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Stuart Oliver Knussen (12 June 1952 – 8 July 2018) was a British
composer and
conductor.
Early life
Oliver Knussen was born in
Glasgow
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, Scotland. His father, Stuart Knussen, was principal
double bass
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of the
London Symphony Orchestra
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, and also participated in a number of premieres of
Benjamin Britten
Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten (22 November 1913 – 4 December 1976, aged 63) was an English composer, conductor, and pianist. He was a central figure of 20th-century British music, with a range of works including opera, other ...
's music. Oliver Knussen studied composition with
John Lambert John Lambert may refer to:
*John Lambert (martyr) (died 1538), English Protestant martyred during the reign of Henry VIII
*John Lambert (general) (1619–1684), Parliamentary general in the English Civil War
* John Lambert of Creg Clare (''fl.'' c. ...
between 1963 and 1969, and also received encouragement from Britten. He spent several summers studying with
Gunther Schuller
Gunther Alexander Schuller (November 22, 1925June 21, 2015) was an American composer, conductor, horn player, author, historian, educator, publisher, and jazz musician.
Biography and works
Early years
Schuller was born in Queens, New York City ...
at
Tanglewood
Tanglewood is a music venue in the towns of Lenox and Stockbridge in the Berkshire Hills of western Massachusetts. It has been the summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra since 1937. Tanglewood is also home to three music schools: the ...
in Massachusetts and in Boston.
Musical life
Knussen began composing at about the age of six; an
ITV programme about his father's work with the London Symphony Orchestra prompted the commissioning for his first symphony (1966–1967). Aged 15, Knussen stepped in to conduct his symphony's première at the
Royal Festival Hall, London, on 7 April 1968, after
István Kertész fell ill. After his debut,
Daniel Barenboim asked him to conduct the work's first two movements in New York a week later.
[ Bayan Northcott, "Oliver Knussen", '']The Musical Times
''The Musical Times'' is an academic journal of classical music edited and produced in the United Kingdom and currently the oldest such journal still being published in the country.
It was originally created by Joseph Mainzer in 1842 as ''Mainzer ...
'', Vol. 120, No. 1639. (September 1979), pp. 729–732 In this work and his Concerto for Orchestra (1968–1970), he had quickly and fluently absorbed the influences of modernist composers
Britten
Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten (22 November 1913 – 4 December 1976, aged 63) was an English composer, conductor, and pianist. He was a central figure of 20th-century British music, with a range of works including opera, other ...
and
Berg Berg may refer to:
People
*Berg (surname), a surname (including a list of people with the name)
*Berg Ng (born 1960), Hong Kong actor
* Berg (footballer) (born 1989), Brazilian footballer
Former states
* Berg (state), county and duchy of the Hol ...
as well as many mid-century (largely American) symphonists, while displaying an unusual flair for pacing and orchestration.
It was as early as the Second Symphony (1970–1971), in the words of
Julian Anderson
Julian Anderson (born 6 April 1967) is a British composer and teacher of composition.
Biography
Anderson was born in London. He studied at Westminster School, then with John Lambert at the Royal College of Music, with Alexander Goehr at Cambri ...
, that "Knussen's compositional personality abruptly appeared, fully formed".
[ Anderson, Julian, "The later Music of Oliver Knussen. Catching up with Knussen in his 40th Year"', '']The Musical Times
''The Musical Times'' is an academic journal of classical music edited and produced in the United Kingdom and currently the oldest such journal still being published in the country.
It was originally created by Joseph Mainzer in 1842 as ''Mainzer ...
'', Vol. 133, No. 1794. (August 1992), pp. 393–394.
His major works from the 1980s were his two children's operas, ''
Where the Wild Things Are
''Where the Wild Things Are'' is a 1963 children's picture book written and illustrated by American writer and illustrator Maurice Sendak, originally published in hardcover by Harper & Row. The book has been adapted into other media several tim ...
'' and ''Higglety Pigglety Pop!'', both
libretti
A libretto (Italian for "booklet") is the text used in, or intended for, an extended musical work such as an opera, operetta, masque, oratorio, cantata or musical. The term ''libretto'' is also sometimes used to refer to the text of major l ...
by
Maurice Sendak – and based on Sendak's own eponymous children's books. ''Where the Wild Things Are'' received its New York premiere in November 1986 by
New York City Opera
The New York City Opera (NYCO) is an American opera company located in Manhattan in New York City. The company has been active from 1943 through 2013 (when it filed for bankruptcy), and again since 2016 when it was revived.
