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Thomas Adès
Thomas Adès, (born 1971) - portrait of the British composer, pianist and conductor at Dartington Summer School of Music in 1994.
Thomas Adès
Thomas Adès, (born 1971) - British composer, pianist and conductor photographed in 1994 at Dartington Summer School of Music.
Thomas Adès
Thomas Adès composer, (born 1971) British composer, pianist and conductor photographed at Dartington Summer School of Music in 1994.
Thomas Adès and John Woolrich
British composers Thomas Adès and John Woolrich in rehearsal with the Composer's Ensemble at Dartington Summer School of Music in 1994.
Thomas Adès
British composer Thomas Adès conducting a rehearsal of the Composers' Ensemble at Dartington Summer School of Music in 1994.
Thomas Adès
British composer, pianist and conductor Thomas Adès conducting a rehearsal of the Composers' Ensemble at Dartington Summer School of Music in 1994.
Eleanor Alberga
Eleanor Alberga OBE, (born 1949) is a Jamaican composer and pianist photographed here at Dartington Summer School of Music in 2019. That year her choral commission 'Awed Light Its Chart Entrances' (A.L.I.C.E.) with text by the poet Alice Oswald was premiered with the Dartington International Festival Choir and Joanna MacGregor playing piano.
Eleanor Alberga
Eleanor Alberga OBE, (born 1949), is a Jamaican composer and pianist photographed at Dartington Summer School of Music 2019. That year her choral commission 'Awed Light Its Chart Entrances' (A.L.I.C.E.) with text by the poet Alice Oswald, was premiered with the Dartington International Festival Choir and Joanna MacGregor playing piano.
Eleanor Alberga
Eleanor Alberga OBE, (born 1949), Jamaican composer and pianist photographed at Dartington Summer School of Music 2019. That year her choral commission 'Awed Light Its Chart Entrances' (A.L.I.C.E.) with text by the poet Alice Oswald, was premiered with the Dartington International Festival Choir and Joanna MacGregor on piano.
Eleanor Alberga
Eleanor Alberga OBE, (born 1949) Jamaican composer and pianist photographed at Dartington Summer School of Music 2019. In the same year her piece 'Awed Light Its Chant Entrances' (A.L.I.C.E.) with text by the poet Alice Oswald was premiered with the Dartington International Festival Choir and Joanna MacGregor playing piano.
Richard Baker
Richard Baker (born 1972) is a British composer and conductor, photographed here at Dartington Summer School of Music.
Richard Baker and Gerald Barry
Richard Baker, conductor and Irish composer Gerald Barry, photographed at Dartington Summer School of Music.
Gerald Barry
Gerald Barry (born 28 April 1952), is an Irish composer born in County Clare, in rehearsal at the Great Hall, Dartingon during the Summer School of Music.
Gerald Barry
Gerald Barry (born 28 April 1952), is an Irish composer born in County Clare. Photographed here at a rehearsal of one of his pieces in the Great Hall, Dartington.
Gerald Barry
Gerald Barry (born 28 April 1952), is an Irish composer born in County Clare. Photographed here at a rehearsal of one of his works in the Great Hall, Dartington at the Dartington Summer School of Music.
David Bedford
David Bedford, (1937-2011), was an English composer and musician. He wrote and played both popular and classical music. He was the brother of the conductor Steuart Bedford. Photographed here in the Great Hall, Dartington with one of his children, at a rehearsal of one of his compositions.
David Bedford
David Bedford, (1937-2011), was an English composer and musician. He wrote and played both popular and classical music. He was the brother of the conductor Steuart Bedford. Photographed here in the Great Hall, Dartington with one of his children, at a rehearsal of one of his compositions.
Steuart Bedford
Steuart Bedford, (1939-2021), was an English orchestral and opera conductor and pianist. He was the brother of the composer David Bedford. Photographed here at Dartington Summer School of Music where he was teaching composition to advanced students.
Steuart Bedford
Steuart Bedford, (1939-2021) was an English orchestral and opera conductor and pianist. He was the brother of the composer David Bedford. Photographed here at Dartington Summer School of Music where he was teaching composition to advanced students.
Steuart Bedford
Steuart Bedford, (1939-2021) was an English orchestral and opera conductor and pianist. He was the brother of the composer David Bedford. Photographed here at Dartington Summer School of Music where he was teaching composition to advanced students.
Judith Bingham
Composer and mezzo-soprano Judith Bingham OBE was born in Nottingham in 1952, and attended the Royal Academy of Music.
Harrison Birtwistle
Sir Harrison Birtwistle, (1934-2022), was a British composer of contemporary classical music photographed here at Dartington Summer School of Music in 2019. He had been involved in the very early years of the Summer School.
Harrison Birtwistle
Sir Harrison Birtwistle, (1934-2022), was a British composer of contemporary classical music photographed here while at Dartington for the recording of his piano pieces Harrison's Clocks, in 2000 in the Great Hall at Dartington with the pianist Joanna MacGregor.
Harrison Birtwistle
Sir Harrison Birtwistle, (1934-2022), was a British composer of contemporary classical music photographed here while at Dartington for the recording of his piano pieces Harrison's Clocks, in 2000 in the Great Hall at Dartington with the pianist Joanna MacGregor.
Harrison Birtwistle
Sir Harrison Birtwistle, (1934-2022), was a British composer of contemporary classical music. Photographed here looking at his score at a rehearsal of his work in the Great Hall at Dartington in 2019.
Harrison Birtwistle
Sir Harrison Birtwistle, (1934-2022), was a British composer of contemporary classical music. Photographed here at a rehearsal in the Great Hall, Dartington with the Brodsky Quartet in 2019.
Harrison Birtwistle
Sir Harrison Birtwistle, (1934-2022), was a British composer of contemporary classical music. Photographed here at a rehearsal in the Great Hall at Dartington.
Harrison Birtwistle
Sir Harrison Birtwistle, (1934-2022), was a British composer of contemporary classical music. Photographed here at Dartington in 2019 on his 85th birthday.
Harrison Birtwistle
Sir Harrison Birtwistle, (1934-2022), was a British composer of contemporary classical music. Photographed here at Dartington in 2019 on his 85th birthday.
Harrison Birtwistle
Sir Harrison Birtwistle, (1934-2022), was a British composer of contemporary classical music. Photographed here at Dartington in 2019 when he was celebrating his 85th birthday.
Harrison Birtwistle and Joanna MacGregor
Composer Sir Harrison Birtwistle and pianist Joanna MacGregor just after the completion of their recording of Harrison's Clocks in the Great Hall at Dartington in 1999 - looking tired and relieved.
Neil Brand
Neil Brand, born 1958, is an English dramatist, composer and author. He is a regular silent film accompanist at London's National Film Theatre and has composed scores for two recently restored films from the 1920's.
