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/ref> O'Regan has served on the Faculties of

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as a Fulbright Chester Schirmer Fellow, The

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as a Radcliffe Fellow,

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in the University of Cambridge,

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, and the

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in Princeton as Director's Visitor. O'Regan's compositions incorporate the influence of Renaissance vocal writing, the music of North Africa, British rock bands of the 1960s and 1970s, jazz and Minimalist music. His music is often rhythmically complex and employs varying approaches to tonality.

Life and work

1978–2001: Beginnings, early education, and influences

Tarik O'Regan was born in London in 1978. He grew up predominantly in

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, to an English father of

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and an

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n mother, spending some of his early childhood in

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and

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, the latter where his mother was born. He was educated at

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then

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, where he studied music and, in 1997, he received his first commissions from the Choir of

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(conducted by Edward Higginbottom) and James Bowman. During this time, he studied composition privately with

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. Following completion of his undergraduate studies in 1999, he began serving as the classical recordings reviewer for ''

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'' newspaper, a position he held until 2003.Interview with Bernard Clarke

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Nova. 21 November 2010 At the same time he also worked for

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, the investment bank. He completed his postgraduate studies under the direction of

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at Cambridge, where he was appointed Composer in Residence at Corpus Christi College in 2000 and formally began his career as a composer, with his first published works appearing in 2001 on the Finnish Sulasol imprint.

2002–2008: Early compositional career

2002 marked two important London premieres: those of ''Clichés'' with the

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and ''The Pure Good of Theory'' with the

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. In 2004, O'Regan moved to New York City to take up the Chester Schirmer

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and subsequently a

Fellowship at

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. During this period, his composition ''Sainte'' won the Vocal category of the 2005 British Composer Awards and his debut disc, ''VOICES'' was released on the Collegium label. Beginning in 2007, O'Regan began dividing his time between the UK and the US when he was appointed Fellow Commoner in the Creative Arts at

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, a position he held until 2009. During his tenure at Cambridge, his composition ''Threshold of Night'' won the Liturgical category of the 2007 British Composer Awards and ''Scattered Rhymes'', his first CD on the

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label, performed by the Orlando Consort and the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir conducted by

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, was released in 2008.

2008–2011: ''Threshold of Night'' and broadcasting

O'Regan's second disc on the Harmonia Mundi label, '' Threshold of Night'', appeared in late 2008 and awakened a wider interest in his work, demonstrated by the CD garnering two

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Award nominations in 2009: Best Classical Album, Best Choral Performance. After this, he increased his output as a music commentator in print and on air, especially on

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and

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. This aspect of his career broadened with the broadcasting in 2010 on BBC Radio 4 of ''Composing New York'', a documentary written and presented by O'Regan. In the same year, he was appointed to the

in Princeton as a Director's Visitor and made his

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debut with ''Latent Manifest'' performed by the

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. O'Regan's third album on the Harmonia Mundi label, ''Acallam na Senórach: an Irish Colloquy'' (based on the 12th century

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narrative of the same name) was released in October 2011.

2011–present: ''Heart of Darkness'', ''Mata Hari'', and other works for the stage

In 2011, ''

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'', O'Regan's

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in one act, with an English-language

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by artist Tom Phillips, based on the novella of the same name by

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was premiered at the Linbury Theatre of the

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. The idea for the opera first came to O'Regan in 2001. It received wide critical attention and marked his first foray into operatic writing. A suite for orchestra and narrator was extrapolated from the opera and was given its London premiere by the

and actor

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in April 2013. In May 2015, ''Heart of Darkness'' received its North American premiere in a production by Opera Parallèle, presented by

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in San Francisco, California. Since the opera, O'Regan composed several pieces influenced by North Africa, which include his first collaborations with both the

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and the

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. Recently, some of his output has formed the focus of festivals such as the 2014 Vale of Glamorgan Festival and ''New Music for New Age'' from The Washington Chorus. O'Regan's first full-length ballet score (''Mata Hari'', based on the life of Margaretha Zelle MacLeod), commissioned by the Dutch National Ballet with choreography by Ted Brandsen, opened on 6 February 2016 in

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. On 30 September 2016 ''Mata Hari'' was released in

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and

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formats by EuroArts, distributed by

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; the ballet will be revived for a further run in October, 2017. In February, 2017, O'Regan's first album of orchestral music, ''A Celestial Map of the Sky'', performed by

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under the direction of

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and Jamie Phillips, was released on the NMC label. The album entered the British

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at number seven in the Specialist Classical Chart and number 18 in the Classical Artist Albums Chart. In the same year he was elected both to an Honorary Fellowship of

, and to the board of

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. Tarik O'Regan was appointed

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's first-ever

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in 2021.

