ONE MINUTE FOR SOLO INSTRUMENT
Genre : Classical
Catalogue: Phasma-Music 113
UPC: 731093480959
mastering: Piotr Wieczorek
recording, editing: Alexandros Kakaroumpas
recorded in March, 2026
recording place: Krama Recording Studio in Patras, Greece
production management: Iwona Glinka
front cover and graphic design: Michail Travlos
62 works
40 composers
13 countries
9 instruments
7 performers
The album ONE MINUTE FOR SOLO INSTRUMENT contains 62 one-minute works, written by 40 composers from 13 countries, performed by flutist Iwona Glinka, violist Antonis Manias, violinist Ioannis Mavridis, cellist Denys Lytvenenko, double bass player Vilen Karapetian, clarinettist Stamatis Dellaportas, pianist Andreas Zafeiropoulos.
The composers of the album include: Aaron Alter, Nikos Athanassakis, Scott Brickman, Daniel Carpenter, George Chlitsios, Daniele Ciminiello, Ghenadie Ciobanu, Michael Coleman, Gianluca Deserti, David Drexler, Jack Frederick, David Heinick, Ssu-Yu Huang, Satoru Ikeda, Sumio Kobayashi, Chih-Yao Lee, Martin Lennartz, Dimitris Mousouras, Charalampos Navrozidis, Jane O'Leary, Héctor Oltra-García, Manos Panayiotakis, Giorgos Papamitrou, Grigoris Polyzos, Richard Pressley, William Price, Ugo Raimondi, Phillip C. Roberts, Francesco Sgambati, Andrew Sigler, José Jesus de Azevedo Souza, Greg A Steinke, Jason A. Taurins, Alan Terricciano, Michail Travlos, Jean-Pierre Vial, Stephen A White, Eriko Yamaki, Man-Ching Yu Donald and Andreas Zafeiropoulos.
01. Scott Brickman - Summer Solstice - Men's dance for solo double bass
02. Jack Frederick - Dreamer for solo double bass
03. Héctor Oltra-García - Tunhār for solo double bass
VILEN KARAPETIAN, double bass
04. Satoru Ikeda - Lament for solo viola
05. Jane O'Leary - the sea...comes and goes for solo viola
06. Daniel Carpenter - You should run away with me for solo viola
ANTONIS MANIAS, viola
07. Nikos Athanassakis - 1 for I for solo flute
08. Jack Frederick - Extinction Studies #4 – Ivory-Billed Hummingbird for solo flute
09. David Heinick - Alecto, Megaera, and Tisiphone for solo flute
10. Charalampos Navrozidis - Cadencia for solo flute
11. Francesco Sgambati - Zephyros for solo flute
12. Stephen A White - A Stroll in the Dark for solo flute
13. Jean-Pierre Vial - Flutty Fantasia for solo alto flute
14. Ghenadie Ciobanu - Ditty for solo alto flute
15. Michail Travlos - niveaux opposés for solo alto flute
16. Richard Pressley - Irmos II for solo bass flute
IWONA GLINKA, flute, alto flute, bass flute
17. David Drexler - Homage a Papasov for solo clarinet
18. David Drexler - Signaling for solo clarinet
19. Manos Panayiotakis - Cl. Micrography for solo clarinet
20. Giorgos Papamitrou - Lethe for solo clarinet
21. Richard Pressley - Hanabira uta for solo clarinet
22. William Price - Sojourn for solo clarinet
23. Ugo Raimondi - Il folletto dispettoso for solo clarinet
24. David Heinick - dolce espressivo for solo clarinet in A
25. Greg A Steinke - Brief Moment for solo clarinet in A
STAMATIS DELLAPORTAS, clarinet
26. Sumio Kobayashi - White Stairway to the Sky for solo piano
27. David Drexler - After for solo piano
28. Gianluca Deserti - Cloches aux vêpres for solo piano
29. George Chlitsios - Misty Morning for solo piano
30. Aaron Alter - HammerKlavierOlaLola for solo piano
31. Andrew Sigler - From Sylva to Knoxville for solo piano
32. Andreas Zafeiropoulos - Back to 1988 for solo piano
33. Dimitris Mousouras - “…return to the start, no matter what!” for solo piano
ANDREAS ZAFEIROPOULOS, piano
34. Michael Coleman - 7:51 Central for solo cello
35. Satoru Ikeda - Etude on the A String for solo cello
36. Grigoris Polyzos - Run! for solo cello
37. Richard Pressley - Στιχηρόν (Sticheron) for solo cello
38. Greg A Steinke - Sarabande for solo cello
39. Alan Terricciano - Six Studies in Quiet: The Recital, Half-Remembered for solo cello
40. Alan Terricciano - Six Studies in Quiet: Cat in the Garden for solo cello
41. Alan Terricciano - Six Studies in Quiet: Ghosts for solo cello
