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Elgar Howarth (born November 4, 1935, Cannock
Cannock

Cannock is a town in Staffordshire, England, just north of the West Midlands conurbation. It sits to the south of Cannock Chase, an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, and is administered as part of the Cannock Chase district....
, Staffordshire
Staffordshire

Staffordshire is a landlocked Counties of England in the West Midlands region of England. The county town is Stafford. Part of the National Forest, England lies within its borders....
, England
England

native_name =|conventional_long_name = England|common_name = England|image_flag = Flag of England.svg|image_coat = England COA.svg|symbol_type = Royal Coat of Arms...
) is an English conductor
Conducting

Conducting is the act of directing a musical performance by way of visible gestures. Orchestras, choirs, concert bands and other musical ensembles often have conductors....
 and composer
Composer

A composer is a person who creates music, usually in the medium of musical notation, for interpretation and performance. The level of distinction between composers and other musicians varies, which affects issues such as copyright and the deference given to individual interpretations of a particular piece of music....
.

Howarth was educated in the 1950s at Manchester University and the Royal Manchester College of Music (the predecessor of the Royal Northern College of Music
Royal Northern College of Music

The Royal Northern College of Music or RNCM is a music school in Manchester, England. It is located on Oxford Road in Manchester city centre, and is at the western edge of the campus of the University of Manchester....
), where his fellow students included the composers Harrison Birtwistle
Harrison Birtwistle

Sir Harrison Paul Birtwistle Order of the Companions of Honour is a United Kingdom contemporary composer....
, Alexander Goehr
Alexander Goehr

Alexander Goehr is an England composer and academic.He was born in Berlin, the son of Walter Goehr. He studied at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester where he met Peter Maxwell Davies, Harrison Birtwistle, John Ogdon and Elgar Howarth....
, Peter Maxwell Davies
Peter Maxwell Davies

Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, Order of the British Empire , is an English composer and Conductor and is currently Master of the Queen's Music....
, and the pianist John Ogdon
John Ogdon

John Andrew Howard Ogdon was an English pianist and composer.Ogdon was born in Mansfield Woodhouse, Nottinghamshire, and attended Manchester Grammar School, before studying at the Royal Northern College of Music between 1953 and 1957, where his fellow students included Harrison Birtwistle, Alexander Goehr, Elgar Howarth and Peter Maxwell D...
. Together they formed New Music Manchester, a group dedicated to the performances of serial and other modern works.

He has worked with all leading British orchestras, as well as many orchestras worldwide, mostly in Europe.






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Elgar Howarth (born November 4, 1935, Cannock
Cannock

Cannock is a town in Staffordshire, England, just north of the West Midlands conurbation. It sits to the south of Cannock Chase, an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, and is administered as part of the Cannock Chase district....
, Staffordshire
Staffordshire

Staffordshire is a landlocked Counties of England in the West Midlands region of England. The county town is Stafford. Part of the National Forest, England lies within its borders....
, England
England

native_name =|conventional_long_name = England|common_name = England|image_flag = Flag of England.svg|image_coat = England COA.svg|symbol_type = Royal Coat of Arms...
) is an English conductor
Conducting

Conducting is the act of directing a musical performance by way of visible gestures. Orchestras, choirs, concert bands and other musical ensembles often have conductors....
 and composer
Composer

A composer is a person who creates music, usually in the medium of musical notation, for interpretation and performance. The level of distinction between composers and other musicians varies, which affects issues such as copyright and the deference given to individual interpretations of a particular piece of music....
.

Howarth was educated in the 1950s at Manchester University and the Royal Manchester College of Music (the predecessor of the Royal Northern College of Music
Royal Northern College of Music

The Royal Northern College of Music or RNCM is a music school in Manchester, England. It is located on Oxford Road in Manchester city centre, and is at the western edge of the campus of the University of Manchester....
), where his fellow students included the composers Harrison Birtwistle
Harrison Birtwistle

Sir Harrison Paul Birtwistle Order of the Companions of Honour is a United Kingdom contemporary composer....
, Alexander Goehr
Alexander Goehr

Alexander Goehr is an England composer and academic.He was born in Berlin, the son of Walter Goehr. He studied at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester where he met Peter Maxwell Davies, Harrison Birtwistle, John Ogdon and Elgar Howarth....
, Peter Maxwell Davies
Peter Maxwell Davies

Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, Order of the British Empire , is an English composer and Conductor and is currently Master of the Queen's Music....
, and the pianist John Ogdon
John Ogdon

John Andrew Howard Ogdon was an English pianist and composer.Ogdon was born in Mansfield Woodhouse, Nottinghamshire, and attended Manchester Grammar School, before studying at the Royal Northern College of Music between 1953 and 1957, where his fellow students included Harrison Birtwistle, Alexander Goehr, Elgar Howarth and Peter Maxwell D...
. Together they formed New Music Manchester, a group dedicated to the performances of serial and other modern works.