Music

Style

O'Regan's music is mostly written in tonal, extended-tonal and modal languages (or a combination of all three), often with complicated rhythmic effects and dense textural variation.

Influences

In various radio and print interviews, O'Regan has stated that he "came to music quite late", mentioning the age of 13 as when he first was able to read music, and has listed five primary influences on his work: # Renaissance vocal writing: from some of the repertoire performed by the college choirs at the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge where he was educated, although O'Regan describes himself as being "a pretty bad singer". # The music of North Africa: from his own maternal heritage and time spent in Algeria and Morocco during his youth. # British rock bands of the 1960s and 1970s: such as

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and

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, first encountered in his mother's LP collection. #

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: predominantly artists recorded on the

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label in the 1950s and 1960s jazz, an interest first explored in his father's LP collection. #

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An article in ''

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'' on 23 November 2010 suggested that O'Regan is also interested in his Irish heritage. Published on the occasion of the first performance of ''Acallam na Senórach'' (a setting of The Middle Irish narrative of the same name), the article stated that

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is a direct ancestor of O'Regan (his great-great-great-grandfather), whose middle name is

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Critical reception

*His 2006 debut disc, ''VOICES'' (Collegium Records COL CD 130), recorded by the Choir of

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, was released to critical acclaim, heralding O'Regan as "one of the most original and eloquent of young British composers" (''The Observer'', London), "breathing new life into the idiom" (''The Daily Telegraph'', London). International Record Review declared the recording "a committed, persuasive and highly accomplished performance of an exceptional composing voice of our time", while BBC Music Magazine gave the disc a double five-star rating. *''Scattered Rhymes'' (2008), O'Regan's first disc from Harmonia Mundi, was described as "a stunning recording" (BBC Radio 3 CD Review), "exquisite and delicate" (''The Washington Post''), "a fascinating disc" (''The Daily Telegraph'', London) and "typically unfaultable" (''BBC Music Magazine''). After the June 2006 premiere of the eponymous work at the

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, Geoff Brown, in ''

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'' (London), described "O'Regan's gift for lyric flight sboundless. You might have to reach back to Vaughan Williams's Serenade to Music, or even Tallis, to find another British vocal work so exultant." *The 2008 release of ''Threshold of Night'' marked O'Regan's international breakthrough. The disc debuted at No. 10 on the

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and garnered two

nominations in 2009 before going on to receive wid
critical acclaim
*The 2010 BBC Proms premiere of ''Latent Manifest'' performed by the

, conducted by

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, was widely reviewed in London: " personal canvas, taking us a long way from a literal reworking into the realms of evanescent fantasy, with delicately evocative results" (The Guardian, London), "a beguiling response to response itself – a mirage of intimations and allusions to 'Regan'sown experience of hearing Bach's third solo Violin Sonata" (The Times, London), "a gracefully-controlled meditation on a single Bach phrase" (The Independent, London). *The premiere production of O'Regan's first opera, ''

'' (2011), opened to largely positive reviews, both in print an

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. Anna Picard described the opera as an "audacious, handsome debut" in ''

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'' and Stephen Pritchard, in ''

'', explained that "the brilliance of heopera lies in its ability to convey all that horror without the compulsion to show it – the ultimate psychodrama – and to employ music of startling beauty to tell such a brutal tale". Pritchard also described the music as "a score of concise originality". For a full account of the critical response to the opera, see ''

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''. * The 2017 release of ''A Celestial Map of the Sky'', O'Regan's first orchestral album, was widely reviewed: "Luminous beauty ... glows with jewel-like warmth" (''The Observer''); "This is a good sampling that shows the range of O'Regan's work ... these would seem pieces that are soon to enter a great many orchestral and choral repertories. Highly recommended." (''AllMusic''); "A splendid and highly recommended programme of music." (''Composition Today'')

Publications and works list

Tarik O'Regan's earliest works were published by

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an
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since 2004 his music has been exclusively published by

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mpany, part of the

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group of companies.

