Robert Turner (composer)

Robert Turner (born June 6, 1920 in Montreal , † January 26, 2012 in Winnipeg ) was a Canadian composer and music teacher.

Turner studied piano with Frank Hanson and Walter Hungerford and composition with Irvin Cooper at the McGill Conservatory of Music . He continued his studies at McGill University with Douglas Clarke and Claude Champagne and in 1947 at Colorado College with Roy Harris . Until 1948 he studied at the Royal College of Music with Herbert Howells and Gordon Jacob and until 1950 at the George Peabody College of Teachers in Nashville / Tennessee , and in 1949 with Olivier Messiaen in Tanglewood . That year he also married percussionist Sara Scott .

From 1952 to 1968 he worked as a music producer at CBC Vancouver. He taught at the University of British Columbia from 1955 to 1957 , from 1968 to 1969 at Acadia University and thereafter until his retirement in 1985 at the University of Manitoba . His students included T. Patrick Carrabré , Jim Hiscott , Diana McIntosh and Glenn Buhr .

Works

• String Quartet , 1949
• Lament for flute, oboe, clarinet, trombone and piano 1951
• Two Choral Pieces , 1952
• String quartet , 1954
• Opening night , theater overture, 1955
• Sonata Lyrica for piano, 1955
• Sonata for violin and piano, 1956
• Lyric Interlude for orchestra, 1956
• Nocturne for orchestra, 1956
• Little Suite for Harp , 1957
• A Children's Overture for Orchestra, 1958
• The Pemberton Valley for orchestra, 1958
• Six Voluntaries for Organ, 1959
• Four Songs for tenor and orchestra, 1959
• Robbins' Round for jazz band, 1959
• Variations and Toccata for wind and string quintet, 1959
• Mobile for drums, 1960
• Serenade for Woodwind Quintet , 1960
• Symphony for Strings , 1960
• Four Fragments for wind quintet, 1961
• Prophetic Song , 1961
• The Third Day , cantata, 1962
• Fantasia for organ, wind quintet and timpani, 1962
• Three Episodes for orchestra, 1963
• The Phoenix and the Turtle for mezzo-soprano, flute, bass clarinet, string trio, celesta and harp, 1964
• Suite in Homage to Melville for soprano, alto, viola and piano, 1966
• The Brideship , lyric drama, 1967
• Diversities for violin. Trombone and Piano, 1967
• Trio for Violin, Cello and Piano , 1969
• Fantasy and Festivity , 1970
• Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra , 1971
• Eidolon's '12 Images for Chamber Orchestra ' , 1972
• Johann's Gift to Christmas for narrator and orchestra, 1972
• Nostalgia for soprano saxophone and piano, 1972
• Chamber Concerto for Bassoon and Seventeen Instruments , 1973
• Variations on 'The Prairie Settler's Song' , 1974
• Capriccio Concertante for cello, piano and orchestra, 1975
• String Quartet , 1975
• Lament for Linos for flute piccolo, clarinet, piano, tape and slide projector, 1978
• Amoroso Canto , 1978
• Manitoba Memories for string orchestra, 1981
• Shadow Pieces for flute, trombone, violin, cello and piano, 1981
• Vile Shadows , Opera, 1982-83
• Symphony in One Movement: 'Gift from the Sea' , 1983
• Encounters for nine soloists and orchestra, 1985
• Playhouse Music , 1986
• Time for Three for mezzo-soprano, viola and piano, 1986
• Shades of Autumn for orchestra, 1987
• Concerto for Viola , 1987
• Vestiges for piano, 1987
• Symphony No. 3 , 1990
• Manitoba Memoir for Chamber Orchestra, 1991
• House of Shadows , 1994
• River of Time , 1994
• Diverti-Memento for chamber orchestra, 1999