Anna Clyne

Anna Clyne (born 9 March 1980, in London) is an English composer, now resident in New York, US. She has worked in both acoustic music and electro-acoustic music.

Biography

Clyne began writing music as a child, completing her first composition at age 7. Her first composition to receive a public performance was at the Oxford Youth Prom when she was 11. She formally studied music at the University of Edinburgh, from which she graduated with a first-class Bachelor of Music degree with honours. She later studied at the Manhattan School of Music and earned a MA degree in music. Her teachers have included Marina Adamia, Marjan Mozetich and Julia Wolfe.

Clyne was director of the New York Youth Symphony's "Making Score" program for young composers from 2008 to 2010. In October 2009, Clyne and Mason Bates were named co-composers in residence with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (CSO), as of the 2010–2011 season. She took up the residency in 2010, for a scheduled term of 3 years. In January 2012, her CSO contract as co-composer in residence was extended through the 2013-2015 season. Clyne was announced as the composer-in-residence for Orchestre national d'Île-de-France from 2014 to 2016, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra's 2015–2016 season, and The Berkeley Symphony Orchestra from 2017–2019. Clyne was appointed Associate Composer with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra from 2019–2022.

In 2013, the concert overture ''Masquerade'' was commissioned by BBC Radio 3 to open the Last Night of the Proms, where the BBC Symphony Orchestra was conducted by Marin Alsop.AVIE AV2434
/ref> Clyne was nominated for the 2015 Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Classical Composition for her double violin concerto, '' Prince of Clouds''. Works for soloist and orchestra form an important part of her output, as is also evident from '' The Seamstress'' (2015), a single-movement violin concerto that incorporates a whispered recitation of the poem ''A Coat'' by Yeats, and the five movement cello concerto ''Dance'' (2019), commissioned by Inbal Segev and recorded by her in 2020.

In 2018, the music critic Corinna da Fonseca Wollheim selected Clyne's composition, ''Lavender Rain'', for a ''New York Times'' feature on "5 Minutes that Will Make You Love Classical Music." A CD of her orchestral music, ''Mythologies'', was released in October 2020.

Compositions

Orchestra

* ''This Moment'' for orchestra (2022)
* ''PIVOT'' for orchestra (2021)
* ''Color Field'' for orchestra (2020)
* ''Restless Oceans'' for orchestra (2018)
* ''Abstractions'' for orchestra (2016)
* ''RIFT'' for orchestra (2016)
* '' This Midnight Hour'' for orchestra (2015)
* ''Masquerade'' for orchestra (2013)
* ''Night Ferry'' for orchestra (2012)
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Chamber orchestra

* ''Fractured Time'' for sinfonietta (2020)
* ''Shorthand'' for solo cello and string orchestra (2020)
* ''Stride'' for string orchestra (2020)
* ''Sound and Fury'' for chamber orchestra (2019)
* ''Rest These Hands'' for chamber orchestra (2014)
* ''Within Her Arms'' for string orchestra (2008–2009)

Chamber music

* ''A Slash of Blue'' for chamber ensemble (2022)
* ''Strange Loops'' for clarinet quintet (2021)
* ''Shorthand'' for cello and string quintet (2020)
* ''Overflow'' for wind ensemble (2020)
* ''A Thousand Mornings'' for piano trio (2020)
* ''Woman Holding a Balance'' for string quartet (2020)
* ''Breathing Statues'' for string quartet (2019)
* ''Masquerade'' for wind ensemble (2019)
* ''Just As They Are'' for amplified ensemble and pre-recorded audio (2015)
* ''This lunar Beauty'' for soprano, mixed ensemble and pre-recorded audio (2015)
* ''A Wonderful Day'' for amplified ensemble and pre-recorded audio (2013)
* ''A Hymn to the Virgin'' (Companion piece to "Lady Flow'r") for string quintet and tape (1930 rev. 1934 arr. 2010)
* ''Lady Flow'r'' (Companion piece to the arrangement of "Hymn to the Virgin") for string quintet and tape (2010)
* ''Primula Vulgaris'' for string quartet (2010)
* ''Shadow of the Words'' for string quartet (2010)
* ''The Violin - Complete works (''7 short pieces for multi-tracked violins and optional video component by Josh Dorman) (2009)
* ''The Violin - Blue Hour'' for string ensemble (2009)
* ''The Violin - Lavender Rain'' for string ensemble (2009)
* ''The Violin - October Rose'' for 2 violins (2009)
* ''The Violin - Resting in the Green for'' 2 violins and tape or 5 violins (2009)
* ''The Violin - Ship of Stars'' for 2 violins and tape or 6 violins (2009)
* ''The Violin - Tea Leaves'' for 2 violins (with optional tape) (2009)
* ''1987'' for ensemble (2008)
* ''Beware Of'' for alto flute, harp, viola and tape (2007)
* ''Next. Stop'' for ensemble and tape (2007)
* ''Roulette'' for string quartet (2007)
* ''Paint Box'' for amplified cello with guitar amp, music box and pre-recorded audio (2006)
* ''Steelworks'' for flute, bass clarinet, percussion and tape (2006)

