Richard BENNET
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Richard Rodney Bennett is one of the composers and performers Britain's most versatile. It is equally at ease when he wrote for the concert hall when he THEREFOR for film or as a jazz pianist. Born March 29, 1936 in Kent (England), he studied composition in London at the Royal Academy of Music and in Paris, where he became the first student of Pierre Boulez. He was awarded the saxophone society Arnold Bax in 1964 and the price of Ralph Vaughan Williams composition of 1965. He was resident composer at the Peabody Institute, Baltimore, in 1970 and 1971. Jazz pianist, singer and composer, Richard Rodney Bennett has traveled everywhere, has recorded with jazz artists and performs regularly as a soloist in jazz clubs in New York and elsewhere. In 1977 he received the award of the EPC and in 1998 he became a knight for services to music. In 1979, he moved from London to New York, where he still lives now. The concert pieces Bennett has always been known for their wealth of invention and development. Employing inspirations as diverse as Debussy, Joplin, Monteverdi, zodiac signs, the poems of Rilke and Herrick, Greek mythology and Kandinsky, Richard Rodney Bennett has been a CARRYING bringing its brand, which is distinguished by its belief , balance and elegance. Its catalog includes parts for a wide range of courses, the solo instrument to full symphony orchestra and brass band at the opera. Among his major opus, we retain The Mines of Sulphur (1963), Piano Concerto (1968), Sonnets to Orpheus (1979), Third Symphony (1987) and Concerto for Stan Getz (1990). During the 1990s, the major event in the career of Richard Rodney Bennett is probably the simultaneous creation of two of his works at the London Proms: Variations on a Nursery Tune (commissioned by the BBC) and Concerto for Stan Getz, which was written at the request of Stan Getz, dedicatee died before the play. The same year also saw the premièer of Sermons and Devotions, a piece commissioned by the King's Singers and dedicated them to commemorate the season of their twenty-fifth anniversary. The season 1993/4 includes the creation of the Trumpet Concerto by the Royal Northern College of Music Wind Ensemble, directed by Timothy Reynish in Manchester, and the American premiere of Arethusa, played by An die Musik at Merkin Concert Hall of New York. In 1995 and 1996, a series of high profile events have marked the composer's agenda. In autumn 1995 he took over the international chair of composition at the Royal Academy of Music and, during the 1995/96 season, his Partita was played by 17 different British orchestras during celebrations of the prestigious BT. A biography by Mike Seabrooks (Scholar Press) and two discs of his orchestral works (Koch International) were recorded in 1997. Recent orders include Reflections on a XVIth century tune, created at the conference of the European String Teachers in Portsmouth, Rondel for big band, created by the London Sinfonietta May 1, 2001 as part of their concert dedicated to Duke Ellington and incidental music for a BBC drama Gormenghast, broadcast in January and February 2000. Google machine translation: Richard BENNET's original bio |
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| Richard BENNET Arr : TARTARIN Publisher : Besson Genre : Orchestra Group : Wind band |
Set Wind Band (BS880-BA) : € 129,13 Full score (BS880-CO) : € 15,19 |
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