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This is a list of 21st-century classical composers, sortable by name, year of birth and year of death. The list includes composers who have made classical music since 2001. The 21st century is defined by the calendar rather than by any unifying characteristics of musical style or attitude, and is therefore not an era of the same order as the ...
Valerie Coleman is an American composer and flutist as well as the creator of the wind quintet Imani Winds.Coleman is a distinguished artist of the century who was named Performance Today's 2020 Classical Woman of the year and was listed as “one of the Top 35 Women Composers” in the Washington Post. [1]
Jennifer Higdon. Jennifer Elaine Higdon (born December 31, 1962 [1]) is an American composer of contemporary classical music. She has received many awards, including the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Music for her Violin Concerto [2][3] and three Grammy Awards for Best Contemporary Classical Composition for her Percussion Concerto in 2010, Viola ...
Website. https://rachelportman.co.uk. Rachel Mary Berkeley Portman (born 11 December 1960) [1][2] is a British composer who made history in 1996 for being the first female composer to win an Academy Award for the Best Original Score, for Emma. She was also nominated twice, for the soundtracks of The Cider House Rules (1999) and Chocolat (2000).
Emilie Luise Friderica Mayer (14 May 1812, Friedland, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern – 10 April 1883, Berlin) was a German composer of Romantic music. [1] Although Emilie Mayer began her serious compositional study relatively late in life, she was a very prolific composer, eventually producing some 8 symphonies and at least 15 concert overtures, as ...
Tansy Davies (born 29 May 1973, Bristol) is an English composer of contemporary classical music. She won the BBC Young Composers' Competition in 1996 and has written works for ensembles such as the London Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Symphony Orchestra and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. In 2023 she was awarded the Ivor Novello Award for ...
Ellen Taaffe Zwilich (/ teɪf ˈzwɪlɪk / tayf ZWIL-ik; [1] born April 30, 1939) [2] is an American composer, the first female composer to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music. Her early works are marked by atonal exploration, but by the late 1980s, she had shifted to a postmodernist, neoromantic style. [3] She has been called "one of America's ...
Missy Mazzoli. Missy Mazzoli (born October 27, 1980) is an American composer and pianist who is a member of the composition faculty at the Mannes College of Music. [1] In 2018, she became one of the first two women to receive a commission from the Metropolitan Opera House. [2] She is the founder and keyboardist for Victoire, an electro-acoustic ...