British composer and accordionist. Since the late 1960s, when he helped organize the Scratch Orchestra, he has been associated with the English school of experimental music...	1947
Andys Skordis Andys Skordis Andys Skordis is a Cypriot composer.- Compositions in chronological order :*2011"17...why not 37?" for Piano and String Quartet ca...	1983
Thomas Sleeper Thomas Sleeper Thomas M. Sleeper is a modern American composer and conductor. His music has been described as 'hauntingly mysterious' and 'richly lyrical'. He is currently the Director of Orchestral Activities and Conductor of the University of Miami Frost Symphony Orchestra and Opera Theater...	1956
Sergei Slonimsky Sergei Slonimsky Sergei Mikhailovich Slonimsky is a Russian and Soviet composer, pianist and musicologist.-Biography:He is a son of Soviet writer Mikhail Slonimsky and a nephew of the Russian-American composer Nicolas Slonimsky. He studied at the Musical College in Moscow from 1943 until 1950. From 1950 Slonimsky...	1932
Denis Smalley Denis Smalley Denis Arthur Smalley is a composer of electroacoustic music, with a special interest in acousmatic music.-Biography:...	1946
Roger Smalley Roger Smalley Roger Smalley AM is a British-Australian composer, pianist and conductor. Professor Smalley is currently a Senior Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Western Australia in Perth and Honorary Research Associate at the University of Sydney.-Biography:Smalley was born in Swinton, Lancashire,...	1943
Dmitry Smirnov	1948
Reginald Smith Brindle Reginald Smith Brindle Reginald Smith Brindle was a British composer and writer.Smith Brindle began learning the piano at the age of six, and later took up the clarinet, saxophone and guitar . Under pressure from his parents, he began to study architecture...	1917	2003
Randall Smith Randall Smith Randall Smith is an electroacoustic music composer born March 8, 1960 in Windsor, Ontario, Canada, and currently living in Toronto.-Recordings:* Sondes * L'oreille voit...	1960
Wadada Leo Smith Wadada Leo Smith Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith is a trumpeter and composer working primarily in the fields of avant-garde jazz and free improvisation.-Biography:...	1941
Naresh Sohal Naresh Sohal Naresh Sohal was born in 1939 in Punjab, Northern India. He is the first and one of the few accomplished Indian-born composers of western classical music. He is the first composer in this tradition ever to make settings of texts in Sanskrit, Punjabi and Bengali...	1939
Ivan Glebovich Sokolov Ivan Glebovich Sokolov Ivan Glebovich Sokolov is a Russian-born composer and pianist, currently living in Germany.After graduating from Moscow Conservatory in the early 80s, he taught composition and orchestral score reading there, while also promoting new music in concerts in and around Moscow...	1960
Juan María Solare Juan María Solare Juan María Solare is an Argentine composer and pianist.-Education:Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Solare studied and received his diploma in piano , composition and conducting at the Conservatorio Nacional de Música Carlos López Buchardo...	1966
Avo Sõmer Avo Sõmer Avo Somer is an American musicologist music theorist, and composer, of Estonian birth.Avo Sõmer emigrated from Estonia with his parents in 1944, when he was ten years old, first to Germany and then to the United States. He had already begun playing the piano as a child in Pärnu...	1934
Somtow Sucharitkul	1952
Bent Sørensen	1958
Mauricio Sotelo Mauricio Sotelo Mauricio Sotelo , is a Spanish composer.He started his musical studies at the conservatory of Madrid, before moving to Vienna to study composition with Francis Burt at the Hochschule für Musik und darstellende Kunst, Wien...	1961
Philip Sparke Philip Sparke Philip Sparke is a British composer and musician. He is noted for his concert band and brass band music.- Music for Winds :* 1973/1976 Gaudium* 1975 The Prizewinners for Brass-Band* 1978/1995 Fantasy for Euphonium...	1951
Bernadette Speach Bernadette Speach Bernadette Speach is an American avant-garde composer.-Biography: was a nun at St Joseph of Corondelet from 1966 to 1977, teaching music in parochial schools during that time. She studied with Nicholas Roussakis at Columbia University and with Franco Donatoni at Siena in 1976. After 1977 she left...	1948
Andi Spicer Andi Spicer Andrew John Preston "Andi" Spicer , is a British electroacoustic classical music composer who uses electronics in his compositions.The composer is also a writer and journalist...	1959
Laurie Spiegel Laurie Spiegel Laurie Spiegel is an American composer. She has worked at Bell Laboratories, in computer graphics, and is known primarily for her electronic-music compositions and her algorithmic composition software Music Mouse...	1945
Georgia Spiropoulos Georgia Spiropoulos Georgia Spiropoulos is a composer, who studied piano, harmony, counterpoint and fugue in Athens. At the same time she studied jazz piano and worked as an instrumentalist and arranger of Hellenic traditional music of oral transmission for ten years.Since 1996 she has lived in Paris and studied...	1965
