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Mark-Anthony Turnage
Mark-Anthony Turnage
English composer
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Terry Riley
Terry Riley
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William Alwyn
William Alwyn
English composer, conductor, and music teacher
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John Luther Adams
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Aulis Sallinen
Aulis Sallinen
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David Diamond
American classical composer (1915-2005)
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Richard Mills
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Erwin Schulhoff
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Philip Glass
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Michael Nyman
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John Pickard
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Robert Casadesus
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Ned Rorem
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John Harbison
American composer
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György Ligeti
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Alan Rawsthorne
Alan Rawsthorne
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Lewis Spratlan
Lewis Spratlan
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Arditti Quartet
Arditti Quartet
string quartet
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Jesús Rueda Azcuaga
Jesús Rueda Azcuaga
composer
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Stefans Grové
Stefans Grové
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Duke Quartet
Duke Quartet
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Steve Reich
American composer
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Ahmed Adnan Saygun
Ahmed Adnan Saygun
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Grażyna Bacewicz
Grażyna Bacewicz
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Lou Harrison
Lou Harrison
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Osvaldo Golijov
Osvaldo Golijov
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Wu Man
Wu Man
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David Chesky
David Chesky
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Anthony Ritchie
Anthony Ritchie
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Kevin Volans
South African-Irish composer

Kevin Volans

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South African-Irish composer
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Member of, past and present
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Kevin Volans
(2015 at Cologne Music Night)
(Photo by Annamarie Ursula)

Kevin Volans (born 26 July 1949) is a South African born Irish composer and pianist. He studied with Karlheinz Stockhausen and Mauricio Kagel in Cologne in the 1970s and later became associated with the Neue Einfacheit (New Simplicity) movement in the city. In the late 1970s he became interested in the indigenous music of his homeland and began a series of pieces which attempted to combine aspects of African and contemporary European music. Although Volans later moved away from any direct engagement with African music, certain residual elements such as interlocking rhythms, repetition and open forms are still detectable in his music since the early 1990s which takes a new direction more redolent of certain schools of abstract art. He settled in Ireland permanently in 1986 and was granted Irish citizenship in 1995.