Stage

* (2021) ''Mata Hari'' (ballet, reduced orchestra version) * (2018) ''The Phoenix'' (opera) * (2016) ''Mata Hari'' (ballet) * (2013) ''The Wanton Sublime'' (monodrama) * (2011) ''Heart of Darkness'' (opera)

Orchestra

* (2022) ''Trances'' * (2012) ''Chaâbi'' * (2012) ''Fragments from a

'' (full orchestra version) * (2012) ''Suite from

for narrator and full orchestra'' * (2011) ''Raï'' (orchestra version) * (2010) ''Latent Manifest'' * (2008) ''Maybe we have time'' * (2004) ''Hudson Lullaby''

Orchestra with soloist

* (2022) ''Machine'' for saxophone and string orchestra * (2014) ''Corsair'' for oud and orchestra * (2000) ''The Pure Good of Theory'' for violin and orchestra

Orchestra with chorus

* (2022) ''The Quickening'' * (2021) ''No one can hear themselves staying'' * (2015) ''A Letter of Rights'' * (2014) ''A Celestial Map of the Sky'' * (2012) ''After Rain (Petrichor)'' * (2011) ''Solitude Trilogy'' * (2011) ''The Ecstasies Above'' (orchestra version, arranged by Daniel Moreira) * (2008) ''Care Charminge Sleepe'' (orchestra version) * (2008) ''Martyr'' * (2007) ''Stolen Voices'' * (2005) ''And There Was a Great Calm'' * (2005) ''Triptych'' * (2004) ''Threnody''

Chamber ensemble

* (2022) ''The Golden Measure'' (from ''Ancestor'', with

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) * (2016) ''Gradual'' (revised 2021) * (2013) ''Virelai: Douce Dame Jolie'' (recorder quartet version) * (2012) ''Fragments from a

'' (chamber ensemble version) * (2012) ''Suite from

for narrator and chamber ensemble'' * (2011) ''A Ducal Fanfare'' * (2010) ''A Drifting Life'' * (2008) ''Darkness Visible'' * (2008) ''The Woven Child'' * (2006) ''Raï'' * (2005) ''Fragment for String Quartet'' * (2005) ''Fragments from a Gradual Process'' * (2002) ''Lexington 767'' * (2000) ''Clichés''

Chamber ensemble with chorus

* (2016) ''Mass Observation'' * (2013) ''Blessed are they'' * (2010) ''The Night's Untruth'' * (2009) ''The Eyes of the Stars'' * (2009) ''Where all is buried'' * (2008) ''Threshold of Light'' * (2007) ''The Taxi'' * (2006) ''The Ecstasies Above''