Frank Lee Sprague Frank Lee Sprague Frank Lee Sprague, born in Wichita Falls, Texas, is a US guitarist and composer. He writes both songs and concert pieces. His catalog numbers over 1000 works, including two string quartets, three symphonies, many chamber music compositions, and two operas....	1969
Ronald Stevenson Ronald Stevenson Ronald Stevenson is a British composer, pianist, and writer about music.-Biography:The son of a Scottish father and English mother, Stevenson studied at the Royal Manchester College of Music , studying composition with Richard Hall and piano with Iso Elinson, graduating with distinction...	1928
Ernstalbrecht Stiebler Ernstalbrecht Stiebler Ernstalbrecht Stiebler is a German composer of mostly chamber, choral, piano, and organ works . His work has "three principal concerns: sonority, rhythm, and duration" leading "to a large and varied body of work" ....	1934
Karlheinz Stockhausen Karlheinz Stockhausen Karlheinz Stockhausen was a German composer, widely acknowledged by critics as one of the most important but also controversial composers of the 20th and early 21st centuries. Another critic calls him "one of the great visionaries of 20th-century music"...	1928	2007
Richard Stoker Richard Stoker Richard Stoker is a British composer and writer.He started playing the piano at six; at seven he was composing. After initial encouragement from Arthur Benjamin and Benjamin Britten, he studied under Lennox Berkeley at the Royal Academy of Music. After winning the Mendelssohn Scholarship in 1962,...	1938
Pete Stollery Pete Stollery Pete Stollery is a British composer, specialising in electroacoustic music.Stollery studied with Jonty Harrison at the University of Birmingham from 1979–96, and is currently Professor in Composition and Electroacoustic Music at the University of Aberdeen.His work Shortstuff was awarded a Special...	1960
Carl Stone Carl Stone Carl Stone is an American composer, primarily working in the field of live electronic music. His works have been performed in the United States, Canada, Europe, Asia, Australia, South America, and the Near East.Stone studied composition at the California Institute of the Arts with Morton...	1953
Henrik Strindberg Henrik Strindberg Henrik Strindberg is a Swedish composer of contemporary music. He studied composition at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm from 1980 to 1987 where he studied for Gunnar Bucht and Sven-David Sandström amongst others. In 1985 he also participated in a summer course with Iannis Xenakis in Delphi...	1954
Morton Subotnick Morton Subotnick Morton Subotnick is an American composer of electronic music, best known for his Silver Apples of the Moon, the first electronic work commissioned by a record company, Nonesuch...	1933
Robert Suderburg Robert Suderburg Robert Suderburg is an American composer, conductor, and pianist.-Biography:The son of a jazz trombonist , Suderburg studied composition with Paul Fetler at the University of Minnesota, where he received a BA in 1957...	1936
Franz Surges Franz Surges Franz Surges is a German composer and musician.-Education:Surges studied at the Episcopial School for Church Music, Aachen and Conservatoire Cologne, Department Aachen.He took his following exams:...	1958
William Susman William Susman William Joseph Susman, born August 29, 1960 in Chicago, is an American composer of concert and film music as well as an accomplished pianist. He belongs to the generation of American composers that came of age in the late twentieth century, received traditional academic training while remaining...	1960
Giles Swayne Giles Swayne Giles Oliver Cairnes Swayne is a British composer.- Biography :Swayne is a cousin of Elizabeth Maconchy. He spent much of his childhood in Liverpool, and began composing at a young age...	1946
James Swearingen James Swearingen James Swearingen is an American composer and arranger. He holds a Masters Degree from Ohio State University and a Bachelors Degree from Bowling Green State University and is currently Professor of Music, Department Chair of Music Education at Capital University, Columbus, Ohio.The music he writes...	1947
William Sweeney William Sweeney (composer) -Biography:Born in Glasgow, he attended Knightswood Secondary School. He studied the clarinet and composition at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama from 1967 to 1970, and at the Royal Academy of Music from 1970 to 1973, where his teachers included Alan Hacker and Harrison Birtwistle. He...	1950
Zsigmond Szathmáry Zsigmond Szathmáry Zsigmond Szathmáry is a Hungarian organist, pianist, composer, and conductor.-Life:Szathmáry studied composition with Ferenc Szabó and organ with Ferenc Gergely at the Franz Liszt Music Academy in Budapest from 1958 to 1963...	1939
Tibor Szemző Tibor Szemzo Tibor Szemző is a Hungarian composer and flutist. He was a founding member of the Hungarian new music ensemble Group 180 and writes primarily in the minimal style...	1955
Attila Szervác Attila Szervác Szervác 'ShAre' Attila is a Hungarian copyleft composer/freedom activist within non-profit organizations. His works are primarily published on the Mutopia, International Music Score Library and SourceForge websites.-Biography:...	1973
