Jonty Harrison

Jonty Harrison

Jonty Harrison is an electroacoustic music composer born April 27, 1952 in Scunthorpe, UK, and currently living in Birmingham, UK.

Jonty Harrison studied with Bernard Rands at the University of York, graduating with a DPhil in Composition in 1980. Between 1976 and 1980 he lived in London, working at the National Theatre (where he produced the tape components for many productions, including "Tamburlaine the Great", "Julius Caesar", "Brand" and "Amadeus") and City University. In 1980 he joined the Music Department of The University of Birmingham, where he is now Professor of Electroacoustic Composition, as well as Director of BEAST (Birmingham ElectroAcoustic Sound Theatre) and the Electroacoustic Music Studios; for ten years he was Artistic Director of the department's annual Barber Festival of Contemporary Music. He has played an active role in musical life, making conducting appearances with the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group (most notably conducting Stockhausen's "Momente" in Birmingham, Huddersfield and London), the University New Music Ensemble and the University Orchestra (most recently in Stravinsky's "Le sacre du printemps" and Vic Hoyland's "Vixen"). He was a Board member of Sonic Arts Network (SAN) for many years (and Chair between 1993 and 1996). He has also been on the Council and Executive Committee of the Society for the Promotion of New Music and was a member of the Music Advisory Panel of The Arts Council of Great Britain.

As a composer he has received several Prizes and Mentions in the Bourges International Electroacoustic Music Awards (including a Euphonie d'or for "Klang" in 1992 cited as “one of the most significant works” in the Bourges competition's history), two Distinctions and two Mentions in the Prix Ars Electronica (Linz, Austria), First Prize in the Musica Nova competition (Prague), a Lloyds Bank National Composers' Award, a PRS Prize for Electroacoustic Composition, an Arts Council Composition Bursary and research grants from the Leverhulme Trust and from the Arts and Humanities Research Board.

Commissions have come from many leading performers and studios, including two each from the Groupe de recherches musicales (Ina-GRM, Paris) and the Institut international de musique électroacoustique de Bourges (IMEB - formerly the Groupe de musique expérimentale de Bourges), the International Computer Music Association (ICMA), MAFILM/Magyar Rádió (Budapest), IRCAM/Ensemble intercontemporain (Paris), the BBC, Birmingham City Council, the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, the Fine Arts Brass Ensemble, the Nash Ensemble, Singcircle, John Harle, Beverly Davison, Harry Sparnaay, and Jos Zwaanenburg. Despite renouncing instrumental composition in 1992, he wrote "Abstracts", a work for 8-channel tape and large orchestra, in 1998. He has recently completed a work for dance, to be given its UK premiere in Trafalgar Square in August 2007 and "ReCycle" - a cycle of four 8-channel works:"Rock'n'Roll"; "Internal Combustion"; "Free Fall" and "Streams" given its world premiere at the CBSO Centre, Birmingham in May 2007.

His music is performed and broadcast worldwide, and several works are available on empreintes DIGITALes, SAN/NMC, Cultures électroniques/Mnémosyne Musique Média, and CDCM/Centaur.

Recordings

* "Etc" with Horacio Vaggione, Trevor Wishart (EMF, EMF 053, 2004)
* "Évidence matérielle" (empreintes DIGITALes, IMED 0052, 2000)
* "Articles indéfinis" (empreintes DIGITALes, IMED 9627, 1996)

List of Works

* "Aria" (1988)
* "EQ" (1980), soprano saxophone, and tape
* "… et ainsi de suite…" (1992)
* "Hot Air" (1995)
* "Klang" (1982)
* "Pair / Impair" (1978)
* "Rock 'n' Roll" (2004)
* "Sorties" (1995)
* "Splintering" (1997)
* "Streams" (1999)
* "Surface Tension" (1996)
* "Unsound Objects" (1995)

External links

* [http://artsweb.bham.ac.uk/harrison/ His personal site]

References

* http://www.electrocd.com/bio.e/harrison_jo.html (with permission)


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