Alwynne Pritchard
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Alwynne Pritchard is a British composer and broadcaster, and is currently the Festival Director of Borealis Contemporary Music Festival.
at the Guildhall School of Music, and later with Melanie Daiken, Justin Connolly
and Michael Finnissy
at the Royal Academy of Music
, and in 1997 was awarded a research scholarship by the University of Bristol
and in 2003 received a PhD
in composition.
Over the last decade and a half Pritchard's music has been performed by leading players and ensembles throughout Europe and America, including the Arditti String Quartet, Apartment House, The Bournemouth Sinfonietta, Christian Dierstein, The Duke String Quartet, de ereprijs (Holland), Ensemble Recherche (Germany), Gemini, Nicolas Hodges
, Ixion, Kaida (Holland), John Kenny, Carin Levine, The London Sinfonietta
, Lontano
, Darragh Morgan, New Music Players, Nieuw Ensemble, Ian Pace, Jonathan Powell, Maja Ratkje (Norway), Reservoir, Elena Riu, Jarle Rotevatn (Norway), Sarah Nicolls and the Schubert and Uroboros Ensembles. As well as being regularly heard in London and around the country, her music has also received performances in America, Belgium, Finland, Germany, Holland, Ireland, Italy, Poland and Norway, and has often been broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and 4, as well as abroad.
In October 2005, Pritchard released Subterfuge In Vitro, an album of British Indian music, created in collaboration with the London-based Tabla player and producer Kuljit Bhamra
. A CD of Pritchard's music has also been released by the Métier label.
In 2005 she formed the Bergen/London-based improvisation quintet FAT BATTERY, and has also performed as a vocalist with computer programmer Thorolf Thuestad and flautist Rowland Sutherland in the trio Myrtle; with Berlin-based hardware electronics instrument builder/improviser Guido Henneböhl in the duo Ding Dong; with Austrian pianist Judith Unterpertinger as unterPritperTingerchard; and with the visual artist Claire Zakiewicz in Ear to Eye.
From 2001 until 2008 Pritchard taught composition at Trinity College of Music
in London
, where she still holds a visiting post. She has presented many contemporary music programmes for BBC Radio 3, including Music in Our Time, Midnight Oil, Music Matters, Hear and Now and Discovering Music.
In 2008 Alwynne Pritchard became the Festival Director of the Borealis Contemporary Music Festival in Bergen, Norway, where she now resides.
Biography
Alwynne Pritchard was born in Glasgow in 1968 and as a teenager began composition lessons with her father, Gwyn Pritchard. Pritchard studied with Robert SaxtonRobert Saxton
-Biography:After early advice and encouragement from Benjamin Britten, Robert Saxton took private composition lessons with Elisabeth Lutyens. He went on to study with Robin Holloway at Cambridge University, with Robert Sherlaw Johnson as a post-graduate at Oxford University, and later with Berio....
at the Guildhall School of Music, and later with Melanie Daiken, Justin Connolly
Justin Connolly
Justin Connolly is a British composer and teacher.He was educated at Westminster School, and then briefly studied law at the Middle Temple before deciding on a career in music...
and Michael Finnissy
Michael Finnissy
Michael Finnissy is an English composer and pianist. His music is characterised by the range of extremes often found in his work; opposing binary structures are found commonly, often seen as juxtaposing textures, register and tempi...
at the Royal Academy of Music
Royal Academy of Music
The Royal Academy of Music in London, England, is a conservatoire, Britain's oldest degree-granting music school and a constituent college of the University of London since 1999. The Academy was founded by Lord Burghersh in 1822 with the help and ideas of the French harpist and composer Nicolas...
, and in 1997 was awarded a research scholarship by the University of Bristol
University of Bristol
The University of Bristol is a public research university located in Bristol, United Kingdom. One of the so-called "red brick" universities, it received its Royal Charter in 1909, although its predecessor institution, University College, Bristol, had been in existence since 1876.The University is...
and in 2003 received a PhD
PHD
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in composition.
Over the last decade and a half Pritchard's music has been performed by leading players and ensembles throughout Europe and America, including the Arditti String Quartet, Apartment House, The Bournemouth Sinfonietta, Christian Dierstein, The Duke String Quartet, de ereprijs (Holland), Ensemble Recherche (Germany), Gemini, Nicolas Hodges
Nicolas Hodges
Nicolas Hodges is a British pianist and composer. He specializes in avant garde music. He was educated at Christ Church Cathedral School, Oxford, Winchester College, and the University of Cambridge....
, Ixion, Kaida (Holland), John Kenny, Carin Levine, The London Sinfonietta
London Sinfonietta
The London Sinfonietta is an English chamber orchestra founded in 1968 and based in London. The ensemble specialises in contemporary music and works across a wide range of genres, performing modern classics alongside world premieres, and includes music by electronica artists as well as folk and...
, Lontano
Odaline de la Martinez
Odaline de la Martinez is a Cuban-American composer and conductor, currently residing in the UK. She is the artistic director of , a London-based contemporary music ensemble which she co-founded in 1976 with New Zealander flautist , and was the first woman to conduct at the BBC Promenade Concerts ...
, Darragh Morgan, New Music Players, Nieuw Ensemble, Ian Pace, Jonathan Powell, Maja Ratkje (Norway), Reservoir, Elena Riu, Jarle Rotevatn (Norway), Sarah Nicolls and the Schubert and Uroboros Ensembles. As well as being regularly heard in London and around the country, her music has also received performances in America, Belgium, Finland, Germany, Holland, Ireland, Italy, Poland and Norway, and has often been broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and 4, as well as abroad.
