Bach: Unaccompanied Cello Suites Performed on Double Bass is a contemporary classical album released by the double bass virtuoso Edgar Meyer.
Harry Stewart Somers, CC (September 11, 1925 – March 9, 1999) was one of the most influential and innovative contemporary Canadian composers of the past century.
His work, which combines elements from all major genres, is often referred to within the discourse of New Music, or Musiques Actuelles, in French.
Genre = Contemporary classical
Ambient
According to Conrad Schnitzler in a 1980 interview he gave to David Elliott an advertisement by an organist interested in new music led to the recording session being sponsored by a church.
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Currently, up to five prizes are awarded, one in each style category (Baroque, Classical, Romantic, Impressionism & Contemporary).
The music varies from contemporary classical music to avant-rock: there is a string quartet ("String Quartet 1"), two works for small ensembles ("A Hollow Miracle" and "Palimpsest"), a piece for samples and multiple horns ("From Descartes' Dreams"), a piece for MIDI-instruments ("Numinous Pools for Mental Orchestra"), and an unrecorded Henry Cow number from 1976 ("Hold to the Zero Burn, Imagine").
His performances include the romantic repertoire (played on original instruments), baroque, 20th century music, contemporary and avant-garde music, and include solo, chamber works and concertos for guitar and orchestra.
Francis Thorne (b. Bay Shore, New York, June 23, 1922) is an American composer of contemporary classical music and grandson of the writer Gustav Kobbé.
German Cáceres (born San Salvador, July 9, 1954) is a Salvadoran composer of contemporary classical music and a musical conductor.
In Europe he formed different groups to perform his compositions and arrangements in various styles: contemporary, world, jazz and classical.
He is married to Polish composer Kasia Glowicka.
Howard J. Buss (born January 6, 1951 in Allentown, Pennsylvania) is an American composer of contemporary classical music.
James Cheng Ting Fei (Chinese name: 費正廷; pinyin: Fèi Zhèngtíng; b. Taipei, Taiwan, 1974) is a composer and performer working in the fields of contemporary classical music and electronic music.
She sings both operas in the standard repertoire as well as contemporary operas by such composers as Mauricio Kagel, Bruno Maderna, Michael Tippett, Harrison Birtwistle, Philip Glass, Louis Andriessen, Michael Nyman, Bernd Alois Zimmermann, and John Cage.
Nguyễn Thiên Đạo (born 1940 in Hanoi, French Indochina) is a French composer of Vietnamese descent who works in contemporary classical music.
Robert Walter Moevs (2 December 1920, in La Crosse, Wisconsin – 10 December 2007) was an American composer of contemporary classical music.
It covers the period from early music, Medieval and Renaissance music, to the modern era, 20th-century classical music, contemporary classical music, and 21st-century classical music, and its objective is to create a guide to music that is not needlessly complex.
Drawing on jazz, serialism, musique concrete, and other avant-garde techniques developed by contemporary classical music composers such as Luigi Nono and Giacinto Scelsi, the group was dedicated to the development of new music techniques by improvisation, noise-techniques, and anti-musical systems.
They have premiered over 250 works of contemporary classical music, including Iannis Xenakis's Pléïades, Inventions by Miloslav Kabeláč and Karlheinz Stockhausen's Musik im Bauch.
Ulrich Leyendecker (b. 1946), German composer of contemporary classical music
Orlando Jacinto Garcia (born 1954), Cuban American composer of contemporary classical music
Born in Kitzingen, Germany to a prominent family of vintners, Fromm was an early supporter of contemporary classical music in that country after he was exposed to Stravinsky's Rite of Spring in the early 1920s.
Torsten Rasch (born 1965, Dresden), a German composer of contemporary classical music
While attending the American School of Modern Music in Paris, Wrembel went to the Django Reinhardt Festival in Samois, France where he was inspired to study composition arranging, jazz and contemporary classical music.
Chou Wen-chung (born 1923), or Zhou Wenzhong, Chinese American composer of contemporary classical music