Grant Colburn | Mark Moya | Giorgio Pacchioni | Michael Starke | Roman Turovsky
(in order of admission to the Guild; an asterisk (*) denotes an apprentice, or conditional, member)
| Miguel Robaina Tyresö, Sweden |
Largely
self-taught as a composer, studying the works of Lully and writing in the
17th century French style since the mid-1980s, Miguel is the founder of Baroque
ensembles
Baroque Compagniet
and Les Musiciens
l´îlot Royal which, in addition to the
standard repertoire, regularly feature live performances of his original
music. Miguel also oversees
publication of the
Scharffeneck Collection, an assemblage of contemporary music
convincingly written in ancient idioms by a variety of composers. He is
a versatile artist well-known for his role as keyboardist for Memento
Mori, a popular Swedish heavy metal band that made several MTV
appearances during the 1990s. Today, Miguel serves as a church music director in Skarpnäck, Sweden. Download sample works: Trio Sonata in d minor (2001) - II. Fugato Suite in d minor (2003 live performance by Les Musiciens de l´îlot Royal) I. Intrada II. Allemanda III. Sarabanda IV. Giga
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David Jansson Uppsala, Sweden |
David studied counterpoint and 17th century composition at the Royal Conservatory of Music, Stockholm, and also holds a Master's degree in Baroque violin practicum from the same institution. Currently, he is involved in the digitisation of a collection of 17th century European manuscripts--including those of Dietrich Buxtehude--assembled by Gustaf Düben, kapellmeister to the royal Swedish court through the 1690s. His own original work is based on the German traditions of the 17th century. Download
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Glen Shannon El Cerrito, California United States |
Having taken a particular liking to the organ works of J. S. Bach, at the age of twelve, Glen attempted writing music in the style of the great master. He spent his teenage years studying Bach's music and some theory courses during his undergraduate term at Cornell University helped fortify his musical fluency. In 1997, his d minor Prelude and Fugue, for SSATB recorder consort, won first prize in the biennial composition competition sponsored by the Chicago chapter of the American Recorder Society. He publishes his own music, most of it featuring the recorder, under the label Screaming Mary Music. The website describes his music as being "contemporary...with a Baroque flavour", but the music is solidly Baroque, with just enough of a contemporary twist to make it interesting--without compromising its Baroque foundation. Glen is also involved with the East Bay Recorder Society, presiding over it for three years and now arranging workshops and publicity. He works at a graphics company in San Francisco. Download sample works: Prelude and Fugue #2 Trio Sonata - I. Adagio II. Allegro III. Andante IV. Allegro Download music scores: |
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Roberto Bancalari Long Beach, California United States |
Roberto Jose Bancalari is a self-taught composer. At the age of 14, he was playing viola for the Burbank Philharmonic. After studying the tunings of most string and wind instruments, Roberto would be hired to write arrangements for local bands. Since then, Roberto has made a living as a performing and recording artist, but throughout continued to write original compositions in his favorite genre of music: Baroque. Roberto's approach to composing is simple and instinctive: a melody will arrive in his head and he will then transfer it to his laptop and build upon it. Though a fan of all 17th and 18th century music, colleagues of Roberto have compared his music to German writers of that era. He is also well-regarded as a proficient contrapuntalist, a skill that is almost intuitive to Roberto. He is currently working on a score for a short film and hopes to some day hear his works performed by an early music group. . Download sample works: Concerto I, in F Major - I. Air II. Allegro III. Bourree IV. Fuga V. Gigue Download
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Hendrik Bouman Montreal, Quebec Canada |
An alumnus of Amsterdam's
Sweelinck Conservatory, Hendrik served as harpsichordist for Musica Antiqua
Köln
from 1976 to 1983, with whom he toured and recorded extensively. He was
formerly professor of harpsichord at Concordia University and Quebec's
Universite Laval and, in addition to forming the period orchestra Les
Nations de Montreal, has directed and performed with numerous groups. In 1993, Hendrik began writing new music in the old style, for him a natural development of the ongoing revival of the performance of Baroque music. This music was first debuted in South Africa in 1994 and, since that time, Hendrik has written over 75 complete works, some of which have been broadcast by CBC, Radio France, and Radio Canada, as well as having been performed live by prominent soloists and his own Concerto Felice ensemble. Download sample works: Ouverture et Suite pour l'Orchestre en Re Majeur - IV. Rejouissance Download
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Matthias Maute Montreal, Quebec Canada |
Maute was born in
Ebingen,
Germany and studied
at
Freiburg and
Utrecht with Baldrick
Deerenberg and
Marion Verbruggen. In
1990, he won first prize in the soloist category of the Musica Antiqua
Competition in
Bruges,
Belgium.
