Julian Anderson

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Julian Anderson (born April 6, 1967 in London ) is a British composer.

Life

Julian Anderson studied music at the Royal College of Music with John Lambert , in Cambridge with Alexander Goehr and in Paris with Tristan Murail . He attended courses and a. with Olivier Messiaen , Per Nørgård , Oliver Knussen and György Ligeti . He received the Royal Philharmonic Society's Young Composer Prize in 1993. From 1997 to 2000 he was composer in residence with Sinfonia 21, then with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and from 2013 to 2016 at Wigmore Hall in London. He also worked for the Cleveland Orchestra and the Philharmonia Orchestra .

After eight years of teaching at the Royal College of Music, he was professor of composition at Harvard University between 2004 and 2007 and has been with the Guildhall School ever since .

His first opera, Thebans with a libretto by Frank McGuinness , premiered in May 2014 at the English National Opera under the direction of Edward Gardner in a production by Pierre Audi ; the German premiere of the co-production with the Bonn Opera took place in May 2015. His second string quartet was premiered by the Arditti Quartet , and Carolin Widmann gave the world premiere of his violin concerto.

Works (selection)

  • Chamber music, choral works, orchestral music, piano music
  • Towards Poetry . Ballet, 1997
  • The Bird Sings with its Fingers . Ballet, 2000
  • The Comedy of Change . Ballet, 2009
  • Thebans . Opera, 2014

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Andrew Clark: Tragedy from a reluctant classicist , in: Financial Times , April 5, 2014, p. 13
  2. ^ Ivan Hewett: London Philharmonic Orchestra and Carolin Widmann, Royal Festival, Hall, review: 'divine' . In: The Telegraph , March 25, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Anderson, Julian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British composer
DATE OF BIRTH April 6, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH London