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Female Composers

In keeping with Women’s Month of August, we look at female composers and artists. Thanks Wiki

Hildegard of Bingen (1098 –1179), was a German Benedictine abbess and polymath active as a writer, composer, philosopher, mystic, visionary, and as a medical writer and practitioner during the High Middle Ages. She is one of the best-known composers of sacred monophony, as well as the most recorded in modern history.

Nancy Dalberg (1881 –1949) was a Danish composer. Born into a wealthy family she studied under notable composers such as Johan Svendsen and Carl Nielsen, the later becoming a good friend and a significant figure in her life.

Maria del Carmen Pérez Jiménez was born in Montevideo, the daughter of Spanish residents Santos Rojas and still life painter Antonio Pérez Giménez Barradas. She first studied with Antonio Frank, but ended the study after her father died in 1898. With support from friends and family, she later continued with Aurora Pablo and M. Lopes Vicente at the Conservatorio del Uruguay, receiving her diploma in 1915.

Sook-Ja Oh (born 26 May 1941) is a South Korean composer. She was born in Seoul, Korea and studied at Kyung Hee University, where she received a Bachelor of Arts in 1971 and a Master of Arts in 1973. She continued her studies in electronic music at Peabody College in the United States, and in orchestral conducting at the Mozarteum in Salzburg

Alma Elizabeth Deutscher (born 19 February 2005) is a British composer, pianist, violinist and conductor. A former child prodigy, Deutscher composed her first piano sonata at the age of five; at seven, she completed the short opera, The Sweeper of Dreams, and later wrote a violin concerto at age nine. At the age of ten, she wrote her first full-length opera, Cinderella, which had its European premiere in Vienna in 2016. Deutscher’s piano concerto was premiered when she was 12. She has lived in Vienna, Austria, since 2018. She made her debut at Carnegie Hall in 2019 in a concert dedicated to her own composition.

IITERNITI (formerly: ETERNITY) is a South Korean virtual band formed by Pulse9. The group debuted on March 22, 2021, with the single “I’m Real”. The group consists of 11 members: Seoa, Sujin, Minji, Zae-in, Hyejin, Dain, Chorong, Jiwoo, Yeoreum, Sarang and Yejin. They are created with artificial intelligence technology, Deep Real.

Pulse9 General Information

Developer of a virtual figure automation technology intended to create realistic character images. The company’s technology can be used in areas such as influencer, entertainment, branding, and creative, enabling companies to use virtual characters at a reasonable cost.

Jieun Park is the CEO of PULSE9, the techtainment company, renowned for creating IITERNITI, the world’s first K-POP AI idol girl group.

With a solid background in both technology and entertainment, Jieun has propelled PULSE9 to the forefront of the AI-driven entertainment sector.