Natra was born in Bucharest, and he began studying music with Leon Klepper at the Jewish conservatory there in 1942. He began composing at a young age, and his work in 1944 for orchestras, called “March and Chorale”, earned him the status of a modernist in Romania. The Israel Philharmonic Orchestra performed this work in 1947 […]
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ELZBIETA SIKORA Polish composer Elzbieta Sikora has lived in Paris since 1981. She studied composition in Warsaw, with Tadeusz Baird and Zbigniew Rudzinski, as well as electroacoustic music in Paris with Pierre Schaeffer and François Bayle and composition and analysis with Betsy Jolas. Ms. Sikora is co-founder, with Wojciech Michniewski and Krzysztof Knittel of the […]
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PIERRICK HOUDY Born on January 18, 1929, in Rennes, Pierick Houdy began composing in 1935. His first works (ed. Henry Lemoine) were premiered in 1937 at the Opera de Rennes. In 1939, the advent of World War II forced the Orchestre National de la Radio to take refuge in Rennes. The sound engineer, who was […]
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BERNARD ANDRÈS French harpist and composer, Bernard Andrès was born in Belfort in 1941. Following his elder sister, he began his musical education at the age of five with the piano, which he continued to play throughout his life. At eight, he taught himself to compose. When he was 19 years old, Andres discovered the […]
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