David Horne (composer) - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

David Horne is a Scottish

Scotland

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composer

Composer

A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...

, pianist

Pianist

A pianist is a musician who plays the piano. A professional pianist can perform solo pieces, play with an ensemble or orchestra, or accompany one or more singers, solo instrumentalists, or other performers.-Choice of genres:...

, and teacher

Teacher

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A resident composer with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic for four years, he has been awarded several commissions. His works have been performed by international caliber artists.

As an award winning pianist, he has performed with leading British orchestras.

Biography

He was born in Tillicoultry

Tillicoultry

Tillicoultry...

, near Stirling

Stirling

Stirling is a city and former ancient burgh in Scotland, and is at the heart of the wider Stirling council area. The city is clustered around a large fortress and medieval old-town beside the River Forth...

, in 1970. His father played piano (non professionally) and he started learning the piano

Piano

The piano is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard. It is one of the most popular instruments in the world. Widely used in classical and jazz music for solo performances, ensemble use, chamber music and accompaniment, the piano is also very popular as an aid to composing and rehearsal...

at the age of seven. Early in his life his family moved to Norway

Norway

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, his mother’s native country. Aged eleven, he went to St Mary's Music School in Edinburgh

Edinburgh

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to study piano with Audrey Innes and composition with Geoffrey King

Geoffrey King (composer)

Geoffrey King is a British composer and teacher.-Biography:Born in Croydon, England, King's first musical studies were at the Royal School of Church Music at Addington Palace. Later, at the Royal College of Music, he studied with Humphrey Searle, Justin Connolly and Alexander Goehr...

. In 1989 he moved to Philadelphia to study at the Curtis Institute, where he studied with Ned Rorem

Ned Rorem

Ned Rorem is a Pulitzer prize-winning American composer and diarist. He is best known and most praised for his song settings.-Life:...

. He moved on to Harvard University

Harvard University

Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...

, where he obtained a PhD

PHD

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in 1999 and became a visiting lecturer, still in his 20s. He has since returned to the United Kingdom

United Kingdom

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and lives in Manchester

Manchester

Manchester is a city and metropolitan borough in Greater Manchester, England. According to the Office for National Statistics, the 2010 mid-year population estimate for Manchester was 498,800. Manchester lies within one of the UK's largest metropolitan areas, the metropolitan county of Greater...

, where he is a lecturer at the Royal Northern College of Music

Royal Northern College of Music

The Royal Northern College of Music is a music school in Manchester, England. It is located on Oxford Road in Chorlton on Medlock, at the western edge of the campus of the University of Manchester and is one of four conservatories associated with the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music...

. In 2004 he led the New Music/New Media course for the Britten-Pears School. In 2006/07, he was visiting professor at the Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya

Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya

The Catalonia College of Music is a music school in Barcelona, CataloniaThe School is located in Barcelona at L'Auditori, a performing arts center inaugurated in 1999 which also houses three concert halls and is designated as the site of a future museum of musical instruments...

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He was composer in residence with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic from 2000 to 2004.

As a pianist, he received the piano section BBC Young Musician of the Year

BBC Young Musician of the Year

The BBC Young Musician of the Year is a televised national music competition. It is broadcast on BBC Two and BBC Four biennially, despite the name, and hosted by the British Broadcasting Corporation...

award in 1988.

He has performed as soloist with orchestras including the BBC Symphony Orchestra

BBC Symphony Orchestra

The BBC Symphony Orchestra is the principal broadcast orchestra of the British Broadcasting Corporation and one of the leading orchestras in Britain.-History:...

, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra

City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra

The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra is a British orchestra based in Birmingham, England. The Orchestra's current chief executive, appointed in 1999, is Stephen Maddock...

, London Sinfonietta

London Sinfonietta

The London Sinfonietta is an English chamber orchestra founded in 1968 and based in London. The ensemble specialises in contemporary music and works across a wide range of genres, performing modern classics alongside world premieres, and includes music by electronica artists as well as folk and...

, and Scottish National Orchestra.

He has appeared at The Proms

The Proms

The Proms, more formally known as The BBC Proms, or The Henry Wood Promenade Concerts presented by the BBC, is an eight-week summer season of daily orchestral classical music concerts and other events held annually, predominantly in the Royal Albert Hall in London...

, making his debut in 1990 performing Prokofiev

Sergei Prokofiev

Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev was a Russian composer, pianist and conductor who mastered numerous musical genres and is regarded as one of the major composers of the 20th century...

's Third Concerto

Piano Concerto No. 3 (Prokofiev)

Piano Concerto No. 3 in C major, Op. 26 is the best-known concerto by Sergei Prokofiev. It was completed in 1921 using sketches first started in 1913.-Composition and performances:...

