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James Wood (born 27 May 1953 in
Barton-on-Sea
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,
England
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) is a British conductor, composer of contemporary classical music and former percussionist.
Wood studied composition with
Nadia Boulanger
Juliette Nadia Boulanger (; 16 September 188722 October 1979) was a French music teacher and conductor. She taught many of the leading composers and musicians of the 20th century, and also performed occasionally as a pianist and organist.
From a ...
in
Paris
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from 1971 to 1972 before going on to study music at
Cambridge University
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, where he was organ scholar of
Sidney Sussex College
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from 1972 until 1975. After graduating from
Cambridge
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he went on to study percussion and conducting at the
Royal Academy of Music,
London
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, from 1975 until 1976. After a further year studying percussion privately with Nicholas Cole, Wood embarked on a triple career as percussionist, composer and conductor.
Career
In 1977 he was appointed conductor of the
Schola Cantorum of Oxford, a post which he held until 1981, and immediately following this he founded the New London Chamber Choir, of which he was principal conductor for twenty-six years until moving to
Germany
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in 2007.
New London Chamber Choir (NLCC)
During his time with NLCC he pioneered a large amount of little-known choral music from a wide range of composers, including
Iannis Xenakis
Giannis Klearchou Xenakis (also spelled for professional purposes as Yannis or Iannis Xenakis; el, Γιάννης "Ιωάννης" Κλέαρχου Ξενάκης, ; 29 May 1922 – 4 February 2001) was a Romanian-born Greek-French avant-garde c ...
,
Tona Scherchen,
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*Tõru
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,
Eric Bergman,
Harrison Birtwistle
Sir Harrison Birtwistle (15 July 1934 – 18 April 2022) was an English composer of contemporary classical music best known for his operas, often based on mythological subjects. Among his many compositions, his better known works include '' T ...
,
Lili Boulanger
Marie Juliette "Lili" Boulanger (; 21 August 189315 March 1918) was a French composer and the first female winner of the Prix de Rome composition prize. Her older sister was the noted composer and composition teacher Nadia Boulanger.
Biography ...
,
Ruth Crawford
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,
Luigi Dallapiccola
Luigi Dallapiccola (February 3, 1904 – February 19, 1975) was an Italian composer known for his lyrical serialism, twelve-tone compositions.
Biography
Dallapiccola was born in Pisino d'Istria (at the time part of Austria-Hungary, current ...
,
Frank Denyer
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,
György Kurtág
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Biography
Györ ...
,
György Ligeti
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,
Almeida Prado,
Giacinto Scelsi,
Alfred Schnittke
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,
Claude Vivier
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,
Walter Zimmermann and Wood himself. He was also responsible for the commissioning many new works (many of which included electronics) from composers including
Jonathan Harvey (''Forms of Emptiness'', ''Ashes Dance Back'', ''The Summer Cloud’s Awakening''),
Alejandro Vinao ''(Epitafios)'',
Javier Alvarez ''(Calacas Imaginarias)'',
Iannis Xenakis
Giannis Klearchou Xenakis (also spelled for professional purposes as Yannis or Iannis Xenakis; el, Γιάννης "Ιωάννης" Κλέαρχου Ξενάκης, ; 29 May 1922 – 4 February 2001) was a Romanian-born Greek-French avant-garde c ...
''(Knephas)'',
Luca Francesconi
Luca Francesconi (born 17 March 1956) is an Italian composer. He studied at the Milan Conservatory, then with Karlheinz Stockhausen and Luciano Berio.
Early years
Luca Francesconi was born in Milan. His father was a painter who edited ''Il ...
''(Let me Bleed)'',
Simon Bainbridge
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''(Eicha)'',
Roberto Sierra
Roberto Sierra (born 9 October 1953) is a Puerto Rican composer of contemporary classical music.
Life
Sierra was born in Vega Baja, Puerto Rico. He studied composition in Europe, notably with György Ligeti in Hamburg (1979–1982), Germany. Af ...
