B - Baarens to Boulanger


Baarens, Ab


Saxophonist (soprano, tenor), clarinet & composer.


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Babayan, Yahram

Yahram Babayan is an Armenian composer. He studied with E. Mirzoian and G. Equiazarian.


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Barker, Paul

British composer based in London. 


Links: 

http://paulbarker.fortunecity.net/index.htm  (composer's web site)

 



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Bauzin, Pierre-Philippe

b. April 12, 1933, Saint-Émilion, Gironde, France - d. January 11, 2005, Nice, France.


French composer, pianist, organist, conductor and improvisor.

Disciple of Maurice Duruflé and Arthur Honegger.


Links:

http://pierrephilippebauzin.free.fr/


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Berio, Luciano

b. October 24, 1925 (Oneglia, Italy) – d. May 27, 2003 (Rome, Italy)


Italian composer.


Links:

http://www.esz.it/esz_eng/autori/autori_berio.html


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Beswick, Aubrey



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Betta, Marco

b. July 25, 1964 - Enna, Sicily, Italy /


Italian composer. Studied with Eliodoro Sollima at the Conservatorio "Vincenzo Bellini" of Palermo, Armando Gentilucci and Salvatore Sciarrino. He teaches at the Conservatorio "Vincenzo Bellini of Palermo.

Among his film score credits: Secret Journey (2006) by Roberto Andò and The Prince's Manuscript (2000) also by Roberto Andò.


Links:

http://composers21.com/compdocs/bettam.htm

http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marco_Betta (in Italian)

http://www.vigata.org/teatro/magaria.shtml  (in Italian)


 

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Betts, Lorne

b. August 2, 1918 - Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada / d. August 5, 1985 - Hamilton, Ontario, Canada


Canadian composer, pianist, organist, choir conductor, and music critic. From 1952 to 1959 he was principal of the Hamilton Conservatory of Music (later the Royal Hamilton College of Music), and was the director of music at St. Paul's Presbyterian Church and at Melrose United Church in Hamilton. In 1965 he became the music critic for the Hamilton Spectator.

In the Encyclopedia of Music of Canada, Elaine Keillor describes Betts music as: "Betts' fastidious use of chromatic tonality, his sparse textures, and his resourceful rhythms lend his music personality and life. Although his Music for Orchestra, uses a 12-tone series, Betts otherwise showed little interest in dodecaphony and its heirs and successors."


Links:

http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=U1ARTU0000299 (the above cited article in the Encyclopedia of Music of Canada)

http://www.musiccentre.ca/apps/index.cfm?fuseaction=composer.FA_dsp_biography&authpeopleid=955&by=B (Canadian Music Centre bio of Betts)

 

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Boulanger, Nadia

b. September 16, 1887, Paris, France - d. October 22, 1979, Paris France.


French composer and teacher.

Although Nadia Boulanger has never written for the saxophone, she is such an important figure in the development of many 20th composers that I felt she had to be mentioned on this site.

Several American composers are among her stable of students, most notably Aaron Copland, Philip Glass, Quincy Jones,


She has been cited as saying:

“Originality is the art of concealing your source.”


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