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Composers for the First Annual Cros s Sound Festival July 10, 1999, 8pm at the Northern Lights
Church, Juneau, Alaska |
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Composers for the First Annual Cros s Sound Festival July 10, 1999, 8pm at the Northern Lights
Church, Juneau, Alaska |
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(writing
for: kayagûm, flute, and viola)
- was born of Dutch descent in Germany in 1955, and lives
now in Darmstadt. He studied guitar under Olaf Van Gonnissen,
and composition under Dietrich Boekle and Johannes G. Fritsch.
From 1983 to 1986 he studied with Hans Werner Henze in Cologne
and received a stipend to complete his studies with Hans Juergen
Wenzel at the Academy of Arts in East-Berlin. In 1985 he was
awarded the Stuttgarter Composition Prize for his orchestral
composition The Voice of the Winter. In 1987 at the International
Hambacher Composer's Competition, Meijering was commended for
his string trio ...bewegt... . In 1991 he received a fellowship
to attend the MacDowell artists colony in New Hampshire. His
compositions have been performed at Festival de Tardor, Barcelona
(Spain); the Styrian Autumn, Graz (Austria); the Festival d'Evian
(France); the Frankfurt Festival; the Internationale Ferienkurse
für Neue Musik Darmstadt (Germany); the Guggenheim Museum,
New York and other places. Meijering has written compositions
for orchestra, chamber music, ballet, and film and teaches composition
and music theory at the Nürnberg-Augsburg Conservatory and
the Akademie für Tonkunst in Darmstadt. He also has worked
with children to compose two children's operas for singers, children
choir and chamber orchestra. 
(writing for: flute, oboe, French horn, euphonium,
violin and viola) - received
a scholarship to study composition and conducting with Vincent
Persichetti and others at the Julliard School where he received
a master's degree after graduating from Keio University with
a degree in Law. In 1988, during his fellowship in composition
from the Koussevitsky Music Foundation, Saruya studied with Hanz
Werner Henze and Oliver Knussen at the Tanglewood Music Festival.
Soon after, his Two Million Light Years of Loneliness was
played at Carnegie Hall and his Fiber of The Breath was
performed by the Orchester der Beethovenhalle Bonn and the NHK
Symphony Orchestra conducted by Oliver Knussen. In 1992, Saruya
participated in the Munich Biennial (International Festival for
New Music Theatre) and received the BMW Theater Prize.
In 1993, he was awarded both the Idemitsu Music Award and the
Akutagawa Award for Music Composition. In 1995 his piece Projection
Orbit was performed by Orchestra Ensemble Kanazawa, the recording
of which on the Deutsche Gramophon label won the Japan Record
Academy Award. During the same year Saruya received the 43rd
Otaka Prize for his Fractal Vision written for the Kyoto
Symphony. In 1996 Boston Symphony conductor Seiji Ozawa commissioned
him to write The Tale of Beatrix Potter which was premiered in
the Saito Kinen Festival. In 1997 Saruya took over the position
of the late Toru Takemitsu as director of the Yatsugatake Kougen
Music Festival. Most recently, the London Sinfonietta premiered
Saruya's Flair of the Seeds in the Spirit Garden Festival.
for: trumpet, euphonium, and French horn) was born in Sydney, Australia in 1968,
and began writing music at about the age of ten. His composition
teachers have included Ross Edwards and Peter Sculthorpe. He
completed a Bachelor of Music in composition at the University
of Sydney in 1989, graduating with 1st Class Honours and the
University Medal. He is in his second year of studies for a Ph.D.
in Composition at Harvard University. Elliott has taken part
in numerous composition schools and workshops, including the
Melbourne Summer Music School for Advanced Musical Studies (in
1988) and the National Orchestral Composers School (in 1990 and
1993). He was the Australian representative at FORUM 96 in Montreal,
where his work A wilderness of mirrors, for solo E flat
clarinet and ensemble, was awarded third prize. Other important
works include the music theatre piece The Hammer That Shapes(1989),
Ficta(1994) for vocal sextet, and La mer aux miroirs
creves (1996) for nine players. Elliott's music is frequently
performed by ensembles throughout Australia. The first performance
of Deep and dissolving verticals of light was given by
the Sydney Symphony Orchestra in May 1997, and Crossbow,
commissioned to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Tasmanian
Symphony Orchestra, was premiered in April 1998. The Sydney Childrens
Choir has toured his work I am not yet born (1995) in
Europe and Asia, and recorded it for CD. His most recent project
was a collaborative work with visual artist Joe Felber on the
writings of Ad Reinhardt, 25 Songs, for which he created
a 21-minute "score" for prerecorded voices. It is currently
on display at the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney, before
touring to Perth, Melbourne, Adelaide and Singapore. 