Pawel Szymanski Pawel Szymanski Paweł Szymański is a Polish composer. His music is based on strict technical discipline and the initial sound material of Szymański’s pieces has roots in past conventions but is always processed and composed from the beginning...	1954
Emil Tabakov Emil Tabakov Emil Tabakov is a Bulgarian conductor, composer, and double-bass player. He is the former chief conductor of the Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra and Bilkent Symphony Orchestra. He has composed seven symphonies, instrumental concertos, and a requiem to date....	1947
Yuji Takahashi Yuji Takahashi is a Japanese composer, performer, pianist and author.Studied under Roh Ogura and Minao Shibata at the Toho Gakuen School of Music. In 1960, he made his debut as a pianist by performing Bo Nilsson's Quantitaten. He lived in Europe from 1963 to 1966 where he worked with Iannis Xenakis. He gave the...	1938
Josef Tal	1910	2008
Yoav Talmi Yoav Talmi Yoav Talmi is an Israeli conductor and composer. He studied composition and orchestral direction first in Israel, at the Rubin Academy of Music in Tel Aviv, and then in the United States, at the Juilliard School. In 1966, he was awarded the Koussevitzky Conducting Prize at the Tanglewood Music...	1943
Joby Talbot Joby Talbot Joby Talbot is a British composer.Born in Wimbledon, London, Talbot studied composition at Royal Holloway and Bedford New College at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama under Brian Elias and Simon Bainbridge....	1971
Hannes Taljaard Hannes Taljaard Hannes Taljaard is a South African classical music composer.Taljaard's compositions have been performed in South Africa and Europe and he won first prize in the Flores Iuventutis competition in Ghent, Belgium in 1994/95...	1971
Eino Tamberg Eino Tamberg Eino Tamberg was an Estonian composer.Tamberg was born in Tallinn. He studied music composition with Eugen Kapp at the Tallinn Conservatory, graduating in 1953...	1930	2010
Tan Dun Tan Dun Tan Dun is a Chinese contemporary classical composer, most widely known for his scores for the movies Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Hero.-Early life in China:...	1957
Vladimir Tarnopolsky Vladimir Tarnopolsky Vladimir Grigoryevich Tarnopolsky is a Russian composer.-Biography:Tarnopolsky studied composition at the Moscow Conservatory with Nikolai Sidelnikov and Edison Denisov and music theory with Yuri Kholopov. He graduated from the conservatory in 1978, and completed post-graduate studies in 1980...	1955
John Tavener John Tavener Sir John Tavener is a British composer, best known for such religious, minimal works as "The Whale", and "Funeral Ikos"...	1944
Richard Teitelbaum Richard Teitelbaum Richard Teitelbaum is an American composer, keyboardist, and improvisor. Born in New York, he is a former student of Allen Forte, Mel Powell, and Luigi Nono. He is best known for his live electronic music and synthesizer performance. For example, he brought the first moog synthesizer to Europe...	1939
James Tenney James Tenney James Tenney was an American composer and influential music theorist.-Biography:Tenney was born in Silver City, New Mexico, and grew up in Arizona and Colorado. He attended the University of Denver, the Juilliard School of Music, Bennington College and the University of Illinois...	1934	2006
Dimitri Terzakis Dimitri Terzakis Dimitri Terzakis is a Greek composer. His father was the author Angelos Terzakis.From 1959–1964 Terzakis studied composition with Yannis Papaioannou at the Athens Hellenic Conservatory, followed by five years spent at the Hochschule für Musik in Cologne, Germany where he studied composition with...	1938
Mikis Theodorakis Mikis Theodorakis Mikis Theodorakis is one of the most renowned Greek songwriters and composers. Internationally, he is probably best known for his songs and for his scores for the films Zorba the Greek , Z , and Serpico .Politically, he identified with the left until the late 1980s; in 1989, he ran as an...	1925
J. G. Thirlwell J. G. Thirlwell James George Thirlwell , aka Clint Ruin, aka Frank Want, aka Foetus, is an Australian vocalist, composer and record producer...	1960
Augusta Read Thomas Augusta Read Thomas Augusta Read Thomas is an American composer.Augusta Read Thomas was born in Glen Cove, New York. She attended The Green Vale School and later moved on to St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire, and then studied composition with Jacob Druckman at Yale University and at the Royal Academy of...	1964
Robert Scott Thompson Robert Scott Thompson Robert Scott Thompson is a composer of ambient, instrumental and electroacoustic music. He earned the B.Mus. degree from the University of Oregon and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California at San Diego. His primary teachers include Bernard Rands, Roger Reynolds, Joji Yuasa and...	1959
Frank Ticheli	1958
Ton-That Tiet Ton-That Tiet Tôn Thất Tiết is a Vietnamese music composer.-Biography:Born in Huê in central Vietnam in 1933, Tiet came to Paris in 1958 to study composition at the Paris Conservatoire. He attended Jean Rivier and André Jolivet classes for composition...	1933
