Jeremy Thurlow

Jeremy Thurlow (* 1976 ) is a British composer .

Education

Thurlow graduated from the University of Cambridge . He received composition lessons from Alexander Goehr . He also spent a year at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama , where he studied composition and musical theater, before obtaining his PhD from King's College London .

Oeuvre

His oeuvre consists of orchestral works, choir pieces, as well as compositions for solo singing and chamber music ensembles. Some of these works have been performed by the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra , Matthew Schellhorn , the Fitzwilliam String Quartet , Rolf Hind , Sequitur , Endymion and the BBC Singers .

Awards

In 2007 he received the George Butterworth Award for Composition for his video opera A Sudden Cartography of Song , composed in collaboration with Alistair Appleton .

He is a fellow at Robinson College , University of Cambridge, where he teaches music and teaches composition.

Works (selection)

Piano works

• Slow Tide (2009) for 2 pianos and percussion instruments
• Butterfly (2009)
• fleeting (2007)
• A sense of touch (2007) for four pianos
• The Will of the Tones (2004)
• Tout abus sera puni (2002)
• My secret music remembers me (1999)
• Strangers on a shore (1996)

Solo vocal music

• In winter (2015), for 6 voices, flote and harp.
• Unbidden Visions (2008), for tenor, horn and piano
• The Pedlar of Swaffham (2007), a fable for soprano and five instruments
• A sudden cartography of song (2007), video opera for four soloists (SATB), speaker, video and live electronics
• The She-Wolf (2004), a fable for soprano, violoncello and piano
• Ancient Stone at Twilight (2003), for soprano and string quartet

Choral music

• Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis (2011–12) for choir and organ ("Caius Service")
• Bread and meat and fish and wine (2010), Christmas carol for choir (SATB) and organ
• When Joseph was a-walking (2009), Christmas carol for choir (SSATBB)
• Exultation is the going (2007), for 24 voices (SSAATTBB), text by Emily Dickinson
• This is the garden (2004), for choir (SATB) and four horns, text by ee cummings
• Of Noblest Cities (2000), a Christmas carol for Epiphany Day for choir (SSATBB) and organ, text by Prudentius

Orchestral music

• Flare for chamber orchestra (2008)
• Search Engines (2002-6)
• Piano Concerto (2000, rev. 2006), for piano and chamber orchestra

Chamber music

• Self-ablaze (2014), for violin and piano
• Steeples eclipse (2013) (Trio no.2) for violin, cello and piano.
• Plus avant que l'étoile (2012), for flute and piano
• Ouija (2012) for violin with electronic band
• Ladder of the Escaping Eye (2011) for recorder
• Primavera (2011) for violin and piano
• Properties of Light (2009), for Septet (dance game)
• Orion (2009), for horn, violin and piano
• That Second Realm, for sextet, on Dante's Purgatorio (dance game)
• Fantazia (2009), for string quartet
• Wheels within wheels (2008), for violoncello and piano
• Nesting (2008), for wind quintet
• String Quartet (2008)
• Animals (2006) for wind sextet
• When the Magus reads the Night Sky (2004) for violoncello and piano
• An innocent abroad (2003), for bassoon, clarinet and piano

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.compositiontoday.com/interviews/jeremy_thurlow.asp
2. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from March 6, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) 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.  
3. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) 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. 
4. ↑ http://jeremythurlow.wordpress.com/category/alistair-appleton/
5. ↑ http://www.robinson.cam.ac.uk/admissions/show_subject.php?subject_name=Music
6. ↑ http://jeremythurlow.wordpress.com/worklist/

Web links

• Jeremy Thurlow's website
• Thurlow's biography at CRASSH
• Faculty of Music - Employee Profile Jeremy Thurlow