Philip Cashian and John Woolrich
Composers Philip Cashian and John Woolrich photographed at Dartington Summer School of Music. Cashian, born 1963, is an English composer and is head of composition at the Royal Academy of Music. John Woolrich, born 1954, is an English composer who founded the Composers Ensemble, the Hoxton New Music Days and has been composer in association with the Orchestra of St. John's and the Britten Sinfonia. He was guest Artistic Director of the Aldeburgh Festival in 2004 and Associate Director of the Festival from 2005 to 2010. From 2010 to 2013 he was the Artistic Director of the Dartington International Summer School.
Philip Cashian
Philip Cashian, born 1963, is an English composer and the head of composition at the Royal Academy of Music. Photographed here at Dartington Summer School of Music.
Philip Cashian
Philip Cashian, born 1963, is an English composer and the head of composition at the Royal Academy of Music. Photographed here at Dartington Summer School of Music.
Philip Cashian
Philip Cashian, born 1963, is an English composer and the head of composition at the Royal Academy of Music. Photographed here at Dartington Summer School of Music.
Six composers at Dartington
A group of composers including John Woolrich, Pavel Novak, David Bedford and Tansy Davies.
Tansy Davies
Tansy Davies, born 1973, is an English composer of contemporary classical music. She won the BBC Young Composer's Competition in 1996 and has written works for ensembles such as the London Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Symphony Orchestra and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Photographed here at Dartington Summer School of Music.
Tansy Davies
Tansy Davies, born 1973, is an English composer of contemporary classical music. She won the BBC young Composer's Competition in 1996 and has written works for ensembles such as the London Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Symphony Orchestra and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Photographed here at Dartington Summer School of Music.
Tansy Davies
Tansy Davies, born 1973, is an English composer of contemporary classical music. She won the BBC Young Composer's Competition in 1996 and has written works for ensembles such as the London Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Symphony Orchestra and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.
Tansy Davies
Tansy Davies, born 1973 is an English composer of contemporary classical music. She won the BBC Young Composer's Competition in 1996 and has written works for orchestras such as the London Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Symphony Orchestra and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.
Tansy Davies
Tansy Davies, born 1973, is an English composer of contemporary classical music.She won the BBC Young Composer's Competition in 1996 and has written works for orchestras such as the London Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Symphony Orchestra and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.
Sándor Devich
Sándor Devich, Hungarian composer (1935-2016), photographed at Dartington Summer School of Music.
Petr Eben
Petr Eben, (1929-2007), was a Czech composer of modern and contemporary classical music and an organist and choirmaster. Photographed here at Dartington Summer School of Music.
Michael Finnissy
Michael Finnissy, (born 1946) is an English composer and pianist. Photographed at the Modernist High Cross House Dartington where he was teaching his composition students during the Summer School of Music in 2017.
Michael Finnissy and his composition group.
Michael Finnissy (Born 1946) is an English composer and pianist. Photographed with his composition group at Dartington Summer School of Music at High Cross House, Dartington, a modernist house designed by the Swiss-American architect William Lescaze.
Michael Finnissy
Michael Finnissy (Born 1946) is an English composer and pianist. Photographed where he was teaching his students, at High Cross House, Dartington, a modernist house designed by the Swiss-American architect William Lescaze.
Michael Finnissy
Michael Finnissy (Born 1946) is an English composer and pianist. Photographed where he was teaching his students, at High Cross House, Dartington, a modernist house designed by the Swiss-American architect William Lescaze.
Michael Finnissy
Michael Finnissy (Born 1946) is an English composer and pianist. Photographed at High Cross House, Dartington where he was teaching his composition students - a modernist house designed by the Swiss-American architect William Lescaze.
Michael Finnissy
Michael Finnissy (Born 1946) is an English composer and pianist. Photographed where he was teaching his composition students at High Cross House, Dartington, a modernist house designed by the Swiss-American architect William Lescaze.
Dmitri Smirnov and Alissa Firsova
The late Dmitri Smirnov (1948-2020) was a Russian-British composer and academic teacher. He wrote operas, symphonies, string quartets and other chamber music and vocal music from song to oratorio. Many of his works were inspired by the art of William Blake. His daughter Alissa, a Russian-British classical composer born in Moscow, moved with her family to the UK in 1991 and in 2001 won the BBC/Guardian Proms Young Composers competition.
Elena Firsova and Dmitri Smirnov
Russian composers Elena Firsova (born 1950) and Dmitri Smirnov (1948-2020) in a rehearsal in the Great Hall at Dartington during the Dartington Summer School of Music.
Elena Firsova and Dmitri Smirnov
Russian composers Firsova (born 1950) and Smirnov (1948-2020) teaching on the composition course at Dartington Summer School of Music.
Elena Firsova and Dmitri Smirnov
Russian composers Elena Firsova (born 1950) and Dmitri Smirnov (1948-2020) teaching on the composition course at Dartington Summer School of Music.
Dmitri Smirnov and Elena Firsova
Portrait of Russian composers Dimitri Smirnov (1948-2020) and Elena Firsova (born 1950) at Dartington.
Alissa Firsova
Composer and pianist, Alissa Firsova, (born 1986) is the daughter of Russian composers Dimitri Smirnov and Elena Firsova. Seen here in rehearsal in the Great Hall at Dartington Summer School of Music.
Alissa Firsova
Composer and pianist, Alissa Firsova, (born 1986) daughter of composers Dimitri Smirnov and Elena Firsova. Seen here in rehearsal in the Great Hall, at Dartington Summer Music School.
Alexander Goehr
Alexander Goehr (born 1932), is a German born English composer and academic, photographed here at Dartington Music Summer School where he first taught in 1960. Born in Berlin he was the son of the conductor and composer Walter Goehr - a pupil of Arnold Schoenberg. In his early twenties he emerged as a central figure in the Manchester School of post-war British composers.
Orlando Gough
Orlando Gough (born 1953), is a British composer noted for projects written for ballet, contemporary dance and theatre.
Orlando Gough
Orlando Gough (born 1953), is a British composer noted for projects written for ballet, contemporary dance and theatre.
Huw Watkins and Oliver Knussen
Composers Huw Watkins MBE (born 1976) and the late Oliver Knussen CBE (1952-2018) in rehearsal in the Great Hall at Dartington Summer Music School.
Oliver Knussen
The late composer Oliver Knussen CBE (1952-2018) at a rehearsal of his music in the Great Hall, at the Dartington Music Summer School.
Oliver Knussen
The late composer Oliver Knussen CBE (1952-2018) at a rehearsal of his music in the Great Hall, at the Dartington Music Summer School.
Oliver Knussen
The late composer Oliver Knussen CBE (1952-2018) at a rehearsal of his music in the Great Hall, at the Dartington Music Summer School.
Oliver Knussen
The late composer Oliver Knussen CBE (1952-2018) at a rehearsal of his music in the Great Hall, at the Dartington Music Summer School.
