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Name: Iain Farrington
Skills: Accompanist, Arranger, Composer, Soloist
Phone: +44 (0)7940 098832
Links: Website     E-mail
 
Iain Farrington has an exceptionally busy and diverse career as a pianist, organist, composer and arranger. He studied at the Royal Academy of Music, London and at Cambridge University. He has also participated in masterclasses with Malcolm Martineau at the Britten-Pears School in Aldeburgh.

His repertoire embraces both popular and unusual works, including much contemporary, English, and light music. As a pianist, Iain has performed at the Wigmore Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall, the Purcell Room, the Proms 2005 and 2004, the Royal Opera House, Harewood House, St David's Hall, Cardiff, and in Japan, South Africa, and Jordan. He works with many of the country's leading singers and conductors, including John Mark Ainsley, David Wilson-Johnson, Lesley Garrett, the Royal Ballet, Sir Simon Rattle, Sir Colin Davis and Thomas Ŕdes. In 2001, he won the Megan Foster Accompanist Prize in the Maggie Teyte Competition. Iain is the accompanist for the London Philharmonic Choir, working regularly with Kurt Masur and Mark Elder.

Iain also performs extensively as an organist, and was Organ Scholar at St John's College, Cambridge University. With the College Choir he toured extensively, gave regular broadcasts on BBC Radio Three and recorded four CD's on the Naxos and Nimbus labels, including an award-winning disc of Howells. He was previously Organ Scholar at St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle where he played for numerous Royal occasions. Iain has given solo organ recitals in Reykyavik, Iceland, the Bridgewater Hall, Manchester, Westminster and Gloucester Cathedrals and has performed in Malaysia, Latvia, Sweden, France, Hungary, the Czech Republic, St Paul's Cathedral, the Royal Albert Hall and Birmingham Symphony Hall. With the BBC Singers he has performed in Holland and the Spitalfields Festival, and recorded music by Duruflé, Maxwell Davies, Tippett, and Judith Weir.

As a creative musician, Iain is a committed composer and arranger. He has arranged and performed over one hundred diverse works, from Mozart to Gershwin. His solo piano arrangement of Elgar/Payne Symphony No.3 is published by Boosey and Hawkes, and his organ arrangements of Walton's music have been recorded on the Naxos label. In 2005, Iford Opera performed his chamber orchestral version of Dvořák's Rusalka. As a composer, Iain has written works for piano, organ, chorus and ensembles. His organ suite Fiesta! has been performed in New Zealand, Sweden, France, Germany, in cathedrals across the UK, and recorded on the Hyperion label. His anthem Rejoice for choir and organ won the RSCM 2004 Anthem Prize, and was first performed by Norwich Cathedral Choir. Iain's website is www.iainfarrington.com.

 

Name: Feedback Studio Verlag Koeln
Skills: Publisher
Phone: +49 221 52 77 63
Fax: +49 221 510 41 39
Address: Genterstr 23, Cologne 50672, Germany
Links: Website     E-mail
 
Feedback Studio Verlag, the first German composer owned publishing house, publishes more than 300 compositions representing 20 composers.

Works published by the Verlag include electronic, live electronic, computer music, orchestral and chamber music by Klarenz Barlow, Michael von Biel, Peter Eötvös, Silvio Foretic, Johannes Fritsch, Rolf Gehlhaar, David Johnson, Siegfried Koepf, Joachim Krist, Mesias Maiguashca, Michael Manion, John McGuire, Masahiro Miwa, Herbert A. Mitschke, Manfred Niehaus, Michael Ranta, Volker Staub and Caspar Johannes Walter.

 

Name: Festival Chamber Orchestra
Skills: Orchestra
Phone: +44 (0)1227 763965
Address: 1 The Borough , Canterbury
Links: Website     E-mail
 
The Festival Chamber Orchestra was founded in 2002 for a performance in Canterbury Cathedral as part of the Canterbury Festival, conducted by international conductor and oboist, Nicholas Daniel In 2007, the orchestra was brought together once again under conductor Anthony Halstead. A professional orchestra that enjoys exploring and performing a wealth of wonderful chamber music.