Boris Tishchenko Boris Tishchenko Boris Ivanovich Tishchenko was a Russian and Soviet composer and pianist.-Life:...	1939
Steve Tittle Steve Tittle Steve Tittle is a Canadian composer and music educator.- Biography :Steve Tittle studied composition at Kent State University with Harold Miles, John White and Fred Coulter, and at University of Wisconsin–Madison with Hilmar Luckhardt, Robert Crane and Burt Levy...	1935
Katia Tiutiunnik Katia Tiutiunnik Katia Tiutiunnik is an Australian violist, scholar and composer. She is of Russian, Ukrainian and Irish descent.-Education:...	1967
Edward Top Edward Top Siemon Edward Top is a Dutch composer.Top studied violin and composition with Peter-Jan Wagemans at the Rotterdam Conservatoire. He won the Dutch prize for composition in 1999. He also studied composition with Klaas de Vries...	1972
Michael Torke Michael Torke Michael Torke is an American composer who writes music influenced by jazz and minimalism. Sometimes described as a post-minimalist, his most postminimal piece is Four Proverbs, in which the syllable for each pitch is fixed and variations in the melody produce streams of nonsense words. Other works...	1961
Veljo Tormis Veljo Tormis Veljo Tormis is an Estonian composer, regarded to be one of the greatest living choral composers and one of the most important composers of the 20th century in Estonia. Internationally, his fame arises chiefly from his extensive body of choral music, which exceeds 500 individual choral songs, most...	1930
Javier Torres Maldonado Javier Torres Maldonado Javier Torres Maldonado is a Mexican-Italian composer internationally recognized for mostly of his orchestral, chamber, vocal and electro-acoustic works.-Biography:...	1968
René Touzet René Touzet René Touzet y Monte was a Cuban-born American composer, pianist and bandleader.-Career as bandleader:...	1916	2003
Joan Tower Joan Tower Joan Tower is a Grammy-winning contemporary American composer, concert pianist and conductor. Lauded by the New Yorker as "one of the most successful woman composers of all time", her bold and energetic compositions have been performed in concert halls around the world...	1938
Laurence Traiger Laurence Traiger Laurence Traiger is an American composer. Originally from Bellmore, Long Island, New York, he has studied and worked in Europe since 1976...	1956
Gilles Tremblay Gilles Tremblay Gilles Tremblay, is a Canadian composer. He studied at the Conservatories of Montreal and Paris , where his teachers including Olivier Messiaen , Yvonne Loriod , and Maurice Martenot . He also attended Stockhausen's summer courses at Darmstadt, where he became interested in electro-acoustic...	1932
Stephen Truelove Stephen Truelove Stephen Nathan Truelove is an American composer, teacher, and pianist.-Life:Truelove was born in Hobart, Oklahoma, and studied composition at Tulsa University, where he received an M.M. in 1970...	1946
Dan Trueman Dan Trueman Dan Trueman is a composer, improviser, new instrument creator and software designer. He plays the violin and the Norwegian Hardanger fiddle. Trueman studied physics at Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota, composition and theory at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music in...
Julia Tsenova Julia Tsenova Julia Tsenova , born in Sofia, Bulgaria, was an award-winning Bulgarian composer, pianist and musical pedagogue. She died of cancer at the age of 61.-Life and career:...	1948	2010
Mark-Anthony Turnage Mark-Anthony Turnage Mark-Anthony Turnage is a prolific English composer of classical music. His initial musical studies were with Oliver Knussen, John Lambert, and later with Gunther Schuller...	1960
Roman Turovsky-Savchuk Roman Turovsky-Savchuk Roman Turovsky-Savchuk is an American painter and lutenist-composer born in Ukraine.-Biography:Turovsky was born in Kiev, Ukraine in 1961, when it was part of the Soviet Union. He studied art from an early age under his father, the painter Mikhail Turovsky and at the Shevchenko State Art School...	1961
Erkki-Sven Tüür Erkki-Sven Tüür Erkki-Sven Tüür is an Estonian composer.Tüür was born in Kärdla on the Estonian island of Hiiumaa. He studied flute and percussion at the Tallinn Music School from 1976 to 1980 and composition with Jaan Rääts at the Tallinn Academy of Music and privately with Lepo Sumera from 1980 to 1984...	1959
Merlijn Twaalfhoven Merlijn Twaalfhoven Merlijn Twaalfhoven is a Dutch composer and theatre maker. He graduated from the Conservatorium van Amsterdam in 2003. Twaalfhoven is internationally active in creating innovative projects and writing new music for orchestras, choirs and chamber music groups...	1976
'Blue' Gene Tyranny Gene Tyranny Blue' Gene Tyranny is an avant-garde composer and pianist. He was born in San Antonio, Texas, the adopted son of Dorothy and Meyer Sheff. He studied piano with Meta Hertwig and Rodney Hoare, and composition with Otto Wick and Frank Hughes...	1945
İlhan Usmanbaş Ilhan Usmanbas İlhan Usmanbaş is a Turkish composer.Born in Istanbul, Usmanbaş grew up in Ayvalık. When he was twelve years old, his elder brother gave him a cello, and began to teach himself to play. After moving back to Istanbul, he studied the cello seriously...	1923
