Jeremy Thurlow
Jeremy Thurlow (born in 1967[1]) is an English composer. He studied music at Cambridge University and composition with Alexander Goehr, before spending a year at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama studying composition and music-theatre, and then taking a PhD at King’s College, London.
His compositions include music for orchestra, choir, solo voice, and chamber ensembles and have been performed by the BBC Philharmonic, Matthew Schellhorn, the Fitzwilliam String Quartet, Rolf Hind, Sequitur, Endymion and the BBC Singers, among others.[2] In 2007 he won the George Butterworth Award for Composition with his video-opera A Sudden Cartography of Song, composed in collaboration with writer Alistair Appleton.[3]
His book Henri Dutilleux: la musique des rêves/the music of dreams is an in-depth study of one of the major figures of twentieth-century French music, and he has also published articles on French post-war music including a study of Messiaen's birdsong style in the Cambridge University Press volume Messiaen Studies.[4] He has appeared regularly on BBC Radio 3, writing and broadcasting programmes about Fauré, Messiaen, Stravinsky and Schoenberg, and has also contributed to the revised New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (2000).[5][6]
He is a Fellow of Robinson College, University of Cambridge, where he teaches and lectures in music and composition.[7]
On top of his work in musicology and composition, Thurlow is also an avid plant collector and conservator, being part of the family firm Thurlow Plants. [8]
Work list (selection)[9]
- Flos Florum (1991), for double choir (SATB x2) and solo flute.
- Fearfully and wonderfully made (1995). Psalm setting for choir and organ pedals (women’s and men’s voices, in 3 groups).
- My secret music remembers me (1999), piano solo.
- Of Noblest Cities (2000), an Epiphany Carol for choir and organ (SSATBB).
- Ancient Stone at Twilight (2003) for soprano and string quartet.
- This is the garden (2004) for choir (SATB) and four horns.
- The Will of the Tones (2004), piano solo.
- Search Engines (2002-6), for orchestra.
- Piano Concerto (2000, rev. 2006), for piano and chamber orchestra.
- Music for Strings and Hammers (2006-7), for four pianos, honky-tonk and celesta.
- A sudden cartography of song (2007), video-opera for four solo voices (SATB), narrator, video and live electronics.
- Exultation is the going (2007), for 24 voices (SATB)
- fleeting (2007) for solo piano.
- Flare (2008) for chamber orchestra.
- Nesting (2008) for wind quintet.
- Unbidden Visions (2008), for tenor, horn and piano.
- Fantazia (2009) for string quartet (Homage to Purcell).
- Properties of Light (2009) dance-piece for septet (cl, hn, tpt, marimba, vn, vla, cello) and six dancers.
- Slow Tide (2009) for two pianos and percussion.
- When Joseph was a-walking – carol for choir (SSATBB), 2009.
- Bread and meat and fish and wine – carol for choir (SATB) and organ, 2010.
- Lob sei Gott (2010). Chorale prelude written for the Orgelbüchlein Project.
- Magnificat (2011) for choir and organ.
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