42. Alan Terricciano - Six Studies in Quiet: Cairn Song for solo cello
43. Alan Terricciano - Six Studies in Quiet: Distant Runner for solo cello
44. Alan Terricciano - Six Studies in Quiet: Evening Prayer for solo cello
45. Eriko Yamaki - Between Shadows for solo cello
DENYS LYTVENENKO, cello
46. Scott Brickman - Chavala for solo violin
47. David Drexler - Crossing - a prayer for the victims of natural disasters for solo violin
48. Jason A. Taurins - Carbon for solo violin
49. Manos Panayiotakis - Vln. Micrography for solo violin
50. Ssu-Yu Huang - Prelude for solo violin
51. Charalampos Navrozidis - Zeimpekiko Danza for solo violin
52. Daniele Ciminiello - The Italian humour for solo violin
53. José Jesus de Azevedo Souza - The legend of sun - moon lake for solo violin
54. Man-Ching Yu Donald - Folding and Unfolding for solo violin
55. Phillip C. Roberts - Blue Boppin' for solo violin
56. Daniele Ciminiello - The British humour for solo violin
57. Richard Pressley - Avtomelon for solo violin
58. Richard Pressley - Filament for solo violin
59. Martin Lennartz - Glocken im lichten Thale (eine Brahmserscheinung) kM op.89 for solo violin
60. Chih-Yao Lee - I Hear the Wind Whispering for solo violin
61. Richard Pressley - Sheber for solo violin
62. Satoru Ikeda - L'Ortie des murs for solo violin
IOANNIS MAVRIDIS, violin
About works and composers
01. Scott Brickman - Summer Solstice - Men's dance for solo double bass
One of the most important Latvian holidays is the pagan rituals of the summer solstice (Ligo, Jāni), which are still celebrated. In 2025, I was able to witness this event, and even participate in some of the dancing. This piece depicts a beer fueled senior, inspired beyond what his body is usually able to do.
02. Jack Frederick - Dreamer for solo double bass
Dreamer: A short etude on Harmonics dedicated to the Double Bass
03. Héctor Oltra-García - Tunhār for solo double bass
Tunhār, from the Arabic word: تنهار, means to break, collapse, crumble, fall, decompose, as well as the disintegration of hopes or wills.
Proliferation of wars, massacres, famines, totalitarianisms, misinformation, insensitivity, dehumanization, hatred... Something is broken in the human being today.
04. Satoru Ikeda - Lament for solo viola
An excerpt from the cadenza of the first movement of Satoru Ikeda's "Violin Concerto" (currently in composition), transcribed for viola. A cry from the heart, rendered through the viola's dark timbre.
05. Jane O'Leary - the sea...comes and goes for solo viola
(2022) A reflection on the threat of rising sea levels, the music flows freely. Whispering harmonics depict the shimmering surface of the water. The music suggests brief images of past activity and ends with a hesitant, questioning gesture.
06. Daniel Carpenter - You should run away with me for solo viola
You should run away with me is a deeply personal, emotional work inspired by events that took place in my personal life and the idea of autofiction, a genre wherein biographical details are blended with fiction. The piece considers whether things may have been different had I spoken these words.
07. Nikos Athanassakis - 1 for I for solo flute
08. Jack Frederick - Extinction Studies #4 – Ivory-Billed Hummingbird for solo flute
Extinction Studies #4: This is the fourth piece in the set titled “Extinction Studies”, a set which includes pieces written about species of plants/animals native to North America which have gone extinct. This piece is dedicated to the Ivory-Billed Woodpecker, a woodpecker native to the Southern United States, as well as Cuba.
09. David Heinick - Alecto, Megaera, and Tisiphone for solo flute
10. Charalampos Navrozidis - Cadencia for solo flute
The cadenza treats the flute as a solitary voice, suspended between intensity and silence. Through a free atonal language, continuous dynamic transformations, and chromatic movements, the work seeks a personal and poetic musical expression, where virtuosity serves exclusively the expressive purpose of the musical idea.