Chorus

* (2020) ''The Stillness Chained'' * (2019) ''Facing West'' * (2018) ''Keep'' * (2017) ''All things common'' * (2017) ''As One'' * (2016) ''Turn'' * (2016) I Listen to the Stillness of You' from Mass Observation'' * (2015) ''Itself is all the like it has'' * (2014) ''Tell me'' * (2014) ''Love Reckons By Itself Alone'' * (2012) ''All Creation Slept'' * (2012) ''Ecce Puer'' * (2012) ''Night City'' * (2011) ''Beloved, all things ceased'' * (2011) ''fleeting, God'' * (2010) ''Acallam na Senórach'' * (2010) ''Death is gonna lay his cold icy hands on me'' * (2010) ''Swing Low, sweet chariot'' * (2009) ''Jubilate Deo'' (Latin setting) * (2009) ''Martyr Dei (Martyr of God)'' from ''Sequence for St Wulfstan'' * (2009) ''No Matter'' * (2009) ''The Great Silence'' * (2009) ''That music always round me'' * (2008) ''Nunc Dimittis'' (for double chorus) * (2008) ''Se lamentar augelli'' * (2008) ''The Spring'' from ''Acallam na Senórach'' * (2008) ''The St Andrews Responsories'' * (2008) ''Voce mea'' * (2007) ''A Light Exists in Spring'' * (2007) ''Ipsa vivere'' * (2007) ''Jubilate Deo'' (English Version) * (2007) ''Puer natus est'' * (2007) ''Tal vez tenemos tiempo'' * (2007) ''Two Emily Dickinson Settings'' * (2007) ''Virelai: Douce dame jolie'' * (2006) ''Hymnus de Sancte Andree Apostole (Hymn of Saint Andrew the Apostle)'' from ''Sequence for St Wulfstan'' * (2006) ''I sleep, but my heart waketh'' * (2006) ''Israfel'' * (2006) ''Scattered Rhymes'' * (2006) ''Threshold of Night'' * (2006) ''The Windows'' * (2005) ''Haec deum celi (Thou the true Virgin Mother of the Highest)'' from ''Sequence for St Wulfstan'' * (2005) ''Lamentation'' * (2005) ''We Remember Them'' * (2004) ''Alleluia, laus et gloria'' * (2004) ''Bring rest, sweet dreaming child'' * (2004) ''De Sancto Ioanne Baptista'' * (2004) ''Dorchester Canticles'' * (2004) ''Gloria'' * (2003) ''Beatus auctor sæculi (Blest author of this earthly frame)'' from ''Sequence for St Wulfstan'' * (2003) ''O vera digna hostia (O Thou from whom hell's monarch flies)'' from ''Sequence for St Wulfstan'' * (2003) ''Tu claustra stirpe regia (O Thou, from regal ancestry)'' from ''Sequence for St Wulfstan'' * (2003) ''Tu, trinitatis unitas (You oneness of the Trinity)'' from ''Sequence for St Wulfstan'' * (2002) ''Cantate Domino'' * (2002) ''Surrexit Christus'' * (2001) ''Agnus Dei'' * (2001) ''Corpus Christi Service'' * (2001) ''I Saw Him Standing'' * (2001) ''Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis'' * (2000) ''Care Charminge Sleepe'' * (2000) ''Gratias tibi'' * (1999) ''Ave Maria'' * (1999) ''Columba aspexit'' * (1999) ''Locus iste''

Solo instrumental

* (2016) ''Chorale Prelude on 'Wenn dich Unglück tut greifen an * (2014) ''Alice Changes'' * (2013) ''Fallen words'' * (2012) ''Eminent Domains'' * (2010) ''Parsing Variations'' * (2008) ''Postlude for organ'' from ''Threshold of Light'' * (2005) ''Lines of Desire'' * (2004) ''Textures'' * (1999) ''Colimaçon'' * (1999) ''Three Piano Miniatures''

Solo voice

* (2021) ''Seen & Unseen'' * (2020) ''When I go away from you (The Taxi)'' * (2017) ''Hold this city all night'' * (2012) ''Now Fatal Change'' * (2009) ''The Sorrow of True Love'' * (2009) ''Love raise your voice'' * (2005) ''Three Motion Settings'' * (2002) ''Sainte'' * (1999) ''The Appointment'' * (1998) ''The Tongue of Epigrams''

Electroacoustic

* (2014) ''Scattered Rhymes'' (dance version; collaboration with Nick Wales)

Discography

Filmography

Awards and recognition

* 2005 British Composer Award (Vocal category) for ''Sainte'' * 2007 British Composer Award for (Liturgical category) for ''Threshold of Night'' * 2009 Two Grammy Award nominations (Best Classical Album and Best Choral Performance) for ''Threshold of Night'' * 2009 NEA Artistic Excellence Grant for ''Heart of Darkness''2009 NEA Artistic Excellence Grants
* 2011 Bronze Award at the 2011 World's Best Radio Programs Awards in New York. * 2017 Elected to the board of

* 2017 Honorary Fellowship of

Notes

References

Tarik O'Regan's Novello & Company works catalogue
(2004–present)
Tarik O'Regan's Oxford University Press works catalogue
(1999–2003)

External links

Official website (www.tarikoregan.com)Publisher website
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