Work

Horne composes concerto

Concerto

A concerto is a musical work usually composed in three parts or movements, in which one solo instrument is accompanied by an orchestra.The etymology is uncertain, but the word seems to have originated from the conjunction of the two Latin words...

s, orchestral, ensemble and chamber music

Chamber music

Chamber music is a form of classical music, written for a small group of instruments which traditionally could be accommodated in a palace chamber. Most broadly, it includes any art music that is performed by a small number of performers with one performer to a part...

, opera

Opera

Opera is an art form in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work combining text and musical score, usually in a theatrical setting. Opera incorporates many of the elements of spoken theatre, such as acting, scenery, and costumes and sometimes includes dance...

s, and song

Song

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He received the Yorkshire Arts Association Young Composers' Competition at the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival

Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival

The Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival is held in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England. It has a repertoire of cutting-edge jazz, orchestral, choral and electroacoustic performances, along with film, dance and music theatre...

for his composition Splintered Unisons, which was performed by the Prometheus Ensemble. In 1994 he was awarded a Stephen Oliver Prize for his opera Travellers. He has received commissions

Commission (art)

In art, a commission is the hiring and payment for the creation of a piece, often on behalf of another.In classical music, ensembles often commission pieces from composers, where the ensemble secures the composer's payment from private or public organizations or donors.- Commissions for public art...

for compositions by soloists such as percussionist Evelyn Glennie

Evelyn Glennie

Dame Evelyn Elizabeth Ann Glennie, DBE is a Scottish virtuoso percussionist. She was the first full-time solo percussionist in 20th-century western society.-Early life:Glennie was born and raised in Aberdeenshire...

(Reaching Out and Ignition), violist

Viola

The viola is a bowed string instrument. It is the middle voice of the violin family, between the violin and the cello.- Form :The viola is similar in material and construction to the violin. A full-size viola's body is between and longer than the body of a full-size violin , with an average...

Nobuko Imai

, is a Japanese classical violist with an extensive career as soloist and chamber musician. Since 1988 she plays an Andrea Guarneri of 1690.-Biography:...

(Stilled Voices), and pianist

Piano

Boris Berezovsky

Boris Berezovsky (pianist)

- Biography :Berezovsky studied at the Moscow Conservatory with Eliso Virsaladze and privately with Alexander Satz. Following his London début at the Wigmore Hall in 1988, The Times described him as "an artist of exceptional promise, a player of dazzling virtuosity and formidable power."In May 2005...

(Liszt), as well as a Koussevitzky Commission in 1995. He was shortlisted for the vocal category of the 2007 British Composer Awards for his work Life’s Splinters.

His opera Friend of the People was premiered at the Scottish Opera

Scottish Opera

Scottish Opera is the national opera company of Scotland, and one of the five national performing arts companies funded by the Scottish Government...

in November 1999.

His works have been performed by groups such as the BBC Symphony Orchestra

BBC Symphony Orchestra

The BBC Symphony Orchestra is the principal broadcast orchestra of the British Broadcasting Corporation and one of the leading orchestras in Britain.-History:...

, the Nash Ensemble

Nash Ensemble

The Nash Ensemble of London is an acclaimed English chamber ensemble. It was founded by Artistic Director Amelia Freedman in 1964, while she was a student at the Royal Academy of Music, and was named after the Nash Terraces around the Academy...

, the London Sinfonietta

London Sinfonietta

, the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group

Birmingham Contemporary Music Group

Birmingham Contemporary Music Group is a chamber orchestra based in Birmingham, England. BCMG specialises in the performance of new and contemporary music. BCMG performs regularly at the CBSO Centre and Symphony Hall in Birmingham...

, the California EAR Unit, the Ensemble für neue Musik Zürich, The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center

The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center

The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center is an American organization dedicated to the performance and promotion of chamber music. Its website states that it is "the nation’s premier repertory company for chamber music."...

, the Nieuw Ensemble

Nieuw Ensemble

The Nieuw Ensemble was founded in 1980 in Amsterdam. It has a unique instrumental structure, using plucked instruments such as mandolin, guitar and harp in combination with wind, string and percussion. Ed Spanjaard has been the principal conductor since 1982...

, Ensemble Moderne, and string quartets Mendelssohn Quartet, Yggdrasil Quartet, Daedalus Quartet and Brentano Quartet

Brentano Quartet

The Brentano Quartet is a string quartet founded in 1992. It is the first quartet-in-residence at Princeton University, where the members regularly teach chamber music. They have embarked on several tours in the United States...

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He is published by Boosey and Hawkes and his music has been recorded on BMG

BMG

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and NMC

NMC Music

NMC Music is an Israeli record label. It was established in 1964 as a subsidiary company of CBS, and became independent in 1988.Among influential artist represented by NMC are:Mashina, Chava Alberstein, Ehud Banai and T-Slam.-External links:...

