Daryl Runswick (born 12 October 1946) is a classically trained
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composer, arranger, jazz musician, producer and educationalist.
Career
Runswick was born in
Leicester
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, and educated at
Wyggeston Grammar School for Boys
Wyggeston Grammar School for Boys was a grammar school in Leicester, England, in existence from 1876 to 1976.
It was succeeded by the present-day Wyggeston and Queen Elizabeth I College.
History
After William Wyggeston's death in 1536, his brot ...
and
Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
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. He started playing bass with leading UK
jazz
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musicians in the mid-1960s, including
Dick Morrissey
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He was born in Horley, Surrey, England. Dick Morrissey emerg ...
and
John Dankworth
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, with whom he would tour and compose for extensively for some 12 years. In 1969, he was a member of the
Lionel Grigson
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- Pete Burden Quintet, and in 1972 he played and recorded with the Ian Hamer Septet, a band in which he coincided with
Tubby Hayes
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, among others, and throughout the 1970s he was also a member of the London Jazz Four. As a
session musician
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he later branched out into more popular music, including appearing on the first
The Alan Parsons Project
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recording and working with
Elton John
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.
He has also worked with the
London Sinfonietta
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,
Nash Ensemble
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and
The King's Singers
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,
Pierre Boulez
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Born in Mont ...
,
Ornette Coleman
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,
Simon Rattle
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and
Sarah Vaughan
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Nicknamed "Sassy" and "Jazz royalty, The Divine One", she won two Grammy Awards, including the Lifetime Achievement Award, and was nominated for a total of nine ...
.
Cleo Laine
Dame Cleo Laine, Lady Dankworth (born Clementine Dinah Bullock; 28 October 1927)''Who's Who of British Jazz'' Continuum International Publishing Group, 2004. , .
From 1983 to 1998 he was the tenor singer and resident composer in the avant-garde electronic vocal group Electric Phoenix, performing worldwide and working with, among others, composers Luciano Berio, Pierre Boulez, John Cage and Henri Pousseur.
From 1995 to 2005 he was Head of Composition Faculty at
Trinity College of Music
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(notable students include Angie Atmadjaja,
Dai Fujikura
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, Harris Kittos, Nikos Veliotis and
Reynaldo Young Reynaldo Young . 1966is a Uruguayan composer, arranger, guitarist, teacher and workshop leader. He has written concert pieces as well as music for dance, theatre, and video – many of them performed worldwide; he is also an active player at the f ...
).
As a composer he has written film and TV scores, including the films ''Gullsandur'' (''Golden Sands'') (1985) and ''
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'' (1985), and the TV series '' Brond'' (1987) with
Bill Nelson
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Seekers
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'' (1993). His major concert work, ''Maybe I Can Have an Everlasting Love'' for voice, computer-generated electronics and orchestra, premiered in 2005 at Blackheath Halls, London. His works have also been conducted by
Jeffrey Skidmore
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and played by the
BBC Symphony Orchestra
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, among others.
As a record producer, Runswick has also produced recordings by
Keith Tippett
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.
Runswick is the author of a standard textbook ''Rock, Jazz and Pop Arranging''.
Discography
* ''The Johnstons'' (1968)
*''Atlantic Bridge'' (1970)
*'' That's Just the Way I Want to Be'' (1970) []
*''Rites and Rituals'' (1970) []
*''Rock Workshop'' (1971) []
*''The Very Last Time'' (1971) []
*''From the Beggar's Mantle'' (1971) []
*''Live at the ICA'' (1972) []
*''Acropolis'' (1972) [] (released 2005)
*''Secret Asylum'' (1973) []
*''Tales of Mystery and Imagination'' (1976) []
*''Alan Branscombe & Tony Coe'' (1977)
*''In Hoagland'' – Georgie Fame (1981) []
* "Secret Ceremony (Theme From Brond)" / "Wiping A Tear From The All Seeing Eye" 7" & 12" single versions (1987)
My Family and Other Animals
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