Profiles – Mode Records

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Christian Wolff Christian Wolff was born in Nice France. He's lived mostly in the U.S. since 1941. He studied piano with Grete Sultan and composition, briefly, with John Cage. Though mostly self-taught as composer, the work of John Cage, Morton Feldman, David Tudor and Earle Brown have been important to ... Read More

Charles Wood
Charles Wood is a composer, and designer and builder of new instruments and sound installations. In his music the process of composition is closely integrated with the implementation of new “musical instruments” specific to his work. His work has been performed at the Zurich Junifestwochen, the Aspekte Salzburg ... Read More

Iannis Xenakis

Composer, architect, civil engineer; Iannis Xenakis was born 29 May 1922, in Braïla (Romania). Son of Clearchos Xenakis and Fotini Pavlou; married Françoise Gargouil 1953; one daughter, Mâkhi. Fought in Greek Resistance, World War II, was condemned to death; became a political refugee in France from 1947, and ... Read More

Françoise Xenakis

Wife and accomplice of Iannis Xenakis for over half a century. Author of 23 books. French radio and television personality, known in particular for her extravagent red spectacles!

Airi Yoshioka
Airi Yoshioka has concertized throughout the world as a soloist and chamber musician. She is a founding member of Damocles Trio and Modigliani Quartet. Her orchestral credits include performances with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, American Sinfonietta and engagements as concertmaster and soloist with the Manhattan Virtuosi and Aspen Music ... Read More

Jovita Zähl

Jovita Zähl was born in Bensberg near Cologne, Germany. She studied in Brussels, Cologne and Düsseldorf with the pianists Pavel Gililov, Jean-Claude Vanden-Eynden, Aloys Kontarsky and David Levine. She graduated with honors for piano and chamber music at the Musikhochschule Köln and the Robert-Schumann Hochschule Düsseldorf.

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Susanne Zapf

Susanne Zapf, born in Thuringia/Germany, studied the violin with Ilan Gronich in Berlin, Grigory Zhislin in London, and Keiko Wataya in Amsterdam.

Her particular leaning towards chamber music, participating in symphony orchestras and her work in the Sonar Quartett have given many facets to her musicianship. In her ... Read More

Walter Zimmermann (b. April 15, 1949, Schwabach, Mittelfranken). German composer of stage, orchestral, chamber, choral, vocal, piano, and electro-acoustic works that have been successfully performed and recorded across Europe. Prof. Zimmermann learned piano, violin and oboe at an early age and began composing at age twelve. He attended the Fürth ... Read More

Art Zoyd

Founded in 1969 in Valenciennes, the group Art Zoyd looks back on more than three decades of extraordinary accomplishments. Recordings (more than 30 CDs to date), concerts, and music performances for ballet, theatre, film, and other events are among their achievements which have taken them to places from New ... Read More