Larry Goves (born 1980 in
Cardiff
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, Wales) is a British composer.
A PhD student at the University of Southampton, his tutor is
Michael Finnissy
Michael Peter Finnissy (born 17 March 1946) is an English composer, pianist, and pedagogue. An immensely prolific composer, his music is "notable for its dramatic urgency and expressive immediacy".
Although he rejects the label, he is often r ...
. In addition to Undergraduate and Postgraduate studies at the
Royal Northern College of Music
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, he has studied privately with
Richard Barrett and
Simon Holt
Simon Holt (born 21 February 1958) is an English composer.
Biography
Simon Holt was born in Bolton, Lancashire on 21 February 1958. Educated at Bolton School, Holt immersed himself in organ, piano and visual art during his sixth form years. ...
. He has received commissions from the
Nash Ensemble
The Nash Ensemble of London is an English chamber ensemble. It was founded by Artistic Director Amelia Freedman and Rodney Slatford in 1964, while they were students at the Royal Academy of Music, and was named after the Nash Terraces around ...
, 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 ...
, the
BBC Philharmonic
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and many others. He is a founder and performer with the ensemble the
House of Bedlam. His music has been broadcast by
BBC Radio 3
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. The chamber piece ''walking underground'' (2000) was recorded by 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 ...
on the
NMC label, as has his solo oboe piece ''the tentacles of memory'' (2003), released on Dutton Epoch.
In 2011, Goves' work ''Virtual Airport'' was nominated for the Chamber-Scale Composition Prize at the
Royal Philharmonic Society Music Awards.
References
External links
Larry GovesLondon Sinfonietta profile
Larry GovesKings Place
Kings Place is a building in London’s Kings Cross area, providing music and visual arts venues combined with seven floors of office space. It has housed the editorial offices of ''The Guardian'' newspaper since December 2008 and is the for ...
biography
Larry Goves''Exchange and Return'' website profile
''Sounds Underground'' website profile
the house of bedlamHuddersfield Contemporary Music Festival
The Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival (also known by the acronym HCMF, stylised since 2006 as the lowercase hcmf//) is a new music festival held annually in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England. Since its foundation in 1978, it has featured ...
profile of House of Bedlam
1980 births
21st-century classical composers
Living people
Welsh classical composers
Welsh male classical composers
Alumni of the Royal Northern College of Music
21st-century British male musicians
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