Oliver Knussen
The late composer Oliver Knussen CBE (1952-2018) conducting in the Great Hall, at the Dartington Music Summer School.
Oliver Knussen
The late composer Oliver Knussen CBE (1952-2018) with the orchestra rehearsing in the Great Hall, at the Dartington Music Summer School.
David Matthews
Portrait of composer David Matthews, (born 9 March 1943), an English composer of mainly orchestral, chamber, vocal and piano works.
David Matthews
English composer David Matthews, (born 1943), in the Great Hall at Dartington at a rehearsal of his music.
David Matthews
English composer David Matthews, (born 1943), in the Great Hall at Dartington at a rehearsal of his music.
David Matthews
Portrait of composer David Matthews, (born 1943), at Dartington Music Summer School.
Gavin Henderson and Peter Maxwell Davies
Gavin Henderson,(born 1948), Artistic Director of Dartington Summer School of Music from 1985 to 2010, with composer Peter Maxwell-Davies (1934-2016) photographed at Dartington Summer School.
Peter Maxwell Davies
Composer Peter Maxwell Davies (1934-2016) photographed at Dartington Summer School of Music with students on the Composition course.
Peter Maxwell Davies
Composer Peter Maxwell Davies (1934-2016) photographed at Dartington Summer School of Music with students on the Composition course.
Peter Maxwell Davies
Composer Peter Maxwell Davies (1934-2016) photographed at Dartington Summer School of Music with students on the composition course.
Peter Maxwell Davies
Composer Peter Maxwell Davies (1934-2016) photographed at Dartington Summer School of Music with students on the composition course.
Peter Maxwell Davies
Composer Peter Maxwell Davies (1934-2016) photographed at Dartington Summer School of Music with students on the composition course.
Peter Maxwell Davies
Composer Peter Maxwell Davies (1934-2016) photographed at Dartington Summer School of Music with students on the composition course.
Peter Maxwell Davies
Composer Peter Maxwell Davies (1934-2016) photographed at Dartington Summer School of Music while teaching composition.
Peter Maxwell Davies
Composer Peter Maxwell Davies (1934-2016) photographed at Dartington Summer School of Music while teaching composition.
Peter Maxwell Davies
Composer Peter Maxwell Davies (1934-2016) photographed at Dartington Summer School of Music while teaching composition.
Wilfrid Howard Mellers OBE
Wilfrid Howard Mellers OBE (1914-2008) was an English music critic, musicologist and composer, photographed at Dartington Summer School of Music.
Dominic Muldowney
Dominic Muldowney, British composer born in 1953, has created award-winning music for stage, screen and concert hall. Photographed at Dartington Summer School of Music.
Dominic Muldowney
Dominic Muldowney, British composer born in 1953, has created award-winning music for stage screen and concert hall. Photographed at Dartington Summer School of Music.
Dominic Murcott
Dominic Murcott is a composer, curator, and educator whose work encompasses a wide range of activities. His compositions often combine acoustic instruments with digital media or theatrical approaches. Photographed teaching at Dartington Summer School of Music.
Dominic Murcott
Dominic Murcott is a composer, curator and educator whose work encompasses a wide range of activities. His compositions often combine acoustic instruments with digital media or theatrical ideas. Photographed at Dartington Summer School of Music.
Dominic Murcott
Dominic Murcott is a composer, curator and educator whose work encompasses a wide range of activities. His compositions often combine acoustic instruments with digital media or theatrical ideas. Photographed at Dartington Summer School of Music.
Thea Musgrave and John Woolrich
Thea Musgrave(born 1928) is a Scottish composer of opera and classical music. She now lives in the USA. Seen here with John Woolrich,(born 1954) English composer and photographed in the courtyard at Dartington during the Summer School of Music.
Thea Musgrave
Thea Musgrave (born 1928) is a Scottish composer of opera and classical music, photographed at Dartington Summer School of Music. She has lived in the USA since 1972.
Thea Musgrave
Thea Musgrave (born 1928) is a Scottish composer of opera and classical music, photographed at Dartington Summer School of Music. She has lived in the USA since 1972.
Thea Musgrave
Thea Musgrave (born 1928) is a Scottish composer of opera and classical music, photographed at Dartington Summer School of Music. She now lives in the USA.
Thea Musgrave
Thea Musgrave (born 1928) is a Scottish composer of opera and classical music, photographed at Dartington Summer School of Music. She now lives in the USA.
Peter Maxwell Davies
Ian Forbes, at that time the resident farmer at Dartington Hall, playing the pipes in Peter Maxwell Davies' An Orkney Wedding with Sunrise performed in the Great Hall at Dartington at the Summer School of Music in 2008.
Peter Maxwell Davies
Peter Maxwell Davies, (1934-2016) the composer at Dartington Summer School of Music in 2008. He was taking a bow - holding a glass of Guiness - following a performance of An Orkney Wedding with Sunrise in the Great Hall at Dartington Summer School of Music.
Peter Maxwell Davies
Peter Maxwell Davies, composer (1934-2016) listening intently to the entrance of the piper into the Great Hall at Dartington, in his piece - Orkney Wedding with Sunrise.
Peter Maxwell Davies
Peter Maxwell Davies, composer (1934-2016) listening intently for the entrance of the piper into the Great Hall at Dartington at the end of his piece - Orkney Wedding with Sunrise.
Peter Maxwell Davies
Ian Forbes, at this time the resident farmer at Dartington Hall, at Dartington Summer School of Music in 2008,rehearsing for his entry into the Great Hall with pipes for the end of Peter Maxwell-Davies' piece - Orkney Wedding with Sunrise.
Peter Maxwell Davies
Ian Forbes - at this time the resident farmer at Dartington Hall - at Dartington Summer School of Music in 2008, rehearsing for his entry into the Great Hall with pipes at the end of Peter Maxwell Davies' piece - Orkney Wedding with Sunrise.
Peter Maxwell Davies
Ian Forbes in rehearsal in the Great Hall, Dartington in 2008 for Peter Maxwell Davies' piece - Orkney Wedding with Sunrise.
Alwynne Pritchard
Alwynne Pritchard, born 1968, is a British composer, vocalist, actor and writer based in Bergen, Norway. In her music and performances she explores relationships between musical expression and the human voice and body.
Alwynne Pritchard
Alwynne Pritchard, born 1968, is a British composer, vocalist, actor and writer based in Bergen, Norway. In her music and performances she explores relationships between musical expression and the human voice and body.
Alwynne Pritchard
Alwynne Pritchard, born 1968, is a British composer, vocalist, actor and writer based in Bergen, Norway. In her music and performances she explores relationships between musical expression and the human voice and body.
Alwynne Pritchard
Alwynne Pritchard, born 1968, is a British composer, vocalist, actor and writer based in Bergen, Norway. In her music and performances she explores relationships between musical expression and the human voice and body.
