Wiki Category: Women Composers

Lachartre, Nicole Marie

b Paris, 27 Feb 1934; d Versailles, 25 Nov 1991
French composer

Works for Brass Ensemble
  • Music of Musicians Interrupted… (1972) for brass quintet

Kuzmenko, Larysa

1956, Mississauga, Ontario
Canadian composer, pianist, and educator

  • Impromptu and Toccata (2003) for brass quintet
  • Grimoire
Biography

Larysa Kuzmenko is a Toronto-based composer, pianist, and Juno nominee. Her works have been published by Boosey and Hawkes, commissioned, performed, broadcast, and recorded by many outstanding musicians all over the world. Some prominent ensemble and soloists who have performed her works include: the Toronto Symphony Orchestra directed by Peter Oundjian and Jukka-Pekka Saraste, the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra directed by Rune Bergmann, the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra directed by Bramwell Tovey, Thunder Bay Symphony Orchestra directed by Jeffrey Moule, the Gryphon Trio, the Composer’s Orchestra directed by Gary Kulesha, the New Hampshire Philharmonic directed by Mark Latham, flutist Susan Hoeppner, pianists Anton Kuerti and Christina Petrowska-Quilico, and cellist Shauna Rolston.

Her works demonstrate a strong affinity towards the mainstream of classical music. She imbues her music with a strong melodic sense, and a firm rooting in traditional, albeit extended tonal processes. She is currently on staff at the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Music, where she teaches composition and piano.

References

Larysa Kuzmenko Official Website

Kim, Chan Ji

b 1974
South Korean born American composer, pianist, and educator

Chan-Ji Kim website

Works for Brass Ensemble
  • Prelude to the Quiet Morning (2009) for brass quintet
Biography

Chan-Ji Kim composes for dance, chamber ensembles, orchestra, multimedia performances, and electroacoustic music. Her research and music areas of interest include collaboration between composer and choreographer, Korean folk music, and interactive electroacoustic composition. Recently, her music was performed by the Namaste ensemble in Hamburg, Germany, in Perugia, Italy, and in Habana, Cuba; the Nabla ensemble in Rome, Italy; the Alternity chamber orchestra in Florida, USA; and the Bartók Trio in Malaga, Spain.

Her major performances include the International Music Days in Constanta, Romania, International Double Reed Society conference, the Berlin New Music Concert performed by Anton Webern Quartet, the New Music Society concert in Seoul, Korea, the International New Music Consortium concert series in Bucharest, Romania, the Summer Music Festival in Florence and Assisi, Italy, the Florida Electroacoustic Music Festival, Congress of the International Alliance of Women in Music, ICIA concert at the Symphony Space in New York City, IAEF concert at the Di Menna Center in New York City, the Society of Composers, Inc. national conference, the Millennium Dance Concert in New York City, and the World Music Days in Timisuara, Romania. Her article “Music for Clara Schumann” is published by Ji-hak Sa in Seoul, Korea and her music has been published by Calabrese Brothers Music, TrevCo Music, and The Sejong Cultural Society. Her music is also available on the album Nova (SCI CD series) by Parma, the album Mosaic by Emeritus, and on The Era of Modern Bassoon Album Collection by Akashibu Gakufu in Japan.

ChanJi Kim studied music composition and theory at E-Wha Women’s University in Korea (B.A.), New York University (M.A.), and University of Florida (Ph.D.). She is Associate Professor of Music and Chair of Performing Arts Department at Eastern Florida State College in Florida.

from the composer’s website

Kessler, Minuetta

b Gomel Belarus, 5 Sep 1914; d Belmont MA, 30 Nov 2002
Russia / Canada / United States

Works for Brass Ensemble
  • Fanfare, Op. 151 (1985) for brass quintet

Karpman, Laura

b Los Angeles CA, 1 Mar 1959
American composer

Works for Brass Ensemble
  • Three Movements (1992) for brass quintet

Jurado, Pilar

b Madrid, 1968
Spanish composer

Works for Brass Ensemble
  • La Escalera de Jacob (1999) for brass quintet

Jacobsen, Sonia

1967, New South Wales, Australia
Australian born American composer & saxophonist

Official Sonia Jacobsen website

Works for brass ensemble
  • Melting Pot (1996) for brass quintet
Biography

Sonia’s childhood was split between Australia and Denmark. Her music studies took place in France and New York. From 1987-92 she studied musicology and jazz saxophone at Grenoble University and Chambéry Conservatory. From 1992-1996 she studied jazz at The New School University in NY.

After graduating, she joined the faculty at The New School Jazz for ten years. Then she moved to Columbia, SC, where she teaches mainly world music and composition since 2006, at the School of Music at the University of South Carolina.

Sonia Jacobsen’s compositions have received numerous awards and prizes, namely from IAJE (International Association of Jazz Educators), ASCAP, American Music Center, American Composers Forum, American Scandinavian Society, Danish Foreign Ministry/Cultural Affairs, and L’Orchestre National de Jazz, France.

Her music has been performed by orchestras such as Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra (Germany), Philharmonia Virtuosi (NY), L’Orchestre National de Jazz (France), New Juilliard Ensemble (NY), and Richmond Concert Jazz Orchestra (LA).

Sonia has performed in and/or been music director of a number of ensembles ranging from string quartet to jazz ensembles and big band to large orchestra.

She is founder and director of the New York Symphonic Jazz Orchestra, and she was co-founder and co-director of Mosaic Orchestra, which had a biweekly jazz club gig in NY in the late 90’s.

She strives for a synthesis between the classical and jazz worlds by bridging them with her experience in world music and contemporary rhythms.

from the composer’s website

Inwood, Mary

Inwood, Mary United States
(b Boston, 27 Jul 1928)
Brass Quintet No. 2, Opus 56 1987
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Variations on a Bach Theme 1974
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