Soloist and orchestra

* ''Time and Tides'' for violin and orchestra (2022)
* ''Weathered'' for clarinet and orchestra (2022)
* ''Quarter Days'' for string quartet and orchestra (2021)
* ''Glasslands'' for soprano saxophone and orchestra (2021)
* ''Shorthand'' for cello and string orchestra (2020)
* ''DANCE'' for cello and orchestra (2019)
* ''Three Sisters'' for mandolin and string orchestra (2017)
* '' The Seamstress'' for violin and orchestra (2014–2015)
* ''Secret Garden'' for drum set and tape (2013)
* '' Prince of Clouds'' for two violins and orchestra (2012)
* ''Rest These Hands'' for violin and string orchestra (2014)
* ''On Track'' for piano and tape (2007)
* ''Rapture'' for clarinet and tape (2005)
* ''Choke'' for baritone saxophone (or bass clarinet) and tape (2004)
* ''Fits + Starts'' for amplified cello and tape (2003)

Solo and Deut

* ''Red Nines'' for solo piano (2021)
* ''Perched'' for solo flute and tape (2021)
* ''Zero at the Bone'' for solo bass clarinet and tape (2021)
* ''Reveal'' for solo viola and optional pre-recorded track (2020)
* ''Hopscotch'' for flute (2019)
* ''Snake & Ladder'' for soprano saxophone and live processing (2019)
* ''Snake & Ladder'' for clarinet and live processing (2019)
* ''Secret Garden'' for drum set and tape (2013)
* ''Rest These Hands'' for cello (2009)
* ''Rest These Hands'' for violin (2009)
* ''Rest These Hands'' for viola (2009)
* ''On Track'' for piano and tape (2007)
* ''Rapture'' for clarinet and tape (2005)
* ''Choke'' for baritone saxophone (or bass clarinet) and tape (2004)
* ''Fits + Starts'' for amplified cello and tape (2003)

Brass ensemble

* ''Spangled Unicorn'' (2011)

Ensemble with voice

* ''Between the rooms'' for soprano and string quintet (2022)
* ''This Lunar Beauty'' for soprano, mixed ensemble and pre-recorded audio (2015)
* ''Postponeless Creature'' for 3 female voices and ensemble (2014)
* ''The Lost Thought'' for 3 female voices and ensemble (2013)
* ''As Sudden Shut'' for 3 female voices and ensemble (2012)
* ''Blush'' for baritone, laptop and chamber ensemble (2007)

Choral works

* ''The Years'' for SATB chorus and orchestra (2021)
* ''In Thy Beauty'' for soprano, SATB chorus and orchestra
* ''The Heart of Night'' for choir (2020)
* ''Body Compass for'' children's chorus and string quintet (2017)
* ''Pocket Book LXV'' for 8 voices (2015)
* ''Pocket Book VIII'' for 8 voices (2015)

Discography

* The Kreutzer Project (AVIE 2022)
* Mythologies (AVIE 2020)
* Mythologies on Vinyl (AVIE 2020)
* DANCE (AVIE 2020)
* Touch Harmonious (In A Circle 2020)
* E PLURIBUS UNUM (Navona 2020)
* The World is (Y)ours (Arcantus 2019)
* The Violin (National Sawdust Tracks 2017)
* BOAC Field Recordings (Cantaloupe 2015)
* Two x Four (Cedille 2014)
* Blue Moth (Tzadik 2012)
* Arcana VI by John Zorn (Tzadik 2012)
* ACO Playing it Unsafe (ACO 2011)
* The Exploding Piano (CD Baby 2010)
* I Am Not (New Amsterdam 2010)

References

External links

The New York Times , Anna Clyne, a Composer Who Creates With Images

Gramophone , Contemporary Composer: Anna Clyne , Richard Whitehouse has no doubt that things will only get better for this already popular and much-recorded composer



* Anna Clyne scores big , Symphonies still prefer dead composers, but Clyne beat the odds to land a plum job with the CSO at the tender age of 30
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1980 births
Living people
Women classical composers
British classical composers
Alumni of the University of Edinburgh
Musicians from London
Manhattan School of Music alumni
21st-century English women musicians
21st-century women composers