The opera company, du ...
, which also performed the work in April 2011.
Knussen was the head of contemporary music activities at Tanglewood between 1986 and 1993.
A much-admired orchestral work from 1994 is his Horn Concerto written for Barry Tuckwell, which "combines the colorful sound world of early 20th century music with a contemporary approach to time and melody".
He was awarded
CBE
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and public service outside the civil service. It was established o ...
in the
1994 Birthday Honours
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.
Knussen was principal guest conductor of
The Hague
The Hague ( ; nl, Den Haag or ) is a city and municipality of the Netherlands, situated on the west coast facing the North Sea. The Hague is the country's administrative centre and its seat of government, and while the official capital o ...
's Het Residentie Orkest (Residentie Orchestra) between 1992 and 1996, the Aldeburgh Festival's co-artistic director between 1983 and 1998 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 ...
's music director between 1998 and 2002 – and became that ensemble's conductor laureate.
In 2005, Knussen was the music director of the
Ojai Music Festival
The Ojai Music Festival is an annual classical music festival in the United States. Held in Ojai, California (75 miles northwest of Los Angeles), for four days every June, the festival presents music, symposia, and educational programs emphasizi ...
.
Knussen wrote his ''Songs for Sue'', a setting of four poems for
soprano and 15-piece ensemble, as a memorial tribute to his late wife, and the music received its world première in Chicago in 2006. Knussen told
Tom Service
Tom Service (born 8 March 1976) is a British writer, music journalist and television and radio presenter, who has written regularly for ''The Guardian'' since 1999 and presented on BBC Radio 3 since 2001. He is a regular presenter of The Proms f ...
in ''
The Guardian
''The Guardian'' is a British daily newspaper. It was founded in 1821 as ''The Manchester Guardian'', and changed its name in 1959. Along with its sister papers ''The Observer'' and ''The Guardian Weekly'', ''The Guardian'' is part of the Gu ...
'':
I knew there were a number of Dickinson poems addressed to her sister, Sue, so one week I read all 1,700 poems of Emily Dickinson
Emily Elizabeth Dickinson (December 10, 1830 – May 15, 1886) was an American poet. Little-known during her life, she has since been regarded as one of the most important figures in American poetry.
Dickinson was born in Amherst, Massac ...
... and I copied out about 35 of them by hand, I have no idea where the notes for this piece come from ... It seemed to want to be written ... I wasn't sure whether it ... ought to be let out at all ... because I didn't want it to be a self-indulgent thing. But actually it's very restrained. It's not a huge work – about 13 minutes – but it's a big piece emotionally.
From September 2006, Knussen was artist-in-association to the
Birmingham Contemporary Music Group
Birmingham Contemporary Music Group (BCMG) is a British chamber ensemble based in Birmingham, England specialising in the performance of new and contemporary music. BCMG performs regularly at the CBSO Centre and Symphony Hall in Birmingham, tour ...
, and from 2009 to the BBC Symphony Orchestra.
As of autumn 2012, Knussen was writing a symphonic adagio for the
Philadelphia Orchestra. He was also planning to finish two concertos that he had worked on for several years: one for piano and one for cello.
His recordings as a conductor include works by
Modest Mussorgsky
Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky ( rus, link=no, Модест Петрович Мусоргский, Modest Petrovich Musorgsky , mɐˈdɛst pʲɪˈtrovʲɪtɕ ˈmusərkskʲɪj, Ru-Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky version.ogg; – ) was a Russian compo ...
,
Ruth Crawford Seeger
Ruth Crawford Seeger (born Ruth Porter Crawford; July 3, 1901 – November 18, 1953) was an American composer and folk music specialist. Her music was a prominent exponent of the emerging modernist aesthetic and she became a central member of a g ...
,
Elliott Carter
Elliott Cook Carter Jr. (December 11, 1908 – November 5, 2012) was an American modernist composer. One of the most respected composers of the second half of the 20th century, he combined elements of European modernism and American "ultra- ...
,
Igor Stravinsky,
Hans Werner Henze
Hans Werner Henze (1 July 1926 – 27 October 2012) was a German composer. His large oeuvre of works is extremely varied in style, having been influenced by serialism, atonality, Stravinsky, Italian music, Arabic music and jazz, as well as ...
