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# Isabel Mundry

Isabel Mundry (born 20 April 1963) is a German composer.

## Life and work

Isabel Mundry was born in Schlüchtern, Hesse in 1963 and studied composition at the Hochschule der Künste and electronic music, musicology and history at the Berlin Technische Universität. From 1991 to 1994 she taught at the Hochschule der Künste Berlin and furthered her studies in Frankfurt with Hans Zender and later researched at the IRCAM in Paris. In addition to her teaching activities in Berlin, she held teaching appointments in Zürich and at the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts.
Mundry was the first resident composer of the Staatskapelle in Dresden. She previously held a similar position at the Tong Yong Festival, the Lucerne Festival and the Mannheim National Theater.
Mundry's compositions are characterized by a highly individualized musical language, full of variants and nuances: "She hardly ever repeats herself; each time, sounds and sequences of sounds are articulated differently." Isabel Mundry's work is currently published by Breitkopf & Härtel.
She was one of the top 10 performed composers on the Internationalen Ferienkurse für Neue Musik between 1946 and 2014.

## Awards

* Boris Blacher Composition Award from Berlin University of the Arts and Hochschule für Musik "Hanns Eisler"
* 1994: Busoni Award [de] of the Academy of Arts, Berlin
* 1996: Kranichstein Music Award of the Darmstädter Ferienkurse
* 1996: Schneider-Schott Music Prize with Moritz Eggert
* 2001: Ernst von Siemens Composer Prize
* 2012: Zender Award with Martin Zenck
# Peter Michael Hamel

Peter Michael Hamel (born 15 July 1947 in Munich) 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.
He is the son of the film director Peter Hamel. Hamel studied musical composition, psychology and sociology in Munich and Berlin with teachers including Günter Bialas and Carl Dahlhaus. He then continued his education abroad, spending several extensive periods in Asia.
In 1970, he founded "Between", an international group dedicated to improvisational music with whom he made 6 records on the intuition/WERGO label and in 1978 in Munich, he founded the Freies Musikzentrum, an institute for musical education and therapy. In 1978, his book Through Music to the Self was published in English translation, obtaining wide circulation in Europe and the U.S.
Between 1997 and 2012, he was professor for composition at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Hamburg. His orchestral and chamber music is published by Schott, Bärenreiter and E.R.P./Celestial Harmonies. He composed four operas, many orchestral works (e.g., Gestalt), violin and piano concertos, sacred works for soprano, choirs and orchestra (e.g., Missa); Shoah (a radio-composition about the Holocaust), chamber-music compositions (including four string quartets). He is in demand as a performing artist (piano, prepared piano, pipe organ, voice and live-electronics). His First Symphony was premiered by Sergiu Celibidache in 1988; his Second Symphony had its first performance in Munich on April 29, 2008 with the Munich Philharmonic. In 2007 Hamel's Of the Sound of Life for pianist Roger Woodward was published by Celestial Harmonies. In 2009 parts of his music theatre "last minute" on Near Death Experiences has been premiered in musica viva.
American minimalist composer Terry Riley has said:
   ...Peter's heart did not seem to be aligned alone with the post Webern traditions that had emerged so prevalently in Germany. His sensibilities were attracted more to American minimalism and Indian music and to some degree Rock and Jazz. In this sense he stands apart in the field of modern music of Germany. He has recognized the vast importance of improvisation and being "in the moment" in music performance. He realizes the importance of experimentation and of finding new ways to notate his ideas. However, his music is at the same time rooted in the great German tradition and today he is recognized as a major figure whose compositions have greatly enriched the development of 20th and 21st century repertoire....

## Discography

* Aura (1972)
* Hamel (1972)
* The Voice of Silence (1972)
* Buddhist Meditation East-West (1975)
* Nada (1977)
* Colours of Time (1980)
* Bardo (1981)
* Transition (1983)
* Organum (1986)
* Let It Play: Selected Pieces 1979-1983 (1987)
* Arrow of Time / The Cycle of Time (1991)
* Violinkonzert Diaphainon Gralbilder (1993)
* De Visione Dei (2001)
* Hamel: String Quartet No. 3, String Quartet No. 4, String Trio (2007)
# Vanessa Lann

