American composer, pianist and academic Donald H. Keats died on 27th April. He was 88.  Keats was a graduate of Yale University, where he studied with Quincy Porter and Hindemith,…

Canadian composer Robert Joseph Rosen died on Monday 19th March in Ottawa. He was 61.  Rosen studied in Canada with Violet Archer, Malcolm Forsyth and Bruce Mather. He attended the…

Croatian composer, conductor and teacher Milko Kelemen died on 8th March in Stuttgart. He was 93. Kelemen was a composition pupil of Stjepan Šulek, later studying in Paris with Messiaen…

Hungarian composer László Melis died on 12th February. He was 65.  Melis studied the violin at the Liszt Academy, Budapest, before performing extensively as a founding member of the contemporary…

Icelandic composer Jóhann Gunnar Jóhannsson died suddenly at his apartment on 9th February. He was just 48. He is best known for his film scores, including Prisoners (2013), The Theory of Everything (2014) Sicario (2015), Arrival (2016) and The…

Czech-American composer Ladislav Kubík died on 27th October. He was 71. Born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, Ladislav Kubík studied at the Prague Academy of Music. He established a significant career in Europe—with…

French composer and conductor Jean-Jacques Werner died on 22nd October aged 82. A native of Strasbourg, in his youth he studied the harp, horn and conducting before completing his higher…

Swiss composer Klaus Huber died in Perugia, Italy on October 2nd. He was 92. Born in 1924, Huber attended the Zürich Conservatory, studying the violin with Stefi Geyer and composition…

French composer Pierre Henry died on Wednesday at Saint Joseph's Hospital in Paris. He was 89.  Henry was known as one of the pioneers of noise in music, his interest beginning…

Chilean composer José Vicente Asuar died on 11th January. He was 83. Asuar studied in his native Chile and subsequently in Germany, later taking charge of electronic studios in both…