In October 2005, Pritchard released Subterfuge In Vitro, an album of British Indian music, created in collaboration with the London-based Tabla player and producer Kuljit Bhamra
Kuljit Bhamra
Kuljit Bhamra MBE Hon DMus is a British composer, record producer and musician whose main instrument is the tabla. He is best known as one of the record producers who pioneered the British Bhangra sound and for his many collaborations with musicians from different genres and continents...
. A CD of Pritchard's music has also been released by the Métier label.
In 2005 she formed the Bergen/London-based improvisation quintet FAT BATTERY, and has also performed as a vocalist with computer programmer Thorolf Thuestad and flautist Rowland Sutherland in the trio Myrtle; with Berlin-based hardware electronics instrument builder/improviser Guido Henneböhl in the duo Ding Dong; with Austrian pianist Judith Unterpertinger as unterPritperTingerchard; and with the visual artist Claire Zakiewicz in Ear to Eye.
From 2001 until 2008 Pritchard taught composition at Trinity College of Music
Trinity College of Music
Trinity College of Music is one of the London music conservatories, based in Greenwich. It is part of Trinity Laban.The conservatoire is inheritor of elegant riverside buildings of the former Greenwich Hospital, designed in part by Sir Christopher Wren...
in London
London
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, where she still holds a visiting post. She has presented many contemporary music programmes for BBC Radio 3, including Music in Our Time, Midnight Oil, Music Matters, Hear and Now and Discovering Music.
In 2008 Alwynne Pritchard became the Festival Director of the Borealis Contemporary Music Festival in Bergen, Norway, where she now resides.
Orchestral music
- Critical Mass (2003); 22 mins; orchestra and tape
- Map of the Moon (2004); 20 mins; piano and orchestra
- World Enough (in two movements) (2005); 1 second; orchestra
Chamber music
- Craw (1997); 7 mins; fl, ob, cl, bn, hn, tpt, trb, pf, 2vn, va, vc
- Decoy (2004); 17 mins; fl, ob, cl, vn, va, vc, perc, live electronics
- Glimpsed Most Clearly From The Corner Of Your Eye (1992); 5 mins; 7vc
- Der Glücklose Engel (1999); 10 mins; ecl, vn, vc
- Geometry of Pain I (2002); 10 mins; voice, vc, gtr, amplification
- Impossibility (2001); 14 mins; speaker with spoons, cl/bcl, egui, vc
- In Nomine (2006); 3 mins; fl, ob, bcl, pno, vn, va, vc
- Nocturnal (1995); 8 mins; 2vn, va, vc
- Quintet (Barbara Allen) (2000); 10 mins; 2vn, va, vc, pf
- What This Night (1997); 10 mins; ob, cl, accordion, perc, harp, 2pf
- Word Play (2004); 12 mins; picc, fl, cl, sop sax, bar sax, 2hn, tpt, 2tbn, perc, elec bass, vc. p
Solos and duos
- Graffiti (2007); 13 mins; perc, electronics
- To the Ground (2005); 11 mins; violin, computer
- Chiaroscuro (1995); 14 mins; trb, pf
- Danaides (1996); 6 mins; vc, tape
- From this deposit a transparent bubble comes to the surface at certain times and explodes gently on reaching his lips (1994); 8 mins; bcl
- Kit (1999); c. 10 mins; voice, any instrument
- Nostos Ou Topos II (2000); 7 mins; gtr
- Matrix (2001); c. 13 mins; vn
- Une Mort Héroïque (1993); 9 mins; speaker (tape), va
- Zero (2006); 9 mins; fl/picc/bfl, acc
Piano
- The Barnyard Song (2003); 3 mins; (for Elena Riu's Little Book of Salsa)
- Geometry of Pain II (2003); 12mins; Piano and Video
- Invisible Cities (1999); 7-15 mins
- Mesarch (1997); 5mins
- So ist mein Jesus nun gefangen (1993); 5 mins; (Transcription after Bach)
- Spring (1996); 1 min
- Der Zwerg (1998); 10 mins
Vocal
- As in Heaven (2007); 21/2 mins; S.S.A.Bar.T.B
- Le Crépuscule du Soir (1996); 14 mins; sop, pf
- Homecoming (2003); 20 mins; 5 amplified sopranos, electronics
Opera and musical theatre
- Flutterby (2009); 15 mins; e-gtr, 2 computers
- Don't touch me, you don't know where I've been (2008); Music Drama; 35 mins; fl/picc, cl/bcl, voice, perc, pf, gtr, electronics
- Frame (2007); Music Drama; 15 mins; picc, ob, cl, bn, hn, tpt, tbn, perc, harp, gtr, vn, va, vc, db, video (2 screens), electronics
- Heroic Death - Une Mort Héroïque revised (1998); 20 mins; Chamber Opera; 2sop, bar, vc
Educational and amateur
- Thor Sleeps (2004); 7 mins; for any 4 instruments and at least one pair of hands
- Barbara Allen (Fragments of a Lament) (2000); 4 or 8 mins; vn, vn (va), vc, db, pf
Transcriptions
- Höchster from Cantata BWV51 (2004); 10 mins; Transcription of Bach for soprano, accordion, vn, vc
External links
- Alwynne Pritchard official website
- Borealis Festival
- Integra
- Fat Battery
- Ding Dong
- Review of Alwynne Pritchard's CD Invisible Cities
- Intervju med Alwynne Pritchard om Borealis Festival
- Amazon UK : Music by Alwynne Pritchard on sale
- Amazon Canada : Music by Alwynne Pritchard on sale
- Keda Shop : Subterfuge in Vitro
- Presto Classico
- Gwyn Pritchard official website