Vanessa Lann (born April 6, 1968, in Brooklyn, New York) is an American-Dutch composer living in the Netherlands.
Lann is known for contemporary compositions for underutilized instruments such as the bass clarinet, bassoon and toy piano. Her compositions have been broadcast on radio, recorded on compact discs, and performed in music festivals in Europe and North America. She has written numerous types of compositions, including concertos and operas. In 1990, she was musical director at the American Repertory Theater. Reviewer David Toub described her music as "expertly performed". The New York Times music reviewer Allan Kozinn described her composition Is a Bell ... a Bell? as a "propulsively rhythmic score" which was charming with its use of two toy pianos to bring out "different timbral qualities." Music reviewer Jed Distler described her compositions as "gracious keyboard writing and humor." Dutch music critic for the daily newspaper de Volkskrant, Frits van der Waa, has reviewed her music on numerous occasions. He described her hour-long opera The Silence of Saar in 2013 as an "endless series of mind-numbing variations." He described her music in 2005 as "intense but sweet juicy tension," and her composition for the Delft Chamber Music Festival in 2007 as "beautiful."

## Selected compositions

* moonshadow sunshadow
* Lullabye for a young girl dreaming
* O Whispering Suns
* The Silence of Sarah
* Entranced By The Beckoning Light for piano solo (written for the Indonesian composer / pianist Ananda Sukarlan)
# Robert Moran (composer)

Robert Moran (born January 8, 1937) is an American composer of operas and ballets as well as numerous orchestral, vocal, chamber and dance works.

## Life

A native of Denver, Moran studied twelve-tone music privately with Hans Apostel in Vienna and completed his Master of Arts degree in 1963 at Mills College in Oakland, California, where he studied with Darius Milhaud and Luciano Berio (Ruppenthal and Patterson 2001). After having lived for periods ranging from a few months to a couple of years in various locales, from Vienna, Berlin, New York City, and Milan to Portland and San Francisco, he has made Philadelphia his home since 1984.
Many of his works have been recorded: his two albums for Argo Records were taken out of print, but reissued as a two CD set by Innova Records, which also released a new CD of his music. Some of his music has been made available in mp3 format at the classical midi archives site (Tyranny and Anon. 2008). The Juniper Tree was issued on CD in 2009.

## Works
### Operas

* The Juniper Tree (1985) (co-composed with Philip Glass)
* Desert of Roses (premiered February 1992 at Houston Grand Opera)
* From the Towers of the Moon (premiered March 1992 at Minnesota Opera)
* The Dracula Diary (premiered March 1994 at Houston Grand Opera)
* Night Passage (1995)
Miniature operas with durations of less than ten minutes, for a variety of voices and small instrumental ensembles: "Remember Him to Me", "So Suddenly a War", "Your Pig is Dead" and others. The libretti-fragments are by Gertrude Stein.

### Ballets

* Rocky Road to Kansas (1995)
* "Waltz In Memoriam Maurice Ravel" for piano
* "Wendekreise" world premiere at the Bavarian State Opera, 1972
* "ALICE" full length ballet, commissioned by the Scottish Ballet, world premiere April 2011

### Other works

* For Organ (1967)
* Thirty Nine Minutes for Thirty Nine Autos (August 1969)
* Hallelujah (1971)
* Emblems of Passage (1974)
* Dream Quilt (1997)
* The Eternal Hour (1974)
* Pachelbel Promenade
* Waltz in Memoriam Maurice Ravel (1977) for piano (also arranged for harp by Falcao)
* Ten Miles High Over Albania (1983)
* Three Dances (1983/86)
* Survivor From Darmstadt (1984)
* Open Veins (1986)
* Halicarnassian Quartet
* Leipziger Kerzenspiel
* Three Baroque Songs (1988)
* Requiem: Chant Du Cygne (March 1990)
* Points of Departure (1993)
* Seven Sounds Unseen (1993)
* 32 Cryptograms for Derek Jarman (1995)
* Obrigado (1996)
* Voce Della Fontana (1998)
* Stimmen Des Letzten Siegels (Voices of the Last Seal) (2001)
* Trinity Requiem (commemorating the 10th anniversary of September 11, 2001) (2011) (Amico 2011).
* Mantra recorded by the Latvian Radio Choir, from the album Mantra of Moran's works
# Thomas Albert (composer)