11. Francesco Sgambati - Zephyros for solo flute
Zephyros (Ζέφυρος,: “west wind”)
This flute miniature recalls Zephyrus, the mild spring wind of Greek tradition. Circling and fertile, it
nurtures the earth and marks the rhythm of renewal. The music flows in continuous breath until a final
explosive gesture: like a seed breaking open, the wind releases life—fragile and powerful at once.
12. Stephen A White - A Stroll in the Dark for solo flute
This flute solo is an excerpt from a set of nocturnes named “Moon Shadows”. The original instrumentation was piano and tenor sax. The tenor sax part was adapted for flute.
The set of nocturnes were loosely based on the book “Learning to Walk in the Dark” by Barbara Brown Taylor.
The set of nocturnes represent different scenes or situations that occur in the dark and/or at night:
I. A Stroll in the Dark (C Minor): a walk through the forest just after dusk – as the
night is getting darker
13. Jean-Pierre Vial - Flutty Fantasia for solo alto flute
Flutty Fantasia is a short piece that exploits the full usual range of the alto flute and alternates melancholic passages and more lively passages.
14. Ghenadie Ciobanu - Ditty for solo alto flute
"Ditty" is a musical miniature with a fairy tale character, a story of magic and wonderful transformations. The piece is intended to leave the listener with the question: what comes next in this enigmatic story. Structured like a cinematic teaser, the piece has the mission to intrigue, arouse curiosity and incite the listener.
15. Michail Travlos - niveaux opposés for solo alto flute
16. Richard Pressley - Irmos II for solo bass flute
Fleeting gestures dialogue in a single unfolding melody in an ever-changing sound world of timbral variation, percussive iteration, and tonal nuance -- each tiny gesture appearing and evanescing in the same moment.
17. David Drexler - Homage a Papasov for solo clarinet
Hommage à Papasov, inspired by Balkan wedding music, was written for and premiered by William Bruce Curlette.
18. David Drexler - Signaling for solo clarinet
Signaling is a transcript of an interstellar radio transmission, arranged for clarinet.
19. Manos Panayiotakis - Cl. Micrography for solo clarinet
Cl. Micrography was composed in 2021 as part of an extended cycle of miniatures for various instruments. Exploring the clarinet’s timbral and expressive potential, it combines conventional playing with extended techniques within a concise binary structure, creating a compact musical narrative that highlights the instrument’s distinctive sonic character.
20. Giorgos Papamitrou - Lethe for solo clarinet
"Lethe" is a one-minute solo clarinet piece capturing the quiet sensation of forgetting. Written with a deeply personal, organic feel, the score asks the performer to breathe life into the silence using extended techniques and vocal sounds, guiding the listener through a brief, introspective, and intimate journey.
21. Richard Pressley - Hanabira uta for solo clarinet
An slowly unfolding, ethereal melody/meditation comprised entirely of multiphonic pitches.
22. William Price - Sojourn for solo clarinet
23. Ugo Raimondi - Il folletto dispettoso for solo clarinet
“Il folletto dispettoso” portrays a girl singing alone in the woods until a mischievous elf appears, teasing and unsettling her. After the creature vanishes into the forest, she resumes her song, but the encounter has changed her voice, leaving it subtly marked by fear and wonder.
24. David Heinick - dolce espressivo for solo clarinet in A
25. Greg A Steinke - Brief Moment for solo clarinet in A
This is an excerpt from a short unaccompanied work originally written for inclusion in the clarinet anthology, ETUDES for the TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY CLARINETIST Project, (A Festschrift for the 64th Birthday of Barney Childs) commissioned by Phillip Rehfeldt. The listener should just
enjoy contemplating “... there are no such things as ....”
26. Sumio Kobayashi - White Stairway to the Sky for solo piano
White Stairway to the Sky uses a Shepard scale to create the illusion of continuous ascent. The endlessly rising sound evokes a white stairway reaching toward the sky. While my earlier works focused on poetic expression, my recent music explores illusory soundscapes that transform the listener’s perception.
27. David Drexler - After for solo piano
After is a very brief view of a post-apocalyptic world.
28. Gianluca Deserti - Cloches aux vêpres for solo piano
"Cloches aux Vêpres" (Vespers Bells) is a piano piece written in 2025. This short work contains 32 chords that evoke the ringing of a bell during the evening twilight, the hour of vespers. The initially dramatic atmosphere gradually relaxes until the end, almost fading into the first night shadows.
