Category Archives: Composer Profiles

Composer Portrait:
Donal Sarsfield

Recent re­cip­ient of the 1er Prix Luigi Russolo for his work Gallivanting (now re­titled as The Suitcases Piece), Donal Sarsfield is an Irish com­poser cur­rently studying for a PhD in elec­troacoustic music at the University of Manchester on an Irish Arts Council Elizabeth Maconchy Composition Fellowship. His re­cent tape music demon­strates poignancy and hu­mour in […]

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Donal Sarsfield

Composer Portrait:
Nina Whiteman

With re­cent premi­eres by Dutch ac­cor­dion duo TOEAC, Colinton Amateur Orchestral Society, Manchester Camerata and period in­stru­ment trio Spirituoso, 29-year-old com­poser Nina Whiteman has had a busy year, not men­tioning per­form­ances as a vo­calist with her flute, voice and cello group, Trio Atem, whose most re­cent per­form­ance was the premiere of graphic scores by artist […]

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Nina Whiteman
  • Microbiography

    Chris Swithinbank is a British-Dutch com­poser who works with both acoustic in­stru­ments and elec­tronic sounds. He is cur­rently a stu­dent at Harvard University with Chaya Czernowin.
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