A composer, interpreter and improvisor of no-input electroacoustic music based in North Wales.
He is currently undertaking a PhD in music composition at the Academy of Creative and Performing Arts - Leiden University, whilst contemporaneously working on various sound, dance and extended photography/cinema projects.
His work has been published by Entr'acte, Dinzu Artefacts, Subcontinental Records, Korobushka Records, The Silent Howl & scatterArchive

Simon Cummings is a composer, writer and conductor based in the Cotswolds, in south west England. He composes instrumental and electronic music, both of which exist at the meeting point between emotionally potent extra-musical concerns and highly intricate algorithmic processes. These processes are rooted in carefully-defined behaviours and processes, the music emerging from stochastic relationships in which these behaviours are juxtaposed and intermingle. His work has received notable performances; Bromsgrove’s ‘Mixing Music’ Festival has twice featured his music, with acclaimed first performances of lent for solo clarinet and Orbus. (Fragment), the latter premièred by the Smith Quartet and broadcast on BBC Radio 3. His solo cello work, gravest one, won the SPNM/Huddersfield Festival composing competition in 2002, and was performed there by Arne Deforce. In recent years Cummings has composed works for a variety of soloists and ensembles, including Christopher Redgate, the Curious Chamber Players, BCMG, Thallein Ensemble, Icarus vocal ensemble and Thumb, and several of his works were featured in the 2014-15 Diva Contemporary concert series. Cummings’ electronic music draws liberally on noise and pitched material, also incorporating elements of an ambient persuasion. Several CDs of his electronic music have been released, including Dither • Pother • Roil, Simulated Music and Triptych, May/July 2009, in addition to a number of digital downloads.

Cummings’ composition studies began at Coventry Centre for the Performing Arts, with Christopher Best. After this, he studied composition, conducting and organ at the Birmingham Conservatoire, and directed their contemporary music group, Thallein Ensemble. Upon graduation he was awarded the Creative Studies prize. Aided by a substantial grant from The Countess of Munster Musical Trust, Cummings undertook the Sonology and Masters degree programmes at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague, at the same time studying privately with Richard Barrett in Amsterdam. He is currently pursuing a PhD in composition at the Birmingham Conservatoire under the supervision of Howard Skempton. The primary focus of his research is the development of extended algorithmic and stochastic techniques, presently directed towards a group of works for orchestra. He is also engaged in an ongoing series of electronic studies, exploring audible processes and the time/pitch organisation of music from an entirely visual perspective.

Cummings is an accomplished writer about new music; he is the author of the contemporary music blog 5:4, and is a contributor to a number of print and web journals, including Opera, Bachtrack, Pan (journal of the British Flute Society), Mexican arts magazine La Tempestad and Fluid Radio. Most recently, he has written an introduction to Marko Ciciliani's book/audio DVD Pop Wall Alphabet and a major retrospective essay for the ebook Imperfect Forms: the Music of Kenneth Kirschner, published by Tokafi in late 2014. As founder and artistic director of the ensemble Interrobang, Cummings has directed numerous new works; these include the UK premières of Paul Dolden's The Heart Tears Itself Apart with the Power of its own Muscle, Ryoji Ikeda's op. 1 and Chiyoko Szlavnics' (a)long lines; we'll draw our own lines, alongside works by, among others, Kenneth Hesketh, Galina Ustvolskaya, Sorabji and Stockhausen, as well as student compositions.

liminal, compositional ambient using glitch and orchestral textures

NB! Album release with my latest chamber music on July 15, 2024!
https://www.kairos-music.com/cds/0022019kai
Bio –
MA in composition with Helena Tulve and Eino Tamberg at the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre (2006), ERASMUS studies with prof. Wolfgang Rihm in Karlsruhe Higher Music School (2005/2006), master class with Salvatore Sciarrino, international courses – IRCAM, Centre Acanthes etc. Works performed by Klangforum Wien, Ensemble Musikfabrik, Joey Marijs (Slagwerk Den Haag), Ensemble for New Music Tallinn, Sinfonietta Rīga String Quartet, Ansambel U:, Athelas Sinfonietta Copenhagen, Curious Chamber Players, Tallinn Chamber Orchestra, Estonian National Symphony Orchestra etc. Opera GRID, as a music theatre team project – main prize of Operare 2010 by Berlin Contemporary Opera was premiered in Berlin Kulturbrauerei (2011). “Ma olen suur kuu su silmapiiril” (“I am the big moon on your horizon”) was selected and performed in the 17th edition of the ECCO concert (ECSA) in Brussels by Slagwerk Den Haag (2021).

Liis Jürgens (Viira) (b. April 7, 1983) is a composer, harpist, improviser and experimental animation maker. Her compositions are characterized by figurative thinking and translating the visual into music.
● In 2009 she graduated with a MA in harp performance, under Eda Peäske, from the Estonian Academy of Theatre and Music. At same, she furthered her training in composition with Helena Tulve and studied electroacoustic music with Margo Kõlar.
● She has studied improvisation with Taavi Kerikmäe and Anto Pett; she performs improvised music on a regular basis. 
● She has composed works for symphony orchestra, choir, big and small ensembles, vocalists and solo instruments. In addition to Estonia, Liis Viira’s works have been performed in Latvia, Lithuania, Finland, Sweden, Russia, Denmark, Italy, USA and Austria. 
● She has performed her compositions herself on harp and piano.
● At present Liis Viira is a freelance composer and harpist. She is a member of unique sounding ensemble Una Corda (three plucked string instruments: harp, kannel and harpsichord) and participates in many other solo and chamber music projects. 
● Her orchestra experience includes playing principal and second harp with Estonian National Symphony Orchestra (2007-2017), and principal harp with Tallinn Chamber Orchestra, Baltic Sea Youth Philharmonic, Kymi Sinfonietta and Estonian Festival Orchestra. 
● Viira studied 2012–2015 at Estonian Academy of Arts animation department and since autumn 2017 she is studying composition (with Helena Tulve and Toivo Tulev) in practice based PhD at Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre to go further with her interest of developing musical and visual compositions simultaneously.

Composer of contemporary classical music based in Brussels.

https://www.universaledition.com/evans-kocja-8059

https://www.universaledition.com/en/News/In-conversation-with-Evans-Kocja/

Composer from Estonia.
Youtube: @viktoriagrahv

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