29. George Chlitsios - Misty Morning for solo piano
It is a short work based on a two part contrapuntal movement with a modern perspective, describing a foggy landscape early in the morning, which is uncertain if it actually leads to a rainy or a sunshine day, thus produces a variety of emotions.
30. Aaron Alter - HammerKlavierOlaLola for solo piano
HammerKlavierOlaLola has as its inspiration, the first movement of Beethoven's monumental Op.106 piano sonata, mixing in an early 1960s Rock and Roll flavor. Even though the work is only one minute long, Aaron Alter manages to squeeze in quotes from three themes and the coda.
31. Andrew Sigler - From Sylva to Knoxville for solo piano
Sylva to Knoxville, while not strictly narrative, depitcs the journey of two people between those towns.
32. Andreas Zafeiropoulos - Back to 1988 for solo piano
33. Dimitris Mousouras - “…return to the start, no matter what!” for solo piano
The piece is created with 4 short patterns (keys, strings inside voice and tapping) that are “running” throughout this minute. These patterns are “struggling” to develop since there is not much space and time. Therefore it creates a short loop with the beginning note (F#) as a fundamental necessity which by the way is always present (audible) throughout the piece. It is conceived as a short “hunting” game, both serious and naïve.
34. Michael Coleman - 7:51 Central for solo cello
“7:51 Central” (2025) is a work for solo cello where the title refers to the time the composer noticed when he began composing the first ideas for the work.
35. Satoru Ikeda - Etude on the A String for solo cello
Revision of the beginning cello solo in the third movement, perpetual motion, of Satoru Ikeda's String Quartet "Imprisonment" (2022). Since the original performance was at a slower tempo than intended, Ikeda modified the fingering in the lower positions and, in some cases, changed the notes to match that fingering.
36. Grigoris Polyzos - Run! for solo cello
37. Richard Pressley - Στιχηρόν (Sticheron) for solo cello
Aeolian and “wiry” almost metallic-sounding gestures largely comprised of string harmonics and glissandi (occasionally punctuated by pizzicato) combine to form an elusive, ethereal song.
38. Greg A Steinke - Sarabande for solo cello
This is a reworking of a section from the composer’s Expressions IV that featured an extended solo meant to capture the flavor of the “sarabande” dance rhythm.
39. Alan Terricciano - Six Studies in Quiet: The Recital, Half-Remembered for solo cello
40. Alan Terricciano - Six Studies in Quiet: Cat in the Garden for solo cello
41. Alan Terricciano - Six Studies in Quiet: Ghosts for solo cello
42. Alan Terricciano - Six Studies in Quiet: Cairn Song for solo cello
43. Alan Terricciano - Six Studies in Quiet: Distant Runner for solo cello
44. Alan Terricciano - Six Studies in Quiet: Evening Prayer for solo cello
Six Studies In Quiet for solo cello, were originally composed as a set of short sound scores, the recordings of which were then recombined and digitally transformed to create the score for the dance Extreme Memory, choreographed by Douglas Becker for the National Balletacademie in Amsterdam. The original scores were written for each work to fit on a single manuscript page and they ranged from 1 to 3 minutes in duration. The current version reflects various amounts of editing in order to conform to the time constraint. There is no set performance order.
45. Eriko Yamaki - Between Shadows for solo cello
46. Scott Brickman - Chavala for solo violin
In 2018 I discovered I have Ashkenazi Jewish DNA. Chava was my Polish-Jewish great-great-great grandmother. This composition was inspired ny my 2025 visit to Kolbusowa, Poland, the village of my Catholic and Jewish ancestors.
47. David Drexler - Crossing - a prayer for the victims of natural disasters for solo violin
Crossing was originally written in response to the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami that caused nearly 20,000 deaths. It serves as a meditation and prayer for the victims of natural disasters.
48. Jason A. Taurins - Carbon for solo violin
Carbon is the element which makes life possible. Its many allotropes include such diverse things as diamonds, coal, graphite and sugar. This work uses musical cryptography to portray the properties of carbon.
49. Manos Panayiotakis - Vln. Micrography for solo violin
Vln. Micrography (2025) is part of a broader cycle of one-minute Micrographies, concise works exploring the expressive and timbral potential of individual instruments. This miniature focuses on the violin’s polyphonic possibilities, exploiting multiple stops, chordal writing, and subtle timbral contrasts to reveal the instrument’s remarkable expressive richness.
