Emily Howard
Emily Howard (born February 23, 1979 in Liverpool ) is a British composer.
Life
Emily Howard learned as a child to play chess and was from 1990 to multiple British chess champion in her age group, most recently in the female U18 in 1996. It bears the title of a Master candidate of the women (Woman Candidate Master) and played from 1994 to 2002 at the Invicta Knights Maidstone , the North West Eagles and the Wessex Chess Club a total of five seasons in Division 1 of the Four Nations Chess League .
Howard learned to play the cello . She studied mathematics and computer science at Lincoln College , Oxford with a BA degree. She also studied composition at the Royal Northern College of Music and received her PhD in composition from the University of Manchester . Howard taught at the Bridge Academy in Hackney and at the University of Liverpool . She is Senior Lecturer in Composition at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester and also works at the Oxford e-Research Center.
In 2012 she received a British Composer Award for her composition Mesmerism . The orchestral concert Torus premiered at the BBC Proms in 2016 .
Works (selection)
- Passacaglia . 2002
- Lachrymosis . 2006
- Magnetites . 2007
- Lachrimae Antiquae Novae . 2007
- Solar . 2010
- Songs from Dickens . Mezzo-soprano, speaker and piano trio. 2010
- Mesmerism . 2011 ( The Lovelace Trilogy )
- Calculus Of The Nervous System . 2011 ( The Lovelace Trilogy )
- Ada sketches . Mezzo-soprano, flute, clarinet and drums. 2011 ( The Lovelace Trilogy )
- Zatopek! . Chamber opera. 2012
- Axon . 2013
- Torus . 2016
Web links
- Literature by and about Emily Howard in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Emily Howard in the WorldCat bibliographic database
- Emily Howard at the World Chess Federation FIDE (English)
- Emily Howard , website
- Emily Howard , at RNCM
- Fiona Maddocks: Emily Howard: Magnetite CD review - delicate, detailed and rigorous , Rezension, in: The Guardian, August 21, 2016
- Laura Battle: Calculated compositions , Financial Times, September 30, 2011
Individual evidence
- ↑ OlimpBase :: Four Nations Chess League :: Emily Howard. In: OlimpBase. Accessed August 24, 2018 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Howard, Emily |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 23, 1979 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Liverpool |