Alwynne Pritchard
Alwynne Pritchard, born 1968, is a British composer, vocalist, actor and writer based in Bergen, Norway. In her music and performances she explores relationships between musical expression and the human voice and body.
Somei Satoh
Somei Satoh, born 1947, is a Japanese composer of contemporary music. His compositions mix Japanese court music with European romanticism and electronic music. Photographed here rehearsing in the Great Hall, Dartington.
Somei Satoh
Portrait of Somei Satoh, born 1947, is a Japanese composer of contemporary music. His compositions mix Japanese court music with European romanticism and electronic music.
Somei Satoh
Somei Satoh, born 1947, is a Japanese composer of contemporary music. His compositions mix Japanese court music with European romanticism and electronic music. Photographed here in the Great Hall, Dartington at a rehearsal of one of his pieces.
Somei Satoh
Somei Satoh, born 1947, is a Japanese composer of contemporary music. His compositions mix Japanese court music with European romanticism and electronic music. Seen here at Dartington Summer School of Music with students in his composition class.
Somei Satoh
Somei Satoh, born 1947, is a Japanese composer of contemporary music. His compositions mix Japanease court music with European romanticism and electronic music. Photographed here teaching compostion at Dartington Summer School of Music in 2008.
Somei Satoh
Somei Satoh, born 1947, is a Japanese composer of contemporary music. His compositions mix Japanese court music with European romanticism and electronic music. Photographed here in his teaching session at Dartington Summer School of Music in 2008.
Somei Satoh
Somei Satoh, born 1947, is a Japanese composer of contemporary music. His compositions mix Japanese court music with European romanticism and electronic music. Photographed here in his teaching session at Dartington Summer School of Music in 2008.
Somei Satoh
Portrait of Somei Satoh, born 1947. He is a Japanese composer of contemporary music. His compositions mix Japanese court music with European romanticism and electronic music. Photographed here at Dartington Summer School of Music in 2008.
Somei Satoh
Somei Satoh, born 1947. He is Japanese composer of contemporary music. His compositions mix Japanese court music with European romanticism and electronic music. Photographed here at the piano in the Great Hall at Dartington in 2008.
Diego Masson and Somei Satoh
Diego Masson, celebrated French orchestral conductor, and Japanese composer Somei Satoh in the Great Hall at Dartington in 2008 with the orchestra.
Peter Sculthorpe
Portrait of the Australian composer Peter Sculthorpe (1929-2014) taken at Dartington Summer School of Music in 1993.
Noam Sheriff
Noam Sheriff (1935-2018), Israeli composer, conductor, educator and arranger, at Dartington in rehearsal for one of his pieces.
Noam Sheriff
Noam Sheriff, (1935-2018) was an Israeli composer, conductor, educator and arranger. He was one of Israel's most versatile and world-renowned musicians.
Meredith Monk
Meredith Monk (born 1942) is an American composer, performer, director, vocalist, filmmaker and choreographer creating multi-disciplinary works which combine music, theatre and dance. Photographed at Dartington Summer School of Music.
Stephen Montague
Stephen Montague (born 1943) is an American composer, pianist and conductor. Photographed here at Dartington Summer School of Music.
Stephen Montague
Stephen Montague (born 1943) is an American composer, pianist and conductor. Photographed here at Dartington Summer School.
Milton Babbitt
Milton Babbitt (1916-2011) was an American composer, music theorist, mathematician and teacher who is particularly noted for his serial and electronic music. He had a fondness for English beer....
Milton Babbitt
Milton Babbitt (1916-2022) was an American composer, music theorist, mathematician and teacher who is particularly noted for his serial and electronic music. Photographed here teaching at Dartington Summer School of Music.
Milton Babbitt
Milton Babbitt (1916-2011) was an American composer, music theorist, mathematician and teacher who is particularly noted for his serial and electronic music.
Steuart Bedford
Steuart Bedford OBE (1939-2021) was an English orchestral and opera conductor and pianist, particularly associated with the music of Benjamin Britten. He was the brother of composer David Bedford. Photographed at Dartington Summer School of Music.
Anna Meredith
Anna Meredith MBE (born 1978) is a Scottish composer and performer of electronic and acoustic music. She is a former composer-in-residence with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Photographed here in 2021 at Dartington Summer School of Music.
Anna Meredith
Anna Meredith MBE (born 1978) is a Scottish composer and performer of electronic and acoustic music. She is a former composer-in-residence with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Photographed here in 2021 at Dartington Summer School of Music.
Anna Meredith
Anna Meredith MBE (born 1978) is a Scottish composer and performer of electronic and acoustic music. She is a former composer-in-residence with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Photographed here in 2021 at Dartington Summer School of Music.
Anna Meredith
Anna Meredith MBE (born 1978) is a Scottish composer and performer of electronic and acoustic music. She is a former composer-in-residence with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Photographed here in 2021 at Dartington Summer School of Music.
Alla Sirenko
Ukrainian born composer and pianist Alla Sirenko at Dartington Summer School of Music. She was recently commissioned by the Ukrainian Institute of America to write an Elegy for a String Quartet, which had it's world premiere in New York and was dedicated to the heroic Ukrainian people in Russia's war against Ukraine.
Alla Sirenko
Ukrainian born composer and pianist Alla Sirenko at Dartington Summer School of Music. She was recently commissioned by the Ukrainian Institute of America to write an Elegy for a String Quartet, which had it's world premiere in New York and was dedicated to the heroic Ukrainian people in Russia's war against Ukraine.
Alla Sirenko
Ukrainian born composer and pianist Alla Sirenko at Dartington Summer School of Music. She was recently commissioned by the Ukrainian Institute of America to write an Elegy for a String Quartet, which had it's world premiere in New York and was dedicated to the heroic Ukrainian people in Russia's war against Ukraine.
Michael Oliva
Michael Oliva (born 1966) is a British composer of contemporary classical music, working mainly in electroacoustics and opera. Photographed at Dartington Summer School of Music in August 2022 where some of his compositions were played by harpsichordist Jane Chapman.
Michael Oliva
Michael Oliva (born 1966) is a British composer of contemporary classical music, working mainly in electroacoustics and oper. Photographed at Dartington Summer School of Music in August 2022 where some of his compositions were played by harpsichordist Jane Chapman.
Gavin Bryars
Gavin Bryars (born 1943) is an English composer and double bassist. He has worked with jazz, free improvisation, minimalism, avant-garde and experimental music. Photographed here in the Great Hall at Dartington in rehearsal with the harpshichordist Jane Chapman at the Dartington Summer School of Music 2022.
Gavin Bryars
Gavin Bryars (born 1943) is an English composer and double bassist. He has worked with jazz, free improvisation, minimalism, avant-garde and experimental music. Seen here in rehearsal with harpsichordist Jane Chapman in the Great Hall at Dartington at the Dartington Summer School of Music 2022.