He has worked with all leading British orchestras, as well as many orchestras worldwide, mostly in Europe. He has conducted many opera
Opera

Opera is an Performing arts in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work which combines a text and a musical score. Opera is part of the Western classical music tradition....
s, and premiered György Ligeti
György Ligeti

Gy?rgy S?ndor Ligeti was a composer, born in a Hungarian History of the Jews in Romania family in Transylvania, Romania. He briefly lived in Hungary before later becoming an Austrian citizen....
's Le Grand Macabre at the Grand Opera Stockholm
Stockholm

is the capital and largest city of Sweden. It is the site of the national Swedish Government of Sweden, the Parliament of Sweden, and the official residence of the Swedish Monarchy of Sweden....
 in 1978 and Harrison Birtwistle
Harrison Birtwistle

Sir Harrison Paul Birtwistle Order of the Companions of Honour is a United Kingdom contemporary composer....
's Gawain
Gawain (opera)

Gawain is an opera with music by Harrison Birtwistle to a libretto by David Harsent. The story is based on the medieval tale Sir Gawain and the Green Knight....
 at the Royal Opera House
Royal Opera House

The Royal Opera House is an opera house and major performing arts venue in the London district of Covent Garden. The large building, often referred to as simply "Covent Garden", is the home of Royal Opera, London , Royal Ballet, London and the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House....
 in London (1981). He was Principal Guest Conductor of Opera North
Opera North

Opera North is a United Kingdom opera company. Based in Leeds, England the Company's home theatre is the Grand Theatre Leeds, but it also presents regular seasons in several other cities, at the Theatre Royal, Nottingham, the Lowry Centre, Salford Quays and the Theatre Royal, Newcastle....
 from 1985 to 1988, and Music Advisor to the company from 2002 to 2004.

As a composer and former trumpet
Trumpet

The trumpet is a musical instrument with the highest Register in the brass instrument family. Trumpets are among the oldest musical instruments, dating back to at least 1500 BC....
 player, he writes mainly for brass instruments. Swedish trumpeter Håkan Hardenberger
Håkan Hardenberger

H?kan Hardenberger is a Sweden trumpeter. Taking up the trumpet at the age of eight under the guidance of hometown teacher Bo Nilsson, Hardenberger pursued further studies at the Conservatoire de Paris, with Pierre Thibaud, and in Los Angeles with Thomas Stevens ....
 has premiered several of his works on cornet, including his Cornet Concerto, Canto, and Capriccio.

He was brought up in a brass band
Brass band

A brass band is a musical group generally consisting entirely of brass instruments, most often with a percussion section. Ensembles which include brass and woodwind instruments can in certain traditions also be termed brass bands , but are usually more correctly termed military bands, concert bands, wind bands or wind ensembles....
 family and has maintained his interest in the art form. Howarth has made a huge contribution to the modern repertoire of brass band music. Many of his works are recorded, most notably by the Grimethorpe Colliery Band
Grimethorpe Colliery Band

The Grimethorpe Colliery Band is a brass band, based in Grimethorpe, South Yorkshire, England. It was formed in 1917, as a leisure activity for the workers at the colliery, by members of the disbanded Cudworth Colliery Band....
 and the Eikanger-Bjørsvik
Eikanger-Bjørsvik

The Eikanger-Bj?rsvik band is a brass band from the municipality of Lind?s, Norway. They are probably the best known brass band in Norway and have won the National brass band championships nine times ....
 band.

A number of personal copies of works he has conducted (some including annotations) are at the University of East Anglia
University of East Anglia

The University of East Anglia is a public university research university located in Norwich, England, and founded in 1963. The university is a member of the 1994 Group of research-intensive universities....
's .