He subsequently won the Dutch Impressariat Chamber Music Competition. He has played with several chamber music groups, including REBEL Baroque Orchestra, and has made a number of recordings. He is the artistic director of Ensemble Caprice, which includes his wife and duo partner Sophie Lariviere who plays the recorder and flauto traverso. As a composer, Matthias Maute's compositions hold an important place in the world of contemporary recorder music. He is a professor at McGill University in Montreal. Download
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Fernando de Luca Rome, Italy |
Fernando De Luca was born in Rome in 1961. He started to compose in the baroque idiom at 9 or before. At 14, he joined the Conservatory of Rome “Santa Cecilia” to study Organ and Piano, although his true passion was the Harpsichord. Among the many musical experiences De Luca had during his early activity in Roman musical life, one of the most important was his apprenticeship with Mons. Domenico Bartolucci who was Maestro di Cappella (Kapell Meister / Chapel’s Master) for the Cappella Sistina in the Vatican. Here Fernando approached the study of Sacred Music, counterpoint and learnt the art of improvisation and composition. He graduated in 1987 (Piano, with V. De Vita) and 1992 (Harpsichord, with P. Bernardi) and in the same years, was a prizewinner in the AMR (Associazione Musicale Romana) and a harpsichord contest at “G.Rossini” Conservatory in Pesaro. Currently Fernando lives in Rome, where in addition to composing, he is a member of the Period Instruments Orchestra “Accademia Barocca di Santa Cecilia” (directed by Paolo Pollastri), where he is the basso continuo player. He teaches “Harpsichord and ancient Keyboards” in the Conservatory “G.P. da Palestrina” in Cagliari. Download sample works: Sinfonia #10 in g minor - I. Grave - Presto II. Siciliana III. Vivace Sonata II in g-minor "Acis Galatea e Polifemo" from the Six Sonatas "L'Arcadia in Gianicolo" (1997)
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J. Lee Graham United States |
Born near Los Angeles, California, J. Lee Graham
began composing at the age of 9. Almost entirely
self-taught as a composer, he wrote new music in 18th
Century idioms from the beginning and has continued to
do so almost exclusively for over 30 years.
Graham considers himself first a Classical Revivalist,
with Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven, the Mannheim
Symphonists, and recently Muzio Clementi and Anton
Reicha as influences; but he also composes in Baroque
and Rococo styles, influenced by Bach, Handel,
Telemann, and the counterpoint pedagogy of Fux.
For several years, Graham was active in online forums
encouraging and mentoring young composers,
particularly those writing in historic styles. He
lives in suburban Los Angeles, active as a
professional choral singer and violist. At home, in
addition to composing, he enjoys playing the piano,
fortepiano and harpsichord."
Download sample works: 1) Trio Sonata in A minor - 1. Andante 2.) Fugue Lesson for Young Composers
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Gianluca Bersanetti United States |
Gianluca Bersanetti was born in Rome, Italy. Although his
major at university was literature, he developed a passion for music and particularly the
works of J. S. Bach. Gianluca came to Los Angeles in the late1980's and
took as many college music courses as he could afford to deepen his
erudition. In addition he set himself to learn as much as possible on the
mechanisms of Baroque music, with an emphasis on counterpoint, by studying
classic treatises of the late Renaissance and Baroque such as Zarlino's
"Istitutioni harmoniche", Fux's "Gradus ad Parnassum",
Martini's "Esemplare" and Marpurg's "Abhandlung von der Fuge"; also
furthering his knowledge with more modern counterpoint texts . After
listening, playing and analyzing countless scores by Bach, Haendel, Vivaldi,
Corelli, Scarlatti, Caldara, Couperin and many others, Gianluca has now
composed several choral pieces, concertos and trio sonatas of his own. He
specializes in early childhood education and writes music during whatever
time he has left from
teaching and playing with his two children.
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1) Laudate Dominum (PS. CXVI) a Motet for SATB chorus and baroque orchestra
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