Gavin Bryars
Gavin Bryars (born 1943) is an English composer and double bassist. He has worked with jazz, free improvisation, minimalism, avant-garde and experimental music. Seen here in rehearsal with harpsichordist Jane Chapman in the Great Hall at Dartington at the Dartington Summer School of Music in 2022.
Gavin Bryars
Gavin Bryars (born 1943) is an English composer and double bassist.He has worked with jazz, free improvisation, minimalism avant-garde and experimental music. Seen here in rehearsal with harpsichordist Jane Chapman in the Great Hall at Dartington Summer School of Music 2022.
Gavin Bryars
Gavin Bryars (born 1943)is an English composer and double bassist. He has worked with jazz, free improvisation, minimalism, avant-garde and experimental music. Seen here in rehearsal with harpsichordist Jane Chapman in the Great Hall at Dartington Summer School of Music 2022.
Helen Glatz
Helen Sinclair Glatz (1908-1996) was an English composer and pianist, a pupil of Ralph Vaughan Wiliams. In 1933 She travelled to Vienna, Italy and Budapest where she studied under Zoltán Kodály and Sandor Vegh. She married linguist Wolf Glatz in Hungary and remained there during World War II until he could secure passage out of the country, fleeing as the Red Army took Budapest. The couple settled in South Devon and after her husband's death in 1952, she joined the staff at Dartington Hall, Totnes, where she taught piano, percussion, accompanied choirs, conducted and worked closely with Imogen Holst and Sir William Glock.
Harrison Birtwistle
Sir Harrison Birtwistle (1934-2022) was an English composer of contemporary classical music best known for his operas, often based on mythological subjects.
Lou Harrison
Lou Harrison (1917-2003) was an American composer, music critic, music theorist, painter and creator of unique musical instruments. He would create his own musical ensembles and instruments with his partner William Colwig (1967-2000) who are both now considered founders of the American gamelan movement and world music along with composers Harry Partch, Claude Vivier and ethnomusicologist Colin McPhee. Photographed in the Great Hall, Dartington at the rehearsal of one of his piano pieces played by Joanna MacGregor. To the left of the photo is Wilfrid Mellers OBE an English music critic, musiclogist and composer.
William Colvig and Lou Harrison
On the right the American composer Lou Harrison (1917-2003) with his partner of 33 years, William Colwig who he met in San Francisco in 1967. Colvig helped construct the American gamelan used in works such as the puppet opera Young Caeser (sic), La Koro Sutro and the Suite for Violin and American Gamelan.
Lou Harrison
Lou Harrison (1917-2003) was an American composer, music critic, music theorist, painter and creator of unique musical instruments. He would create his own musical ensembles and instruments with his partner William Colwig (1967-2000) who are both now considered founders of the American gamelan movement and world music along with composers Harry Partch, Claude Vivier and ethnomusicologist Colin McPhee. Photographed in the Great Hall, Dartington at the rehearsal of one of his piano pieces played by Joanna MacGregor.
Lou Harrison and students
Lou Harrison (1917-2003), American composer, music critic, music theorist, painter and creator of unique musical instruments in the Great Hall Dartington at a rehearsal of one of his pieces played by the pianist Joanna MacGregor. His is sitting among the students on his composition course that year. On the left of the photo is Ciaran Maher, the Irish composer.
Lou Harrison and students
Lou Harrison (1917-2003), American composer, music critic, music theorist, painter and creator of unique musical instruments, in the Great Hall Dartington at a rehearsal of one of his pieces played by the pianist Joanna MacGregor. He is sitting among the students on his composition course that year including on the left of the photo, the Irish composer Ciaran Maher.
Lou Harrison and Diego Masson
The American composer Lou Harrison (1917-2003) and the conductor, composer and percussionist Diego Masson (born 1935) at a rehearsal of Lou Harrison's work in the Great Hall at Dartington. Diego Masson was born in Spain and was the son of the artist André Masson.
Wilfrid Mellers, Lou Harrison and William Colvig
Wilfrid Mellers, Lou Harrison and William Colwig
Henry Brant
Henry Brant, (1913-2008) was a Canadian-born American composer. He was an expert orchestrator with a flair for experimentation.
Kurt Schwertsik
Kurt Schwertsik born in 1935 in Vienna, is an Austrian contemporary composer and is known for creating the "Third Viennese School"
Kurt Schwertsik
Kurt Schwertsik born in 1935 in Vienna, is an Austrian contemporary composer and is known or creating the "Third Viennese School"
Kurt Schwertsik
Kurt Schwertsik born in 1935 in Vienna, is one of Austria's leading composers and is known for creating the "Third Viennese School"
Noam Sheriff
Noam Sheriff, (1935-2018) was an Israeli composer, conductor, educator and arranger. He was one of Israel's most versatile and world-renowned musicians.
Noam Sheriff
Noam Sheriff (1935-2018) was an Israeli composer, conductor, educator and arranger. He was one of Israel's most versatile and world-renowned musicians.
Noam Sheriff
Noam Sheriff (1935-2018) was an Israeli composer, conductor, educator and arranger. He was one of Israel's most versatile and world-renowned musicans.
James Tenney
James Tenney (1934-2006), was an American composer and music theorist. He made significant musical contributions to plunderphonics, sound synthesis, algorithmic composition, process music, spectral music, microtonal music and tuning systems including extended just intonation. Photographed on one of his visits to Dartington College of Arts. On his right is Ciarán Maher the Irish composer and installation artist who was a student at Dartington at that time.
James Tenney
James Tenney (1934-2006), was an American composer and music theorist. He made significant musical contributions to plunderphonics, sound synthesis, algorithmic composition, process music, spectral music, microtonal music, and tuning systems including extended just intonation. Photographed on one of his visits to Dartington College of Arts.
James Tenney
James Tenney (1934-2006), was an American composer and music theorist. He made significant musical contributions to plunderphonics, sound synthesis, algorithmic composition, process music, spectral music, microtonal music and tuning systems including extended just intonation. Photographed on one of his visits to Dartington College of Arts.
James Tenney
James Tenney (1934-2006), was an American composer and music theorist. He made significant musical contributions to plunderphonics, sound synthesis, algorithmic composition, process music, spectral music, microtonal music and tuning system including extended just intonation. Photographed on one of his visits to Dartington College of Arts. On his right is the Irish composer and installation artist Ciarán Maher who was a student at Dartington at that time.
James Tenney
James Tenney (1934-2006) was an American composer and music theorist. He made significant musical contributions to plunderphonics, sound synthesis, algorithmic composition, process music, spectral music, microtonal music and tuning systems including extended just intonation. Photographed on one of his visits to Dartington College of Arts.
