Cursus 2020.21
The 9 young composers from the Cursus class of 2021 presented their final projects as installations, a purely electronic work, a performance with images, spatialisation, found objets….
The 2020.21 Class
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Damian Gorandi
Damian Gorandi (Argentine, b. 1991) is currently in the Master’s degree program at the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Paris, in Stefano Gervasoni’s class. His creations are born in the feedback of creative processes between in…
Matteo Gualandi
Matteo Gualandi (Italy, b. 1995) began his composition studies in his native city with Daniele Bravi. In 2015 he began his studies at the Haute École de musique de Genève, in the class of Pascal Dusapin, Michael Jarrell, and Luis Naón. In 2020, he earned…
Jug Marković
Jug Marković (Serbia, b.1987) approaches music in a deliberately intuitive way. In his compositions he tends to refrain from strict and rigid premeditated concepts and systems and has no extra-musical intentions to his work. He is particularly interested…
Megumi Okuda
Megumi Okuda (Japan, b. 1993) first studied singing. She then studied composition at the National University of Music in Bucharest with Dan Dediu and Doina Rotaru, and at the Franz Liszt University of Music in Weimar with Michael Obst. In 2017, she was a…
Clara Olivares
Clara Olivares (France, b. 1993) is a French-Spanish composer. The use of electronics in her compositions is characterized both by a desire to serve a dramaturgical purpose—as seen in her chamber opera Mary (2017) where a soprano interprets several chara…
Alexandru Sima
Alexandru Sima began by playing the electric guitar and then became interested in classical music, before studying composition at the National University of Music in Bucharest with Doina Rotaru and Dan Dediu and at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm…
Yang Song
Yang Song (China，b.1985) received her Doctoral degree in composition at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing with Prof. Guoping Jia in 2018, and graduated from Prof. Johannes Schöllhorn’s concert exam master class at the Hochschule für Musik Frei…
Jon Yu
Jon Yu (Taiwan-United States, b. 1988) is a Taiwanese-American composer whose works explore notions of ritual, utility, and excess. His works have been performed by ensembles such as Mivos Quartet, Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart, Wet Ink Ensemble, AuditivV…