Alissa Firsova composer, pianist Alissa Firsova is a Russian-English composer, pianist and conductor. After winning the BBC Proms/Guardian Young Composer Competition in 2001, he received numerous commissions, including a Bach transcription for the 2010 Proms Festival that was performed by Andrew Litton leading the RPO live on BBC 2 and BBC Radio 3.
Meyer Krzysztof 2008 – He was born in Krakow on August 11, 1943. From the age of five he began studying piano, and from 1954 theory and composition with Stanislaw Wiechowicz. After promotion to the Fryderyk Chopin State Music School in Kraków he entered the Kraków College of Music where he received two honorable mention…
Harada Keiko 2009 – “Tribute to Keiko Harada” Keiko Harada’s career as a composer began as a child when she developed her improvisations on the piano. She studied piano, chamber music and composition at Toho Gauken School of Music where she graduated in 1993 with a thesis in c omposition. She then studied with Brian…
Guillou Jean 2007 – Jean Guillou, titular organist of the great organs of St. Eustache, is first and foremost a composer who was able to considerably stretch the technical limits of instrumental performance, to elaborate and develop, already from his young age, more or less secretly, a singular musical world of great individuality, but which…