James Tenney
James Tenney (1934-2006), was an American composer and music theorist. He made significant musical contributions to plunderphonics, sound synthesis, algorithmic composition, process music, spectral music, microtonal music and tuning systems. Photographed on one of his many visits to Dartington College of Arts
Thorolf Thuestad
Norwegian sound designer, composer, kinetic sculptor and performer photographed at Dartington Summer School of Music in 2006 where he was collaborating with his partner the composer Alwynne Pritchard.
Thorolf Thuestad
Norwegian sound designer, composer, kinetic sculptor and performer photographed at Dartington Summer School of Music in 2006 when he was collaborating with his partner Alwynne Pritchard.
Minna Keal
Minna Keal, née Mina Nerenstein (1909-1999) was a British composer born in the East End of London in 1909. After early compositions as a student at the Royal Academy of Music, she only returned to composing towards the end of her life observing that, "I felt I was coming to the end of my life, but now I feel as if I'm just beginning. I feel as if I'm living my life in reverse." She was 80 years old by the time her first orchestral work was performed at the BBC Proms in 1989. Photographed at Dartington Summer School of Music.
Tansy Davies
Tansy Davies, born in 1973, is an English composer of contemporary classical music. She won the BBC Young Composers Competition in 1996 and has written works for orchestras such as the London Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Symphony Orchestra and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Photographed at Dartington Summer School of Music.
Tansy Davies
Tansy Davies, born in 1973, is an English composer of contemporary classical music. She won the BBC Young Composers Competition in 1996 and has written works for orchestras such as the London Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Symphony Orchestra and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Photographed at Dartington Summer School of Music.
Errollyn Wallen
Distinguished Belize born British composer photographed in 1995 when she was teaching composition at Dartington Summer School of Music. In 2007 she was made a CBE for her services to music and in 2020 was the recipient of the Distinguished Musician Award, one of the highest honours in the music industry. She was also the first black woman composer to have a work performed at the Proms.
Errollyn Wallen
Distinguished Belize born British composer photographed in 1995 when she was teaching composition at Dartington Summer School of Music. In 2007 she was made a CBE for her services to music and in 2020 was the recipient of the Distinguished Musician Award, one of the highest honours in the music industry. She was also the first black woman composer to have a work performed at the Proms.
Errollyn Wallen
Distinguished Belize born British composer photographed in 1995 when she was teaching composition at Dartington Summer School of Music. In 2007 she was made a CBE for her services to music and in 2020 was the recipient of the Distinguished Musician Award, one of the highest honours in the music industry. She was also the first black woman composer to have a work performed at the Proms.
Errollyn Wallen
Distinguished Belize born British composer photographed in 1995 when she was teaching composition at Dartington Summer School of Music. In 2007 she was made a CBE for her services to music and in 2020 was the recipient of the Distinguished Musician Award, one of the highest honours in the music industry. She was also the first black woman composer to have a work performed at the Proms.
Errollyn Wallen
Distinguished Belize born British composer photographed in 1995 when she was teaching composition at Dartington Summer School of Music. In 2007 she was made a CBE for her services to music and in 2020 was the recipient of the Distinguished Musician Award, one of the highest honours in the music industry. She was also the first black woman composer to have a work performed at the Proms.
Errollyn Wallen
Distinguished Belize born British composer photographed in 1995 when she was teaching composition at Dartington Summer School of Music. In 2007 she was made a CBE for her services to music and in 2020 was the recipient of the Distinguished Musician Award, one of the highest honours in the music industry. She was also the first black woman composer to have a work performed at the Proms.
Errollyn Wallen
Distinguished Belize born British composer photographed in 1995 when she was teaching composition at Dartington Summer School of Music. In 2007 she was made a CBE for her services to music and in 2020 was the recipient of the Distinguished Musician Award, one of the highest honours in the music industry. She was also the first black woman composer to have a work performed at the Proms. She was also one of the nicest people I've photographed.
Adriano Adewale
Brazilian percussionist/composer Adriano Adewale is a versatile musician and performer, known for his unconventional and exploratory approach to music using an intriguing array of worldwide percussion instruments as well as his unique vocal percussion skills.
Thomas Adès
Thomas Joseph Edmund Adès CBE born 1971, is a British composer, pianist and conductor. Five compositions by Adès received votes in the 2017 Classic Voice poll of the greatest works of art music since 2000 - The Tempest (2004), Violin Concerto (2005) Tevot (2007), In Seven Days (2008) and Polaris (2010)
Harrison Birtwistle
Harrison Birtwistle rehearsing his composition "Harrison's Clocks" for recording in the Great Hall, Dartington with the pianist Joanna MacGregor.
Harrison Birtwistle
Harrison Birtwistle with pianist Joanna MacGregor studying the score of 'Harrison's Clocks" in preparation for making a recording of it in the Great Hall, Dartington.
Harrison Birtwistle
Harrison Birtwistle with pianist Joanna MacGregor studying the score of "Harrison's Clocks" in preparation for making a recording of it in the Great Hall, Dartington.
John Woolrich
John Woolrich, born 1954, is an English much commissioned and frequently performed composer. A creative teacher and an original programmer, he is an important figure in British musical life. He founded the group the Composers Ensemble and a festival, Hoxton New Music Days. He was Guest Artistic Director at the Aldeburgh Festival in 2004 and Associate Artistic Director of the festival 2005-2010. From 2010-2013, Woolrich was Artistic Director of Dartington Summer School of Music.
Thomas Adès
Thomas Joseph Edmund Adès CBE born 1971, is a British composer, pianist and conductor. Five compositions by Adès received votes in the 2017 Classic Voice poll of the greatest works of art music since 2000 - The Tempest (2004), Violin Concerto (2005) Tevot (2007), In Seven Days (2008) and Polaris (2010).
Thomas Adès
Thomas Joseph Edmund Adès CBE born 1971, is a British composer, pianist and conductor. Five compositions by Adès received votes in the 2017 Classic Voice poll of the greatest works of art music since 2000 - The Tempest (2004), Violin Concerto (2005) Tevot (2007), In Seven Days (2008) and Polaris (2010.
Thomas Adès
Thomas Joseph Edmund Adès CBE born 1971, is a British composer, pianist and conductor. Five compositions by Adès received votes in the 2017 Classic Voice poll of the greatest works of art music since 2000 - The Tempest (2004), Violin Concerto (2005) Tevot (2007), In Seven Days (2008) and Polaris (2010).
Thomas Adès
Thomas Joseph Edmund Adès CBE born 1971, is a British composer, pianist and conductor. Five compositions by Adès received votes in the 2017 Classic Voice poll of the greatest works of art music since 2000 - The Tempest (2004), Violin Concerto (2005) Tevot (2007), In Seven Days (2008) and Polaris (2010).
