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Gareth Walters
Gareth Walters (27 December 1928 – 31 May 2012) was a Welsh composer, teacher and producer. Biography Gareth Walters was born on 27 December 1928 in Swansea, South Wales, and completed his early education there. As a schoolboy he began to Musical composition#Composing music, compose, and he received early encouragement from the famous British composer, Conducting, conductor and pianist Benjamin Britten, who was a frequent guest at his family home. The composer's visits were related to his preparations for the first recording of ''A Ceremony of Carols'', for which Walters's father, the conductor Irwyn Ranald Walters, had suggested a local boys’ choir in Morriston. In 1949 Gareth Walters entered the Royal Academy of Music in London, and after three years he was awarded a Royal College of Music scholarship to the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Paris, Conservatoire National in Paris, where he continued his studies with Jean Rivier and Olivier Messiaen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swansea
Swansea (; cy, Abertawe ) is a coastal city and the second-largest city of Wales Wales ( cy, Cymru ) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It is bordered by England to the east, the Irish Sea to the north and west, the Celtic Sea to the south west and the Bristol Channel to the south. It had a population in .... It forms a Principal areas of Wales, principal area, officially known as the City and County of Swansea ( cy, links=no, Dinas a Sir Abertawe). The city is the List of cities in the United Kingdom, twenty-fifth largest in the United Kingdom. Located along Swansea Bay in southwest Wales, with the principal area covering the Gower Peninsula, it is part of the Swansea Bay (region), Swansea Bay region and part of the Historic counties of Wales, historic county of Glamorgan; also the ancient Welsh commote of Gŵyr. The principal area is the second most List of Welsh principal areas by population, populous local authority area in Wales with an estimate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
