- Roderick Watkins
Roderick Watkins (born
1964 ) is acomposer and Professor of Composition and Contemporary Music atCanterbury Christ Church University ,Kent ,England .Watkins was educated at
Gresham's School and then took a degree in Philosophy and Composition at Oberlin in the US before studying at theRoyal Academy of Music , where he won all of the Academy's main prizes for composition, completed his doctorate and became a Leverhulme Fellow. His teachers includedHans Werner Henze , Richard Hoffmann, andPaul Patterson . He also spent a year atIRCAM inParis and later returned toIRCAM as a “compositeur en recherche” (research composer).At Christ Church, he is Programme Director for undergraduate Music and teaches composition and contemporary music. In 2005, he was appointed Professor of Composition and Contemporary Music.
Compositions
Watkins' compositions include a full-length opera, "The Juniper Tree", premiered in London at the Almeida festival 1997 by the
London Sinfonietta conducted byMarkus Stenz . In 2003 he produced the electronic material for Henze’s opera "L’Upupa".Orchestral compositions include "Red Light", "Who Walked Between", "Still", and "Light's Horizon".
Electro-acoustic compositions include "The Looking Glass" and "Sound in Space".
Chamber music includes "A Valediction: of Weeping", "Last Light" (for clarinet and piano), and "At the Horizon" (for flute and piano), a "Clarinet Quintet" and "Breath".
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