Robin Holloway
Robin Holloway sang as a chorister at St Paul's Cathedral and studied composition with Alexander Goehr as a teenager. He was a lecturer in music at Cambridge University for 32 years between 1975 and 2011, teaching a generation of composers including Judith Weir and Thomas Adés. His earliest works from the 1960s show a modernist stance, culminating in the much acclaimed Second Concerto for Orchestra (1979), but a parallel track had already been exploring a radical liaison with Romanticism and tonality, including Scenes from Schumann (1969-70) and the opera Clarissa (1976) premiered in 1990 at English National Opera under the baton of Oliver Knussen.
His output includes five Concertos for Orchestra, concertos for violin and horn and a Symphony, premiered by the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Donald Runnicles at the 2000 BBC Proms. Works which re-examine and orchestrate music by the Romantic and early modern masters include themes from Parsifal in Wagner Nights, Schumann songs in RELIQUARY, Debussy's piano music in En blanc et noir and Debussy's Verlaine songs in C'est l'extase created for Renée Fleming and the San Francisco Symphony. His recent and ongoing series of concertante works for soloist and orchestra inspired by Ovid's Metamorphoses includes Europa and the Bull for tuba and Phaeton's Journey: Son of the Sun for trumpeter Håkan Hardenberger.
Holloway's music has been recorded on the NMC, Hyperion and Chandos labels. Books on music include his influential study Debussy and Wagner and two volumes of collected writings, Essays and Diversions. Robin Holloway's music is published exclusively by Boosey & Hawkes.
Robin Holloway sang as a chorister at St Paul's Cathedral and studied composition with Alexander Goehr as a teenager. He was a lecturer in music at Cambridge University for 32 years between 1975 and 2011, teaching a generation of composers including Judith Weir and Thomas Adés. His earliest works from the 1960s show a modernist stance, culminating in the much acclaimed Second Concerto for Orchestra (1979), but a parallel track had already been exploring a radical liaison with Romanticism and tonality, including Scenes from Schumann (1969-70) and the opera Clarissa (1976) premiered in 1990 at English National Opera under the baton of Oliver Knussen.
His output includes five Concertos for Orchestra, concertos for violin and horn and a Symphony, premiered by the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Donald Runnicles at the 2000 BBC Proms. Works which re-examine and orchestrate music by the Romantic and early modern masters include themes from Parsifal in Wagner Nights, Schumann songs in RELIQUARY, Debussy's piano music in En blanc et noir and Debussy's Verlaine songs in C'est l'extase created for Renée Fleming and the San Francisco Symphony. His recent and ongoing series of concertante works for soloist and orchestra inspired by Ovid's Metamorphoses includes Europa and the Bull for tuba and Phaeton's Journey: Son of the Sun for trumpeter Håkan Hardenberger.
Holloway's music has been recorded on the NMC, Hyperion and Chandos labels. Books on music include his influential study Debussy and Wagner and two volumes of collected writings, Essays and Diversions. Robin Holloway's music is published exclusively by Boosey & Hawkes.
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