 

Name: Inga Feter
Skills: Player,Soloist,Teacher (Piano)
Address: Stockholm 11246, Sweden
Links: E-mail
 
Born 1979 in Warsaw, Poland. Studied with Lidia Grychtolówna (Warsaw), Irina Edelstein (Frankfurt), Ryszard Bakst (Manchester) and Staffan Scheja (Stockholm). Masterclasses with Andrzej Jasinski, Darryl Rosenberg, Alla Blarow, Stefan Wojtas and Adam Wodnicki. Participation and prices in several competitions (for example "Jugend musiziert" - Germany and "Artur Rubinstein in memoriam" - Poland). Giving concerts all over Europe (France, Germany, Poland, Czech Republik, Austria, England...).

Teaching children and adults for the last 8 years.

 

Name: Dagmar Feyen
Skills: Accompanist, Composer, Player
Address: Belgium
Links: Website     E-mail

 

Name: 'Fine Tuned' - Wedding Music Ensemble on the Central Coast
Skills: Ensemble
Address: NSW, Australia
Links: Website     E-mail
 
Fine Tuned is a professional music ensemble specialising in wedding entertainment, functions and special occasions on the Central Coast, NSW. Fine Tuned is versatile - we range from a violin duet, flute-violin duet, trio with added viola, to the ever-popular string quartet. We have suggestions for wedding songs throughout the ceremony and give tips to our clients to bring the best musical experience to their weddings as possible.

 

Name: FingerBang
Skills: Band, Ensemble
Phone: +44 (0)781 1226977
Address: Mosers Hall, Shropshire SY3 7AW, United Kingdom
Links: E-mail
 
"FingerBang" are 4 performers from Shrewsbury School, Shropshire. They are a Clarinet Quartet and consist of 4 talented music scholars.

Concerts have included for NSPCC concerts and have been used in school concerts and many formal concerts.

A CD has been made by the group, which features nusic from across the centuries. From Sid Phillips to Mozart, this CD is breathtaking

 

Name: Angelais Fionnlig
Skills: Arranger, Singer
Address: United Kingdom
Links: E-mail
 
I am a player, lyricist, and vocalist, Celt-based. Always looking toward collaboration with other artists.

 

Name: Alan Fleming-Baird
Skills: Composer
Phone: +44 (0)141 587 4702
Address: 46 Bank Street, Paisley PA1 1LR, United Kingdom
Links: Website     E-mail
 
After attending the Omer school for musical children in Scotland Alan attended the Royal College Of Music to study composition with Jeremy Dale Roberts and piano with Ian Lake. He then continued his studies at the Royal Scottish Academy Of Music And Drama studying composition with Gordon McPherson.

His output has been varied, composing in many genres. He has composed music for the stage, film, tv, and the concert hall and his music has been broadcast and comercially recorded.

In 1998 he was made Fellow of the National College Of Music and Arts.

He is currently working on a commission from members of the Royal Scottish National Orchestra for 2004.

 

Name: David Fligg
Skills: Composer, Conductor, Teacher, Writer
Phone: +44 (0)113 222 3423
Address: Leeds College of Music, Leeds LS2 7PD, United Kingdom
Links: Website     E-mail
 
David Fligg is a Lecturer in Composition, Harmony and Music History at Leeds College of Music. He has given lectures and talks for many of the UK's leading music and arts organisations, covering a wide range of music topics. He is a writer of CD-notes, programme notes and music journal articles. He has also run choral workshops, and is a freelance conductor. As a composer, his many compositions include an opera, 'Esau and Jacob', in collaboration with the librettist Pamela Melnikoff, and a Symphony.

 

Name: Marco Antonio Flores-Bravo
Skills: Composer, Conductor, Teacher
Phone: 56-41-2983117
Address: Concepcion 4030000, Chile
Links: Website     E-mail
 
Conductor, Composer, Choral Conductor and Music Teacher. Graduated in Concepcion University in 1998. He studied with great masters like Guillermo Scarabino (Argentina), Emily Freemann-Brown (USA) and Eduardo Moubarak (Chile).

He composes music for orchestra, chamber music, opera and drama.

Master in Drama Studies (Universidad del desarrollo - Chile)

At this moments he is the conductor of the Catholic University Chamber Orchestra in Concepcion.

