Helen Grime

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Helen Grime (* 1981 in York ) is a British composer and oboist .

Life and education

Helen Grime was born in England, but moved back to Scotland with her parents as a child. She grew up in Ellon in the district Aberdeenshire on. The grandparents were music teachers in Macduff / Aberdeenshire and their mother taught music at St. Margaret's School in Edinburgh .

As a teenager, Grime studied oboe with John Anderson, from the age of 9 at the City of Edinburgh Music School, at 17 she moved to St Mary's Music School. She was an oboist in the National Youth Orchestra of Scotland and began composing at the age of 12. Hafliði Hallgrímsson was one of her composition teachers.

Grime studied at the Royal College of Music and graduated here with a Masters in 2004. Her composition teachers at the Royal College of Music were Julian Anderson and Edwin Roxburgh , and she also studied with Sally Beamish and Jennifer Martin . With a Leonard Bernstein Fellowship in 2008 she was able to study at Tanglewood Music Center with John Harbison , Michael Gandolfi , Shulamit Ran and Augusta Read Thomas .

Grime herself premiered as a soloist her oboe concerto, which she composed for the Meadows Chamber Orchestra (Edinburgh) and won the Making Music prize in the British Composer Awards. She has received commissions from numerous orchestras such as the London Symphony Orchestra , the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra . performances of their works found, for example, at the Proms in London (where they 2016 Two Eardley Pictures the price for Symphony orchestra of the "Scottish Awards for New Music" (Scottish prices New Music) won) or the Aldeburgh Festival .

From 2011 to 2014 she was "Associate Composer" with the Hallé Orchestra . Grime was the first woman composer in residence at Wigmore Hall from 2016 to 2018. Highlights during this time were the world premiere of her piano concerto, which she wrote for Huw Watkins and the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group under the direction of conductor Oliver Knussen , and the vocal cycle "Bright Travelers "for soprano Ruby Hughes and Joseph Middleton.

Selected compositions

Operas
  • Doorstepping Susanna - chamber opera for soprano, counter-tenor, bass, bass-clarinet, double bass and percussion, 2002
Commissioned work for the National Opera Studio and the British Opera Festival "Tête à Tête", Blackwell Theater
Orchestral works
  • Woven Space, 2017/18
  • Two Eardley Pictures, 2016
  • Double Concerto, for soloists and orchestra, 2015
  • Lullay, lullow: I saw a sweete seemly sight, for choir and orchestra, 2013
  • Near Midnight, 2013
  • Night Songs, 2012
  • Everyone Sang, 2010
  • Virga, 2007
Concerts
  • Drum concert, 2019
  • Piano concerto
  • Violin Concerto, 2016
  • Clarinet Concerto, 2009
  • Oboe Concerto, 2003
Ensemble music
  • Romance (2003)
  • Elegiac Inflections, 2005
  • Into the faded air, 2007
  • The Brook Sings Loud, 2008
  • A Cold Spring, 2009
  • To see the summer sky, 2009
  • Seven Pierrot Miniatures, 2010
  • Fantasy, Danse, Cérémonie, 2010
  • Luna, 2011
  • Oboe Quartet, 2011
  • Shadowplay, 2011
  • Three Whistler Miniatures, 2011
  • Snow and Snow, 2012
  • Three miniatures, 2013
  • Arachne, for oboe solo, 2013
  • Aviarz Sketches, based on Joseph Cornell , 2014
  • String Quartet, 2014
  • Embrace, 2015
Piano works
  • 10 miniatures, 2009
  • Entwined Channels, for 2 pianos, 2006
  • The Flash of Fireflies in Folds of Darkness, 2004
  • Harp of the North, 2004
Works for voice
  • In the Mist, for tenor and piano, 2008
  • Nobody Comes, for voice and piano, 2008
  • Lachrymae, for a cappella choir, 2005
  • A Last Look, for soprano and piano, 2002
  • A Vision, for soprano, clarinet, violin and cello, 2000

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ richie2: Composer in Residence | About Us. Retrieved January 15, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Helen Grime short biography on musicsalesclassical.com. Retrieved January 15, 2019.
  3. ^ Doorstepping Susanna British Music Collection, accessed January 16, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Grime, Helen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British composer
DATE OF BIRTH 1981
PLACE OF BIRTH York