,
Toru Takemitsu TORU or Toru may refer to:
* TORU, spacecraft system
* Toru (given name), Japanese male given name
* Toru, Pakistan, village in Mardan District of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
*Tõru
Tõru is a village in Saaremaa Parish, Saare County in western ...
,
Colin Matthews
Colin Matthews, OBE (born 13 February 1946) is an English composer of contemporary classical music. Noted for his large-scale orchestral compositions, Matthews is also a prolific arranger of other composer's music, including works by Berlioz, ...
,
Alexander Goehr,
Robin Holloway
Robin Greville Holloway (born 19 October 1943) is an English composer, academic and writer.
Early life
Holloway was born in Leamington Spa. From 1953 to 1957, he was a chorister at St Paul's Cathedral and was educated at King's College School, ...
and
Poul Ruders
Poul Ruders (born 27 March 1949) is a Danish composer.
Life
Born in Ringsted, Ruders trained as an organist, and studied orchestration with Karl Aage Rasmussen. Ruders's first compositions date from the mid-1960s. Ruders regards his own compositi ...
.
Personal life
Knussen was married to Sue Knussen, a US-born producer and director of music programmes for
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television and for the UK's
Channel 4
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– for which she made ''Leaving Home'', an introduction to
20th-century music presented by
Simon Rattle in a series of seven one-hour programmes, which won the 1996
BAFTA award for "Best Arts Series". She ran the
Los Angeles Philharmonic's education department in the late 1990s. Oliver and Sue Knussen had a daughter, Sonya Knussen, who is a
mezzo-soprano. Sue Knussen died of a blood infection in London in 2003. The Sue Knussen Composers Fund (previously, the Sue Knussen Commissioning Fund) "honours her memory and professional legacy...and...commissions works from emerging composers to be performed by contemporary music ensembles worldwide."
Knussen lived in
Snape, Suffolk
Snape is a small village in the English county of Suffolk, on the River Alde close to Aldeburgh. At the 2011 census the population was 611. In Anglo-Saxon England, Snape was the site of an Anglo-Saxon ship burial. Snape is now best known for ...
, Benjamin Britten's base during one of his most creative periods.
Snape Maltings
Snape Maltings is an arts complex on the banks of the River Alde at Snape, Suffolk, England. It is best known for its concert hall, which is one of the main sites of the annual Aldeburgh Festival.
The original purpose of the Maltings was the m ...
concert hall is the home of the
Aldeburgh Festival
The Aldeburgh Festival of Music and the Arts is an English arts festival devoted mainly to classical music. It takes place each June in the Aldeburgh area of Suffolk, centred on Snape Maltings Concert Hall.
History of the Aldeburgh Festival
Th ...
.
Knussen died on 8 July 2018, aged 66.
Compositions
*Symphony No. 1, Op. 1 (1967–68), for orchestra (withdrawn)
*''Processionals'', Op. 2 (1968/78), for chamber ensemble
*''Masks'', Op. 3 (1969), for solo flute and glass chimes 'ad lib'
*Concerto for Orchestra (1969)
*Symphony in One Movement, Op. 5 (1969/2002), for orchestra – a revised version of the Concerto for Orchestra
*''Hums and Songs of Winnie-the-Pooh'', Op. 6 (1970/83), for soprano solo, flute, cor anglais, clarinet, percussion and cello
*''Three Little Fantasies'', Op. 6a (1970/83), for wind quintet
*Symphony No. 2, Op. 7 (1970–71), for high soprano and chamber orchestra
inner: Margaret Grant Prize, Tanglewood*''Choral'', Op. 8 (1970–72), for wind, percussion and double basses
*''Turba'', (1971/76), for double bass solo
*''Rosary Songs'', Op. 9 (1972), for soprano solo, clarinet, piano and viola
*''Océan de Terre'', Op. 10 (1972–73/76), for soprano and chamber ensemble
*Study for ''Metamorphosis'' (1972, rev. 2018), for bassoon solo
*''Music for a Puppet Court (after John Lloyd)'', Op. 11 (1973/83), "puzzle pieces" for two chamber orchestras
*''Trumpets'', Op. 12 (1975), for soprano and three clarinets
*''Ophelia Dances'' Book 1, Op. 13 (1975), for flute, cor anglais, clarinet, horn, piano, celesta and string trio
oussevitzky centennial commission*''Autumnal'', Op. 14 (1976–77), for violin and piano
*Cantata Op. 15 (1977), for oboe and string trio
*''Sonya's Lullaby'' Op. 16 (1978–79), for piano solo
*''Scriabin Settings'' (1978)
*''Coursing'', Op. 17 (1979), for large chamber ensemble
*Symphony No. 3, Op. 18 (1973–79), for orchestra
*''Frammenti da Chiara'', Op.19a (1975/86), for two antiphonal 'a cappella' female choirs
*''
Where the Wild Things Are
''Where the Wild Things Are'' is a 1963 children's picture book written and illustrated by American writer and illustrator Maurice Sendak, originally published in hardcover by Harper & Row. The book has been adapted into other media several tim ...
