My name is Nguyen Duc Hoa. I was born in an artist family. My maternal grandmother is a pianist, my mother is a pianist too and my father is a circus artist. I learnt music since I was 4 years old under the teaching of my grandmother and my mother. When I was 7, I enrolled into Hanoi National Conservatory, in official training type specialty of piano. My first professor in the Conservatory is Prof. Dr. Rector of Hanoi National Conservatory Tran Thu Ha. Then I followed the courses by the Excellent Professor Than Tuyet Minh when I studied secondary and university degree. When I was studying Piano, supported by my family and my present professor, composer Do Hong Quan, I enrolled into the Composing University (Official). I graduated from Piano University and Composing University with excellent degree respectively in 1998 and 1999. In this work, I use many kinds of thythms: 4/4;7/4;8/8... and with 5 different kinds of speed: hinto; Andante; Allegretto; Allegro and Prestissimo for creating the color and music block with the strong natioal identity in associating thoroughly the creation method by the musician on over the world. I offer her this work, offer her my infinite sentiment and love. In this work, I express my joyful, sorrowful, happy feeling leading to the extreme happiness. In this work: I love my maternal grand mother very much.
ALon NECHUSHTAN born 23.9.79 in Rishow LE Zion-ISRAEL. 1999 - today study of M.A. in ancient Jewish music at the "mount scopus university -HEBREW University.
"Back to DJERBA" - Brings the ancient sounds of old hebrew biblical cantilation as memorised in the heart of old Jews from father to son through the ages; ISRAEL is an old country itself and many Jews have very strong; and old influences of other places that the fathers have leaved there centuries before -like the "Island of DJERBA" - in north Africa where Jews have leaved since the ancient Days after the destruction of the second temple. The piece itself is a Journey of Rejoicing Sound of Different music - as the imaginary musical visit to the mystical island of DJERBA (although I have never actually visited the island before) and its programmatic chapters - "Arrival"; "Sunset", "Dialog" offers a sonoristic-poly-stylistic Journey through music and actual-imaginary places in the island the more serious "morning prayer"; "noon prayer"; "evening prayer" - offers more serious meditation on the ancient theme -that inspire the whole piece and which appears - at it's beginning.
Born in Kaohsiung, Taiwan 1972 Chia lin Pan received her BA in composition from National Taiwan Normal University where she studied with Yen Lu. In 1996, she entered National Taiwan Normal University as a graduate student in composition with Hwang-long Pan. Her work "No living spirit ever truly dies-for soprano and piano" received Third Prize in the Sixth Annual Symphony Orchestra Composition Competition for Lieder. She was also one of the finalists of the Competition of Composition "Music Taipei 1999". She has received her master degree in June 1999.
This is my first attempt to write a woodwind quintet after I wrote a lot of pieces for the other instruments. Unlike the string quartet, the instruments in the woodwind quintet have very different tone color to each other, and this makes a lot of fun (or trouble) when the composer wants to organize them. In this piece, I want to make some comparisons on the tempo, the musical emotion and the tone colors between the instruments. I use some multiphonic chords in the piece. They are rare, but they really make the sound effect more different from the traditional pieces of woodwind quintet.
