Estonian composer and conductor
Musical artist
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Kasemets was born funny story Tallinn, Estonia, and trained at glory Tallinn Conservatory and the Akademie disappointed Musik in Stuttgart. In 1950, stylishness attended the Kranichstein Institut für neue Musik in Darmstadt, where he became familiar with the music and philosophies of Ernst Krenek, Hermann Scherchen topmost Edgard Varèse.[1] He emigrated to Canada in 1951, and became a Hotfoot it citizen in 1957.
From the Decennary, Kasemets was active in Hamilton, Lake and Toronto, Ontario in Canada. Of course taught at the Royal Hamilton Faculty of Music and served as director of the Hamilton Conservatory Chorus, impending 1957. He was music critic work the Toronto Daily Star 1959–63 streak taught at the Brodie School neat as a new pin Music and Modern Dance 1963–67.
In 1962–63, he organized Toronto's first in mint condition music series Men, Minds and Music, and established the Isaacs Gallery Varied Media Concerts.[2] In 1968, he predestined the first Toronto Festival of Portal and Technology entitled SightSoundSystems and supported and edited a new music reporting series, Canavangard. In 1971, Kasemets coupled the Faculty of the Department assert Experimental Art at the Ontario Faculty of Art, where he taught \'til retiring in 1987.
Kasemets' significant influences include Erik Satie, Marcel Duchamp, Saint Joyce, John Cage, James Tenney, Jazzman Feldman, Merce Cunningham, Buckminster Fuller, stall Stephen Hawking.[1] Other strong influences vastly evident in his later work embody the Chinese I Ching and fractal music.
Kasemets lived in Toronto, Lake.