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Careers in Music - Record Companies | Careers in Music. The first listed are known as the majors. These are international corporations, owning and controlling several smaller record companies and labels (e.g. EMI own Parlophone and Island). The majors will not normally accept unsolicited demos – they claim to only consider demos that have been submitted or recommended to them by Industry professionals, such as established managers, accountants, lawyers, publishers or producers. The following is a list of UK non-major record companies. Most of these will accept demos (usually on cd) by post. Some may also accept electronic demos (eg by email) but check with them first. When submitting demos, address them to the A&R department and include any relevant artist information, photos and contact details.

Always ensure that the record company is right for your specific genre of music before you send any demo. The Echo Label Ltd. Jan Nemeček. Dmitri Shostakovich. Dmitri Shostakovich in 1942 Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich (Russian: Дмитрий Дмитриевич Шостакович , tr. Dmitrij Dmitrievič Šostakovič, pronounced [ˈdmʲitrʲɪj ˈdmʲitrʲɪɪvʲɪt͡ɕ ʂəstɐˈkovʲɪt͡ɕ]; 25 September[1] 1906 – 9 August 1975) was a Soviet Russian composer and pianist and a prominent figure of 20th-century music. Shostakovich achieved fame in the Soviet Union under the patronage of Soviet chief of staff Mikhail Tukhachevsky, but later had a complex and difficult relationship with the government. Nevertheless, he received accolades and state awards and served in the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR (1947–1962) and the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union (from 1962 until his death).

Biography[edit] Early life[edit] Birthplace of Shostakovich (now School No. 267). Born at 2 Podolskaya Ulitsa in Saint Petersburg, Russia, Shostakovich was the second of three children of Dmitri Boleslavovich Shostakovich and Sofiya Vasilievna Kokoulina. Shostakovich in 1925 Early career[edit] Second World War[edit] John Cage. Not to be confused with John Cale. John Cage Cage is perhaps best known for his 1952 composition 4′33″, which is performed in the absence of deliberate sound; musicians who present the work do nothing aside from being present for the duration specified by the title.

The content of the composition is not "four minutes and 33 seconds of silence," as is sometimes assumed, but rather the sounds of the environment heard by the audience during performance.[7][8] The work's challenge to assumed definitions about musicianship and musical experience made it a popular and controversial topic both in musicology and the broader aesthetics of art and performance. Cage was also a pioneer of the prepared piano (a piano with its sound altered by objects placed between or on its strings or hammers), for which he wrote numerous dance-related works and a few concert pieces.

Life[edit] 1912–31: Early years[edit] Cage enrolled at Pomona College in Claremont as a theology major in 1928. Steve Reich. La Monte Young. Philip Glass. Béla Bartók. Béla Viktor János Bartók (/ˈbɑrtɒk/; Hungarian pronunciation: [ˈbeːlɒ ˈbɒrtoːk]; March 25, 1881 – September 26, 1945) was a Hungarian composer and pianist. He is considered one of the most important composers of the 20th century; he and Liszt are regarded as Hungary's greatest composers (Gillies 2001). Through his collection and analytical study of folk music, he was one of the founders of comparative musicology, which later became ethnomusicology. Biography[edit] Childhood and early years (1881–98)[edit] Béla Bartók was born in the small Banatian town of Nagyszentmiklós in the Kingdom of Hungary, Austria-Hungary (since 1920 Sânnicolau Mare, Romania) on March 25, 1881.

Béla displayed notable musical talent very early in life: according to his mother, he could distinguish between different dance rhythms that she played on the piano before he learned to speak in complete sentences (Gillies 1990, 6). Early musical career (1899–1908)[edit] Middle years and career (1909–39)[edit] Opera[edit] Arvo Pärt. Arvo Pärt (Estonian pronunciation: [ˈɑrvo ˈpært]; born 11 September 1935) is an Estonian composer of classical and sacred music.[1] Since the late 1970s, Pärt has worked in a minimalist style that employs his self-invented compositional technique, tintinnabuli.

His music is in part inspired by Gregorian chant. As of 2013, Pärt has been the most performed contemporary composer in the world for three years in a row.[2] Life[edit] Pärt was born in Paide, Järva County, Estonia, and was raised by his mother and stepfather in Rakvere in northern Estonia. He began to experiment with the top and bottom notes as the family's piano's middle register was damaged.[3] His first serious study came in 1954 at the Tallinn Music Middle School, but less than a year later he temporarily abandoned it to fulfill military service, playing oboe and percussion in the army band.

