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Niño Tiro - his music and his life
Niño Tiro (*1980) Niño Tiro's music is anachronistic, eccentric, and outright melodic. Born in Cagayan de Oro City, Philippines, he started piano lessons at the age of five. During his High-School days, he then explored Rock and played electric bass in a band. Realizing his passion for music regardless of genre, he pursued playing the piano for his Bachelor's degree in music while playing Jazz and Rock during his spare time. He also taught piano in a family-owned studio while pursuing his Bachelor's degree. After he graduated, he was faculty of the Lourdes College School of Music for 13 years, where he became a prestigious piano pedagogue and an avant-garde music teacher. He also plays Jazz, Blues, and Rock as a professional session player in various local bands. In 2004, his band's song was a radio hit and was #1 for eight weeks on the local airwaves. He worked in the United States as The Life Teen Music Director in Santa Barbara Catholic Church. He is currently purs...
Scientists find the amazing reason your favorite music gives you ‘chills’
Why does music give you 'chills'? Picture: Getty By Maddy Shaw Roberts , ClassicFM London Now we know why our favorite music sends shivers down our spine. Scientists say they have discovered why the melodies we love give us goosebumps . A team of French researchers found that when we listen to our favourite music, the areas of the brain which handle emotion, movement, and processing music and sound work together to create a surge in dopamine levels – our ‘feel good’ chemical. According to the study , our brains also try to anticipate what happens next in the song. And when we guess correctly, we get a reward. Thibault Chabin, a PhD student at the University Burgundy Franche-Comté who led the study, said: “What is most intriguing is that music seems to have no biological benefit to us. However, the implication of dopamine and of the reward system in processing of musical pleasure suggests an ancestral function for music. “This ancestral function may lie in the period of...
Fantasia on Smoke on the Water
HORST-HANS BÄCKER born in Bucharest (Romania) in 1959. The composer and conductor Horst-Hans Bäcker took his first piano lessons at the age of five with Tamas Vesmas. In the summer of 1973 Bäcker left Romania with his parents and came to Germany where he studied composition from 1981 with Professor Ludwig Werner Weiand at the conservatory in Wuppertal. Bäcker continued his studies at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, where he studied composition with Professor Gyula Horvath, ensemble direction with Professor Kurt Prestel and performance practice of early music with Professor Nikolaus Harnoncourt from 1983 to 1986. In 1984 Bäcker founded the SALZBURGER VOKALENSEMBEL and directed this chamber choir until his departure from Salzburg. Bäcker completed his training in composition from 1986 to 1989 under Professor Jürg Baur at the Rhineland Academy of Music in Cologne. Since his studies in Cologne Bäcker has been commissioned to compose music by musicians and chamber ensembles from...
US orchestra study finds trumpet ‘riskiest’ instrument for spreading COVID-19
US orchestra study finds trumpet ‘riskiest’ instrument for spreading COVID-19. Picture: Getty By Maddy Shaw Roberts, ClassicFM A University of Minnesota study discovers the wind instruments that emit the most aerosols, and are therefore “riskiest” in the transmission of COVID-19. Trumpets and oboes , as well as bass trombones, were found to be “high risk” compared to other brass and woodwind instruments, in new research into coronavirus transmission in orchestras. Bass clarinet and tuba were found to be “lower risk”. Researchers from the University of Minnesota found that while trumpets and oboes were the “riskiest” instruments for transmitting airborne diseases, none of the examined wind instruments were found to spread aerosols further than one foot. Published last month in the Journal of Aerosol Science , the study investigated 15 musicians from the Minnesota Orchestra in an effort to help them return to l...
Rockmusiker Spencer Davis ist tot
Bekannt wurde der britische Musiker in den 1960er Jahren mit Songs wie "Keep On Running". Nun ist SpencerDavis im Alter von 81 Jahren in Los Angeles gestorben. Der Gründer der "Spencer Davis Group" starb in einem Krankenhaus der kalifornischen Stadt. Todesursache sei eine Lungenentzündung gewesen, teilte sein langjähriger Manager Bob Birk mit. Der 1939 in Wales geborene Spencer Davis sang, spielte Gitarre und Keyboard. Er hatte die nach ihm benannte Band 1963 gegründet, die bald mit Songs wie "Gimme Some Lovin" und "I'm a Man" Erfolge feiern konnte. "Keep On Running" und "Somebody Help Me" schafften es Mitte der 60er Jahre auf Platz eins der britischen Singlecharts. Viele weitere Titel schafften es in die britischen Top 40. Spencer Davis (r.) zusammen mit seinen Bandkollegen Steve Winwood, Muff Winwood, Pete York Seine Musiker-Karriere begann Davis während eines Studiums an der Universität Birmingham. Er trat zus...
