Peter Maxwell Davies

Peter Maxwell Davies
Nascimento	Peter Maxwell Davies 8 de setembro de 1934 Salford
Morte	14 de março de 2016 (81 anos) Sanday
Cidadania	Reino Unido
Alma mater	Universidade de Manchester Royal Manchester College of Music Moorside High School Universidade de Princeton
Ocupação	compositor de música clássica, maestro, professor de música, compositor de bandas sonoras, pianista, compositor, pedagogo
Prêmios	Comandante da Ordem do Império Britânico Medalha de ouro da Royal Philharmonic Society (2015) Walter Willson Cobbett Medal
Empregador(a)	Royal Academy of Music
Obras destacadas	Symphony No. 4
Instrumento	piano
Título	Knight Bachelor
Causa da morte	leucemia
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Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, CBE (Salford, 8 de setembro de 1934 - 14 de março de 2016) foi um compositor, pianista e maestro inglês.

Biografia

Davies teve aulas piano e composição desde idade precoce. Após terminar o ensino no Leigh Boys Grammar School, estudou na Universidade de Manchester e no Royal College of Music. Entre seus colegas estavam Harrison Birtwistle, Alexander Goehr, Elgar Howarth e John Ogdon. Juntos formaram um grupo de música contemporânea chamado Música Nova Manchester.

Depois de 1956 estudou com Goffredo Petrassi, e trabalhou como director musical no Cirencester Grammar School, de 1959 a 1962. Em 1962 obteve uma bolsa na Universidade de Princeton, ajudado por Aaron Copland e Benjamin Britten. Lá estudou com Roger Sessions, Milton Babbitt e Earl Kim. Em seguida mudou-se para a Austrália, onde foi compositor residente no Elder Conservatorium of Music, na Universidade de Adelaide, entre 1965 e 1966.

Composições

• Fantasias on an In nomine of John Taverner (1962; For a large orchestra dividing into several chambers ensembles to be performed)
• Eight Songs for a Mad King (1968; for singer/narrator/actor and chamber ensemble)
• Missa super l'homme armé (1968, rev. 1971; for male or female speaker or singer and ensemble)
• Ave Maris Stella (1975; chamber ensemble)
• Symphony No. 1 (1976-77; orchestra)
• The Lighthouse (opera) (1979; chamber opera)
• Cinderella (1980; children’s opera)
• Image, Reflection, Shadow (1982; ensemble)
• Concerto for Violin and Orchestra (1985; dedicated to Isaac Stern who gave the first performance on June 21, 1986 at the St. Magnus Festival in the Orkney Islands)
• Caroline Mathilde (1991; ballet)
• A Spell for Green Corn: The MacDonald Dances (1993; violin, orchestra)
• Job (1997; singers, orchestra)
• Mr Emmet Takes a Walk (2000; chamber opera)

Ligeiros

• 1953-8 - studied in Manchester and Rome.
• 1967 - together with Harrison Birtwistle, founded the contemporary music touring ensemble the Pierrot Players (later renamed The Fires of London).
• 1971 - moved to Hoy in the Orkney Islands.
• 1987-96 - wrote the ten Strathclyde Concertos for the Scottish Chamber Orchestra.
• 2002 - embarked on a cycle of ten string quartets, commissioned by Naxos.
• 2004 - appointed Master of the Queen’s Music.

Gravações

• Naxos Quartets
• Missa parvula; two organ pieces; two motets - Hyperion CDA67454
• Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis and O Sacrum Convivium - Delphian DCD34037
• Symphonies 1 - 6 - BBC Philharmonic/composer - Collins Classics
• Ave Maris Stella; Image, Reflection, Shadow; Runes from a Holy Island - Fires of London/composer - Unicorn-Kanchana

Alunos

• Elisabetta Brusa
• Ronald Caltabiano
• Ross Edwards (composer)
• Philip Grange
• Edward Barnes
• Haflidi Hallgrímsson
• Hilda Paredes
• Gillian Whitehead

Ligações externas

• A portrait in words of the composer by Stephen Moss in The Guardian
• Sir Peter Maxwell Davies' homepage at Chester Music
• Maxwell Davies and the String Quartet CompositionToday article by Paul Driver
• Peter Maxwell Davies interview with Bruce Duffie
• Peter Maxwell Davies @ Boosey & Hawkes
• On An Overgrown Path
• Tondo di Michelangelo
• Maxwell Davies's Percussion Repertoire from Bell Percussion's Composer Repertoire Resource