'', Op. 20 (1979–83), fantasy opera, libretto by
Maurice Sendak
*''Songs and a Sea Interlude'', Op. 20a (1979–81), for soprano and orchestra
*''The Wild Rumpus'', Op. 20b (1983), for orchestra
*''Higglety Pigglety Pop!'', Op. 21 (1984–85, revised 1999), fantasy opera, libretto by
Maurice Sendak
*''Fanfares for Tanglewood'' (1986), for thirteen brass and three groups of percussion
*''The Way to Castle Yonder'', Op. 21a (1988–90), for orchestra
*''Flourish with Fireworks'', Op. 22 (1988 revised 1993), for orchestra
*''Four Late Poems and an Epigram of
Rilke'', Op. 23 (1988), soprano solo
*Variations, Op. 24 (1989), for piano solo
*''Secret Psalm'' (1990), for violin solo
*''
Whitman Settings'', Op. 25 (1991/92) for soprano and piano; Op. 25a (1992) version for soprano and orchestra
*''Songs without Voices'', Op. 26 (1991–92), for flute, cor anglais, clarinet, horn, piano and string trio
*''Elegiac Arabesques'' (in memory of
Andrzej Panufnik
Sir Andrzej Panufnik (24 September 1914 – 27 October 1991) was a Poles, Polish composer and conductor. He became established as one of the leading Polish composers, and as a conductor he was instrumental in the re-establishment of the Warsaw ...
), Op. 26a (1991), for cor anglais and clarinet
*''Two Organa'', Op. 27 (1994), for large chamber ensemble
*Horn Concerto, Op. 28 (1994), for horn solo and orchestra
*''"...upon one note" (fantasia after Purcell)'' (1995), for clarinet, piano and string trio
*''Prayer Bell Sketch'' (in memory of
Tōru Takemitsu
was a Japanese composer and writer on aesthetics and music theory. Largely self-taught, Takemitsu was admired for the subtle manipulation of instrumental and orchestral timbre. He is known for combining elements of oriental and occidental phil ...
), Op. 29 (1997), for piano solo
*''Eccentric Melody'' (for
Elliott Carter
Elliott Cook Carter Jr. (December 11, 1908 – November 5, 2012) was an American modernist composer. One of the most respected composers of the second half of the 20th century, he combined elements of European modernism and American "ultra- ...
's 90th birthday) (1998), for cello solo
*Violin Concerto, Op. 30 (2002), for violin solo and orchestra
*''Cleveland Pictures'' Op. 31. First performed at
Snape Maltings
Snape Maltings is an arts complex on the banks of the River Alde at Snape, Suffolk, England. It is best known for its concert hall, which is one of the main sites of the annual Aldeburgh Festival.
The original purpose of the Maltings was the m ...
on Friday 2022-06-24 by the
BBC Symphony Orchestra
The BBC Symphony Orchestra (BBC SO) is a British orchestra based in London. Founded in 1930, it was the first permanent salaried orchestra in London, and is the only one of the city's five major symphony orchestras not to be self-governing. T ...
*''Ophelia's Last Dance'', Ophelia Dances Book 2, Op. 32 (2004/2009–10), for piano solo
*''Requiem: Songs for Sue'', Op. 33 (2005–6), for soprano and chamber ensemble
* ''Reflection'', Op. 31a (2016) for violin and piano
* ''O Hototogisu!'' (fragment of a Japonisme), for soprano, flute and large ensemble (2017)
Discography (as performer)
*
Poul Ruders
Poul Ruders (born 27 March 1949) is a Danish composer.
Life
Born in Ringsted, Ruders trained as an organist, and studied orchestration with Karl Aage Rasmussen. Ruders's first compositions date from the mid-1960s. Ruders regards his own compositi ...