50. Ssu-Yu Huang - Prelude for solo violin
This violin solo is a prelude that incorporates inversions at the fifth intervals as a motif to develop the whole piece.
51. Charalampos Navrozidis - Zeimpekiko Danza for solo violin
The work draws inspiration from the rhythmic energy and expressive ethos of the zeibekiko dance, transforming its underlying character through a contemporary musical language. The interplay of timbral colors, intense rhythmic gestures, and the free development of musical material creates a personal approach to Greek musical tradition, viewed through the perspective of contemporary composition.
52. Daniele Ciminiello - The Italian humour for solo violin
Italian Humour is part of a collection of two compositions for solo violin exploring contrasting forms of humour. Inspired by the self-irony, exaggeration, and expressive gestures characteristic of Italian culture, it draws on the virtuoso violin tradition (particularly Niccolò Paganini) to create a work of theatrical energy, wit, and technical brilliance.
53. José Jesus de Azevedo Souza - The legend of sun - moon lake for solo violin
This work is inspired by the legend of Sun-Moon Lake in Taiwan, where dragons took the Sun and Moon and hid them under a lake, later recovered by two youths. Locals later created a dance in their honour. This piece fuses consonance with dissonance, depicting moments of the legend.
54. Man-Ching Yu Donald - Folding and Unfolding for solo violin
Inspired by minimalist paper-folding, the piece reflects the kaleidoscopic micro-patterns of crease lines—mesmerizing in their simplicity and regularity. Its music unfolds as an incessant kinetic flow, with rhythmic and pitch transformations occurring rapidly. Extreme registers are explored through natural harmonics, and the sound gradually dissolves into silence, fading almost imperceptibly at the end. (This project is sponsored by Miss Jackie TLS).
55. Phillip C. Roberts - Blue Boppin' for solo violin
Blue Boppin' features an opening riff that would feel right at home as the bassline to a funk tune. The rest of the piece dissects motives and intervals from the riff and places them in different contexts. The title is inspired by the composer’s cat, Blue.
56. Daniele Ciminiello - The British humour for solo violin
The British Humour is part of a collection of two compositions for solo violin exploring contrasting forms of humour. Inspired by the wit, restraint, and irony characteristic of British humour, the piece presents a seemingly solemn musical discourse disrupted by sudden tempo changes and register contrasts, subtly blurring the boundary between seriousness and playfulness.
57. Richard Pressley - Avtomelon for solo violin
A kind of song, which unfolds a number of recurring, short melodic and rhythmic ideas in a melodic exploration combining different types of articulation.
58. Richard Pressley - Filament for solo violin
Sounds and gestures shift rapidly, “threaded” as it were on an invisible strand.
59. Martin Lennartz - Glocken im lichten Thale (eine Brahmserscheinung) kM op.89 for solo violin
kM op.89 was invented during a visitation of Brahms´chambers in Baden-Baden, where he lives some summers near the house of Clara Schumann.
A new church was built at that time, and he may have listened to the new bells every day, in the same sound they ring until now.
60. Chih-Yao Lee - I Hear the Wind Whispering for solo violin
This piece captures the essence of a gentle breeze—its tickling touch, subtle tremble, and the liberating spirit of air in motion. Performers are urged to embody the wind’s fluidity and freedom, allowing phrases to drift, shimmer, and breathe with nature’s quiet grace. Let the music move like air itself.
61. Richard Pressley - Sheber for solo violin
This is a short study in double stops and their melodic possibilities, as well as moving them between adjacent pairs of strings, within a rhythmic and melodic sound world inspired by my long-standing love for punk rock.
62. Satoru Ikeda - L'Ortie des murs for solo violin
Revision of the opening violin part of the first movement of Ikeda's String Quartet "Imprisonment" (2022). The notation for the beginning motif was modified, and subsequent high-position pitches were adjusted to more playable tones. The title is borrowed from the first stanza of Oscar V. de L. Milosz's poem "Solitude".
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Aaron Alter
A Chicago native, Aaron Alter received his Bachelor of Music degree from Northwestern University and his Master of Fine Arts Degree from Princeton University, where he studied with Milton Babbitt and Jim Randall. Aaron resides in Carlsbad, California and is an Executive Board Member of Carlsbad Friends of the Arts.
