He adores sonic rebuses and intellectual games with musical associations. He fl irts with the past, pinching from composers of the older generation. He amuses the listener with subtle humour and occasional irony, while ...
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A polystylist with an enormous sense of humour, and a lover of rhythm and jazz improvisation. Bach, Mozart, Schoenberg, and Stravinsky – the greats eye one another in his music. He irritates purists with deconstructions of ...
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Transcends boundaries and exudes aesthetic radicalism. She searches for new sounds, discovers unknown performance techniques, explores regions of expression not yet uncovered by others. Likes the voice (she is a singer) and ...
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His music evokes memories, tells stories, amuses with anecdotes, and sketches human portraits. Highly specific telling of life stories rooted in tradition, with narratives close to the romantic ethos, transparent forms, but ...
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Synthesizes. In his masterfully constructed forms, one can fi nd a polyphony of melodic gestures, multilevel counterpoint of sonic ideas, and radical sounds which are colouristically sophisticated yet
not always pleasant ...
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A full-blooded postmodernist. He freely juggles stylistic conventions, removes barriers between high and low, and is a mediator between academia and pop culture. He combines familiar melodic gestures with invasive, foreign ...
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His music is polymorphic, mosaically conceived and multi-threaded, yet remains surprisingly cohesive. Melodic vigour, an orgy of rhythms, harmonic imagination, dynamic contrast and agogic variability serve expression. ...
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A composer-intellectual. He is developing a contemporary musical alphabet which serves to describe natural beauty, illustrate philosophical truths, and transmit expressive clarity. His music combines impeccable ...
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A creative schizophrenic. He is equally at home in brilliant artistic creation and communicative music for everyday use. In the former, he fascinates with his constructivistic thinking, intellectual play with idioms of the ...
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Respects the past and believes in melody, harmony, and rhythm. A continuator of tradition and custodian of old forms and genres. He is not, however, an epigone, but consciously nurtures ancient artistic values, giving them ...
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