''(Cantos Populares)'' and
David Sawer
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Biography
Sawer was born in Stockport, England. After attending Ipswich School, he studied music at the University of York where he b ...
''(Stramm Gedichte)''. Many of Wood’s own works were also specially written for NLCC, including ''Incantamenta'' (for 24 solo voices), ''Phainomena'' (for 18 solo voices, 17 instruments and electronics) and his large-scale church opera, ''Hildegard'', for soloists, chorus, ensemble and electronics.
With NLCC Wood undertook numerous CD recordings, many of which were world premiere recordings: these included music by Eric Bergman (Chandos), Lili Boulanger (Hyperion), Ruth Crawford Seeger (Deutsche Grammophon),
Giacinto Scelsi (Una Corda), Frank Denyer (Continuum), Iannis Xenakis (Hyperion) and James Wood himself.
They also recorded music of Poulenc, and Janáček, for
Hyperion, and Dallapiccola for Erato. Their 1990 Hyperion recording of Stravinsky’s Les Noces (performed in collaboration with the choir of the Institute of the Arts, Voronezh, Russia) was voted ‘best available recording’ in
BBC Radio 3's 'Building a Library' in September 2000. They also collaborated with
Oliver Knussen
Stuart Oliver Knussen (12 June 1952 – 8 July 2018) was a British composer and conductor.
Early life
Oliver Knussen was born in Glasgow, Scotland. His father, Stuart Knussen, was principal double bass of the London Symphony Orchestra, and a ...
and the
London Sinfonietta
The London Sinfonietta is an English contemporary chamber orchestra founded in 1968 and based in London.
The ensemble has headquarters at Kings Place and is Resident Orchestra at the Southbank Centre. Since its inaugural concert in 1968—givi ...
in a recording of Stravinsky’s The Flood and Requiem Canticles.
In 1988, Wood helped devise a BBC Two documentary about Lili Boulanger – ''Whom the Gods Loved'' directed by Hilary Boulding. The film culminated in performances of the ''Pie Jesu'' as well as Boulanger’s monumental ''Du Fond de l’Abime'' with Linda Hirst,
Martyn Hill
Martyn Hill (b. 14 Sept 1944) is a British tenor.
Life and career
Hill was born in Rochester, Kent on September 14, 1944. He studied at King's College, Cambridge, followed by the Royal College of Music. He pursued further vocal training with Aud ...
, New London Chamber Choir and the London Sinfonietta.
Percussion activities
Alongside his activities as a conductor and composer, Wood was also active as a percussionist in many contemporary ensembles including Lontano, Gemini, Matrix (director
Alan Hacker
Alan Ray Hacker (30 September 1938 – 16 April 2012) was an English clarinettist, conductor, and music professor.
Biography
He was born in Dorking, Surrey in 1938, the son of Kenneth and Sybil Hacker.''Who’s Who 1975'', page 1302, (A&C Bl ...
),
Dreamtiger,
Endymion and the
London Sinfonietta
The London Sinfonietta is an English contemporary chamber orchestra founded in 1968 and based in London.
The ensemble has headquarters at Kings Place and is Resident Orchestra at the Southbank Centre. Since its inaugural concert in 1968—givi ...
. In this capacity he was noticed by the new director of the
Darmstädter Ferienkurse
Darmstädter Ferienkurse ("Darmstadt Summer Course") is a regular summer event of contemporary classical music in Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany. It was founded in 1946, under the name "Ferienkurse für Internationale Neue Musik Darmstadt" (Vacation Co ...
,
Friedrich Ferdinand Hommel, who invited him to succeed
Christoph Caskel
Christoph Caskel (born 12 January 1932) is a German percussionist and teacher.
