Deelnemers | Mostly Modern Festival NL

Componisten

Verschillende componisten krijgen tijdens MMF de kans om hun zelfgeschreven stukken te laten horen. Dit zijn de componisten van 2025

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Adrienne Albert

Adrienne Albert (ASCAP) has had her award-winning chamber, choral, vocal,

orchestral and wind band works performed throughout the U.S., and around the

world. Before starting her composing career, Ms. Albert sang on hundreds of

television and radio commercials, countless film scores and worked with such

diverse artists as Igor Stravinsky, Leonard Bernstein, Pablo Casals, Judy Collins,

Dave Grusin, Lieber/Stoller, Zubin Mehta, Frank Sinatra, and Michael Tilson Thomas.

Adrienne began composing her own music in the 1990s.

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Gianmaria Rizzardi

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Litha Efthymiou

Litha Efthymiou is a London based composer whose music has been described as ‘powerful’ (Timmy Fisher, Bachtrack, 2018), ‘brilliantly realised’ (Tamara Gausi, Time Out, 2008) and ‘cutting edge’ (Helen Wallace, Kings Place Magazine, 2014).

Her work has been performed in venues including Kings Place, Southbank Centre, Royal Albert Hall, Bristol St George’s, Handel and Hendrix in London, the Sage Gateshead, and Southampton’s Turner Simms, by ensembles and soloists including the Ligeti String Quartet, violinist Darragh Morgan, Harpsichordist Jane Chapman, and the London Symphony Orchestra. Her music has been broadcast on BBC Radio 3.

Litha has been the recipient of awards from Arts Council England, PRS Women Make Music, the National Lottery, Hinrichsen Foundation, RVW Trust, and the Wellcome Trust.

Litha undertook her PhD in composition at the University of Bristol, supervised by composer John Pickard and she currently teaches composition at London College of Music. As well as composition work, Litha also writes about music and has published journal articles and book chapters for Contemporary Music Review, Context, Airea, Intellect, and Act.

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Arturo Fernandez

“Originally from Miami, Florida, Arturo Fernandez is a composer based in the Boston area. He has degrees in composition from the Boston Conservatory, Cleveland Institute of Music, and the College-Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati.

As an active composer of song, chamber music, and chamber opera, he has premiered several projects with the Mostly Modern Festival in Saratoga Springs, Heartland Marimba in the Midwest, the Shakespeare Concerts in Boston, Hypercube in New York, and for Dutch thereminist Thorwald Jorgensen. He hopes to expand into writing full-length opera.”

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Evan Jay Williams

Evan Jay Williams (b.1989) is based in Denver, Colorado, where is Assistant Director of Rocky Ridge Music, a non-profit music education center. As a composer, his works have been performed across the U.S., in Italy and Spain, and even sent to The Moon as part of Carnegie Mellon University’s Moon Ark project. He earned his DMA in 2022 under Du Yun at The Peabody Institute (Johns Hopkins University).

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William (Bill) Murray

Bill has carried a guitar and a paintbox throughout his life, making songs and images that reflect the events and locations he’s encountered along the way. Some of his watercolors are represented in the collection of the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia. Bill is also a violinist and has played in community orchestras in New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island (Canada), Vermont, and New York.

Over a decade ago, Bill began to study through composition with a private teacher in New York City. He has had his work performed by orchestras in Vermont and upstate New York. Professionally trained as a psychologist, Bill has a private practice with his wife, Gretta Keene (a psychoanalyst, writer, and visual artist) in Saratoga Springs, New York, where they live with their comical toy poodle, Ukulele.

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Ethan Resnik

Ethan Resnik (b. 2002) is currently pursuing his Master of Music Degree in Composition at the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University. His works are often inspired by nostalgia, nature, and places that he visits, as well as his synesthetic associations between color and sound. He received a Bachelor of Music Degree in Composition from the Eastman School of Music and a Minor in French from the University of Rochester.

Ethan was awarded first place in the Northwest Horn Symposium Composition Contest, Akron Symphonic Winds Young Composer’s Competition, Susquehanna University Composition Prize, and the Villa Musica Call for Scores. He is also the recipient of the Eastman School of Music Belle S. Gitelman Award and the Louis Lane Prize. Recently, he was awarded third place in the American Prize in Composition, second place in the 16th Piano Composition Competition Fidelio, and second place in the Eduardas Balsys Young Composers Competition, where his music was performed on Lithuanian National Television.