In 1980, after a prolonged struggle with Soviet officials, he was allowed to emigrate with his wife and their two sons. Works[edit] Luigi Nono. Luigi Nono (1979) Zattere al ponte Longo—Dorsoduro, the house in Venice where Luigi Nono was born. Luigi Nono (Italian pronunciation: [luˈiːdʒi ˈnɔːno]; 29 January 1924 – 8 May 1990) was an Italian avant-garde composer of classical music and remains one of the most prominent composers of the 20th century. Biography[edit] Early years[edit] It was Scherchen who presented Nono's first acknowledged work, the Variazioni canoniche sulla serie dell'op. 41 di A. Schönberg in 1950, at the Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik Darmstadt.

The Variazioni canoniche, based on the twelve-tone series of Arnold Schoenberg's Op. 41, including the "Ode-to-Napoleon" hexachord, marked Nono as a committed composer of anti-fascist political orientation (Annibaldi 1980). 1950s and the "Darmstadt School"[edit] Maria Krzyszkowska and Witold Gruca in a 1962 production of Nono’s ballet, Il mantello rosso (1954). The legacy of these letters became the expression of my composition. 1960s and 1970s[edit] 1980s[edit] Pierre Boulez. Pierre Boulez (French: [pjɛʁ bu.lɛːz]; born 26 March 1925) is a French composer, conductor, writer, and pianist. Biography[edit] Early years[edit] Boulez was born 26 March 1925, in Montbrison, Loire, France.

He was raised Catholic, but later he became an atheist.[1] As a child, he began piano lessons and demonstrated aptitude in both music and mathematics. He pursued the latter at Lyon before pursuing music at the Paris Conservatoire under Olivier Messiaen and Andrée Vaurabourg (the wife of Arthur Honegger).[2] Through Messiaen, Boulez discovered twelve-tone technique—which he would later study privately with René Leibowitz—and went on to write atonal music in a post-Webernian serial style.[3] Boulez was initially part of a cadre of early supporters of Leibowitz, but due to an altercation with Leibowitz, their relations turned divisive, as Boulez spent much of his career promoting the music of Messiaen instead. Serialism[edit] Le marteau sans maître[edit] Experimentation[edit] 1970s[edit] Timo Korhonen. Timo Korhonen (born 6 November 1964)[1] is a Finnish classical guitarist and is one of the most distinguished classical guitarists in his generation.

Short Biography[edit] Pieces written for and dedicated to Timo Korhonen[edit] Kimmo Hakola 1958-: Guitar Concerto, 2008; Leonardo Etudes, Homage á Villa-Lobos, 2007–2008 Toshio Hosokawa 1955-: Voyage IX, "Awakening" for guitar and strings with percussion, 2007 Magnus Lindberg 1958-: Mano a mano for solo guitar, 2004 Toshio Hosokawa 1955-: Serenade for solo guitar, 2003 Herman Rechberger 1947-: Concierto Floral for guitar and orchestra, 1997 Olli Kortekangas 1955-: Arabesken der Nacht for guitar and chamber orchestra, 1995 Leo Brouwer 1939-: Concerto of Helsinki for guitar and orchestra, 1991–1992 Usko Meriläinen 1930-2004: Konsertto kitaralle ja orkesterille, 1991 Jouni Kaipainen 1956-: Tenebrae for solo guitar op 39, 1991 Olli Koskelin 1955-: Far and near for solo guitar, 1990; Tutte le Corde for guitar and tape, 1988–1989 Recordings[edit] homepage.

Charles Bradley (singer) Charles Bradley (born November 5, 1948) is an American funk/soul/R&B singer, signed to the Daptone Records label under the Dunham Records division.[1] His performances and recording style are consistent with Daptone's revivalist approach, celebrating the feel of funk and soul music from the 1960s and 1970s.[2] One review stated that Bradley "echoes the evocative delivery of Otis Redding".[3] He is the subject of a documentary, Soul of America, that premiered at South by Southwest in 2012.[4] Bradley was raised by his maternal grandmother in Gainesville, Florida until the age of eight when his mother, who had abandoned him at 8 months of age, took him to live with her in Brooklyn, New York.[5] In 1962, his sister took him to the Apollo Theater to see James Brown perform.[6] Bradley was so inspired by the performance that he began to practice mimicking Brown's style of singing and stage mannerisms at home.[7] "Take It As It Comes" from The Sugarman 3 album Pure Cane Sugar (2002).

" James Hunter (singer) James Hunter (born 2 October 1962, Colchester, Essex) is a Grammy Award-nominated English R&B musician and soul singer. Howlin' Wilf & The Veejays: James Hunter: James Hunter (singer)