Sarah Rodgers
BIOGRAPHY[edit]
Sarah Rodgers is a British composer born in 1953.[1] Rodgers was brought up in Sevenoaks, Kent where she attended Walthamstow Hall School. She read music at Nottingham University under Denis Arnold. After two years serving with Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO) in Sierra Leone, she returned to the UK to pursue a career in composition.[2] From 1992 - 1995 she was Chairman of the Composers' Guild of Great Britain, and from 2009 - 2012 she was Chairman of the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors. In 1992, she was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA).
Her time in Sierra Leone gave rise to her interest in cross-cultural music, resulting in a number of works utilising indigenous instruments from other countries: The Roaring Whirl (1992),[3] commissioned for the Nottingham Now Festival; Saigyo (1995), [4] commissioned by Orchestras Live for the City of London Sinfonia. In 1999 she was commissioned to write a setting of The King of the Golden River [5] as part of the Ruskin 2000 centenary celebrations.
Rodgers' work [6] is published by Stainer & Bell where she is a featured composer.
SELECTED WORKS[edit]
- 1988 Fantasy Piece: The Mary Rose commissioned by Warwick University Orchestra
- 1990 Spanish Sonata for clarinet and piano commissioned by Geraldine Allen Stainer & Bell
- 1992 The Roaring Whirl for clarinet, guitar, sitar, tabla, pakhavaj, narrator, dancer commissioned by East Midlands Arts and Nottinghamshire Music Services
- 1993 By beck gill and force … for bassethorn and piano commissioned by Georgina Dobrée
- 1995 Saigyo for 2 bansuri, 2 shakuhachi, chamber orchestra, commissioned by the Eastern Orchestral Board (Orchestras Live)
- 1997 The Light Touch Book 1 – Surfing for alto saxophone and piano, commissioned by Stainer & Bell
- 1997 The Light Touch Book 2 – Interactive for alto saxophone and piano, commissioned by Stainer & Bell
- 1998 Ramayana for flute, oboe, clarinet, trumpet, tenor sax., trombone, commissioned by Sounds Positive
- 1999 The King of the Golden River for tenor and string quartet, commissioned by the Ruskin Society, recorded on SOMM CD 222
- 2000 Windhover Te Deum for soprano solo, chorus, chamber orchestra, commissioned by the North London Chorus
- 2003 Time Pieces - four pieces for 11-part clarinet choir, commissioned by Cambridge Clarinets
- 2003 The Fire Will Blaze Again - a song-cycle for tenor and piano trio, commissioned by Operest
- 2005 beat lines - four movements for clarinet, cello and piano, commissioned by Music Past and Present for the Nimbus Ensemble
- 2006 Spring Palace Song for female chorus, commissioned by Cantamus Girls Choir for the 2006 Choral Olympics
- 2008 Dover Beach for Chorus (SSATB), string quartet and harp, commissioned by Islington Choral Society
- 2002/2009 See Amid the Winter’s Snow for Voices and keyboard, published in Flexible Carols by Oxford University PressOxford University Press
- 2012 Skylark for Pedal and non-pedal harp, Stainer & Bell
- 2018 Labyrinths for Eight Hands at Two Pianos, commissioned by Piano40
References[edit]
- Contemporary Music Review, Taylor & Francis, 1994
- Select Committee on Culture, Media and Sport Minutes of Evidence
- Oxford Dictionary of National Biography 2005-2008
- Flute, Accordion or Clarinet?: Using the Characteristics of Our Instruments ... By Dawn Loombe, Jo Tomlinson, Amelia Oldfield E-book, introduction by Sarah Rodgers
- Music Entrepreneurship by Allan Dumbreck, Gayle McPherson, published Bloomsbury 2016
External Links[edit]
- Official website
- British Music Collection
- Stainer & Bell
- Daily Telegraph article by Ivan Hewitt on classical composers
- Gramophone Magazine Report on British Composer Awards 2010
- Independent nespaper article by Jessica Duchen on British Composer Awards 2013
- Classical Music Magazine Report on British Composer Awards 2014
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