Melvyn Poore
Melvyn Poore (* 1951 ) is an English composer and tuba player. He has emerged both as an improvisation musician and as an interpreter of new music.
Poore had been learning the euphonium since he was four years old, the piano was added later and at the age of twelve he decided on the tuba . He studied at the University of Birmingham from 1971 to 1975 . He then worked in Birmingham as the musical director of the Arts Lab , where he organized concerts and workshops. From 1979 to 1986 he worked as a composer and in groups such as the Cambrian Brass Quintet, Barry Guys London Jazz Composers Orchestra , Georg Gräwes Grubenklangorchester , Wolfgang Fuchs ' King Übü Orchestrü Radu Malfattis Ohrkiste , the Contraband and the English Tuba Consort . With Pinguin Moschner , Larry Fishkind and Paul Rutherford he founded the "European Tuba Quartet" in 1981, which (with Carl Ludwig Hübsch ) still exists today.
Since 1989, initially as a research assistant at Salford College of Technology , he has been working on the electroacoustic possibilities of the tuba. From 1992 to 1994 he worked as a guest artist at the Institute for Music and Acoustics of the Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe on new possibilities for sound processing in real time. From 1993 to 1995 he was visiting professor of electroacoustic music at the Royal College of Music . He is a member of the Ensemble MusikFabrik NRW and was also a member of the Ensemble James Choice Orchestra ( Live at Moers , 2007) and Zeitkratzer (with Reinhold Friedl , Frank Gratkowski , Ulrich Phillipp and others). He has toured Western and Eastern Europe, the USA and Australia with concerts and radio recordings and now lives in Cologne. Currently (2018) he plays in a trio with Matthew Goodheart (piano) and Georg Wissel (alto saxophone) as well as in the Multiple Joy (ce) Orchestra .
Web links
- Works by and about Melvyn Poore in the catalog of the German National Library
- Biography on musikfabrik.eu
- Biography and Discography (English)
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| SURNAME | Poore, Melvyn |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British tuba player and composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1951 |