Ivan Moody

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Ivan Moody (born June 11, 1964 in London ) is a British composer , conductor and musicologist .

education

Moody studied composition with Brian Dennis at the University of London , with William Brooks at the University of York and privately with John Tavener . He also studied Orthodox theology at Joensuu University, Finland . Moody also acts as a conductor and leads ensembles such as Voces Angelicae, the Kastalsky Chamber Choir (Great Britain), Capilla Peña Florida (Spain), Cappella Romana (USA) and Ensemble Alpha (Portugal).

Music genre

Moody's compositions show the influences of Eastern liturgical chant and the Orthodox Church of which he is a member and priest (of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople ). His Canticum Canticorum I, which he wrote for the Hilliard Ensemble , was a great success in 1987, and in 1990 he won the Arts for the Earth Festival Prize for Prayer for the Forests, which was later premiered by the renowned Finnish Tapiola Choir. One of his most important works is the oratorio Passion and Resurrection (1992), based on orthodox liturgical texts , which was premiered at the Tampere Festival in 1993 by Red Byrd and the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir under Tõnu Kaljuste. In 1996 it had its North American premiere with Cappella Romana. Following these performances, he wrote Akathistos' Hymn (1998) for Capella Romana , his most extensive work to date.

Other important works are the cello concerto Epitaphios (1993), the cantata Revelation (1995), Endechas y Canciones (1996), the recorder concerto Pnevma (1998), Lamentations of the Myrrhbearer (2001) for string quartet, Lumière sans Declin (2000) for string orchestra , and the choral triptych written for the Trio Mediaeval : Words of the Angel (1998), Troparion of Kassiani (1999), A Lion's Sleep (2002), Chalice of Wisdom , Metten for the Feast of St. Thomas, composed 2002 for Amarcord ensemble . Later compositions include a large-scale commission for the BBC , The Dormition of the Virgin (2003), as well as concertos for double bass ( The Morning Star, 2003), piano ( Linnunlaulu, 2003) and bassoon ( Arise, 2004). His most recent works include Passione Popolare, which premiered at the Antidogma Festival in Italy in June 2005, and Ossetian Requiem for the Amsterdam-based cello Octet Conjunto Ibérico . In 2008 he wrote a new work for the King's Singers and a large-scale movement of the Stabat Mater for the Oslo International Festival of Church Music. His eight-part Hymn to St. Nicholas (2009) was commissioned for the KotorArt Festival in Montenegro and was premiered in the US in November of the same year.

Since 2009 he has lived near Lisbon , Portugal , where he taught as a professor of composition at the Academia de Artes e Tecnologias until 1998. He was involved in setting up a database for the Center for Portuguese Contemporary Music, is a member of the CESEM research group at Universidade Nova in Lisbon, and works regularly with the Department of Orthodox Theology at the University of Joensuu, Finland. In 2005 he became the first chairman of the International Society for Orthodox Church Music (ISOCM).

Ivan Moody's music has been released on the Hyperion, ECM, Sony, Telarc, Gothic and Oehms Classic labels.

Works (selection)

  • Canticum Canticorum I
  • 1990: Prayer for the Forests , for choir
  • 1992: Passion and Resurrection , oratorio
  • 1992: Vigil of the Angels for viola and string orchestra
  • 1993: Epitaphios , concerto for cello
  • 1995: Revelation , cantata
  • 1996: Endechas y Canciones
  • 1996: Klama for viola and double bass
  • 1998: The Akathistos Hymn
  • 1998: Pneuma , concerto for recorder
  • 1998: Words of the Angel , for choir
  • 1999: Troparion of Kassiani , for choir
  • 2000: Lumière sans déclin , for string orchestra
  • 2001: Lamentations of the Myrrhbearers , quartet for strings
  • 2002: A Lion's Sleep , for choir
  • 2002: Chalice of Wisdom for choir
  • 2003: The Dormition of the Virgin
  • 2003: The Morning Star , concerto for double-bass
  • 2003: Linnunlaulu , concerto for piano
  • 2004: Arise , concerto for bassoon
  • 2005: Passione Popolare
  • 2009: Hymn to Saint Nicholas , for choir

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry in the Classical Composers Database
  2. ↑ a b About ISOCM. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on August 15, 2009 ; Retrieved October 25, 2011 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.isocm.com
  3. ↑ Kotor Art 2009. Archived from the original on August 8, 2009 ; Retrieved November 9, 2009 .
  4. ^ Early, Merciful Visit to St. Nicholas . The Boston Musical Intelligencer. November 9, 2009. Retrieved January 27, 2010.
  5. ↑ http://www.mic.pt/
  6. ↑ http://www.joensuu.fi/

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personal data
SURNAME Moody, Ivan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Moody, Ivan William George (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British composer, conductor and musicologist
DATE OF BIRTH June 11, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH London