Jim Parker (composer)
Jim Parker (born December 16, 1934 in Hartlepool , County Durham ) is a British composer of the 20th and 21st centuries.
Life
Parker graduated from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London with a silver medal.
From the 1960s to the 1970s he was an important partner for British chamber music and also in folk music as a composer. He wrote instrumentals for The Barrow Poets as well as music to accompany the poetry performed by the band. He invented a double bass, the cacaco fiddle , played by William Bealby-Wright (the former voice of Doggerel Bank and an Isle of Man poet ) while Parker mostly played the clarinet or English horn .
After this early period, Parker concentrated more on composing and conducting. He created the music for the British poet laureate Sir John Betjeman . The recordings made back then are considered classics today (2011). Further recordings e.g. B. with Captain Beaky , who were successful in the charts , resulted in Parker receiving orders from television and theaters. For example, he composed for three musicals in theaters in London's West End.
Parker composed the music for various television programs and settings for silent films such as Harold Lloyds Mädchencheu from 1924 and the production and directorial work of Lois Weber The Blot from 1921.
Parker has created hundreds of compositions for films in television programs, for example for Moll Flanders , Tom Jones , A Rather English Marriage, Midsummer Murders / Inspector Barnaby , The House of Eliott and for the trilogy House of Cards (television series) . Further work was done for children's programs on television.
For concert halls, Parker has created compositions for the Nash Ensemble , the Philipp Jones Brass Ensemble , the Hilliard Ensemble , the Albion Ensemble , the Wallace Collection and Poems in the Underground . His sheet music for A Londoner in New York , a five-part suite for brass ensemble, is internationally known . Furthermore Mississippi Five for a quintet with flute, oboe, clarinet, horn and bassoon, a brass quintet The Golden Section and a clarinet concerto.
Awards
Parker received the British Academy of Film and Television Arts' Best Original Television Music Award four times (1993, 1996, 1997 and 1998) and was nominated for it in 1990.
literature
- A Londoner in New York , Faber & Faber, London ISBN 0-571-55593-4 .
Scores
- Music for Two: Six Duets for Tenor / Bass Instruments . Paterson's Publications, London 1994.
Web links
- Literature by and about Jim Parker in the catalog of the German National Library
- Jim Parker in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Classical Music Directory, eng.
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Parker, Jim |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 16, 1934 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hartlepool , County Durham , England |