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António Pinho Vargas
António Pinho Vargas
Portuguese composer
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David del Puerto
David del Puerto
Spanish musician
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Sean Hickey
Sean Hickey
American composer
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Javier Álvarez
Javier Álvarez
Mexican composer
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Aarre Merikanto
Aarre Merikanto
Finnish composer
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John Luther Adams
John Luther Adams
American composer
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Richard Cameron-Wolfe
Richard Cameron-Wolfe
American composer and pianist
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Nancy Van de Vate
Nancy Van de Vate
American composer
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Willi Vogl
Willi Vogl
German composer
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Herman David Koppel
Herman David Koppel
Danish musician
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Evan Ziporyn
Evan Ziporyn
American composer
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Peter Dickinson
Peter Dickinson
British composer
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Tim Hodgkinson
Tim Hodgkinson
English experimental music composer and performer
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Liza Lim
Liza Lim
Australian composer
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Mikko Heiniö
Mikko Heiniö
Finnish composer
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Nicolas Vérin
Nicolas Vérin
French composer
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Erkki-Sven Tüür
Erkki-Sven Tüür
Estonian composer
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Estonian composer
Record Labels
Awards Received
Order of the White Star, 5th Class
Ela ja sära
Estonian Music Council's music award
Cultural Award of the Republic of Estonia
Helena Tulve

Helena Tulve (born April 28, 1972 in Tartu) is an Estonian composer.

Born in Tartu, she studied composition at the Tallinn Secondary Music School under Alo Põldmäe and from 1989–1992 at the Estonian Academy of Music with Erkki-Sven Tüür, being the latter’s sole student of composition thus far. In 1994 Tulve graduated with the Premier Prix from Jacques Charpentier’s composition class at the Conservatoire Superieur de Paris. Between 1993 and 1996 she furthered her knowledge of Gregorian chant. She has also attended György Ligeti’s and Marco Stroppa’s summer courses.

Tulve belongs to the younger generation of Estonian composers who, in contrast to the neo-classicist tradition of rhythm-centeredness, create music which focuses on sound and sonority. Tulve’s works give a fair idea of the richness and variety of her cultural experience: the French school of spectral music, IRCAM’s experimentalism, Kaija Saariaho and Giacinto Scelsi, echoes of Gregorian chant and Eastern musics. Deriving from her refined sound processing, Tulve’s approach to form is “fluid” – more process based than architectonic.