Galina Ustvolskaya Galina Ustvolskaya Galina Ivanovna Ustvolskaya, also Ustwolskaja or Oustvolskaia was a Russian composer of classical music.-Early years:From 1937 to 1947 she studied at the college attached to the Leningrad Conservatory . She subsequently became a postgraduate student and taught composition at the college...	1919	2006
Fabio Vacchi Fabio Vacchi Fabio Vacchi is an Italian composer born in 1949 in Bologna.-Training and debut:Fabio Vacchi studied at the G.B. Martini Conservatory of Bologna with Giacomo Manzoni and Tito Gotti. In 1974 he participated in the courses of the Tanglewood Festival in the USA, where he was awarded the Koussevitzky...	1949
Victor Varela Victor Varela Víctor Varela is a Venezuelan-Swedish composer based in Gothenburg. His compositions include works for orchestra, vocal and instrumental chamber music, with electronics and computer devices.-Education:...	1955
Pēteris Vasks Peteris Vasks Pēteris Vasks is a Latvian composer.Vasks was born in Aizpute, Latvia, into the family of a Baptist pastor. He trained as a violinist at the Jazeps Vitols Latvian Academy of Music, as a double-bass player with Vitautas Sereikaan at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre, and played in several...	1946
Ian Venables Ian Venables Ian Venables is a British composer of songs and chamber music.-Biography:Ian Venables was born in Liverpool in 1955 and was educated at Liverpool Collegiate Grammar School. He studied music with Professor Richard Arnell at Trinity College of Music, London and later with Andrew Downes, John Mayer...	1955
Theo Verbey Theo Verbey -Biography:Theo Verbey first achieved recognition for his orchestral arrangement of Alban Berg's Piano Sonata, Op. 1, a piece he orchestrated in 1984 while still a student. He studied at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague where he graduated in 1986. His principle composition teachers were Peter...	1959
Michael Vetter Michael Vetter Michael Vetter is a German composer, novelist, poet, performer, calligrapher, artist, and teacher.-Biography:Vetter was born in Oberstdorf in the Allgäu region of Germany, and received a conventional school education...	1943
László Vidovszky László Vidovszky The native form of this personal name is Vidovszky László. This article uses the Western name order.László Vidovszky is a Hungarian composer and pianist...	1944
Lois V Vierk Lois V Vierk Lois V Vierk is a "post-minimalist" or "totalist" composer who lives in New York City.She received a B.A. degree in piano and ethnomusicology from UCLA in 1974. She then attended Cal Arts, studying composition with Mel Powell, Leonard Stein, and Morton Subotnick, receiving her M.F.A. in 1978...	1951
Pedro Vilarroig Pedro Vilarroig Pedro Vilarroig is a Spanish composer and a professor of physics and cosmology at the Universidad Politécnica of Madrid...	1954
Alejandro Viñao Alejandro Viñao Alejandro Viñao is an Argentinian composer currently living in the United Kingdom.Viñao studied musical composition in Buenos Aires with the composer Jacobo Fischer . In 1976 he was awarded a British Council scholarship to study in London at the Royal College of Music and later on at the City...	1951
Ezequiel Viñao Ezequiel Viñao Ezequiel Viñao is an Argentine-American composer. He emigrated to the United States in 1980 and studied at the Juilliard School...	1960
Carl Vine Carl Vine Carl Vine is an Australian composer of contemporary classical music.-Career:Vine was born in Perth, Western Australia. When he was ten years old, he took up the piano. An adolescent encounter with Karlheinz Stockhausen inspired a period as a teenage modernist, a direction which he abandoned in 1985...	1954
Ian Vine Ian Vine Ian Vine is a British composer. Vine spent his formative years in Libya and Hong Kong. He studied composition at the Royal Northern College of Music with Anthony Gilbert and privately with Simon Holt .One can detect traces of Near and Far Eastern modalities as well as gestural and formal...	1974
Param Vir Param Vir Param Vir is a British composer originally from India.Born in Delhi, Param Vir read philosophy at Delhi University and studied composition in England with Peter Maxwell Davies and Oliver Knussen....	1952
T. Edward Vives T. Edward Vives T. Edward Vives, a trombonist and composer, is the musical director of the Los Alamos Community Winds.Originally from Auburn, Alabama, Dr. Vives began music studies at the age of 4, taking piano and theory lessons from Edgar and Dorothy Glyde. His musical interests changed to trombone performance...	1964
Robert Voisey Robert Voisey Robert Voisey is a composer and producer of electroacoustic and chamber music. He founded Vox Novus in 2000 to promote the music of contemporary American composers and in 2001 created The American Composer Timeline, the first in-depth listing of American composers, spanning from 1690 to the...	1969
Kevin Volans Kevin Volans Kevin Volans is a composer associated with the post-minimalist movement in contemporary composition. He was born in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa on July 6, 1949, and even though he has spent most of his life outside his native country, is the best known South African composer active today.In...	1949
