Brian Chapple
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Brian Chapple is a British composer
, who has won accolades such as the BBC Monarchy 1000 price and has been featured on the BBC Proms. He was educated at Highgate School
and studied at the Royal Academy of Music
with Lennox Berkeley
.
Composer
A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...
, who has won accolades such as the BBC Monarchy 1000 price and has been featured on the BBC Proms. He was educated at Highgate School
Highgate School
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and studied 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...
with Lennox Berkeley
Lennox Berkeley
Sir Lennox Randal Francis Berkeley was an English composer.- Biography :He was born in Oxford, England, and educated at the Dragon School, Gresham's School and Merton College, Oxford...
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Compositions include
- Green and Pleasant, winner of the BBC Monarchy 1000 prize in 1973.
- Scherzos for four pianos
- Choral symphony In Ecclesiis
- Piano Concerto
- Venus Fly Trap
- Keeping Busy
- Missa Brevis
- Little Symphony
- Lamentations of Jeremiah
- Ave Verum Corpus
- Cantica
- Magnificat
- Songs of Innocence
- In Memoriam
- Three Motets
- Five Blake Songs
- Five Shakespeare Songs
- 3 volumes of piano pieces: In the Pink, Lazy Days, On the Cool Side