His music has been performed by ensembles across the globe, including HYPERCUBE, American Modern Ensemble, Transient Canvas, Eastman Horn Choir, Central Washington University Horn Ensemble, Tacet(i) Ensemble, Quartetto Zuena, North/South Chamber Orchestra, Atlantic Music Festival Contemporary Ensemble, Akron Symphonic Winds, The Rhythm Method String Quartet, and the Mettis String Quartet. In addition, he was featured as a composer on NPR’s From The Top, which aired in February of 2020.

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Vincent Zhang

Vincent Zhang (b. 2006) is a Chinese-Canadian composer who envisions himself as an advocate for a new generation of innovation and diversity in Canadian new music on the global stage. His work weaves together his Chinese cultural heritage and Canadian experiences, shaping his artistic endeavors and distinctive style. Vincent is dedicated to exploring the essence of modern vitality and the untapped potential of spirit through contemporary music. Drawing inspiration from his upbringing and deep spiritual connection to the vast landscapes of the North Shore Mountains, Vincent weaves raw, instinctive soundscapes that reflect his unique artistic vision. His fascination with the untamed textures of sound stems from childhood memories of observing the serene ambiance of his Vancouver home, where nature’s quiet majesty fueled his imagination and creative voice.

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Jennifer Ortiz Valverde

Jennifer Ortiz Valverde is an Ecuadorian-American composer based in Boston. She writes music and stories inspired by her heritage, personal experiences, and imaginative worlds. Jennifer recently completed her Bachelor of Arts in Music with a concentration in Musicology and Ethnomusicology at Boston University’s College of Fine Arts.

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Friso van Wijck

Friso van Wijck (1974) is composer, drummer/percussionist and improvisor based in

Rotterdam, The Netherlands. He composed a.o. for Asko/Schoenberg Ensemble, Nieuw Ensemble, Doelen Ensemble, Mondriaan String Quartet, Doelen String Quartet, David Kweksilber Big

Band, Zapp String Quartet, Katrien Baerts, Kameroperahuis Zwolle/Gelders Orkest,

Muziektheater De Helling, Ricciotti, AKOM, Ensemble Intercolor, Oihua, and various

own groups. He recently released the debut album of his own ensemble Candy Container.

Friso studied at the Rotterdam Conservatory (Codarts), graduating Cum Laude for

both Bachelor and Master jazz drums, and with the prize for composition at the classical and electronic composition department. He was selected to take part in both the prestigious Composer Course by Osvaldo Golijov and the Workshop of Jazz and Creative Music by Dave Douglas, both in Banff, Canada, and The School for Improvisational Music (SIM) in New York, US.

He studied a.o. with Peter-Jan Wagemans, Klaas de Vries, Osvaldo Golijov, Tom Rainey, Kris Davis, Don

Byron, Drew Gress, Dan Weiss, Dave King, Reid Anderson, Jacob Sacks, Peter Epstein and Steve Clover.

Being also a very versatile drummer, Friso is playing modern jazz, improvised music,

modern composed music, metal, and everything in between.

He performed a.o. with Mabe Fratti, Jeroen van Vliet, Oene van Geel, Zapp

String4tet, Erik Vloeimans, Kris Goessens, Doelen Ensemble, and the Amsterdam

Concertgebouw Orchestra. In his teens he was drummer of the progressive metal band Polluted Inheritance

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Stephen Cabell

Stephen Cabell is a highly acclaimed composer based in Los Angeles. His unique and distinctive voice has earned him recognition as one of the most promising young composers of his generation. Stephen’s music encompasses a diverse range of genres, including orchestral, wind ensemble, chamber, vocal, electroacoustic/electronic, and film music. He draws inspiration from nature, social causes, other art forms, and, most recently, Western esotericism. Organic pacing, unexpected combinations, and a focused, economical approach to musical material characterize his works. His compositions are known for their diverse range of moods, from stark to sensual, satirical, and sublime. Stephen strives to provide listeners with a unique and powerful listening experience.

Stephen has won numerous awards for his work as a composer, including the Marylyn K. Glick Young Composer Award, the Joseph H. Bearns Prize in Music, ASCAP Morton Gould Composer Awards, and the Prix Nadia Boulanger. Numerous orchestras and ensembles, including the Indianapolis Symphony, Owensboro Symphony, USC Thornton Orchestra and Wind Ensemble, Atlantic Brass Quintet, American Modern Ensemble, and Iktus Percussion, among others, have performed his compositions. He has worked with many distinguished conductors, including Mario Venzago, H. Robert Reynolds, Benjamin Schwartz, Teddy Abrams, and Nicholas Palmer. With a passion for both classical and popular genres, Stephen continues to innovate and push boundaries in the world of contemporary music.

As a passionate music educator, Stephen is a visiting professor at Occidental College and is on the composition faculties of Mostly Modern Festival US, MMF|NL, and the Atlantic Music Festival.

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