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Milan Stibilj was born in Ljubljana, Yugoslavia, in 1929. Originally a student of psychology, he began to study composition in 1954 with Karol Pahor at the Music Academy of Ljubljana, continuing later with Milko Kelemen in Zagreb, and in the Electronic Studio of the University of Utrecht. During 1967-68 he worked in Berlin under the auspices of the Berliner Künstlerprogramms, and he now lives as freelance composer in Berlin and Ljubljana. Besides a number of Yugoslavian prizes, he has been awarded the Edison Prize and the Grand Prix du Disque for his recorded work Epervier de ta faiblesse, domine for...

More about Dean Milan can be found here: http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2007/05/365_days_133_de.html .

Milan Svoboda is one of the leading personalities on the Czech musical scene. He gained international renown as a jazz pianist and band leader. His composing and conducting skills span a wide range of styles, including modern jazz, musicals, film, theater and contemporary classical music. Milan Svoboda was born in 1951 in Prague, Czechoslovakia (former). He graduated from the organ class at the Prague Conservatory, studied musicology at Charles' University in Prague and composition at the Prague Academy of Music and at the Berklee College of Music, Boston, USA. In 1974 he founded his first jazz orchestra, the PRAGUE BIG...