Nikos Athanassakis
Classical guitarist, composer and songwriter. He has composed chamber, orchestral, solo, theatre and film music. Published by the companies NAXOS Records, Phasma Music, AnArt Artistry, Ammos Music, Foka +Negra Music and Les Productions D’ Oz. More info - www.nikosathanassakis.com
Scores available at Universal edition - www.universaledition.com/en/Contacts/Nikos-Athanassakis/
Scott Brickman
Scott Brickman is the proud father of three adult daughters and five grandchildren. A cancer survivor and cancer patient, he divides his time between Denver, Colorado and Liepaja, Latvia when he’s away from his teaching duties at the University of Maine at Fort Kent.
Daniel Carpenter
Dr. Daniel Carpenter is a contemporary classical composer and electric guitarist from Birmingham, UK. His work explores his personal emotional state, stories about life that he wishes to tell, and the blending of music from classical and popular cultures, with a focus on authenticity when representing those from marginalised backgrounds.
George Chlitsios
George Chlitsios was born in 1969. Studied music in Greece, Holland and UK, having a 4-year scholarship from the Academy of Athens. He teaches composition, conducting; chamber music in various Conservatories, he is principal conductor of the Municipality of Ioannina Symphony Orchestra and artistic director of Kamerata, Orchestra of the University of Ioannina.
Daniele Ciminiello
Daniele Ciminiello is an award-winning contemporary classical composer and pianist published by Universal Edition. Winner of the 2025 Symphony San Sebastián Concours, his music has been performed
internationally by leading orchestras, ensembles, and soloists. Alongside his work as a performer and recording artist, he maintains an active career as a composer and educator.
Ghenadie Ciobanu
Ghenadie Ciobanu has composed works in various genres, performed at various concerts and international festivals. Founder, artistic director of "The Days of New Music" International Festival, artistic director of the "Ars poetica" Ensemble of contemporary music, PhD, University professor of the Academy of Music, Theater and Fine Arts in Chisinau.
Michael Coleman
Michael Coleman has participated as composer/pianist in numerous new music programs and festivals in the U.S. and Russia and has also had works performed
in North & Central America, Europe, and Eurasia. He currently teaches at Pensacola State College and the University of West Florida.
Gianluca Deserti
After earning several academic degrees, Gianluca Deserti pursued further studies in composition with Franco Donatoni. An active composer since the early '90s, Deserti's works have won awards at international competitions, been broadcast on the radio, and been recorded by various record labels. His music has been performed in Europe and North and South America.
David Drexler
David Drexler's music has been performed on five continents by groups such as L’Ensemble Portique, Synchronia, The Dutch Tuba Quartet, and the EmergOrchestra. His work has been recorded by the Oakwood Chamber Players, the Los Angeles New Music Ensemble, and Iwona Glinka.
Jack Frederick
The music of Jack Frederick (b. 2006) explores the intersections of environmental scenes, interdisciplinary collaboration, and the modern classical tradition. His summer of 2026 includes a premiere by the Thessaloniki State Symphony orchestra, a premiere by the Bergamot quartet, and 2 premieres as a part of Bled Contemporary Music Week.
David Heinick
Ssu-Yu Huang
Ssu-Yu Huang, a native of Taiwan, enjoys an active career in contemporary music. Her compositions cover a wide range of music with bold and delicate genre. Her music has been performed by professional musicians and orchestras around the world, and has received critical acclaim.
Satoru Ikeda
Ultra-expressive (string orchestra), timeless and lovely (flute and cello) … reviews of Satoru Ikeda's works. He got an M.M. degree in Composition from Tokyo University of the Arts in 1987. He has won twenty awards and distinctions internationally including the ISCM World New Music Days in Bucharest (2026).
Sumio Kobayashi
Sumio Kobayashi is a Japanese composer whose work explores the relationships between sound, nature, language, and visual perception. Working across acoustic, electroacoustic, and interactive media, he creates music that connects contemporary artistic ideas with distinctive sensory experiences.
Chih-Yao Lee
Chih‑Yao Lee is currently studying at the Taipei National University of the Arts. He has twice been selected for the Counterpoint Ensemble’s Call for Scores, Music as Dialogue 2.0, NTNU–Soochow–TNUA Intercollegiate Concert. In 2026, he was also selected for Time Art Academy by Time Art Studio.