Dimitri Voudouris Dimitri Voudouris Dimitri Voudouris [Δημητριος Βουδουρης] - [born 1961 in Athens, Greece] an electroacoustic composer and pharmacist living in South Africa who pioneered UNYAZI, the first electronic music festival and symposium on the African continent in 2005 that took place at University of the Witwatersrand, in...	1961
Jan Vriend Jan Vriend Jan Vriend is a Dutch classical music composer, conductor and pianist.Vriend was born in Benningbroek, North Holland, and studied at the Amsterdam Conservatory from 1960 to 1967, with Else Krijgsoman , Anthon van der Horst and Jan Felderhof , and Ton de Leeuw...	1938
Klaas de Vries Klaas de Vries (composer) Klaas de Vries is a Dutch composer. De Vries teaches composition at the conservatory of Rotterdam and can be described as influential in the Dutch musical life.-Biography:...	1944
Alexander Vustin Alexander Vustin Alexander Kuzmich Vustin, also Voustin or Wustin is a Russian composer.-Biography:He studied composition first with Grigory Frid at a regional music college, and later with Vladimir Ferè at the Moscow Conservatory, graduating in 1969. Between 1969 and 1974, Vustin worked as a music editor at USSR...	1943
Peter-Jan Wagemans Peter-Jan Wagemans Peter-Jan Wagemans is a Dutch composer.Wagemans studied organ , composition with Jan van Vlijmen and music theory at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague. After his studies he also worked with Klaus Huber in Freiburg.According to Wagemans' philosophy, music is shaped in the observation of the...	1952
Diderik Wagenaar Diderik Wagenaar Diderik Wagenaar is a Dutch composer and musical theorist.-Life and work:Wagenaar has lived and worked all his adult life in The Hague. Born to a musical family that includes Johan Wagenaar, he began playing piano at the age of eight and by the time he was fourteen had set his sights on a musical...	1946
Errollyn Wallen Errollyn Wallen Errollyn Wallen is a Belize born, British composer. She was the first black woman to have a work performed at The Proms She studied composition at Goldsmith's College and at Kings College, London University...	1958
Jennifer Walshe Jennifer Walshe Jennifer Walshe is an Irish composer, vocalist and artist.-Biography:Jennifer Walshe was born in Dublin, Ireland in 1974. She studied composition with John Maxwell Geddes at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, Kevin Volans in Dublin and graduated from Northwestern University with a...	1974
David Ward-Steinman David Ward-Steinman David Ward-Steinman is an American composer and music professor.Ward-Steinman studied at Florida State University and the University of Illinois, where he received the Kinley Memorial Fellowship for foreign study. After receiving his doctorate, he was a fellow at Princeton University from 1970...	1936
Graham Waterhouse Graham Waterhouse Graham Waterhouse is an English composer and a cellist. He is known for chamber music and for unusual scoring, such as Piccolo Quintet, Bright Angel for three bassoons and contrabassoon, Chieftain's Salute for Great Highland Bagpipe and string orchestra, and works for speaking voice and cello,...	1962
Andrew Lowe Watson Andrew Lowe Watson Andrew Lowe Watson is an English composer for musical theatre and concert music. Along with author Catherine Storr, he wrote the opera Marianne Dreams , based on the children's fantasy novel...	1958
John Weinzweig John Weinzweig John Weinzweig, OC, O.Ont was a Canadian composer of classical music.Born in Toronto, Weinzweig went to Harbord Collegiate Institute, and studied music at the university. In 1937, he left for the United States to study under Bernard Rogers...	1913	2006
Judith Weir Judith Weir Judith Weir CBE, is a British composer.-Biography:Her music has been appreciated by audiences and critics alike. She trained with John Tavener while still at school and subsequently with Robin Holloway at King's College, Cambridge, graduating in 1976...	1954
Dan Welcher Dan Welcher Dan Welcher is an American composer, conductor, and music educator.- Biography :Welcher was born in Rochester, New York and earned degrees from the Eastman School of Music and the Manhattan School of Music, studying bassoon, piano, and composition...	1948
Martin Wesley-Smith Martin Wesley-Smith Martin Wesley-Smith is an Australian composer with an eclectic output ranging from children's songs to environmental events. He works in a range of musical styles, including choral music, operas, computer music, music theatre, chamber and orchestral music, and audiovisual pieces which bring words,...	1945
Hildegard Westerkamp Hildegard Westerkamp Hildegard Westerkamp is a German and Canadian composer of electroacoustic music.Many of her compositions deal with the acoustic environment. Particular themes include soundscapes of urban or rural areas, including voices, noise, silence, music and media, and so on...	1946
Nigel Westlake Nigel Westlake -Biography:Nigel Westlake's career in music has spanned more than 3 decades.He studied the clarinet with his father, Donald Westlake and subsequently left school early to pursue a performance career in music.Nigel toured Australia and the world playing with ballet companies, a circus troupe,...	1958
