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Andrew Downes (b. 1950) in Handsworth, Birmingham, is a British classical composer. Inside 1969, he won a choral scholarship to St. John's College, Cambridge, where he gained an MA degree specializing in composition; and in 1974 went on to study with Herbert Howells at the Royal College of Music. Downes is presently at a Birmingham Conservatoire, where he occurs as prof since 1992.
Andrew Downes' music has been performed throughout the world, around numbers of leading concert halls & cathedrals, & has been broadcast in BBC Radios 2,3 & 4, BBC TV, ‘France Musique’, Italian TV, Austrian Radio, Dutch Radio, Czech Radio and Central Peking Radio. Twelve Videos keep close at hand been processed of his music. His commissions keep close at hand involved: A Lakes of Glynn for the Royal opening of the Adrian Boult Hall withinside Birmingham in 1986; Centenary Firedances for the City of Birmingham’s Centenary Festival of Pyrotechnic & Music; an Overture for the 3 Choirs Festival; songs for 'Cantamus' Girls' Choir; song rounds for mezzo-soprano Sarah Walker & tenor John Mitchinsin for broadcast on BBC Radio Three; anthems for the BBC Radio Four Daily Service; Sonata for Octet Horns for the Horn Octet of the University of Up to date Mexico; Suite for Sextet Horns for the Vienna Horn Society; Song of the Eagle for the James Madison University Flute Choir of Virginia; Concerto for Both Pianos for the Duo Scaramouche; Sonata for Octet Piano player for soloists from either France, Italy & Britain; Mela Kamavardhani for performances by Indo-Jazz Fusions within Calcutta, Delhi & Bombay; Fanfare for Madam Speaker, for the Installation of the Rt Hon Betty Boothroyd MP when Chancellor of the Open University; Concerto for 2 Guitars for Simon Dinnigan & Fred T. Baker by having Strings from either a City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra; ''Concert Overture 'Towards the Up to date Age' for the 150th day of remembrance of the British Institution of Mechanical Engineers, premiered inside Symphony Hall, Birmingham, per Royal Philharmonic Orchestra; & Suite for Brass Sextet for the Czech Philharmonic Brass Sextet. Following of the profits of the Video recording of his Sonata for Eighter from decatur Horns per Horns of the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Andrew was commissioned to compose a Concerto for Quaternion Horns & Orchestra for the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, world health organization gave deuce performances of the operate in the Dvorak Hall, Prague, in February & March 2002. Within March 2003, the operate was recorded by Czech Radio, & is broadcast in the nigh new. Andrew may go to to Prague next month to hear the performance per Czech Philharmonic Horns of his Quint Dramatic Pieces for Eighter from decatur Wagner Tubas. Recent projects include Songs of Autumn, licenced by Symphony Hall, Birmingham, & number 1 performed by 1200 schoolchildren & players from either a City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, inside October 2003, and an opera, Far from the Madding Crowd, to be premiered at a Thomas Healthy Festival inside 2006. Faber Music own recently requested a inclusion of Andrew Downes’ motet O Vos Omnes around the forthcoming compilation of works entitled Thirty Choral Masterworks for Upper Voices''.
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Andrew Downes Official site. Biography, photograph, critical appraisals, sound samples of selected works, and links to more about himself plus sites of general musical interest. Andrew Downes Wikipedia article with detailed biography summarizing his varied works with internal references to related topics and external links. Andrew Downes Entry at the Lied and Art Songs Text Page with list of vocal works linked to lyrics. Andrew Downes Chronological list of works, biography, photograph, and links from the Classical Composers Database. Andrew Downes Extended critical analysis of his works with personal and professional biographical details by David C. F. Wright. Includes a glowing review of the orchestral premiere of his Concerto for Four Horns and Orchestra. |
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