John Tilbury

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John Tilbury (on piano, with Michael Francis Duch, double bass, 2011)

John Tilbury (* 1936 ) is a British pianist who performs compositions of new music , but is also active as an improvisation musician .

Live and act

Tilbury got to know the composers Manfred Niehaus and Cornelius Cardew during his military service in Cologne-Ossendorf . As a scholarship holder of the Royal College of Music , he studied piano with Arthur Alexander and James Gibb . He deepened his studies with Zbigniew Drzewiecki in Warsaw, where he founded the Warsaw Music Workshop Group ("Warsztat Muzyczny") with Zygmunt Krauze . In 1968 Tilbury won the Gaudeamus competition for new music in the Netherlands and specialized in the interpretation of new music . Internationally he presented works by Earle Brown , John Cage , Cardew, Morton Feldman , Michael Parson , Terry Riley , Terry Jennings and Christian Wolff at relevant festivals (including Warsaw Autumn , Glasgow Musica Nova, Venice Biennale ) . With his recordings of these works he set standards for the interpretation of contemporary piano music.

Tilbury was a member of the Scratchorchestra founded by Cardew, Parson and Howard Skempton around 1970 . He is also considered a master pianist in the field of new improvisation music: he has been a member of the AMM improvisation ensemble since 1980 . With Keith Rowe electroacoustic ensemble M.IMEO he has The Hands of Caravaggio received that relates 1,602 suggestions from a painting by the artist from the year.

In recent years, Tilbury has also appeared as an actor ( Samuel Beckett , Harold Pinter ). He also writes musicological analyzes, for example on the Scratch Orchestra in the early 1970s. In 2008 his biography about Cornelius Cardew, A Life Unfinished was published .

Selection discography

John Tilbury (on the piano) at an AMM 2008 concert with Eddie Prévost
  • 1988 - Dave Smith : First Piano Concert, Sonatas 1-12 - Matchless
  • 1996 - Howard Skempton: Well, Well, Cornelius - Sony Classical
  • 1996 - Cornelius Cardew: Piano Music 1959 ~ 70 - Matchless
  • 1998 - The Issue at Hand (with Yoshikazu Iwamoto , Eddie Prévost ) 2CD - Matchless
  • 1999 - Two Chapters and an Epilogue (with Evan Parker ) - Matchless
  • 2000 - Morton Feldman: All Piano 4CD - LondonHALL
  • 2002 - MIMEO The Hands of Caravaggio - Erstwhile
  • 2002 - Christian Wolff: Early Piano Music (1951-1961) - Matchless
  • 2003 - Keith Rowe , John Tilbury Duos for Doris - Erstwhile
  • 2004 - John Tilbury, Eddie Prévost Discrete Moments - Matchless
  • 2005 - Samuel Beckett - Plays Matchless
  • 2005 - Barcelona Piano Solo - Rossbin
  • 2005 - Marcus Schmickler , John Tilbury Variety - A-Music
  • 2010 - John Tilbury, Michael F. Duch, Rhodri Davies : Cornelius Cardew Works 1960-70
  • 2011 - Keith Rowe & John Tilbury EE Tension and Circumstance - Potlatch
  • 2012 - Fukushima! - Presqu'ile Records
  • 2015 - John Tilbury / Zygmunt Krauze Grand Tour - Bölt
  • 2017 - Mark Knoop, Catherine Laws, Philip Thomas, John Tilbury John Cage: Winter Music - Another Timbre
  • 2018 - Ola Paulson & John Tilbury - Seagull Sonatas - Konvoj Records

literature

  • Edward Prévost: No Sound Is Innocent: AMM and the practice of Self-Invention - Meta-musical narratives. Copula 1995

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personal data
SURNAME Tilbury, John
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British pianist
DATE OF BIRTH 1936