Selected works

Stage

Jason Field, Chamber Opera in 1 act (1993)
Travellers, Chamber Opera in 1 act (1994)
Beyond the Blue Horizon, Music Theatre (1996–1997)
Friend of the People, Opera in 3 acts with a prologue (1998–1999)

Orchestral

Flicker (1997)
Strands (2000)
Fixation (2001)
Concerto for Orchestra (2003–2004)
The Turn of the Tide for chamber orchestra (2006)
Submergence (2007)

Concertante

Piano Concerto (1992)
Vapours for glass harmonica
Glass harmonica
The glass harmonica, also known as the glass armonica, bowl organ, hydrocrystalophone, or simply the armonica , is a type of musical instrument that uses a series of glass bowls or goblets graduated in size to produce musical tones by means of friction The glass harmonica, also known as the glass...

and orchestra (1994)
Flex for piano and chamber ensemble (1997)
Fireflies for glass harmonica and orchestra (2002)
Ignition, Concerto for percussion and orchestra (2002)
Double Violin Concerto for 2 violins and string orchestra (2003)
Splintered Instruments for harp and chamber ensemble (2004)
Phantom Instruments for clarinet and chamber ensemble (2006)

Chamber and instrumental music

Splintered Unisons for clarinet, violin, cello and piano (1988)
towards dharma... for flute, oboe, viola, cello and percussion (1989)
Out of the Air for chamber ensemble (1990)
Contraries and Progressions for flute, clarinet, violin (or viola), cello and piano (1991)
Concerto for Six Players for flute, (piccolo), clarinet (bass clarinet), violin, cello, percussion and piano (1993)
3 Dirges for flute and harp (1993)
Phantom Moon for flute (alto flute) and percussion (1993)
Sonata for trombone and piano (1993)
Surrendering to the Stream, String Quartet No. 1 (1993)
Pulse for marimba solo (1994)
Reaching Out for percussion solo (1994)
Sparks for flute, clarinet, violin, cello and percussion (1994)
Clarion for clarinet, trumpet, celesta, violin and double bass (1995)
Persistence for chamber ensemble (1995)
Stilled Voices for viola solo (1995)
Undulations, String Quartet No. 2 (1995)
Aureole for bassoon and digital tape (1996)
Rush for percussion solo (1996)
Unbound for flute, oboe, clarinet, horn, violin, viola and cello (1996)
Filters for viola and piano (1998)
Glow for chamber ensemble (1998)
Shiver for violin, viola, cello, double bass and piano (1998)
Spike for flute, bass clarinet, violin, cello, percussion and piano (1998)
Broken Instruments for chamber ensemble (1999)
Zip for cello and piano (1999)
Blunt Instruments for chamber ensemble (2000)
Elegy for trumpet and piano (2000)
Deep Flux for bass clarinet, contrabassoon
Contrabassoon
The contrabassoon, also known as the double bassoon or double-bassoon, is a larger version of the bassoon, sounding an octave lower...

and tuba (2001)
Five Divisions of Time for flute, oboe, clarinet, horn and bassoon (2001)
Subterfuge for 2 violins, viola and cello (2002)
Disembodied Instruments for chamber ensemble (2003)
Disintegrations for chamber ensemble (2003)
Emerging Dances for chamber ensemble (2004)
Flight from the Labyrinth, String Quartet No. 3 (2004)
Interrupted Serenades for 8-string guitar (2004)
Gossamer for saxophone quartet (2004)
Double Concerto for piano and string quartet
String quartet
A string quartet is a musical ensemble of four string players – usually two violin players, a violist and a cellist – or a piece written to be performed by such a group...

(2005)
String Quartet No. 4 (2006)
Will o' the Wisp for flute and piano (2006)
Restless Feeling for chamber ensemble (2007–2008)

Piano

6 Short Studies (1990)
Nocturnes and Nightmares (1991)
Resound for piano and digital tape (1995)
Liszt (1996)
Refrain (1996)
Sostenuto for piano and digital tape (1996)

Vocal

The Burning Babe for 2 sopranos, alto, flute, oboe, clarinet, percussion and piano (1992)
Days Now Gone for tenor and piano (1992)
The Letter for tenor and piano (1993)
Lied der Mignon for soprano and piano (1997)
Pan's Song for soprano, clarinet, violin, cello and piano (1999)
You for soprano, alto flute/piccolo, cello and piano/claves
Claves
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(1999)
Slow, Slow for tenor and piano (2000)
Sweet Disorder for tenor and piano (2000)
Life's Splinters for tenor and flute, clarinet, violin, viola and cello (2006)
A Curious Thirsty Fly for tenor and piano (2008)
Last September for baritone and orchestra (2008)

Choral

Northscape for chamber orchestra with violin and harp obbligato and unison children's voices (optional) (1992)
The Lie, Cantata for soprano, tenor, children's chorus and chamber ensemble (1993)
Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis for mixed chorus and organ (1993)
Mass for mixed chorus and organ (1995)
Praise Ye, 2 Psalms for children's chorus and organ (1995)
Pensive for mezzo-soprano, mixed chorus and chamber orchestra (or organ) (1998)
The Year's Midnight for tenor, chorus and orchestra (2000)
2 Songs for female chorus a cappella (2003)

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