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Talented composers, from all over the world, have generously sent me their four-hand piano compositions. From these submissions, works by the following composers have been selected for performance. This list will continue to expand so please check back again:

Beth Anderson, Belgian Tango
Beth Anderson’s music has been described as having "a refreshing simplicity without naiveté" and as -"deeply felt, direct, and yes, beautiful" and "charming and deeply felt to the point of romanticism". Her latest CDs are a new recording by Nancy Boston of September Swale as part of American Women: Modern Voices in Piano Music and Quilt Music, a CD of chamber music for smaller ensembles.

Danielle Baas, 'Les Temps de l’Homme'
Recueil de pièces pour piano 4 mains inspirées des tapisseries murales d'Edmond Dubrunfaut: Danielle Baas
is Belgium of Dutch origin and has studied at Jette's Academy of Music and Brussel's Royale Academy of Music. Her works have been performed in Belgium, France, the Netherlands, Italy, Bosnia, Spain, Germany, China (composition competition 2003), Brazil and the USA. In 2002, she created the Yolande Uyttenhove Ensemble, a group of musicians with variable geometry, aimed at promoting and creating Belgium contemporary works and broadcasting Belgium music abroad.

Ana Isabel Vargas Dengo, Por los Senderos
Ana Isabel Vargas Dengo is a musical educator and a composer from San José, Costa Rica and is an active member of Asociación Mujeres Costarricenses en la Música, an association of women musicians (composers, performers, educators, and musicologists) in Rosta Rica. She comes from a musical family; her grandfather and her father both received their musical training in the United States. She has written more than 200 children's songs and about 60 piano pieces. The last few years she has been composing four-hand piano pieces. Por los senderos de Costa Rica is inspired by the wonderful nature you can see as you walk in the fields and woods from her land of Costa Rica. Ana can be reached by email at: anaivd@hotmail.com.

Donna Gross Javel, Fire Dance Duo
Donna Gross Javel's Fire Dance Duo received its first performance on February 2, 2007, just a week or two after its completion. It was performed by Mary Jane Rupert and Tom Zeman at Madalen College, in New Hampshire, where Tom Zeman was acting as a visiting professor.

Edmund Jolliffe, Pagan Dance No. 3
Edmund Jolliffe is a British composer of music for the concert hall, television and theatre. His music has been performed in many prestigious venues, including the Wigmore Hall, the Purcell Room, the Old Vic Theatre, Westminster Abbey, Jermyn Street Theatre, the National Portrait Gallery, the Red House at Aldeburgh and the Tate, Liverpool. It has also been performed as far afield as Michigan, Dallas and France. He has written television music for all the terrestrial channels in the United Kingdom and many of the Satellite Channels. His music for the Imagine programme 'Fantastic Mr Dahl' is now an added extra on the DVD to 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory' and is an in flight movie on American Airlines. He studied music at Oxford University and completed a Masters in Film Composition at the Royal College of Music under Joseph Horovitz. He also studied on the Advanced Composition Course at Dartington International Summer School under Pavel Novak in 2004 (supported by the Ralph Vaughan Williams Trust).

Gary Noland, Andante in F Minor
Gary Noland was born in Seattle and raised in Berkeley. His compositions have been performed and broadcast in many locations throughout the United States and are regularly featured on the Seventh Species new music concert series in Oregon, which he founded in San Francisco in 1990. He earned a B.A. in music from U.C. Berkeley in 1979, continued studies at the Boston Conservatory, and transferred to Harvard University where he worked as a teaching fellow and added to his academic credits an M.A. and a Ph.D. in 1989.

Charles Smith, Samba in F-sharp Minor
Charles Smith has a M.M. in Piano Performance and D.M.A. in Piano Performance and Literature from the University of Illinois at Urbana. In 1988, he won first place in the Society of American Musicians (SAM) competition at Roosevelt University, in Chicago. In the same year, he won first place in the Classical Music and Composition categories in the ACT-SO competition in Chicago (African-American Cultural, Technological, and Scientific Olympics). He then represented ACT-SO in the national Competition in Washington D.C. and won second place in Classical Music. In 1989, he took first place in the local competition in the same categories and represented ACT-SO in the National Competition in Detroit, Michigan. In 1990, he won the ACT-SO First Place Award in Musical Composition at the local level, and represented ACT-SO in the national competition in Los Angeles.

Edson Zampronha, Composicão para Piano a Quatro Mãos
Edson Zampronha has received two awards from the São Paulo Association of Art Criticism, Brazil. In 2005
he won, together with SCIArts Group, the 6th Sergio Motta Award, the most outstanding prize on Art and Technology in Brazil, for the installation Poetic Attractor. He has worked as a guest composer at LIEM-CDMC (Madrid), Phonos (Barcelona), the University of Birmingham (England). His compositions have been performed in many well known concerts and festivals: BEAST Concerts in Birmingham, Bourges Festival, Sonoimágenes in Buenos Aires, The Los Angeles Philharmonic Green Umbrella, JIEM-Madrid, and Brazilian Contemporary Music Biennial at Rio de Janeiro among others. He is Professor of Musical Composition at the São Paulo
State University, Brazil and he is a Guest Professor at the Valladolid University, Spain. He has a Ph.D. in Communication and Semiotics - Arts - by the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo. His compositions
are included in ten CDs released by different record labels and institutions.