A French composer of piano music, opera, cantatas, ballets, and orchestral and chamber works. His most notable pieces are "Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune (Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun)" (1894) and "Nocturnes" (1899). Inspired often by pictorial subjects (Monet's water impressions became "reflections in the water" for piano) and by the... [+] Read More

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A French composer of dramatic, orchestral, vocal, chamber, and instrumental music. Milhaud was a member of "Les Six," whose works were influenced by Erik Satie and Jean Cocteau, and was one of the first composers to use bitonality (playing in two keys at once). In the '20s and '30s he incorporated jazz and Latin rhythms into his music,... [+] Read More

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Matthew Reid is a classically trained, eclectic composer. Currently, he is the musical director for The Second City -Toronto where he provides a live soundtrack nightly for their latest revue, Barack to the Future. He has become a specialist of providing live soundtracks for comedic and improv theatrical productions. He has performed with... [+] Read More

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A French composer known for melodic and tonal invention. Giving the lie to the idea that turn-of-the-century musical trends were necessarily elite impressionism or "decadent" (whatever that may mean), Ravel's music always speaks directly to the heart in a subtle rhythmic sense through great melody, harmonic richness, and iridescent... [+] Read More

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I've been composing piano music for 17 years. My music has evolved from simple melodic pieces to more rhythmically complex pseudo-improvisational compositions.
I first began playing the piano in 1987, and then moved to electronic music in 1992. In 1994 I went back to the piano and continue to play that instrument solely.

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Thomson is one of the few true modernists in America. Thomson's music is almost disconcertingly spare and direct. In the consciously American pieces especially, there is a kind of aural equivalent to Cubist collage, as ragtime, waltzes, tangos, two-steps, fiddle tunes, and hymns get pasted onto the texture. Unlike Ives, there's an unsentimental... [+] Read More

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