Jeremy Thurlow

Jeremy Thurlow
Nationality English
Alma mater
Occupation Composer

Jeremy Thurlow is an English composer. He studied music under the direction of Tim Brown and composition with Alexander Goehr at Clare College, Cambridge, before spending a year at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama studying composition and music-theatre with Peter Wiegold, 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 Orchestra, Matthew Schellhorn, the Fitzwilliam String Quartet, the Aronowitz Ensemble, Rolf Hind, Sequitur, Endymion, Peter Sheppard Skaerved and the BBC Singers, among others.[1] 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.[2]

His book Henri Dutilleux: la musique des rêves/the music of dreams[3] 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 Thurlow's work in musicology and composition he has many other interests. He is an avid plant collector and conservator, being part of the family firm Thurlow Plants.[8]

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References

  1. "s e q u i t u r". s e q u i t u r. 13 February 2011. Retrieved 28 February 2011.
  2. "Faculty of Music" Jeremy Thurlow". Mus.cam.ac.uk. Retrieved 28 February 2011.
  3. "books, articles, radio". Music by Jeremy Thurlow. Jeremythurlow.wordpress.com. 30 May 2011. Retrieved 4 August 2014.
  4. Millénaire III, 2006, ISBN 2-911906-13-6. Messiaen Studies, ed. R. Sholl, Cambridge University Press, 2006, http://www.cambridge.org/gb/knowledge/isbn/item1171933/?site_locale=en_GB
  5. February 2011. "Jeremy Thurlow". Kings Place. Retrieved 28 February 2011.
  6. "Grove Music Online in Oxford Music Online". Oxfordmusiconline.com. Retrieved 28 February 2011.
  7. "Subject details – Robinson College". Robinson.cam.ac.uk. Retrieved 28 February 2011.
  8. "Wholesale of top quality trees in Lincolnshire Uk". Thurlow Plants. Retrieved 4 August 2014.
  9. "Unbidden Visions". Cambridge University.

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