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Becoming a Composer: Faber & Faber

Autor Errollyn Wallen
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 2 noi 2023
'I am a composer. Part memoir, Becoming a Composer offers an intriguing glimpse into the mind and motivation of a composer and covers aspects of Wallen's sometimes troubled childhood, and her experiences of growing up as a black composer in the UK.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780571370139
ISBN-10: 0571370136
Pagini: 336
Dimensiuni: 141 x 218 x 34 mm
Greutate: 0.46 kg
Ediția:Main
Editura: FABER AND FABER
Colecția Faber & Faber
Seria Faber & Faber


Notă biografică

Errollyn Wallen CBE is a multi award-winning Belize-born British composer. Her
prolific output includes twenty-two operas and a large catalogue of orchestral, chamber and vocal
works, which are performed and broadcast throughout the world. She has composed for the
opening ceremony of the Paralympic Games 2012, for the Queen's Golden and Diamond Jubilees, a
specially commissioned song for COP 26, 2021, and a re-imagining of Jerusalem for the Last Night of
the Proms 2020. BBC Radio 3 featured her music across the first week of 2022 for Composer of the
Week, and she has made several radio documentaries including Classical
Commonwealth, nominated for the Prix Europa. Errollyn collaborated with artist Sonia Boyce on her
installation, Feeling Her Way, for the British Pavilion at the 2022 Venice Biennale, which won the
Golden Lion prize. Errollyn's critically acclaimed opera, Dido's Ghost, was premiered at the Barbican
in 2021 and received its US première in San Francisco in November 2023. Recent and forthcoming
premieres include a Wigmore Hall debut performance of songs from The Errollyn Wallen Songbook,
a violin concerto for Philippe Quint, Dances for Orchestra for Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Swedish
Chamber Orchestra and Irish Chamber Orchestra, The Northern Lights for Philharmonie Luxembourg
and Night Thoughts, a song cycle for mezzo-soprano Dame Sarah Connolly and pianist Joseph
Middleton.
Errollyn Wallen composes in a Scottish lighthouse and her recordings have travelled 7.84 million
kilometers in space, completing 186 orbits around the Earth on NASA's STS-115 mission.

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I am a composer. Part memoir, Becoming a Composer offers an intriguing glimpse into the mind and motivation of a composer and covers aspects of Wallen's sometimes troubled childhood, and her experiences of growing up as a black composer in the UK.