Life
Born in Greifswald, Caskel began learning percussion at an early age, taking lessons at the age of five with a military musician and as a schoolboy with a percu ...
as Professor of Percussion from 1982. He retained this position throughout the Hommel years until 1994. During this time he pioneered a wide range of new for solo percussion and percussion ensemble, including many new pieces of his own, such as ''Choroi kai Thaliai'' (1982), ''Ho shang Yao'' (1983) and ''Rogosanti'' (1986), which he toured extensively with the soprano, Sara Stowe and the sound engineer, John Whiting. All of these pieces were also recorded for CD and released by Continuum. He was artistic director of the 1988 and 1990 Percussion Festivals in London, and also devised two BBC TV documentaries on percussion in the BBC Two series ''Music in Camera'', directed by Hilary Boulding.
One of Friedrich Hommel’s principal aims as Director of the Darmstädter Ferienkurse had always been to establish the courses as a centre for the rapidly evolving world of percussion. To this end he commissioned Wood to write a large-scale work for percussion ensemble which would make full use of the large number of talented young percussionists from all over the world who were coming to
Darmstadt for the summer courses. The result was ''Stoicheia'', a 65-minute work for two percussion soloists, two percussion ensembles, four synthesizers and electronics. The two soloists were
Steven Schick and Wood himself, and the work was subsequently recorded by Wergo.
1980s and 1990s
During the period from 1983 onwards Wood started to experiment with
microtonality
Microtonal music or microtonality is the use in music of microtones—interval (music), intervals smaller than a semitone, also called "microintervals". It may also be extended to include any music using intervals not found in the customary Wes ...
. In ''Ho shang Yao (Songs by the River)'' he devised simple prototype quartertone extensions for
marimba
The marimba () is a musical instrument in the percussion family that consists of wooden bars that are struck by mallets. Below each bar is a resonator pipe that amplifies particular harmonics of its sound. Compared to the xylophone, the timbre ...
and
glockenspiel. As a result of this and further experiments in works such as ''Spirit Festival with Lamentations'' , ''Stoicheia'' and the quartertone marimba concerto, ''Venancio Mbande talking with the trees'', he became convinced that any future for microtonality would have to involve first and foremost the development of microtonal fixed-pitch instruments (for example keyboard percussion instruments) and the adoption of satisfactory designs by commercial instrument builders. Following his own second prototype quartertone marimba extension the design was taken up by the Dutch company, Adams, who produce them on special order.
But outside the realm of purely fixed-pitch instruments, Wood was also active in writing microtonal music for conventional instruments – this led to one of Wood’s largest-scale works, ''Oreion'', for large orchestra. Commissioned by the BBC for the 1989 Proms (9 August), this 30-minute work was performed by the
BBC Symphony Orchestra
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conducted by Wood himself. The work was subsequently selected for performance at the
1991 ISCM Festival in Zürich, performed this time by the Krakow Radio Orchestra, again conducted by the composer.
This experience led to the idea of engaging in some kind of research and training programme for instrumentalists in microtonal performance, and so in 1990 Wood founded London's first Centre for Microtonal Music, and its ensemble, Critical Band. The purpose of the Microtonal Centre was to research instrumental microtonal playing techniques, to teach these to young musicians whilst at the same time educating composers in the historical, theoretical, emotional and practical implications of microtonality. The initiative involved the collaboration of the
Society for the Promotion of New Music (SPNM), the
Guildhall School of Music and Drama
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, and the
Barbican Centre in London, which held a Weekend of Microtonal Music, 'In Tune?', in 1990, 1991 and 1992. Aside from its presence at the 'In Tune?' Festivals, the ensemble 'Critical Band' undertook several recordings, concerts and tours, including a CD of three of Wood's own compositions: ''Venancio Mbande talking with the Trees'', ''Phainomena'' and ''Two men meet, each presuming the other to be from a distant planet.''
This latter work was also premiered by Critical Band at the 1995 BBC Proms (September 11). But after the late 1990s, both the Centre for Microtonal Music and Critical Band became disbanded through lack of funding.