Thomas Adès
Thomas Joseph Edmund Adès CBE born 1971, is a British composer, pianist and conductor. Five compositions by Adès received votes in the 2017 Classic Voice poll of the greatest works of art music since 2000 - The Tempest (2004), Violin Concerto (2005) Tevot (2007), In Seven Days (2008) and Polaris (2010).
Peter Wiegold
Peter Wiegold conductor and composer, has long been an innovator on the British music scene. Photographed here at Dartington Summer School of Music.
Peter Wiegold
Peter Wiegold, conductor and composer, has long been an innovator on the British music scene. Photographed here at Dartington Summer School of Music.
Peter Wiegold
Peter Wiegold, conductor and composer, has long been an innovator on the British music scene. Photographed here in the Great Hall at Dartington at a rehearsal at Dartington Summer School of Music.
Gavin Bryars
Gavin Bryars (born 1943) is an English composer and double bassist.He has worked with jazz, free improvisation, minimalism avant-garde and experimental music.
Gavin Bryars
Gavin Bryars (born 1943) is an English composer and double bassist.He has worked with jazz, free improvisation, minimalism avant-garde and experimental music.
Gavin Bryars
Gavin Bryars (born 1943) is an English composer and double bassist.He has worked with jazz, free improvisation, minimalism avant-garde and experimental music.
Gavin Bryars
Gavin Bryars (born 1943) is an English composer and double bassist.He has worked with jazz, free improvisation, minimalism avant-garde and experimental music.
Gavin Bryars
Gavin Bryars (born 1943) is an English composer and double bassist.He has worked with jazz, free improvisation, minimalism avant-garde and experimental music. Seen here in rehearsal in the Great Hall at Dartington.
Gavin Bryars
Gavin Bryars (born 1943) is an English composer and double bassist.He has worked with jazz, free improvisation, minimalism avant-garde and experimental music.
Gavin Bryars
Gavin Bryars (born 1943) is an English composer and double bassist.He has worked with jazz, free improvisation, minimalism avant-garde and experimental music. Seen here in rehearsal with harpsichordist Jane Chapman in the Great Hall at Dartington.
Gavin Bryars
Gavin Bryars (born 1943) is an English composer and double bassist.He has worked with jazz, free improvisation, minimalism avant-garde and experimental music. Photographed in the Great Hall at Dartington Summer School of Music, conducting his 1971 composition, Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet, a piece based on a loop of an unknown homeless man singing a brief improvised stanza, which was the singer's recollection of the chorus of a gospel hymn.
Gavin Bryars
Gavin Bryars (born 1943) is an English composer and double bassist.He has worked with jazz, free improvisation, minimalism avant-garde and experimental music. Gavin Bryars (born 1943) is an English composer and double bassist.He has worked with jazz, free improvisation, minimalism avant-garde and experimental music. Photographed in the Great Hall at Dartington Summer School of Music, at the end of the performance of his 1971 composition, Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet, a piece based on a loop of an unknown homeless man singing a brief improvised stanza, which was the singer's recollection of the chorus of a gospel hymn.
John Woolrich
John Woolrich, born 1954, is an English much commissioned and frequently performed composer. A creative teacher and an original programmer, he is an important figure in British musical life. He founded the group the Composers Ensemble and a festival, Hoxton New Music Days. He was Guest Artistic Director at the Aldeburgh Festival in 2004 and Associate Artistic Director of the festival 2005-2010. From 2010-2013, Woolrich was Artistic Director of Dartington Summer School of Music.
John Woolrich
John Woolrich, born 1954, is an English much commissioned and frequently performed composer. A creative teacher and an original programmer, he is an important figure in British musical life. He founded the group the Composers Ensemble and a festival, Hoxton New Music Days. He was Guest Artistic Director at the Aldeburgh Festival in 2004 and Associate Artistic Director of the festival 2005-2010. From 2010-2013, Woolrich was Artistic Director of Dartington Summer School of Music.
John Woolrich and Peter Sculthorpe
John Woolrich left, was born 1954, is an English much commissioned and frequently performed composer. A creative teacher and an original programmer, he is an important figure in British musical life. He founded the group the Composers Ensemble and a festival, Hoxton New Music Days. He was Guest Artistic Director at the Aldeburgh Festival in 2004 and Associate Artistic Director of the festival 2005-2010. From 2010-2013, Woolrich was Artistic Director of Dartington Summer School of Music. Peter Sculthorpe OBE, 1929-2014, on the right, was an Australian composer.
Alla Sirenko
Ukrainian born composer and pianist Alla Sirenko at Dartington Summer School of Music. She was recently commissioned by the Ukrainian Institute of America to write an Elegy for a String Quartet, which had it's world premiere in New York and was dedicated to the heroic Ukrainian people in Russia's war against Ukraine.
Alla Sirenko
Ukrainian born composer and pianist Alla Sirenko at Dartington Summer School of Music. She was recently commissioned by the Ukrainian Institute of America to write an Elegy for a String Quartet, which had it's world premiere in New York and was dedicated to the heroic Ukrainian people in Russia's war against Ukraine.
Alla Sirenko
Ukrainian born composer and pianist Alla Sirenko at Dartington Summer School of Music. She was recently commissioned by the Ukrainian Institute of America to write an Elegy for a String Quartet, which had it's world premiere in New York and was dedicated to the heroic Ukrainian people in Russia's war against Ukraine.
Alla Sirenko
Ukrainian born composer and pianist Alla Sirenko at Dartington Summer School of Music. She was recently commissioned by the Ukrainian Institute of America to write an Elegy for a String Quartet, which had it's world premiere in New York and was dedicated to the heroic Ukrainian people in Russia's war against Ukraine.
Alla Sirenko
Ukrainian born composer and pianist Alla Sirenko at Dartington Summer School of Music. She was recently commissioned by the Ukrainian Institute of America to write an Elegy for a String Quartet, which had it's world premiere in New York and was dedicated to the heroic Ukrainian people in Russia's war against Ukraine.
Alla Sirenko
Ukrainian born composer and pianist Alla Sirenko at Dartington Summer School of Music. She was recently commissioned by the Ukrainian Institute of America to write an Elegy for a String Quartet, which had it's world premiere in New York and was dedicated to the heroic Ukrainian people in Russia's war against Ukraine.
Alla Sirenko
Ukrainian born composer and pianist Alla Sirenko at Dartington Summer School of Music. She was recently commissioned by the Ukrainian Institute of America to write an Elegy for a String Quartet, which had it's world premiere in New York and was dedicated to the heroic Ukrainian people in Russia's war against Ukraine.
Alla Sirenko
Ukrainian born composer and pianist Alla Sirenko at Dartington Summer School of Music. She was recently commissioned by the Ukrainian Institute of America to write an Elegy for a String Quartet, which had it's world premiere in New York and was dedicated to the heroic Ukrainian people in Russia's war against Ukraine.