Paul W. Whear Paul W. Whear Paul W. Whear is an American composer, music educator, double-bassist, and conductor.-Life:Whear studied at Marquette University—The Catholic Jesuit University in Milwaukee where he received the B.N.S.; after service as an officer in The U.S Navy, he attended DePauw University School of Music in...	1925
Eric Whitacre Eric Whitacre Eric Whitacre is an American composer, conductor and lecturer. He is one of the most popular and performed composers of his generation. In 2008, the all-Whitacre choral CD Cloudburst became an international best-seller, topping the classical charts and earning a Grammy nomination...	1970
John Williams John Williams John Towner Williams is an American composer, conductor, and pianist. In a career spanning almost six decades, he has composed some of the most recognizable film scores in the history of motion pictures, including the Star Wars saga, Jaws, Superman, the Indiana Jones films, E.T...	1932
Malcolm Williamson Malcolm Williamson Malcolm Benjamin Graham Christopher Williamson AO , CBE was an Australian composer. He was the Master of the Queen's Music from 1975 until his death.-Biography:...	1931	2003
Ian Wilson Ian Wilson (composer) Ian Wilson is a prolific, award-winning Irish composer of classical music. He also served as the music director of the Sligo New Music Festival from 2003 to 2011....	1964
Jason Wright Wingate Jason Wright Wingate Jason Wright Wingate is an American composer, cellist and poet based in New York City. Notable works include the chamber work Landscapes of Consciousness, and the Symphony No...	1971
Daniel James Wolf Daniel James Wolf Daniel James Wolf is an American composer.- Studies :Wolf studied composition with Gordon Mumma, Alvin Lucier, and La Monte Young, as well as musical tunings with Erv Wilson and Douglas Leedy and ethnomusicology . Important contacts with Lou Harrison, John Cage, Walter Zimmermann...	1961
Julia Wolfe Julia Wolfe Julia Wolfe is an American composer. She was born in Philadelphia, holds degrees from the University of Michigan, Princeton and Yale, and currently works in New York. Wolfe's music is rhythmically vigorous and often clangorously dissonant...	1958
Christian Wolff Christian Wolff (composer) Christian G. Wolff is an American composer of experimental classical music.-Biography:Wolff was born in Nice in France to German literary publishers Helen and Kurt Wolff, who had published works by Franz Kafka, Robert Musil, and Walter Benjamin. After relocating to the U.S...	1934
James Wood James Wood (composer) James Wood is a British composer, percussionist and conductor -Life:James Wood studied organ in Cambridge. He also studied at the Royal Academy of Music...	1953
Randall Woolf Randall Woolf Randall Woolf is an American composer known for his diverse contemporary works, and in particular for his works based on children's literature and collaborative work with youth organizations. He studied composition privately with David Del Tredici and Joseph Maneri, and at Harvard, where he earned...	1959
John Woolrich John Woolrich John Woolrich is a British composer. He was BBC Radio 3 'Composer of the Week' in March 2008, involving the broadcast of over 4 hours of his music in one week.-External links:**...	1954
Charles Wuorinen Charles Wuorinen Charles Peter Wuorinen is a prolific Pulitzer Prize-winning American composer born and living in New York City. His catalog of more than 250 compositions includes works for orchestra, opera, chamber music, as well as solo instrumental and vocal works...	1938
Jun Yamaguchi Jun Yamaguchi is a Japanese composer of contemporary music and musicologist.- Biography :Born in Tokyo, Japan in 1967, He studied piano from age 7. He left the Senzoku-Gakuen College of Music in 1993 before graduating...	1967
Yehuda Yannay Yehuda Yannay Yehuda Yannay is an American-Israeli composer, conductor, film maker and performance artist.Yannay moved from Romania to Israel in 1951, where he studied with Alexander Uriya Boskovitch , who influenced him greatly...	1937
Yanni Yanni Yanni , born Yiannis Hrysomallis is a Greek self-taught pianist, keyboardist, and composer who has spent most of his life in the United States.He earned Grammy nominations for his 1992 album, Dare to Dream, and the 1993 follow-up, In My Time...	1954
Christopher Yavelow Christopher Yavelow Christopher Yavelow , the son of a film professor and visual artist, is a composer and proponent of computer assisted composition....	1950
Ye Xiaogang Ye Xiaogang Ye Xiaogang is a Chinese composer of contemporary classical music. He is originally Cantonese but spent his early years in Shanghai. He studied at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing from 1978 to 1983 and at the Eastman School of Music beginning in 1987...	1955
Yitzhak Yedid Yitzhak Yedid Yitzhak Yedid is an Israeli Australian composer of classical music and jazz pianist.-Biography:Yitzhak Yedid was born on September 29, 1971 in Jerusalem, Israel. His family immigrated from Syria. He studied at the Rubin Academy of Music and the New England Conservatory in Boston with Ran Blake...	1971
