Studio recording with Jonas Olsson. 

Umeå, Sweden, 03.12.2018

Score: http://johansvensson.nu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/STUDY-FOR-PIANO-2.pdf

study for piano #2 (2015). performed by Jonas Olsson.

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Mariana Vieira (Portugal, 1997) is a composer based in Lisbon.
She studied Music Composition at the Lisbon College of Music (ESML) with composers Carlos Caires and Jaime Reis. She is currently pursuing her Master in Composition & Pedagogy in the same institution. 
Her work includes electroacoustic and instrumental music in solo, chamber, ensemble and orchestral settings, as well as collaborative multimedia pieces. 
Besides her artistic output, she is interested in developing artistic and pedagogical projects, a work that she carries out by being the production director of Festival DME and an active collaborator at Lisboa Incomum, an independent concert and artist residency venue in Lisbon. 
Her music was performed in festivals such as Young Euro Classic (Germany), L’Espace du Son (Belgium), Audio Art (Poland), Electroacoustic Music Days (Greece) Crossroads (Austria), Monaco Electroacoustique (Monaco), Aveiro_Síntese and Música Viva (Portugal). 
In 2017, her piece “Raiz”, written for the Portuguese Youth Orchestra (JOP) won the European Composer Award. 
Since 2021, she is also an Assistant Professor at Escola Superior de Artes Aplicadas (Castelo Branco, Portugal).

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Mariana Vieira (Sintra, 1997) estudou Composição na Escola Superior de Música de Lisboa com os professores Carlos Caires e Jaime Reis. Frequenta, actualmente, o Mestrado em Ensino de Música na mesma instituição. 
O seu catálogo inclui música acusmática, mista e instrumental a solo, camerística e orquestral, bem como peças colaborativas interdisciplinares.
A sua música foi apresentada em festivais como Young Euro Classic (Alemanha), L'Espace du Son (Bélgica), Audio Art (Polónia), Electroacoustic Music Days (Grécia) Crossroads (Áustria), Monaco Electroacoustique (Mónaco), Aveiro_Síntese e Música Viva (Portugal). 
Além da sua produção composicional, interessa-se por desenvolver projectos artísticos e pedagógicos que combinem música e tecnologia, atividade que concretiza enquanto diretora de produção do Festival DME, colaboradora ativa no espaço Lisboa Incomum e membro da associação EMSCAN.
Em 2017, a sua peça "Raiz", escrita para a Jovem Orquestra Portuguesa (JOP), venceu o European Composer Award.
Desde 2021, é também Professora Assistente na Escola Superior de Artes Aplicadas (Castelo Branco, Portugal).

I write classical music for piano, wind, brass, and strings, all while living in Sacramento, CA. My music is either pretty light or dramatic. I'm a Cancer the crab, maybe that's it.

Maximiliano A. Soto Mayorga (b. 1991, Santiago) is a Chilean-born composer who received his Bachelor's degree in composition in Universidad de Chile and his Master's and Konzertexamen degrees in HfM Freiburg, Germany. He studied with Rafael Díaz, Jorge Martínez and Johannes Schöllhorn and received additional training in masterclasses with renowned composers such as i. a. Georges Aperghis, Brice Pauset, Annesley Black, Ramon Lazkano, Eunhwa-Cho, Bernard Cavanna and Luca Belcastro. 

Soto Mayorga has received numerous awards and commissions, including the Ibero-American Composition Prize "Ibermúsicas" 2023, the prize "Ad Libitum 2022" of the festival Sommer in Stuttgart, the prize and commission "TONALi20" (Patroness Sofia Gubaidulina), the DAAD Prize, the Composition Prize of the Chilean Academy of Fine Arts "Carlos Riesco" and of the Chilean Copyrights Society (SCD) "Pulsar". He has been a grantee of the Ibermúsicas Residency 2020 (London), of the German Federal Culture and Media Commission Grant (2021), and of the Fanjul&Ward Foundation (2022).

His works have been commissioned and premiered by various institutions such as  i.a. the Deutschlandfunk, Netzwerk Neue Musik, Mehrklang Freiburg e.V., the Slovene Institute for Research in Art, Critical Thought and Philosophy ".abeceda"; and ensembles such as i.a. the SWR Orchester, Ensemble Aventure, LJE Neue Musik Ba-Wü. His work "Figures in Frost" has been published by Boosey & Hawkes. Soto Mayorga's music has been performed at festivals such as Forum Neue Musik 2022 (Germany, Sommer in Stuttgart 2022, Ensems 42 (Spain), Nuntempa 7 (Mexico), Prismas (Chile/Argentina/Peru), and concerts in Europe (Spain, France, Germany, Austria, Italy, Ukraine, Slovenia), America (Chile, Perú, Argentina, México) and Japan.

Yota Nakamura
2002~
Tokyo University of the Arts / Composition

https://twitter.com/Yota_comp

now performing as Nadia (@n-nnadia)

formerly based in SLC, UT
former member of Grove (https://soundcloud.com/user-156041732)

Contact: aidanbaymusic@gmail.com

In my spare time I have fun creating some electronic music …

Classically-trained pianist, guitarist, and composer who creates classical, experimental, and electronic rock music

study for piano #2 (2015). performed by Jonas Olsson.

Johan Svensson