composer, co-founder of improvised music groups, including the KEW Composers’ Group (1973-76), the Independent Electroacoustic Music Studio (1982-84), Freight Train (set up in 1986), the European Improvisation Orchestra (1996-98), the CH&K&K Group (founded i

Composition: Ponera is a piano piece which is supposed to represent conflicting thoughts and emotions and how they coexist, impact each other and finally resolve.

Alanna Crouch is a British teenage pianist and composer of classical, contemporary and film music. Born in London in 2006, Alanna began playing the piano at the age of 3 under the guidance of Tom Donald of London Contemporary School of Music and from 2014 has

Julian was born in London and from an early age showed that he was highly musical. He recalls how the music teacher at his school telephoned and wrote to his mother on several occasions advising her that her son had musical talent and should learn to play an i

taught until recently piano and chamber music at the Landesmusikschulwerk Oberösterreich. From 1991 to 2004 he worked as a Korrepetitor at the Salzburg Mozarteum Summer Academy, where he also led an accompaniment course he designed. He studied at the Eastman

Italian composer and interpreter based in Germany, Vincenzo La Spesa, was born in 1982. After acquiring an MA in music performance at the University of Leeds (Uk) and a career as a performer in Italy and the UK, he left his career as an electric and classical

Dianna Neufeld has a Master’s in Music from the Brandon University, specializing in Performance and Literature as a Collaborative Pianist. As a private piano teacher and collaborative artist, she performs with a variety of musicians, and is a composer who

My process involves caffiene, crying and creative cul-de-sacs, and that’s only the first half-hour...

“A composer born to write operas” (Chicago Tribune) possessed of an “infinitely fertile imagination” (Fanfare Magazine) whose music is “dazzling, unsettling, exuberant, and heroic” (The New Yorker), “Hagen’s music represents a considerable arti