Takashi Yoshimatsu Takashi Yoshimatsu is a contemporary Japanese composer of classical music. He is well known for composing the 2003 remake of Astro Boy.Takashi Yoshimatsu was born in Tokyo, Japan, and like Toru Takemitsu, the composer generally considered to be Japan's greatest in the western classical style, did not receive formal...	1953
Ludmila Yurina Ludmila Yurina Ludmila Yurina is a Ukrainian pianist and composer.-Biography:Ludmila Yurina was born in Uzyn, Ukraine, and graduated from Kiev Music College as a pianist in 1981 and from Kiev State P.I.Tchaikovsky Conservatoire as a composer in 1990, completing her post-graduate studies there in 1998.She...	1962
Alla Zahaikevych Alla Zahaikevych Alla Zahaikevych is a Ukrainian composer of contemporary classical music, performance artist, organiser of electroacoustic music projects, musicologist. Her name is alternatively spelled Alla Zagaykevych on all releases and in texts which are in English.- Biography :She was born in Khmelnytsky,...	1966
Edson Zampronha Edson Zampronha Edson Zampronha is a Brazilian composer from an Italian family. His contemporary classical music has achieved a wide range audience due to its highly expressive musical discourse; due to an invention of a sophisticated musical rhetoric that operates on musical meanings, and due to a harmonic...	1963
Davide Zannoni Davide Zannoni Davide Zannoni is a composer of contemporary Classical music. He began his career playing drums in jazz clubs and later symphonic percussion with the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino Orchestra in Florence, Italy. He also pursued academic studies and earned a doctoral degree in Humanities from the...	1958
Richard Zarou Richard Zarou Richard Zarou is a contemporary composer of concert and film music and the host of the new music podcast "No Extra Notes". Zarou is from Centreville, VA and completed his undergraduate studies at Shenandoah University in Virginia...	1981
Kristoffer Zegers Kristoffer Zegers Kristoffer Zegers is a Dutch composer.Taught by Gilius van Bergeijk, Jan Boerman, Martijn Padding, Clarence Barlow, Diderik Wagenaar at the Royal Conservatory in Den Haag.In Zegers' music microtonal clusters are the main object...	1973
Jaime Mirtenbaum Zenamon Jaime Mirtenbaum Zenamon Jaime Mirtenbaum Zenamon is a classical guitarist and composer. He was born in La Paz, Bolivia of European parents and studied guitar and composition in Israel, Spain and Portugal as well as in South America. He taught at the Berlin Academy of Music from 1980 to 1992...	1953
Hans Zender Hans Zender Johannes Wolfgang Zender is a German conductor and composer.-Life:From 1956 to 1959 Zender studied piano, conducting, and composition at the Hochschule für Musik Frankfurt and at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg.From 1959 to 1963 he was Kapellmeister of the Municipal Theatres in Freiburg im...	1936
Heinz Werner Zimmermann Heinz Werner Zimmermann Heinz Werner Zimmermann is a German composer.Zimmermann had his first composition instruction from 1946 to 1948 with Julius Weismann and studied from 1950 to 1954 in Heidelberg with Wolfgang Fortner as well as at the Institut for Protestant Church Music there...	1930
Udo Zimmermann Udo Zimmermann Udo Zimmermann was born in Dresden on October 6, 1943. He is a German composer, music director, and conductor.- Biography :Zimmermann was a member of the Dresdner Kreuzchor from 1954 to 1962. He then continued his music education at the Dresden Music School. He studied composition with Johannes...	1943
Walter Zimmermann Walter Zimmermann Walter Zimmermann is a German composer.Zimmermann studied composition in Germany with Werner Heider and Mauricio Kagel, the theory of musical intelligence at the Institute of Sonology in Utrecht , and computer music at Colgate University in New York.Zimmerman's works are infused by a personal...	1949
Evan Ziporyn Evan Ziporyn Evan Ziporyn is an American composer of post-minimalist music and music for Balinese gamelans. He plays the clarinet, bass clarinet, saxophone, and metallophone, borrowing from classical music, avant-garde, and jazz...	1959
Đuro Živković	1975
John Zorn John Zorn John Zorn is an American avant-garde composer, arranger, record producer, saxophonist and multi-instrumentalist. Zorn is a prolific artist: he has hundreds of album credits as performer, composer, or producer...	1953
Ellen Taaffe Zwilich	1939

See also

• Contemporary music
• 21st-century classical music
  21st-century classical music
  21st-century classical music is a diverse art form. Some elements of the previous century have been retained but there is a growing move towards post-modernism, polystylism and eclecticism, which seek to incorporate elements of all styles of music irrespective of whether these are "classical" or...
  
  
• List of classical composers
• List of 20th-century classical composers by birth date
• List of acousmatic-music composers

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• The Living Composers Project
• Art of the States: Search by composer American composers
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