Charles Uzor

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Charles Uzor (born April 27, 1961 in Udo Mbaise, Southeast Nigeria ) is a Nigerian composer.

Life

During the Biafra War , Charles Uzor came to Switzerland at the age of seven. From 1982 he studied first in Rome, then at the Conservatories of Bern and Zurich (oboe and composition) and at the Royal Academy of Music in London. In 2005 he finished a dissertation on melody and inner time awareness .

Charles Uzor lives in St. Gallen . His artistic partners include the Carmina Quartet and the clarinetist Wolfgang Meyer .

Compositions

Stage works

  • Solar Eclipse (opera fragment). Libretto :?. - From this:
    • Akhenaten's Hymnos to Aton (1995/97). Eclipse for tenor and ensemble (wood, brass, percussion [5], 2 harps, piano and strings). Text: Akhenaten (translated by F. Kauf). UA Cairo (Opera House). Recording (2005?)
  • Go (1999). Ballet for 5 dancers and 7 instrumentalists (clarinet / bass clarinet, piano, drums, string quartet ). Libretto:?
  • Black Tell (2000). Opera Interludes and Finale for solos (SATBar.B), choir and orchestra. Libretto: Nicolas Rhyner. WP 2002 (Swiss national exhibition Expo.02 )

Vocal compositions

  • Canto I - La Notte bella (1985/87). Text: Giuseppe Ungaretti
    • Version for soprano
    • Version for soprano and ensemble (1.2.1.0 - 1.0.0.0 - harp - piano - strings: 0.0.1.3.0 - tape ad libitum)
    • Version for soprano and harp
  • Canto IV - Finale (1985/87) for alto and piano. Text: Giuseppe Ungaretti
  • Echnaton's Hymnos to Aton (1995/97): see under stage works
  • Notre Vie (1998) for voices (2S.2A.Bar.B) and ensemble (trombone, percussion [5], 2 harps, piano, strings). Text: Paul Éluard . Recording (2005?)
  • Madrigal (1998) for voices (2S.2A.Bar.B) and ensemble (percussion [3], 2 harps, piano, strings). Text: William Shakespeare , Sonnet 8: Music to hear
  • Shakespeare's Sonnet 65 (2001/02) for string quartet and 2 speaking voices (from tape). Text: William Shakespeare. Recording 2005 ( Carmina Quartet ; Esther Uhland, James Aston [narrator])
1. [untitled] - 2.  allegro con brio - 3.  capriccioso e tranquillo
  • The Sweetest Life (2003). Three songs after Novalis for 3 female voices and ensemble (clarinet / bass clarinet, 2 harps, percussion [1–2], violin, viola, cello)
1.  Longing for death - 2.  I don't know what - 3.  The sweetest life
  • Mother Tongue (2007) for female voice and ensemble (flute, clarinet, trombone, drums, violin, viola, violoncello). Text: according to proverbs of the Igbo

Orchestral music

  • Ricercare (1989-91). Piano concerto. Recording (2005?)
Orchestra: 0.0.0.0 - 0.0.0.0 - 2 harps - percussion [4] - strings

Music for keyboard instruments

piano

for 2 hands
  • Cadenza (1989)
  • Melodies 1-3 (1996/97)
  • Le major désir de durer. Dit d'un jour (1996/97)
for 4 hands
  • Petit Poucet (2002)

organ

  • Canonical Variations on " Vom Himmel hoch " (1989)
  • Le temps déborde (1996). Recording (2005?)

Chamber music

Solos

  • Impromptu (1984/88) for oboe
  • La Princesse de Samarkand (2001) for percussion

Duos

  • Impromptu IV (1988) for oboe and piano
  • Patmos (1992) for viola and piano
  • Zimzum (1998; in memoriam Sergio Quinzio) for guitar duo (guitar with sixth- tone scordature and 10-string guitar; set up: Christian Bissig, Karin Rüdt)

Trios

  • Ricercare (1988) for piano trio
  • Mouvement (1988) for piano trio
  • Scherzo. Cartesian Meditations (1988) for piano trio

Quartets

  • Colophon (1993). Fragment for oboe, oboe d'amore , cor anglais and piano
  • qui ainsi me refait… veoir seulement et oïr (2003) for octave guitar, third guitar with sixth- tone scordature , guitar and bass guitar. Recording 2004 (guitar ensemble quasi fantasia: Christian Bissig, Karin Rüdt, Susanna Ott, Gudrun Buchmann)

Quintets

1.  allegro con brio - 2.  a chantar m'er de so q'ieu no voldria - 3.  capriccioso e tranquillo
  • qui plus aime ... (2005/06). Quintet for percussion quartet and tape

Web links

See also