 

Name: Christina Fong
Skills: Player, Soloist
Phone: +1 616-235-0284
Fax: +1 616-235-0284
Address: 1444 Dewberry Place NE (1), Grand Rapids/Kent/Michigan 49505, United States
Links: Website     E-mail
 
Michigan resident Christina Fong has established herself as a leading performer of new music on the violin and viola, having presented North American or Michigan premieres of compositions by Arvo Pärt, Michael Twomey, Philip Glass, Donald Erb, Igor Stravinsky, John Cage, Robert Shechtman, David Lang, Lou Harrison, Michael Nyman, Michael Gordon, Roelof Bijkerk, Mark Thomas, Morton Feldman, Nathan Barber, Arved Ashby, and Henryk Górecki. Recent projects have included first performances at Yale University of works for violin and piano by Morton Feldman, and a concert presentation at The Ohio State University of the complete works for violin and piano by Nyman, Pärt and Górecki — both with pianist Arved Ashby. She also gave the first concert performance of Philip Glass' complete music for unaccompanied strings at Grand Valley State University, and performed Lou Harrison's "Suite for Violin and Gamelan" in a new version for handbell choir with Embellish. In January 1999 Christina Fong performed the world premiere of Michael Nyman's "On The Fiddle" with the Grand Rapids Symphony. As part of a recent focus on making recordings, Fong's ongoing "first recordings" series now includes the world premieres of John Cage's (1912-1992) final solo violin works (complete "number pieces" for solo violin, "One6" & "One10") and of Cage's final works for string ensemble (complete "number pieces" for string ensemble, "Twenty-Three" & "Twenty-Six").

Future work includes additional performances of Philip Glass' 75-minute music-theatre piece "The State of the Tibetan Nation — A Madrigal Opera" and the premiere of Amnon Wolman's hour-long version of his 11-hour techno-dance house-music epic "The Andy Warhol Diaries." Upcoming recording projects include a CD of violin|viola and keyboard works by Alan Hovhaness (2001 release), the world premiere recording of Morton Feldman's 2CD-length 1985 work "Violin and String Quartet" (2001 release), the first available recording of music by Bob Shechtman, a CD of piano and violin works by Roelof Bijkerk, a full-length CD of three unrecorded early works by Michael Nyman, and a CD spotlighting short works by various composers.

Fong has Bachelors and Masters degrees from Northwestern University, where she graduated Pi Kappa Lambda and was awarded the honorary title "Eckstein Scholar." Her principle violin teachers were Blair Milton, Myron Kartman, and Donna Schaff. She complemented special studies in orchestral music with Samuel Magad, Rubin Gonzales, Francis Akos, Charlie Pikler, Blair Milton, and Edgar Muenzer with chamber music coachings by Gerardo Ribiero, Donald Owens, and Ray Still. Fong has held positions with the Florida Philharmonic and the Civic Orchestra of Chicago. As soloist, Fong has appeared with the Grand Rapids Symphony and Grand Valley State University Orchestra, and as rehearsal soloist with the Civic Orchestra of Chicago.

A member of the Grand Rapids Symphony since 1988, Fong is currently Associate Concertmaster and plays in the Symphony's Calder Quartet, which tours western Michigan giving civic and educational concerts. Since 1990, Fong has also served as an adjunct instructor of violin at Grand Valley State University.

 

Name: Nihal Fonseka
Skills: Singer (Operatic Tenor)
Phone: +1 905 824 5050
Fax: +1 905 824 3909
Address: 3419 Forrestdale Circle, Mississauga, Ontario L5N 6V2, Canada
Links: E-mail
 
Born in Sri-Lanka, Nihal won a scholarship to study voice in England, afterwhich he toured Asia and the Orient giving concerts, radio and television performances.

In Canada, as a Opera Singer, he was featured in the roles of Nadir in Les Pecheurs de Perles by Bizet, Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly by Puccina, Arturo in I Puritani by Bellini, Des Grieux in Manon by Massenet and Pollione in Norma by Bellini.

Nihal has also been the Tenor Soloist in The Seven Last Words of Christ by Dubois and Stabat Mater by Rossini. He has also performed several solo operatic recitals in Canada and the United States.

Together with his wife, Soprano Caroleve Thompson- Fonseka, they have given four joint recitals, produced a CD called A Treasury of Christmas Jewels and recently performed at Toronto's prestigious Roy Thomson Hall.

 

Name: Catherine Forbush
Skills: Accompanist, Player, Soloist, Teacher
Phone: +1 (714) 791 8230
Address: 4029 west 234th place, Torrance, CA 90505, United States
Links: Website     E-mail

 

Name: Joseph Dillon Ford
Skills: Composer, Publisher, Teacher, Writer (For details, please visit the Vita section of the New Music Classics web site.)
Address: P. O. Box 358142, Gainesville, FL 32635-8142, United States
Links: Website     E-mail
 
For detailed biographical information, photos, and other personal data, please visit the Vita section of the New Music Classics web site.

