Giles Swayne
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Giles Swayne (born June 30, 1946) is an English composer.
[edit] Biography
Swayne is a cousin of Elizabeth Maconchy. He spent much of his childhood in Liverpool, and began composing at a young age. He later studied with Alan Bush and Olivier Messiaen. In 1990, he moved to Ghana, returning to Britain in 1996 in personally painful times chronicled in his autobiography (see the link below).
[edit] Selected compositions
- CRY, opus 27 for 28 solo voices and electronics, commissioned by the BBC and premiered in 1980 (recorded on the label NMC by the BBC Singers and John Poole, who has also premiered works with chorus by Havergal Brian)
- Magnificat, 1982
- string quartets 1 – 3 (1971 to 1993)
- Goodnight Sweet Ladies for soprano and piano, commissioned by Lord Harewood and written 1994–5 ([1])
- The Silent Land, for cello and choir, premiered in 1998
- HAVOC, for accompanied choir - a sequel to CRY; premiered 1999
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[edit] External links
- Autobiography at Gonzaga Publishers Included instead of the biography at Schirmer, which mostly duplicates it.
- Review of performance of HAVOC at MusicWeb