,
Hans Abrahamsen – Chamber Works, London Sinfonietta, Paula Records (1985)
*Knussen – ''Where the Wild Things Are'', London Sinfonietta, Arabasque Records (1985)
*
Elliott Carter
Elliott Cook Carter Jr. (December 11, 1908 – November 5, 2012) was an American modernist composer. One of the most respected composers of the second half of the 20th century, he combined elements of European modernism and American "ultra- ...
– Chamber Works,
The Fires of London London Sinfonietta, Wergo Records (1985)
*
Benjamin Britten
Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten (22 November 1913 – 4 December 1976, aged 63) was an English composer, conductor, and pianist. He was a central figure of 20th-century British music, with a range of works including opera, other ...
– ''The Prince of the Pagodas'', London Sinfinietta, Virgin Classics (1990)
*
Alexander Goehr – Chamber Works, London Sinfonietta, Unicorn-Kanchana (1991)
*Carter – Orchestral Works, London Sinfonietta, Virgin Classics (1992)
*Goehr – ''Sing, Ariel'', ''The Mouse Metamorphosed into A Maid'', Lucy Shelton, Eileen Hulse, Sarah Leonard, Instrumental Ensemble, Unicorn-Kanchana (1992)
*Ruders – Chamber Works, Capricorn, Bridge Records (1992)
*
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 ...
– Chamber Works, London Sinfonietta, NMC (1993)
*
Aaron Copland
Aaron Copland (, ; November 14, 1900December 2, 1990) was an American composer, composition teacher, writer, and later a conductor of his own and other American music. Copland was referred to by his peers and critics as "the Dean of American Com ...
– ''Grohg'', etc., The Cleveland Orchestra, London Sinfonietta, Argo Records (1994)
*
Igor Stravinsky – ''The Flood'', etc.,
Charles Wuorinen – ''A Reliquary for Igor Stravinsky'', London Sinfonietta, Deutsche Grammophon (1995)
*
Colin Matthews
Colin Matthews, OBE (born 13 February 1946) is an English composer of contemporary classical music. Noted for his large-scale orchestral compositions, Matthews is also a prolific arranger of other composer's music, including works by Berlioz, ...
– ''Broken symmetry'', ''Suns dance'', ''Fourth Sonata'', London Sinfonietta, Deutsche Grammophon (1995)
*Goehr – Piano Concerto, Peter Serkin, London Sinfonietta, NMC (1995)
*Knussen – Orchestral, Vocal and Chamber Works, Barry Tuckwell, Lucy Shelton, London Sinfonietta, Deutsche Grammophon (1996)
*
Robert Saxton
Robert Saxton (born 8 October 1953 in London) is a British composer.
Biography
Robert Saxton was born in London and started composing at the age of six. He was educated at Bryanston School. Guidance in early years from Benjamin Britten and El ...
– Orchestral Works, BBC Symphony Orchestra, London Sinfonietta, Oliver Knussen, EMI Classics (1997)
*
Hans Werner Henze
Hans Werner Henze (1 July 1926 – 27 October 2012) was a German composer. His large oeuvre of works is extremely varied in style, having been influenced by serialism, atonality, Stravinsky, Italian music, Arabic music and jazz, as well as ...
– ''Undine'', London Sinfonietta, Deutsche Grammophon (1997)
*Stravinsky – ''The Fairy's Kiss'', ''Faun And Shepherdess'', ''Ode'' – Lucy Shelton, The Cleveland Orchestra, Deutsche (1997)
*
Ruth Crawford Seeger
Ruth Crawford Seeger (born Ruth Porter Crawford; July 3, 1901 – November 18, 1953) was an American composer and folk music specialist. Her music was a prominent exponent of the emerging modernist aesthetic and she became a central member of a g ...
– ''Portrait'', Lucy Shelton, Reinbert de Leeuw, New London Chamber Choir, James Wood, Schönberg Ensemble, Deutsche Grammophon (1997)
*
Toru Takemitsu TORU or Toru may refer to:
* TORU, spacecraft system
* Toru (given name), Japanese male given name
* Toru, Pakistan, village in Mardan District of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
*Tõru
Tõru is a village in Saaremaa Parish, Saare County in western ...