 

Name: Michael David Fore
Skills: Player, Singer, Soloist, Writer
Phone: 830-303-5992
Fax: 8303035992
Address: 2390 Vivroux , Seguin TX. 78155, United States
Links: E-mail
 
Looking for a female singer to write or help with writing original music. Im 2 years behind and I would like to give this a shot. Music is rock / classic rock. Or what ever you are intrested in. But no rap please.

 

Name: Richard Fredrickson
Skills: Soloist, Teacher (Double Bassist)
Phone: 212- 799-1328
Address: 243 West End Avenue #209, New York, NY 10023, United States
Links: E-mail
 
Hailed as a "...virtuoso..." by the New York Times, "...an extraordinary musician..." by the Washington Post and "...stupefying..." by L'Est Vaudois (Switzerland), Richard Fredrickson made his Carnegie Recital Hall debut at the age of 24 after winning the Concert Artists Guild award. This marked the first time the award had ever been presented to a double bassist.

Mr. Fredrickson has been a guest artist with such orchestras as the Seattle, Omaha, Richmond and Baton Rouge Symphonies, the New York Chamber and Washington Chamber Symphonies. He has toured twice in Italy as soloist with the Orchestra of the North Carolina School of the Arts where he also taught in the summer program. He has toured in Europe and appeared several times at the Kennedy Center to great critical acclaim with the Washington Chamber Symphony. He also toured in the United States with Mitch Miller and his orchestra performing the Paganini Moses Fantasy. In recital he has been heard in many venues in the United Staes including New York, Seattle and Washington, DC, and in Italy. His festival engaements include the New Hampshire White Mountain Festival, Aspen, the Seattle Chamber Music Festival and the Fredericksburg Festival of the Arts.

Chamber music has always been a special passion for Fredrickson. He has appeared with such groups and artists as the Muir String Quartet, Copenhagen String Trio, Philadelphia String Quartet, Lyric Piano Quartet, Bargemusic, Yo-Yo Ma, Carol Wincenc, Heidi Lehwalder, Christopher O'Riley, Anton Nel and Anne-Maire McDermott.

Ever seeking to expand the solo double bass repertoire, Mr. Fredrickson has had many sonatas, suites and concerti written for him by various composers. In October/November 2004 his solo CD (with the Slovak Radio Orchestra, Kirk Trevor conducting) of Vittorio Giannini's Psalm 130, John Carbon's Endangered Species and William Thomas McKinley's Passacaglia will be released on the MMC (Master Musicians Collective)label. Though the Giannini was written in 1963 the entire CD is a World Premiere recording.

 

Name: Frinton Music Ensemble
Skills: Ensemble
Phone: +44 (0)1255 674982
Address: 142 Connaught Avenue. Frinton on Sea, Essex CO13 9AD, United Kingdom
Links: Website     E-mail
 
Please see the details on our web site

 

Name: Fortunat Frölich
Skills: Composer
Address: Switzerland
Links: Website     E-mail
 
The Swiss composer Fortunat Frölich studied at the conservatories of Zurich (Switzerland), Napels (Italy) and the Academy of Music in Leipzig (Germany).

The music of Fortunat Frölich is committed to neither a particular school or style. Using a broad palette of musical and stylistic methods, reflecting his personal musical development, his compositions leads one through various categories and a wide variety of musical cultures.

Frölich cooperates as composer as well as a conductor with: the Zurich Chamber Orchestra, the Symphony Orchestra of Basel, Hamburger Symphoniker, Bohuslav Martinu Philharmonie Zlin, Opera Biel/Solothurn, Karlovivary Symphony Orchestra, basel sinfonietta, Sinfonietta Lausanne, Grisons Chamber Orchestra, The North of England Chamber Orchestra, Ensemble Resonanz Hamburg, Ensemble Phoenix, Casal Quartett, Basler Madrigalisten, Chorale du Conservatoire National du Maroc and many others.

 

Name: Natalie Margaret Mitchell Froud
Skills: Accompanist, Arranger, Soloist, Teacher (Piano, Flute, Theory of Music)
Phone: +44 (0)1225 763181
Address: Garden Flat, 98 AShton Street, Trowbridge, Wiltshire BA14 7ET, United Kingdom
Links: E-mail
 
Piano player, as well as flute. Teach piano , flute, and theory of music - at all levels

 

 


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