Ever conscious of the fact that
electronic music
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provided a perfect medium in which to explore his love for both microtonality and new sounds, Wood decided to immerse himself more fully in this world, and in 1996 undertook a major project at
IRCAM
IRCAM (French: ''Ircam, '', English: Institute for Research and Coordination in Acoustics/Music) is a French institute dedicated to the research of music and sound, especially in the fields of avant garde and electro-acoustical art music. It is ...
in Paris. He worked together with
Carl Faia on a new work for Alphorn, MIDI-cowbells and electronics – ''Mountain Language'' – from 1997 to 1998. This marked the start of a series of works involving electronics, including ''Séance'' (1996), ''Jodo'' (1999), ''Autumn Voices'' (2001) and the opera, ''Hildegard'' (2002–2006).
Recent developments and move to Germany
From the mid-1990s, Wood also started to receive conducting invitations from several European ensembles, including
l’Itinéraire,
Ensemble InterContemporain
The Ensemble intercontemporain (EIC) is a French music ensemble, based in Paris, that is dedicated to contemporary music. Pierre Boulez founded the EIC in 1976 for this purpose, the first permanent organization of its type in the world.
Organi ...
,
musikFabrik
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and Champ d’Action, and choirs including Netherlands Radio Choir,
Netherlands Chamber Choir
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Swedish Radio Choir,
Collegium Vocale Gent
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Founding and program
Collegium Vocale Gent was founded ...
,
West German Radio Choir,
Berlin Radio Choir
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In the 1950s the choir was divided into the Berliner Solistenvereinigung and the Großer Chor des Berliner Rundfunks. These were united as Ru ...
,
RIAS Kammerchor
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, as well as the Tokyo Philharmonic Choir. In 2002, he worked closely with
Karlheinz Stockhausen
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on the world premiere of ''Engel-Prozessionen'', which he conducted at the
Amsterdam Concertgebouw with the Netherlands Radio Choir. In 2011, he conducted the same work as part of
Cologne Opera
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From the mid 18th century, opera was performed in th ...
's production of the opera, ''Sonntag aus Licht''.
Wood's increasing activity in mainland Europe eventually led, in 2007, to his decision to leave England for Germany. Since then Wood has continued to work regularly with choirs and ensembles throughout Europe, notably the Netherlands Radio Choir, musikFabik, Berlin Radio Choir,
RIAS Kammerchor
The RIAS Kammerchor (RIAS Chamber Choir) is a German choir based in Berlin, Germany. It receives support from the Rundfunk Orchester und Chöre GmbH Berlin ("Berlin Radio Orchestra and Choirs"), a limited-liability company owned by the public bro ...
and the
MDR Rundfunkchor
MDR Rundfunkchor is the radio choir of the German broadcaster Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk (MDR), based in Leipzig, Saxony. Dating back to 1924, the choir became the radio choir of a predecessor of the MDR in 1946, then called Kammerchor des Senders L ...
in
Leipzig
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, as well as remaining prolific as a composer. Notable performances include
Luigi Nono
Luigi Nono (; 29 January 1924 – 8 May 1990) was an Italian avant-garde composer of classical music.
Biography
Early years
Nono, born in Venice, was a member of a wealthy artistic family; his grandfather was a notable painter. Nono beg ...
’s ''Caminantes Ayacucho'' with the Netherlands Radio Choir and
Netherlands Radio Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra at the 2008
Holland Festival
The Holland Festival () is the oldest and largest performing arts festival in the Netherlands. It takes place every June in Amsterdam. It comprises theatre, music, opera and modern dance. In recent years, multimedia, visual arts, film and archit ...
; his training of the
Vienna State Opera
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Chorus for Nono’s ''Al gran sole carico d’amore'' at the 2009
Salzburg Festival
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, conducted by
Ingo Metzmacher
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Life
Ingo Metzmacher is the son of the cellist Rudolf Metzmacher and the research biol ...
; the first ever performance with live pianolist (
Rex Lawson
Rex Jim Lawson (4 March 1938 – 18 January 1971), known as Cardinal Rex, was a singer, trumpeter and bandleader from Buguma, Nigeria. He became one of the best-known highlife musicians of the 1960s in Africa when Cardinal and his band dominated ...