Thomas Albert (born December 14, 1948) is an American composer and educator. He attended the public schools of Lebanon, Pennsylvania and Wilson, North Carolina. In 1970, he received the degree A.B. (magna cum laude) from Atlantic Christian College (now Barton College). He received the M.Mus. (1972) and D.M.A. (1974) in composition from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
He is a faculty member of Shenandoah Conservatory at Shenandoah University as a professor of music (composition and musical theatre) and Harold Herman Chair in Musical Theatre. During his tenure, he served as the conductor and music director of more than 100 musicals and revues. From 1989 to 2004 he was associate dean of the Conservatory; from 2004 to 2008, he was chair of the Theatre Division. He was a music director for Shenandoah Summer Music Theatre from 1984 to 2019. From 2015 to 2019, he was the producing artistic director of Shenandoah Summer Music Theatre. He is currently professor emeritus, Composition and Musical Theatre.
His best-known composition is Thirteen Ways, commissioned by eighth blackbird. The piece was inspired by Wallace Stevens’ poem, "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird", from which the ensemble derived its name, It is the title work of eighth blackbird’s first commercial recording, Thirteen Ways (Cedille Records).
# Donald Reid Womack

Donald Reid Womack (born 1966) is a composer of contemporary classical music. He was born in Virginia, raised in East Tennessee and studied at Furman University and Northwestern University, receiving degrees in philosophy, music theory, and music composition.
He has composed more than 100 works for orchestra, chamber ensembles, solo instruments, and voice. Major works include a concerto for shakuhachi, koto and orchestra (After), two gayageum concertos (Scattered Rhythms and 무노리 Mu Nori), a haegeum concerto (Dancing With Spirits 혼무), a geomungo concerto (검은 용 Black Dragon) a violin concerto (In questi tempi di Conflitto), a viola concerto (Blue Ridge Seasons), an oratorio for chorus and chamber orchestra (Voices of Kalaupapa), and a triple concerto for shakuhachi, biwa and koto with ensemble of Japanese instruments (Three Trees 三木).
Womack's influences meld a broad range of sources, including post-minimalism, rock, bluegrass, and especially intercultural elements — in particular East Asian instruments. He spent a year in Tokyo, Japan studying Japanese instruments, as well as a year in Seoul, South Korea learning Korean music, and has composed nearly 60 works for Japanese, Korean and Chinese instruments in various combinations.
His music has been described as "original, creative and ingenious" (Shimbun Akahata), "powerful and impressively crafted" and "eclectic but also distinctive" (Honolulu Star-Bulletin), "raw energy alternating with a brooding potentiality" (Honolulu Advertiser), "wonderfully mellow and sprightly in its metrical incisiveness" (Buffalo NY Daily News), "capable of providing stimulus for a new century" (Neue Musikzeitung), and as having "the concentration of a haiku." (Classical CD Review)
Womack's works have been performed throughout the U.S., as well as in many countries in Europe, Asia, Oceania, South America and Africa by such ensembles as the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra, Louisville Orchestra, Honolulu Symphony, Changwon Philharmonic, National Orchestra of Korea, KBS Traditional Korean Orchestra, Seoul National Gugak Orchestra, Busan National Gugak Orchestra, Seoul Metropolitan Traditional Orchestra, Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble, Hong Kong New Music Ensemble, Pro Music Nipponia (日本音楽集団), and AURA-J.
Among his awards are a Guggenheim Fellowship, two Fulbright Research Fellowships, winner of the Gyeonggi Korean Orchestra International Composition Competition, First Prize in the Sigma Alpha Iota Inter-American Music Awards, two Individual Artist Fellowships from the Hawaii State Foundation on Culture and the Arts, and an Excellence in Research Award from the University of Hawaii. Since 1994 Womack has resided in Honolulu, Hawaii, where he is professor of music composition and theory, and a faculty member of the Center for Japanese Studies and the Center for Korean Studies at the University of Hawaii.
# Ulric Cole

Frances Ulric Cole (September 9, 1905 – May 21, 1992) was an American pianist, editor, music educator and composer. She was born in New York and studied in Los Angeles with Homer Grunn, and at the Institute of Musical Arts in New York City (now known as the Juilliard School) and in Paris with Nadia Boulanger.

