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Tallā Rouge International Composer Competition Announces Finalists

The Tallā Rouge International Composer Competition is thrilled to announce
the finalists for this prestigious event. These outstanding composers were
selected from an exceptionally talented pool of applicants from around the
globe. Their creativity and craftsmanship have captured the attention of
our distinguished panel of judges, making them stand out in this highly
competitive process.
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Finalists for the Tallā Rouge International Composer Competition

The Tallā Rouge International Composer Competition seeks to highlight and
celebrate the work of emerging and established composers who bring fresh
perspectives and voices to the world of contemporary classical music. The
competition provides a platform for composers to share their music with
broader audiences and to foster meaningful connections within the musical
community.

The finalists represent a diverse array of musical voices and unique
artistic perspectives. Each finalist's work exemplifies innovation,
technical skill, and a profound connection to the art of composition.

A winner will be announced January 4th, 2025.
*flightpath *by Anuj Bhutani

Anuj Bhutani is an emerging composer/performer who crafts genre-fluid music
with narrative depth, often blending acoustic instruments and electronics.
Described as “a force multiplier with more talents than time” (PATRON
Magazine), whose music is “alternately celestial and dark” (John Schaefer,
WNYC New Sounds), his music has won Chamber Music America’s Classical
Commissioning Grant, an ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Award, Verdigris
Ensemble’s ION Composer Competition, and was a Finalist in the VOCES8
Composition Competition. He’s been selected for American Composer’s
Orchestra’s Earshot, NewAm Composer’s Lab, Banff Centre’s Evolution:
Classical, Norfolk Chamber Music Festival’s New Music Workshop at Yale
School of Music, and residencies at Avaloch Farm Music Institute, Atlantic
Center for the Arts (#188 with Judd Greenstein, #191 with Missy Mazzoli),
among others. His work has been commissioned or performed by Ashley
Bathgate, Metropolis Ensemble, Allen Philharmonic, Andrew Tholl of Wild Up,
and Lauren Cauley Kalal of Switch~ ensemble and more. He earned his
master’s degree from USC where he won the Outstanding Graduate in
Composition Award and his bachelor’s from University of North Texas. His
primary composition teachers have included Andrew Norman, Ted Hearne, Camae
Ayewa, Joseph Klein, Andrew May, Sungji Hong, Drew Schnurr, and UNT
Composer-in-Residence Bruce Broughton.
*Soft Rains *by Inga Chinilina

Inga Chinilina is a composer, improviser, and pianist based in Providence,
Rhode Island. Her work includes music for acoustic instruments from solo to
orchestra, electronic music, and a mix of both. In addition to stand-alone
music pieces, Inga also makes installations, music for dance and film.
Ensembles that have performed Inga C’s music include Either/Or, The
Empyrean, Dal Niente, Jack Quartet, ICE Ensemble, line upon line percussion
trio, Loadbang, Longleash Trio, Lydian String Quartet, Neave Trio, No Exit,
Sound Icon, Russia State Academic Russian Folk Ensemble, Splice, Talea, and
Yarn/Wire. Inga is a PhD candidate in “Music and Multimedia Composition” at
Brown University. Her research explores how composers represent sound
entities that bare emotional meaning and posses complex timbre through the
use of Western-European instruments. Inga holds a BM in Composition and
Performance from Berklee College of Music and an MFA in Theory and
Composition from Brandeis University.
*Jökull (Glacier) *by Joe Hay

Jökull is the Icelandic word for glacier, and the piece was inspired by a
trip I took to Iceland in 2010. I attempted to hitchhike around the island,
and, one day, I encountered an impenetrable wall of wind blowing off the
massive Vatnajökull glacier, which looms over the landscape like a giant
frozen wave. The wind brought me literally to my knees and forced me
backward in my journey. In the piece, I use the lower registers of the two
violas to capture the patient, dominant beauty of something that seems
immobile; the big sounds hidden in silence.
*Beautiful in Green *by Spencer Klaw Kennedy

Spencer Klaw Kennedy (b. 2005) is a Pennsylvania-based composer and
musician whose primary interests lie in structure and boundaries, and the
deconstruction of these labels. He writes music to transcend genre and
predefined notions about sound while still being grounded in the work of
the past and present. He has written numerous works for orchestra, chamber
ensembles, and soloists, as well as a number of pop-music and electronic
pieces. His favorite colors are purple and blue.
*Echoings *Adrian Pavlov

Adrian Pavlov was born on July 12, 1979 in Sofia. He made his first
compositional attempts between 1994 and 1996 as a student at the “Lyubomir
Pipkov” National Music School under the direction of Prof. Alexander
Raichev. From 1998 to 2011 Pavlov studied at the “Hanns Eisler” High Music
School in Berlin (piano under prof. Georg Sava, composition under prof.
Hanspeter Kyburz and orchestral conducting under prof. Hans-Dieter Baum).
In 2003, he participated in a composition course by Henri Pussier, and in
2016 – in a master class in conducting contemporary music by Peter Rundel.
*Shrouded Emissaries *by Matin Peymani

Matin Peymani is an Iranian composer based in Denmark. He holds a master's
degree in music composition from the Royal Danish Academy of Music. With
over two decades of experience, Peymani specializes in electroacoustic and
instrumental music, focusing on microtonal systems, spectral music, and
spectromorphology. His work bridges Western and non-Western musical
traditions, and he is recognized for his expertise in classical Iranian
music, particularly with the Tar and Setar. As a lecturer and composer, his
compositions have garnered international acclaim, featuring at festivals
and winning awards. Notable works include "Sensing the Wind's Gentle
Caress," "Micro Space," and "Persistence of Dreams," which have been
performed by European orchestras and chamber ensembles such as the Ligeti
Ensemble and Danish Radio.
*Elegy *by Soheil Salimzadeh

Soheil Salimzadeh 1991 Tehran, Iran He is a violin player skilled in
Persian, Gypsy, Azerbaijani, and Armenian styles, as well as a composer,
music arranger, music producer, and violin teacher. Soheil started playing
the violin and learning basic arrangement techniques in 2004. He taught
himself composing, harmony, and orchestration, inspired by Nicolai Rimsky
Korsakov, Hans Zimmer, and Fikret Amirov. He participated in an Orchestra
Conducting master class with Maestro Shardad Rohani in 2014 and an
Orchestration master class with Ahmad Pejman in 2016. Soheil’s first
independent album “Sari Gelin,” was released in 2016 and won an Akademia
Award in 2021. His second album “The Last Knight” was released in 2021 and
features folklore pieces from the Celtic region arranged for fiddle and
chamber orchestra. He also took part in Classical compositions and
Orchestrations Master classes with Prof. Craige Wright, Prof. Peter
Edwards, Prof. Amin Honarmand.
*"Escape" for 2 Violas *by Erik Valdemar Sköld

Erik Valdemar Sköld (b. 1991) is a composer of contemporary classical
music. He is based in Malmö, Sweden since 2015 and studied composition for
Rolf Martinsson, Luca Francesconi and Bent Sorensen at Malmö Academy of
Music (MAM). His works are heavily influenced by impressionist and spectral
music, and he takes inspiration from themes like nature, psychology and
mythology in his works.
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