) of
Theo Verbey’s completion of
Stravinsky’s 1919 version ''Les Noces'' with
musikFabrik
The Ensemble Musikfabrik (music factory ensemble) is an ensemble for contemporary classical music located in Cologne. Their official name is Ensemble Musikfabrik Landesensemble NRW e.V. (Ensemble Musikfabrik of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia ...
and
RIAS Kammerchor
The RIAS Kammerchor (RIAS Chamber Choir) is a German choir based in Berlin, Germany. It receives support from the Rundfunk Orchester und Chöre GmbH Berlin ("Berlin Radio Orchestra and Choirs"), a limited-liability company owned by the public bro ...
at the
Berlin Philharmonie in 2013; and the German premiere of Wood's own ''Tongues of Fire'' (for large chorus and percussion quartet) with the MDR Rundfunkchor in Leipzig in November 2014.
From 2008 until 2011, he undertook the reconstruction of the two missing voices of the ''
Sacrae Cantiones Liber Secundus'' of the sixteenth-century Italian composer,
Carlo Gesualdo. This massive undertaking culminated in his recording of the complete set with Vocalconsort Berlin for
Harmonia Mundi
Harmonia Mundi is an independent record label which specializes in classical music, jazz, and world music (on the World Village label). It was founded in France in 1958 and is now a subsidiary of PIAS Entertainment Group.
Its Latin name ''harm ...
. Released in February 2013, the recording went on to receive universal critical acclaim, and was awarded the
ECHO Klassik The Echo Klassik, often stylized as ECHO Klassik, was Germany's major classical music award in 22 categories. The award, presented by the , was held annually, usually in October or September, separate from its parent award, the Echo Music Prize. Th ...
Preis in the category ‘Choir Recording of the Year’ in October 2013.
Following a joint commission from the Dutch Ensemble, Insomnio, the Stichting De Vrede van Utrecht and the Eduard Van Beinum Stichting, Wood then undertook a collaboration with the writer,
Paul Griffiths and the director, Sybille Wilson on the opera, ''Gulliver'', based on
Gulliver’s Travels by
Jonathan Swift
Jonathan Swift (30 November 1667 – 19 October 1745) was an Anglo-Irish satirist, author, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for the Whigs, then for the Tories), poet, and Anglican cleric who became Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dubl ...
– a project which lasted three years, from 2011 until 2014. At the same time he completed several new works for percussion, including a 35-minute work for percussion ensemble, ''Cloud-Polyphonies'', commissioned by a consortium of American Universities headed by Michael Rosen.
Since 2008 Wood has directed the Tenso Young Composers Workshops, designed to help and encourage young composers from all over Europe in composing for chamber choir.
Awards and honours
*1980 : Lili Boulanger Memorial Prize
*1993 : Gemini Fellowship
*1995/6 : Arts Foundation Fellowship for electro-acoustic composition
*1996 : Holst Foundation Award
*1990 : appointed a Fellow of the
Royal Academy of Music, London
*2013 :
ECHO Klassik The Echo Klassik, often stylized as ECHO Klassik, was Germany's major classical music award in 22 categories. The award, presented by the , was held annually, usually in October or September, separate from its parent award, the Echo Music Prize. Th ...
Prize (Choir Recording of the Year) together with Vocalconsort Berlin for their Harmonia Mundi recording of Wood’s reconstruction of Gesualdo’s ''Sacrae Cantiones Liber Secundus''.
List of works
Discography (works by James Wood)
References
External links
Official James Wood website* Interview with James Wood by Juan Carlos Pérez Davila about the opera ''Hildegard'' for Oro Molido magazine
Oro Molido no. 16, January 2006* Performance of ''Rogosanti'' b
Victor Cacceseon th
Vic Firthwebsite
* Interview with James Wood by John Palmer, published b
CE Books, Vision Edition2015
Tenso Network Artistic Council
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English classical composers
21st-century classical composers
Living people
Alumni of the Royal Academy of Music
English male classical composers
20th-century English composers
21st-century English composers
20th-century British male musicians
21st-century British male musicians