## Life and work

Two of her compositions, Piano Quintet and Violin Sonata no.1, won awards from the Society for the Publication of American Music. Her orchestral compositions have been performed by symphonies in Cincinnati, Sydney, Rochester, Scranton and Lansdowne.
Cole was a founding member of the Society of American Women Composers. She worked as a music teacher for years and, when she became dissatisfied with teaching, she took an editorial position for Time Magazine from 1945 to 1952.
In her later years, she travelled widely and for a time lived on the islands of Tahiti and Vanuatu in the South Pacific Ocean and composed Sunlight Channel in 1948. Cole died in Bridgeport, Connecticut in 1992.

## Works

Cole composed mainly for orchestra, chamber ensemble and piano.
* Above the Clouds for piano (pub. 1924)
* Prelude and Fugue in C Minor for two pianos (unpublished; 1924)
* Tunes & Sketches in Black and White for piano (pub. 1926)
* Purple Shadows for piano (pub. 1928)
* Sonata for violin and piano (pub. 1930)
* Hobgoblins for piano (pub. 1931)
* The Prairies for piano (pub. 1931)
* Round Dance for string quartet (unpublished; 1935)
* Vignettes for piano (pub. 1936)
* Piano Trio
* Divertimento for string orchestra and piano (pub. 1939)
* Quintet for piano, 2 violins, viola, and violoncello (pub. 1941)
* Metropolitones: Three Compositions for the Piano (pub. 1943)
* "Man-about-town" from Metropolitones arranged for two pianos, four hands (pub. 1947)
* Nevada for orchestra (unpublished; 1947)
* Sunlight Channel for orchestra (unpublished; 1949)
* Divertimento arranged for two pianos (unpublished; 1971)
# Arrows FA1

The Arrows FA1 was a Formula One car used by the Arrows Grand Prix International team during the first half of the 1978 Formula One season.

## Design

The FA1 was in reality a Shadow DN9, which Tony Southgate had designed for Shadow whilst working as a consultant for them. Southgate mistakenly believed that because he had designed the Shadow DN9 whilst working as a consultant (and not a Shadow employee) that he owned the intellectual rights to the Shadow DN9 design. Based on this misconception Arrows built the FA1, which was essentially a carbon copy of the DN9.

## Banning

The FA1 was banned by the London High Courts partway through the 1978 season after a legal protest from the Shadow team, on the grounds was a blatant copy of the DN9. The judgement handed down ruled that over 70% of the FA1 was identical to the DN9 and that all four Arrows FA1's should be broken up by Arrows and their parts handed over to the Shadow team.
Knowing it would lose the case, Arrows hurriedly designed and built a new car, the A1, whilst the court case was being heard and did not miss a race.

## Complete Formula One World Championship results

(key) (Results in bold indicate pole position; results in italics indicate fastest lap)
| Year | Entrant | Engine | Tyres | Drivers | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | Points | WCC |
| 1978 | Arrows Racing Team | Ford Cosworth DFV | G | | ARG | BRA | RSA | USW | MON | BEL | ESP | SWE | FRA | GBR | GER | AUT | NED | ITA | USA | CAN | 11 | 10th |
| 1978 | Arrows Racing Team | Ford Cosworth DFV | G | Riccardo Patrese | | 10 | Ret | 6 | 6 | Ret | Ret | 2 | 8 | Ret | 9 | | | | | | 11 | 10th |
| 1978 | Arrows Racing Team | Ford Cosworth DFV | G | Rolf Stommelen | | | 9 | 9 | Ret | Ret | 14 | 14 | 15 | DNQ | DSQ | | | | | | 11 | 10th |
^1 3 points scored using the A1.
# Maksim Chigaev

Maksim Chigaev (born 7 November 1996) is a Russian chess player who currently represents Spain. He was awarded the title Grandmaster by FIDE in 2016.
Together with 43 other Russian chess players, Chigaev signed an open letter to Russian president Vladimir Putin, protesting against the Russian invasion of Ukraine and expressing solidarity with the Ukrainian people. In August 2023, he changed federations to Spain.

