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Composer, conductor, pianist 6 [44] Jay Greenberg: 1991 Composer 6 Entered Juilliard school at age 10; first symphony at age 11 Evgeny Kissin: 1971 Pianist and Composer 6 Started composing significant output at age 7 including early work, ‘Petrushka.’ Erich Wolfgang Korngold: 1897 Composer, conductor 7 Started composing at age 7.
Alma Elizabeth Deutscher (born 19 February 2005) is a British composer, pianist, violinist and conductor. A former child prodigy, Deutscher composed her first piano sonata at the age of five; at seven, she completed the short opera, The Sweeper of Dreams, and later wrote a violin concerto at age nine.
Jon Deak (born April 27, 1943) is an American composer, contrabassist and education specialist.He is a former Associate Principal Bassist of the New York Philharmonic, a position he held from 1973 to 2009 after joining the Philharmonic in 1969 under Leonard Bernstein, and a prominent contemporary composer of orchestral and chamber works.
Lucier has become a magnet for the hippest young composers interested in interiority of sound. Hildur Guðnadóttir included Lucier’s triangle solo, "Silver Streetcar for the Orchestra," in her ...
Marie-Juliette Olga "Lili" Boulanger (French: [maʁi ʒyljɛt lili bulɑ̃ʒe] ⓘ; 21 August 1893 – 15 March 1918) was a French composer and the first female winner of the Prix de Rome composition prize. [1] Her older sister was the noted composer and composition teacher Nadia Boulanger.
The National Young Composers Challenge (NYCC) is a non-profit charitable organization whose goal is to promote the creation of new orchestral music and the next generation of American composers. The National Young Composers Challenge 501(c)(3) was incorporated in 2008 by Steve Goldman and funded by the Goldman Charitable Trust.
La Monte Thornton Young (born October 14, 1935) is an American composer, musician, and performance artist recognized as one of the first American minimalist composers and a central figure in Fluxus and post-war avant-garde music.
Washington has taught with the New York Philharmonic Very Young Composers program, and in the Young Composers and Improvisers Workshop. She has also served as the Artistic Director for the Noel Pointer Foundation, located in Brooklyn , and is a member of the Kinds of Kings Collective.