Edwin Carr (composer)

Edwin Carr

Edwin Carr , MNZM (born August 10, 1926 in Auckland City , † March 27, 2003 on Waiheke Island ) was a New Zealand composer and conductor .

biography

From 1940 to 1943 Edwin Carr attended Otago Boy's High School. From 1945 to 1946 he studied first at Otago University, later at Auckland University College, where he did not achieve a degree. In 1946 he attended Cambridge's first music school, where he took composition lessons from Douglas Lilburn . In 1948 he traveled to England, where he met Geoffrey Gray . He also worked in Italy as the musical director of a ballet school. In 1958 he traveled back to New Zealand, where he taught and composed until 1960. In 1977 he traveled to Australia, where he taught at the Sydney Conservatory . In 1984 he returned to New Zealand as a freelance composer. In 1991 he moved to Waiheke Island, where he continued to be active as a composer. He died on March 27, 2003 at his home on Waiheke Island .

Works

Operas

• Nastasya opera in 3 acts based on the novel The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
• Lord Arthur Savile's Crime Opera in one act and 8 scenes, based on a short story by Oscar Wilde
• The Maze of the Muses Chamber opera in one act for three voices and three instruments

Symphonies

• 4 symphonies and a sinfonietta

Further orchestral works

• 3 overtures "Mardi gras", "Pacific Festival" and "Gaudeamus"
• Night Music - Scherzo
• Les douze signs pour vents, cuivres, harpes et percussions.
• "The End of the Golden Weather - seascape"
• "The four elements".
• "Poems" for piano and orchestra, based on "Katherine Mansfield poems"
• Six études pour orchester à cordes, "Auckland 71" pour orchester et choeur.
• Concerto pour hautbois and orchester

Chamber music

• Two quatuors à cordes
• The quatre éléments pour quatre mandolines
• Quatuor de clarinettes
• Oeuvre for bass and piano
• Octuor à vent
• Waiheke: quatuor pour hautbois musette, hautbois, cor anglais et hautbois basse
• Quintets pour piano

Vocal music

• 3 Shakespeare songs
• 3 love songs
• 5 Chants et Poèmes by Carl Wolkskehl en allemand pour piano et orchester
• "Eve des Eaux" - 8 chants en français

Choral singing

• 3 Song of Solomon
• Eye of the Wolds
• A Blake Cantata
• To Easter Cantata

Works for solo instruments

• 3 sonates pour piano
• 12 "pleasant pieces"
• 3 livres pour études de concert
• 4 petites études
• Révélation
• 3 "Doves of Peace"
• Les 4 seasons
• 4 suites for 2 pianos
• Sonata pour violon seul
• Sonata for violon and piano
• Aubade for clarinette and piano
• 4 Etudes pour hautbois d'amour, hautbois et piano
• Sonatina pour piano
• Sonata pour orgue
• Sonata for two pianos.
• Valse pour une jeune fille
• Petit concert pour flûte hautbois et basson.
• 3 pieces for hautbois et orgue

Web links

• Edwin Carr (1926-2003): Represented Artist . Australian Music Center,accessed August 10, 2014. 
• Edwin Carr . Music & Vision,accessed on August 10, 2014(English, on the composer's death). 
• Chronological List of Compositions by Edwin Carr . Musicalics,accessed on August 10, 2014. 
• Edwin Carr Foundation Scholarship awarded to gifted young composer . Creative New Zealand, November 7, 2006, archived from the original onOctober 14, 2008; accessed on August 10, 2014(English, original website no longer available). 
• Edwin Carr (1926-2003) . Amoris International, archived from the original onFebruary 3, 2009; accessed on August 10, 2014.