James Clapperton
James Clapperton (* 1968 in Aberdeen ) is a Scottish pianist and composer .
Life
Clapperton studied piano and composition with Anthony Gilbert , David Felder and Brian Ferneyhough at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, with James Avery at the Freiburg University of Music and with Yvar Mikhashoff at the State University of New York in Buffalo. He also received lessons from Aloys Kontarsky (piano) and Harrison Birtwistle (composition). He received a Masters in Music (with Philip Grange ) from the University of Exeter and a PhD in Composition (with Michael Finnissy ) from the University of Sussex in Falmer. He also received his PhD in Russian Studies (with Larissa Ryazanova-Clarke ) at the University of Edinburgh .
In 1985 he made his debut at the Edinburgh International Festival . In 1988 he won the Kranichstein Music Prize in piano as part of the Darmstadt Summer Course . Since then he has been considered a promoter of contemporary piano music a. a. by Richard Barrett , Luciano Berio , Chris Dench , James Dillon , Morton Feldman , György Ligeti , Andrew Toovey and Iannis Xenakis . In 1991 he premiered John Cage's Europera 3 . He has appeared at various music festivals such as the Ars Musica in Brighton, the Donaueschinger Musiktage , the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, the Nuovi Spazi Musicali in Rome, the Dark Music Days in Reykjavik, the NYYD in Tallinn, and Soundways in St. Petersburg and at the Musica Festival in Strasbourg.
His music was u. a. Performed by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra . He received the PRS for Music Heritage Award in 1993 for his violin concerto The Preiching of the Swallow . From 1999 to 2002 he was artistic director of the Music Factory Festival in Bergen / Norway. From 1998 to 2000 he was composer-in-residence at the Griegakademiet - Institutt for musikk of the Universitetet i Bergen. Since 2011 he has been working for the Festival of North Norway in Harstad.
literature
- Clapperton, James . In: Peter Hollfelder : Piano Music. International chronological lexicon. History. Composers. Works . Supplement, Noetzel, Wilhelmshaven 2005, ISBN 3-7959-0855-8 , p. 53.
Web links
- Literature by and about James Clapperton in the catalog of the German National Library
- James Clapperton at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ James Clapperton , divineartrecords.com, accessed May 13, 2018.
- ↑ James Clapperton , 2014.tectonicsfestival.com, accessed May 13, 2018.
shared 2nd prize: Alexander Jenner and André François Terrasse (1952) | shared 2nd prize: Robert-Alexander Bohnke and Patricia Carroll (1953) | Joan Rowland (1954) | 1st prize: Marion Zarzeczna ; 2nd prize: Elly Jeremias (1955) | Jorge Zulueta (1956) | shared 1st prize: Jerome Lowenthal , Karl-Otto Plum and Helga Thieme (1957) | 1st prize: Otto M. Zykan ; shared 2nd prize: Gábor Gabos , Wolfgang Gayler and Rolf Kuhnert (1958) | 1st prize: Erika Haase (1959) | 1st prize: Thomas McIntosh ; shared 2nd prize: Bruno Canino and Andor Losonczy ; 3rd prize: Howard Lebow (1960) | 2nd prize: Howard Lebow (1961) | Richard Trythall (1969) | Herbert Henck (1972) | Peter Hill and Cristian Petrescu (1974) | David Arden (1976) | Bernhard Wambach (1982) | Steffen Schleiermacher (1986) | James Clapperton (1988) | Paulo Álvares (1990) | Ciro Longobardi (1994) | Xie Ya-ou (1996) | Hwa-Kyung Yim (1998) | Hsin-Huei Huang (2004)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Clapperton, James |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Scottish pianist and composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1968 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Aberdeen |