Paul Newland is a composer, musician, and founding member of the group out and the electric guitar duo, exquisite corpse (David Arrowsmith/Paul Newland). He studied composition at the

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with Anthony Gilbert and visiting tutor

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, at the

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in London with

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and at

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with

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receiving his doctorate in 2006. While a student at the Royal Academy of Music,

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awarded Newland the Josiah Parker prize for composition. In 1999, he was awarded a Japanese government

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to study with Japanese composer

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, and lived in Japan from 1999 to 2002. Recent commissions and performances include ''Difference is everywhere'' (2017) for the Elias String Quartet, commissioned by the Wigmore Hall Trust, ''things that happen again (again)'' (2017) for Music We'd Like to Hear, and ''Angus MacPhee'' (2015) commissioned by

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for the

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and premiered in

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at Tectonics 2015. He has made several works in collaboration with choreographer and dancer Marina Collard including ''what this is, is...'' (2016), ''going on - going on'' (2015) and ''shellsuit'' (2015). Many of his works have been written for and premiered by outincluding; ''readymade 2'' (1997), ''standing jump'' (2002), ''situation 2'' (2007), ''husk'' (2009), ''nicholas givotovsky'' (2012) and ''holywell'' (2015). Other works include : ''surface'' for the

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commissioned for their Soundscape Pioneers series, ''Repetition and difference'' and ''Come gather...'' (solo piano) for

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, ''1-4'' (solo harpsichord) for Jane Chapman, ''monotonous forest'' for ensemble Radius commissioned by the Britten Foundation premiered at the

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, ''patina'' and ''essays in idleness'' (solo guitar) for David Arrowsmith and ''momiji gari'' for Japanese guitarists Norio Sato and Toshimitsu Kamigaichi. The electric guitar duo, exquisite corpse, has performed at London's Vibe Bar, Café Oto, and Cakey Muto. As part of the ongoing project ''graft,'' exquisite corpse created a series of semi-improvised works with choreographer Mari Frogner, giving performances at Crondell St. Underground Car Park

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, The Book Club Spitalfields and The Old Police Station Deptford. The duo performed ''common wealth'' a work created specifically for the derelict Commonwealth Institute building on

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. This new piece was created in collaboration with choreographer Mari Frogner and commissioned by Fruits of the Apocalypse for their Common Sounds project at Kensington and Chelsea Festival. Newland is currently writing a solo piano piece for Satoko Inoue. In 1994, he received the Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award for Composition. He received the New Millennium Composers Award in 2010. He is a Professor of Composition at

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in the

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, London. He is also Professor at

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Works

His works include: * ''Difference is everywhere'' (2017) for string quartet * ''Things that happen again (again)'' (2016) for piano trio * ''What this is, is...'' (2016) dancer, giant latex cube, music/sound, film, still images and light * ''going on - going on'' (2015) solo dancer, prepared electric guitar, film projection * ''shellsuit'' (2015) dance, music for two electric guitars (prepared), spoken text and projected film * ''holywell'' (2015) sax, e guit, piano, vn, db, field recordings * ''Aldwych (2015)'' seven sine tones and seven spatially dispersed speakers * ''Come gather...'' (2015) for Tim Parkinson (solo piano) * ''Repetition and difference'' (2014) for Tim Parkinson (solo piano) * ''locus'' (2013) any instruments, acoustic objects, recorded sounds * ''nicholas givotovsky'' (2012) for outsax, eguit., piano, vn, db * ''patina'' (2011) for David Arrowsmith (solo guitar) * ''surface'' (2009) orchestra * ''husk'' (2009) for outsax, egit, piano, vn, db and Okeanos ob.cl.va.shakuhachi.sho.koto * ''monotonous forest'' (2009) 'cello, piano, vibes * ''shellac'' (2009) sinfonietta * ''time quivers'' (2008) fl.cl.perc.vn.vc * ''1-4'' (2007) for Jane Chapman (solo harpsichord) * ''situation 2'' (2007) for out* ''Shadows and Dust'' (2005) * ''Standing Jump'' (2002) for violin, guitar, harmonium and harpsichord * ''Shukkeien'' (2001) violin and piano * ''Essays in Idleness'' (2001) solo guitar * ''butterfly dreaming'' (2000) for piano * ''pachinko!'' (2000) field recording (Hiroshima) and guitar effects pedals * ''slow dance'' (2000) looped recordings of dance movement and voice (Marina Collard) * ''ashita gakko e ikimasu'' (2000) computer generated voice (three part canon) * ''no ere'' (1999) for 3 simultaneous video tapes and optional minidisc * ''being-as-it-is'' (1999) for 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 2 horns, 2 trumpets, vibraphone 6.6.4.4.2 strings * ''readymade 2'' (1997) as well as a book called ''Writings through John Cage'' (2003), published by Contemporary Voices (BMIC)

References

External links

Trinity Laban page

Guildhall School of Music and Drama page

Marina Collard
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