– ''Quotation of Dream'', London Sinfonietta, Deutsche Grammophon (1998)
*Carter – ''Symphonia'', Clarinet Concerto, London Sinfonietta, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Deutsche Grammophon (1999)
*Takemitsu – ''Riverrun'', ''Water-ways'', Paul Crossley, London Sinfonietta, Virgin Classics Digital (1999)
*
Magnus Lindberg
Magnus Gustaf Adolf Lindberg (born 27 June 1958) is a Finnish composer and pianist. He was the New York Philharmonic's composer-in-residence from 2009 to 2012 and has been the London Philharmonic Orchestra's composer-in-residence since the beg ...
– ''Aura'', ''Engine'', BBC Symphony Orchestra, London Sinfonietta, Deutsche Grammophon (2000)
*
Peter Lieberson
Peter Goddard Lieberson (25 October 1946 – 23 April 2011) was an American composer of contemporary classical music. His song cycles include two finalists for the Pulitzer Prize for Music: '' Rilke Songs'' and ''Neruda Songs''; the latter won t ...
– Chamber Works, Asko Ensemble, The Cleveland Orchestra, Deutsche Grammophon (2001)
*Knussen – ''Higglety Pigglety Pop!'' & ''Where The Wild Things Are'', London Sinfonietta, Deutsche Grammophon (2001)
*Knussen – ''Hums And Songs of Winnie-the-Pooh'' and Other Chamber Works, Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, EMI Classics (2002)
*
Modest Mussorgsky
Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky ( rus, link=no, Модест Петрович Мусоргский, Modest Petrovich Musorgsky , mɐˈdɛst pʲɪˈtrovʲɪtɕ ˈmusərkskʲɪj, Ru-Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky version.ogg; – ) was a Russian compo ...
, orch
Leopold Stokowski
Leopold Anthony Stokowski (18 April 1882 – 13 September 1977) was a British conductor. One of the leading conductors of the early and mid-20th century, he is best known for his long association with the Philadelphia Orchestra and his appear ...
– ''Pictures at an Exhibition, Boris Godunov, Khovanschina, Night on a Bare Mountain'', The Cleveland Orchestra, Deutsche Grammophon (2004)
*Carter – Orchestral Works, London Sinfonietta, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Asko Ensemble, Bridge Records (2005)
*
Julian Anderson
Julian Anderson (born 6 April 1967) is a British composer and teacher of composition.
Biography
Anderson was born in London. He studied at Westminster School, then with John Lambert at the Royal College of Music, with Alexander Goehr at Cambri ...
– Orchestral Works, BBC Symphony Orchestra, London Sinfonietta, Ondine (2006)
*Takemitsu – Orchestral Works, London Sinfonietta, Rolf Hind, London Sinfonietta Label (2006)
*Knussen – Violin Concerto, ''Requiem'', ''Songs For Sue'', Soloists, BBC Symphony Orchestra, NMC (2012)
*Goehr – ''Marching To Carcassonne'', Peter Serkin, BBC Symphony Orchestra, London Sinfonietta, Naxos Records (2013)
*Britten – ''The Rape of Lucretia'', Kirchschlager, Bostridge, Gritton, Purves, Russell, Coleman-Wright, Summers, Booth, Aldeburgh Festival Ensemble, Virgin Classics (2013)
*
Charlotte Bray
Charlotte Bray (born 1982) is a British composer. She was championed by the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, London Sinfonietta and Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, BBC Symphony Orchestra. Her music has been performed by many notable condu ...
– ''Caught in Treetops'', Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, NMC (2014)
*Takemitsu – Orchestral Concert (to Mark the 20th Anniversary of his Passing), Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, Tower Records (2017)
*Carter – Late Works, Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Colin Currie, Isabelle Faust, Jean-Guihen Queyras, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Ondine (2017)
*Anderson – ''The Comedy of Change'', ''Heaven Is Shy of Earth'',
Susan Bickley, BBC Symphony Chorus, London Sinfonietta, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Ondine (2018)
*Henze – ''Heliogabalus Imperator'', Works For Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Wergo Records (2019)
References
Further reading
*
External links
CompositionToday – Knussen article, review and interviewKnussen biography at the website of his publisher Faber MusicBirmingham Contemporary Music Group websiteOliver Knussen (1952–2018): Music of New Epiphanies by Michael Schell at Second InversionNotes on Symphony No. 3 by Thomas May 17 December 1988 & 13 March 1998
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20th-century classical composers
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20th-century British male musicians
20th-century Scottish musicians
21st-century classical composers
21st-century British male musicians
British classical composers
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British male conductors (music)
Scottish conductors (music)
Commanders of the Order of the British Empire
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