Martin Lennartz
Martin Lennartz was born 1960 in Cologne, where he studied composition with Jürg Baur and Krzysztof Meyer at the highschool of music.
He is also an examined church-musician and works as organist, pianist and composer. In 2014 he found the rules for his so- called "koinzidentiale Musik", which range logical between tonality and dodecaphonic thinking.
Dimitris Mousouras
Dimitris Mousouras (*1983). Greek composer, based in Athens. His compositions include chamber, vocal and orchestral music. His music has been presented to date in Greece (Athens Music Hall, Pireos 260, Nafplio, Rhodes) for festivals such as Athens and Epidaurus, Austria (Musikverein, ORF Radiokulturhaus etc.), in Romania and Italy from various ensembles such as the Ensemble Reconsil, Kontrapunkte, Koehne Quartet, Galan Trio, Webern Symphony Orchestra and many individual artists.
His composing interest expands from a wide range of styles and influences that derive from Greek and Byzantine tradition, several sciences, nature and (meta)physical phenomena. The living experiences [aka βίωμα] from all the aforementioned are the main poles of inspiration and composing process. Therefore the musical language is adopting according to each theme of inspiration and creation.
Charalampos Navrozidis
Jane O'Leary
A graduate of Vassar College and Princeton University, Jane has been resident in Ireland since 1972. She was the founder, pianist and director of Ireland’s first contemporary music ensemble Concorde. Jane’s outstanding contribution to music in Ireland was recognised with a Lifetime Achievement Award and she was the first Irish composer to be elected an Honorary Member of the International Society for Contemporary Music.
Héctor Oltra-García
Spanish composer (Alboraia, València). PhD in Music, Master in Contemporary Music and High Degrees in Composition and Conducting. As composer he has various awards and participation at contemporary music festivals. His musical style has an abstract language, giving a primary sound role to timbre, texture and its suggestive capacity. www.hectoroltra.com
Manos Panayiotakis
Manos Panayiotakis is a Greek composer (MA, PhD - University of York) and musicologist. His works are performed in Europe and internationally, in collaboration with orchestras and renowned artists. His papers on contemporary music are published in peer-reviewed journals and he has co-authored the Music Theory series ‘Learning Music’ published in Greece.
Giorgos Papamitrou
Giorgos Papamitrou (b. 1979, Athens) is a contemporary classical composer and guitarist. He holds diplomas in Guitar and Composition from the Nikos Skalkottas Conservatory. Winner of the Simeonis Competition, his music is released on Phasma Music and Sarton Records, and performed internationally at major concert halls.
Grigoris Polyzos
Grigoris Polyzos (1986) is a contemporary classical composer and music professor, living in Greece.
Richard Pressley
Richard Pressley has had performances across the US, Europe, and Australia, as well as in Brazil and Mexico. He attended Butler University, University of Cambridge, University of Minnesota (Ph D), Karlsruhe Musikhochschule, and Darmstadt in Germany, studying with Wolfgang Rihm, Sandeep Bhagwati, Dominick Argento, Judith Lang Zaimont, Alex Lubet, Daniel Chua, Michael Schelle.
William Price
Ugo Raimondi
Graduated in Composition and Piano, he has received numerous awards, including First Absolute Prize at the “Città di Albenga” Composition Competition and Third Prize at the 2021 “New Music Generation” International Composer Competition. Awarded by I. Fedele, A. Solbiati, Y. Kasparov, M. Stanczyk, and S. Kobayashi, his music has been performed at international contemporary music festivals.
Phillip C. Roberts
Phillip C. Roberts is a composer, performer, and music theorist with a passion for teaching. His compositions range from peacefully ambient to rhythmically driving. He is the keyboardist for Trio Apéritif, an advocate for neurodiversity in the arts, and a professor at Missouri State University and Interlochen Summer Arts Camp.
Francesco Sgambati
Francesco, composer and guitarist, studied at San Pietro a Majella and Accademia Chigiana (Diploma of Merit with Sciarrino). Winner of prizes including Lavagnino Film Festival, Dutch Guitar Foundation, PAS Italy, and Premio Veretti. His music has featured at CEME, Taller de Composició, St. Petersburg, Sydney, and Novalis festivals, among others.
Andrew Sigler
The music of American composer Andrew Sigler is shaped by color-driven harmony, modal inflection, and evolving harmonic fields, with forms guided by texture, pacing, and transformation. He is Associate Professor of Music Composition at the University of Tennessee.
