Hugh Collins Rice
Hugh Collins Rice has won significant prizes for his compositions, which combine lyricism with a technique influenced by medieval and renaissance procedures. His music is well suited to mixed programming and often involves abstract references to musics of the past.
Hugh Collins Rice was born in Oxford in 1962. Much of his early musical experience was gained in brass bands, including five years playing with the National Youth Brass Band of Great Britain.
He read music at the university of Oxford followed by an MA (composition and analysis) at Sussex and research at Oxford (M.Litt - Schoenberg's serial music). He has been teaching undergraduates at Oxford for a number of years and is currently college lecturer in music at Oriel College, Oxford.[1]
His music has been performed at many venues across the British Isles and in Europe, including the Royal Festival Hall, the Concertgebouw and the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival. Performers have included the Hilliard Ensemble, the Britten Sinfonia, Jane Manning, the Swingle Singers, the Coull Quartet and the Holywell Ensemble. Several works have been broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and in Europe.
Vocal works have set a wide variety of texts from medieval graffiti to St Mark's Gospel and the poems of Geoffrey Hill, Christina Rossetti and Thomas Wyatt. Instrumental music includes the prize winning orchestral pieces Before the End (1989 PA Composition Award) and Robin's Lament[permanent dead link] (Composers' Guild/MCPS Prize, 1995); the string quartet, I Fiori, was written in association with the Walton Trust and dedicated to Lady Walton after the early stages of its composition were conceived in the spectacular gardens of La Mortella, Walton's home on the island.
Selected works[edit]
- Before the End (1989 PA Composition Award)
- Robin's Lament[permanent dead link] (Composers' Guild/MCPS Prize, 1995)
- I Fiori
- St Godric's Dances
- Earth and Moon (Title track on CD released by Tubalate)[2]
- In The Grave, Whither Thou Goest[permanent dead link]
- A Melancholy Pavan (Selected for The London Schubert Players Invitation to Composers 2011 Season)[3]
- The Pentecost Castle
Selected articles[edit]
- 'Further Thoughts on Schnittke' [Tempo, No. 168, (Mar., 1989)]
- 'Serial Expression in Schoenberg's Violin Concerto, Op. 36' [Tempo, Vol. 63, No. 247 (Jan., 2009)]
- 'WITOLD LUTOSŁAWSKI AND THE CRAFT OF WRITING NOTHING' [Tempo, Vol. 64, No. 253 (JULY 2010)]
- 'THE INTERACTION OF FORM AND MATERIAL IN SCHOENBERG'S KLAVIERSTÜCK OP. 33B' [Tempo, Vol. 66, No. 259 (JANUARY 2012)]
- 'WALTON'S FINAL WORK: HARMONY AND THE ART OF (MAKE-BELIEVE) FUGUE' [Tempo, Vol. 66, No. 262 (OCTOBER 2012)]
References[edit]
- ↑ http://www.oriel.ox.ac.uk/content/mr-hugh-collins-rice accessed 17/01/2014 1538
- ↑ R. Winston Morris (ed.) Guide to the Tuba Repertoire, Second Edition: The New Tuba Source Book (Indiana University Press, 8 Nov 2006), p.539
- ↑ http://www.invitationtocomposers.co.uk/composers.html
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