Iain Bell
Iain Bell (* 1980 in London ) is an English composer .
Life
Bell received the suggestion to occupy himself with classical music and especially vocal music from his music teacher at school. He sees himself primarily as a composer for singers. He names composers from the (classical) serious music sphere as role models - including John Dunstable as well as William Walton , Benjamin Britten , György Ligeti , Alban Berg . On the other hand, during his adolescence he became aflame for Brant Bjork , Kylie Minogue and the Spice Girls .
Iain Bell's compositions have already been performed in London's Wigmore Hall and Carnegie Hall in New York City . He has worked with a number of well-known pianists, including Helmut Deutsch , Roger Vignoles , Iain Burnside and Julius Drake .
Bell not only wrote a song cycle with piano for the soprano Diana Damrau , which addresses Queen Victoria's letters of confession about her love for Prince Albert , but also a cycle with orchestra, which was recorded for the radio in an interpretation with the RSO Vienna under Walter Kobéra has been. Finally, he also wrote the title role of his opera A Harlot's Progress for Damrau (libretto: Peter Ackroyd based on the cycle A Harlot's Progress by William Hogarth ), which was performed on October 13, 2013 in the Theater an der Wien under the musical direction of Mikko Franck and in the Production by Jens-Daniel Herzog was premiered.
He also wrote a cycle for the countertenor Lawrence Zazzo based on texts by William Shakespeare .
Works
Opera:
- A Harlot's Progress (Vienna 2013)
- In Parenthesis (Cardiff 2016)
Orchestra:
- Romance for tenor and strings
- A London Diurne
Chamber music:
- The undying splendor
- Day turned into Night
- Cradle Suite
Web links
- Iain Bell website
- Holly Nicholas: Interview with composer Iain Bell , Opera21 (English)
- Barbara Petsch: Iain Bell - An Extreme Optimist , Die Presse , October 3, 2013
- Christoph Irrgeher: Zumba does not appear in my opera , Wiener Zeitung , October 10, 2013
- Stefan Ender: The composer as enthusiast , Der Standard , October 11, 2013
Individual evidence
- ↑ Christoph Irrgeher: Zumba does not appear in my opera , Wiener Zeitung , October 10, 2013
- ↑ Ashes on the poor whore's head in FAZ from October 15, 2013, page 32
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Bell, Iain |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1980 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | London |