## Career

Chigaev was born in Kemerovo. He played on the Russian team that won the World Youth Under 16 Chess Olympiad in 2012. Chigaev also won an individual gold medal as the best player on the second board. In 2015 he won the Vanya Somov Memorial - World's Youth Stars tournament in Kirishi. In 2018, he played on team Molodezhka of Tyumen which took the bronze medal in both the Russian Team Championships Premier League and the European Club Cup. In January 2019 Chigaev shared second place with Andrey Esipenko and Benjamin Gledura in the Tata Steel Challengers tournament in Wijk aan Zee, the Netherlands scoring 8½ points from 13 games. He competed in the FIDE World Cup 2019 as one of the nominees by the president of FIDE. Chigaev was paired against Parham Maghsoodloo and lost to him by 2–0 and therefore was eliminated from the tournament in the first round.
In October 2020, Chigaev won the Higher League of the 73rd Russian Chess Championship in Sochi with a score of 6.5/9 and qualified for Russian Chess Championship Superfinal later in the year.
# John Diercks

John Diercks (1927 – April 2020) was an American composer born in Montclair, New Jersey, in 1927. He held degrees from Oberlin College, the Eastman School, and the University of Rochester (PhD). His composition teachers included Howard Hanson and Alan Hovhaness. For Asian music and dance he studied with Dorothy Kahananui and Halla Huhm.
Dr. Diercks taught piano at the College of Wooster (1950–54), then began a long tenure at Hollins University, teaching theory and composition. He served as department chair from 1962 until 1990.
Among many grants and awards he has received are those from the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Mellon and Danforth foundations (five times), the Southern Foundation for the Humanities, and ASCAP (fifteen times). As a composer he has enjoyed residence at the MacDowell Colony, Wolf Trap Farm, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.
Much of Diercks' music is influenced by exoticism, including microtonality and "unconventional" musical sounds. An early work, Cave Music for vocalise and three players on prepared piano, accompanied a dance performed in Virginia's Dixie Caverns and broadcast on NBC-TV's Today Show.
His Twelve Sonatinas, performed by pianist Marthanne Verbit, are in the catalog of Albany Records. In 2009 The Guild of Carillonneurs in North America published his Fugue in C (for Elizabeth Graves Vitu) and Fantasia (commissioned by the University of Iowa-Ames).
Over 125 of Diercks' music has been published, for piano, voice, choral, chamber ensemble, and carillon. He has written more than two hundred reviews and articles in newspapers and journals, and authored two chapters published in the Denes Agay book "Teaching Piano".
Diercks lived in Honolulu, and served as president of the Hawaii Music Teachers Association from 1992 to 1996. Since then he has composed/arranged extensively for the Oahu Piano Quartet, and continued to compose for the carillon.
John Diercks died in April 2020 at ninety-two years old.

## Compositions

* Clap your hands! for voices and keyboard
* Concertino for piano and woodwind quintet
* Divertimento for woodwind quintet
* Dove of Peace, early American hymn-settings for unison voices with organ and handbells
* An Easter Triptych, three pieces for carillon
* Figures on China for horn, trombone, and tuba
* Kongai: The Soul of the Great Bell for carillon
* Moonspell for flute and piano
* Of Mountain and Valley (for the Roanoke Symphony)
* Prelude to Manvantara for carillon
* Sonata for oboe and piano
* Suite for flute and piano
* Suite for Strings for string orchestra
* Suite No. 1 for piano duet
* Suite No. 2 for orchestra
* Theme and Variations for piano
* Three Diversions for flute (alto recorder) and piano (or harpsichord)
* Toward the Summer Land for two pianos
* Twelve Sonatinas for piano
* Variations on a Flower Drum Song for two prepared pianos
* Variations on a theme of Gottschalk for tuba and piano
* Vienna: For a Time and Place for two pianos
* The Warriorʻs Ghost Returns to Play his Lute (Jeanne Larsen) for baritone and string quartet
* Woodwind Quintet
# Eugene Kurtz

Eugene Allen Kurtz (December 27, 1923 – July 7, 2006) was an American composer of contemporary classical music.
He received an M.A. in music from the Eastman School of Music in 1949. His instructors included Arthur Honegger, Darius Milhaud, and Max Deutsch. He served as a guest professor of composition at the University of Michigan, the Eastman School of Music, and several other universities. His notable students include John Burke, Roger Briggs, John S. Hilliard, and Robert Morris.
His best-known composition is The Last Contrabass in Las Vegas (1974), for double bass and female narrator, which was composed for Bertram Turetzky and his wife Nancy Turetzky, who have performed it frequently. He was also commissioned by Radio France.
Kurtz was born in Atlanta and served in the U.S. Army during World War II; he first arrived in France in 1944. He settled in Paris in 1952, living there until his death there of a lung infection at the age of 82.