José Jesus de Azevedo Souza
José Jesus de Azevedo Souza studied at the Purcell School with a scholarship from Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. He then studied at Trinity College of Music and University of Sheffield. His music encompasses a diverse range, from borrowing scientific principles to folk tunes to spontaneous artistry, resulting in multi cultural fusion.
Greg A Steinke
Dr. Greg A Steinke: a retired, former Joseph Naumes Endowed Chair of Music/Art and Associate Dean of Undergraduate Studies, Marylhurst University, Marylhurst, Oregon; Associate Director, Ernest Bloch Music Festival (‘93–97) and Director, Composers Symposium (‘90–97) (Newport, OR); served as the National Chairman of the Society of Composers, Inc. (1988–97). Composer of chamber and symphonic music and oboist specializing in contemporary music.
Jason A. Taurins
Jason Taurins is a composer and clinician based in Phoenix, Arizona, USA. His music is inspired by art, literature, and science.
Alan Terricciano
Educated at Yale University and the Eastman School of Music, Alan Terricciano is a Professor of Dance and Associate Dean at the University of California, Irvine’s Claire Trevor School of the Arts, joining the faculty in 1994. Professionally active as a composer for choreography, the theater and the concert hall, Alan has created over 150 original scores over his professional career, working with the Minnesota Orchestra, Northwestern University’s New Music Ensemble, and the New Swan Shakespeare Festival. In 2025, his work, Royal Denizens for cello and piano, was performed at Carnegie Hall in New York. In 2006, Terricciano was named Orange County’s Outstanding Individual Artist of the Year (2005) by the organization Arts Orange County. In 2000, He won the Grand Prize in Quebec’s Festival des Arts de Saint-Sauveur international competition for original composition for choreography with his workBlue Motions for String Quartet. The quartet, along with many of his other compositions, is available on the Phasma-Music record label, and can be streamed on all major music services.
Michail Travlos
An award winning composer Michail Travlos was born on 7th of July 1950 in Piraeus, Greece. He started his musical studies at the Athens National Conservatory in 1970 with Michalis Vourtsis. In 1975 he was accepted in the Hochschule der Künste Berlin, where he studied composition with Isang Yun. He obtained his diploma in Music Composition in 1980. He taught at the Hellenic Conservatory (1980-1982), the Contemporary Conservatory (1987-1996) and at the "Nikos Skalkotas" Conservatory (1982- 2014) where he was also artistic director (1989-2014). From 2015 he teaches music theory and composition at his residential studio in Patra, Greece. He currently divides his time between his family home in Patra and Kwidzyn, Poland.
Jean-Pierre Vial
Jean-Pierre Vial, born in 1946 near Paris, France, is a former software designer. At an early age, he learned the piano, the organ, and composed several pieces for both instruments. Over the last decade, various soloists, small ensembles, or orchestras have performed his music worldwide. More at vialcomposer.org
Stephen A White
I have been composing music, intermittently and non-professionally, for more than 30 years – starting when I was in college. I originally studied music theory and compositional techniques on my own. I am currently enrolled as a student at Concordia University, Irvine, California, USA, to take music composition classes for a better foundation and an understanding of how to write better music. During this time, I have composed a string quartet, a set of nocturnes for piano and
tenor sax, a suite for unaccompanied cello, four piano solos, and four orchestra pieces, and two choral pieces.
Eriko Yamaki
Man-Ching Yu Donald
Man-Ching Donald Yu (余文正) (b.1980), Hong Kong born composer and pianist. As a prolific composer, his nearly two hundred compositions encompass a spectrum from instrumental and vocal works to chamber opera, choral works, and symphonies. Globally recognized, his works have been showcased in more than 20 countries with 50 cities throughout the North and South America, Europe, and Asia, gracing stages at prominent venues and events such as the Musikverein (Wien), 2022 Contrasts International Contemporary Music Festival; International esteem ensembles like Lviv National Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, Uzhgorod Philharmonic with chorus, Opera Hong Kong Chorus, have premiered his works. His scores are exclusively published by Donemus (Netherland) and Universal Edition (Wien). Since 2007 he has received various awards and honours from different organizations including Vienna International Music Competition (First Great Award) and Gold Medal (Awards of Excellence) of the 2022 Global Music Awards.
Andreas Zafeiropoulos
