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Takashi Yoshimatsu (吉松隆)
Takashi Yoshimatsu (吉松隆, b. 1953) is a Japanese composer of tonal, melodic works blending progressive rock, jazz, and classical styles; six symphonies, ten concertos, bird-themed series, Astro Boy and Taira no Kiyomori scores.
Terry Riley
Terry Riley (born June 24, 1935) is the American minimalist composer of In C (1964) and A Rainbow in Curved Air, a Pandit Pran Nath disciple, Kronos Quartet collaborator, and tape-loop pioneer now living in Japan.
Thomas Adès
Thomas Adès (born 1971, London) is a British composer, conductor, and pianist, also known for his operas Powder Her Face, The Tempest, and The Exterminating Angel; Asyla won the 1999 Grawemeyer Award, and he led the Aldeburgh Festival from 1999 to 2008.
Tod Machover
Tod Machover is an American composer and inventor who directs the Opera of the Future group at the MIT Media Lab, known for technology-infused operas like Death and the Powers.
Tom Cothran
Tom Cothran (Thomas Walter Cothran, 1947–1987), American musicologist and composer, Bernstein collaborator on the Norton Lectures, Songfest, and an unfinished Lolita opera; died of AIDS-related illness.
Toshi Ichiyanagi (一柳慧)
Toshi Ichiyanagi (一柳慧), 1933–2022, Japanese composer and pianist of Kobe birth and Tokyo death; Cage student, Yoko Ono's first husband, Fluxus figure, and composer of indeterminate, traditional-instrument, and ten symphonic works.
Vasyl Barvinsky
Vasyl Barvinsky (Василь Барвінський, 1888 to 1963) was a Ukrainian composer, pianist, and first director of the Lviv Conservatory whose manuscripts were destroyed after his 1948 Soviet arrest.
Wesley La Violette
Wesley LaViolette (1894–1978) was an American composer and teacher who wrote three symphonies and two operas and taught jazz musicians including Shorty Rogers and Jimmy Giuffre.
William Alwyn
William Alwyn (born William Alwyn Smith, 1905–1985), English composer and flautist, Professor of Composition at the Royal Academy of Music; wrote five symphonies, about 200 film scores including Odd Man Out and The Fallen Idol, and archive at Cambridge.
William Grant Still
William Grant Still (1895-1978), the 'Dean of African-American Composers', an American composer of over 150 concert works; his Afro-American Symphony (1931) was the first by a Black composer performed by a major American orchestra.
Zoltán Kodály
Zoltán Kodály (Kodály Zoltán, 1882–1967) was a Hungarian composer and ethnomusicologist who, alongside Béla Bartók, collected folk songs and created the Kodály method of music education.