Errollyn Wallen
Distinguished Belize born British composer photographed in 1995 when she was teaching composition at Dartington Summer School of Music. In 2007 she was made a CBE for her services to music and in 2020 was the recipient of the Distinguished Musician Award, one of the highest honours in the music industry. She was also the first black woman composer to have a work performed at the Proms. She was also one of the nicest people I've photographed.
Pavel Novak
Pavel Novak - born in Brno in 1957 - and photographed here at Dartington Summer School of Music, studied with Milos Istvan at Janácek Academy of Music, Brno; later in London with George Benjamin and in Paris with Gérard Grisey. His music is intensely spiritual and reflects his devout religious faith. He teaches composition at Brno Conservatory. His 24 Preludes and Fugues were written for the English pianist William Howard over a 17 year period and many of them were premiered at Dartington Summer School of Music.
Pavel Novak
Pavel Novak - born in Brno in 1957 - and photographed here at Dartington Summer School of Music, studied with Milos Istvan at Janácek Academy of Music, Brno; later in London with George Benjamin and in Paris with Gérard Grisey. His music is intensely spiritual and reflects his devout religious faith. He teaches composition at Brno Conservatory. His 24 Preludes and Fugues were written for the English pianist William Howard over a 17 year period and many of them were premiered at Dartington Summer School of Music.
Pavel Novak
Pavel Novak - born in Brno in 1957 - and photographed here at Dartington Summer School of Music, studied with Milos Istvan at Janácek Academy of Music, Brno; later in London with George Benjamin and in Paris with Gérard Grisey. His music is intensely spiritual and reflects his devout religious faith. He teaches composition at Brno Conservatory. His 24 Preludes and Fugues were written for the English pianist William Howard over a 17 year period and many of them were premiered at Dartington Summer School of Music. Photographed here with his composition students at Dartington.
Pavel Novak
Pavel Novak - born in Brno in 1957 - and photographed here at Dartington Summer School of Music, studied with Milos Istvan at Janácek Academy of Music, Brno; later in London with George Benjamin and in Paris with Gérard Grisey. His music is intensely spiritual and reflects his devout religious faith. He teaches composition at Brno Conservatory. His 24 Preludes and Fugues were written for the English pianist William Howard over a 17 year period and many of them were premiered at Dartington Summer School of Music.
Pavel Novak
Pavel Novak - born in Brno in 1957 - and photographed here at Dartington Summer School of Music, studied with Milos Istvan at Janácek Academy of Music, Brno; later in London with George Benjamin and in Paris with Gérard Grisey. His music is intensely spiritual and reflects his devout religious faith. He teaches composition at Brno Conservatory. His 24 Preludes and Fugues were written for the English pianist William Howard over a 17 year period and many of them were premiered at Dartington Summer School of Music.
Pavel Novak
Pavel Novak - born in Brno in 1957 - and photographed here at Dartington Summer School of Music, studied with Milos Istvan at Janácek Academy of Music, Brno; later in London with George Benjamin and in Paris with Gérard Grisey. His music is intensely spiritual and reflects his devout religious faith. He teaches composition at Brno Conservatory. His 24 Preludes and Fugues were written for the English pianist William Howard over a 17 year period and many of them were premiered at Dartington Summer School of Music. Photographed here with some of his composition students when he was teaching at the Summer School.
Pavel Novak
Pavel Novak - born in Brno in 1957 - and photographed here at Dartington Summer School of Music, studied with Milos Istvan at Janácek Academy of Music, Brno; later in London with George Benjamin and in Paris with Gérard Grisey. His music is intensely spiritual and reflects his devout religious faith. He teaches composition at Brno Conservatory. His 24 Preludes and Fugues were written for the English pianist William Howard over a 17 year period and many of them were premiered at Dartington Summer School of Music.
Pavel Novak
Pavel Novak - born in Brno in 1957 - and photographed here at Dartington Summer School of Music, studied with Milos Istvan at Janácek Academy of Music, Brno; later in London with George Benjamin and in Paris with Gérard Grisey. His music is intensely spiritual and reflects his devout religious faith. He teaches composition at Brno Conservatory. His 24 Preludes and Fugues were written for the English pianist William Howard over a 17 year period and many of them were premiered at Dartington Summer School of Music.
Michael Oliva
Originally trained as a biochemist, Michael Oliva is now a composer, with a fondness for writing operas and music for electronics and woodwind. He is a composer in residence with the contemporary music ensemble 'rarescale' and has performed regularly with them in the UK, Europe and United States. Photographed here at Dartington Summer School of Music in 2022.
Michael Oliva
Originally trained as a biochemist, Michael Oliva is now a composer, with a fondness for writing operas and music for electronics and woodwind. He is a composer in residence with the contemporary music ensemble 'rarescale' and has performed regularly with them in the UK, Europe and United States. Photographed here at Dartington Summer School of Music in 2022 in rehearsal in the Great Hall with harpsichordist Jane Chapman.
Michael Oliva
Originally trained as a biochemist, Michael Oliva is now a composer, with a fondness for writing operas and music for electronics and woodwind. He is a composer in residence with the contemporary music ensemble 'rarescale' and has performed regularly with them in the UK, Europe and United States. Photographed here at Dartington Summer School of Music in 2022.
Michael Oliva
Originally trained as a biochemist, Michael Oliva is now a composer, with a fondness for writing operas and music for electronics and woodwind. He is a composer in residence with the contemporary music ensemble 'rarescale' and has performed regularly with them in the UK, Europe and United States. Photographed here at Dartington Summer School of Music in 2022.
Keith Tippett
Keith Tippett (1947-2020) was a British jazz pianist and composer. His career spanned jazz-rock, progressive rock, and contemporary music as well as modern jazz. He was known for his unique approach to improvisation and for many years ran a very popular Jazz Course at Dartington Summer School of Music where students of all ages and abilities, were encouraged to improvise - which was a very new area of music making to most of them - but they did so most successfully under his guidance and encouragement.
Keith Tippett
Keith Tippett (1947-2020) was a British jazz pianist and composer. His career spanned jazz-rock, progressive rock, and contemporary music as well as modern jazz. He was known for his unique approach to improvisation and for many years ran a very popular Jazz Course at Dartington Summer School of Music where students of all ages and abilities, were encouraged to improvise - which was a very new area of music making to most of them - but they did so most successfully under his guidance and encouragement.
Keith Tippett
Keith Tippett (1947-2020) was a British jazz pianist and composer. His career spanned jazz-rock, progressive rock, and contemporary music as well as modern jazz. He was known for his unique approach to improvisation and for many years ran a very popular Jazz Course at Dartington Summer School of Music where students of all ages and abilities, were encouraged to improvise - which was a very new area of music making to most of them - but they did so most successfully under his guidance and encouragement.
Keith Tippett
Keith Tippett (1947-2020) was a British jazz pianist and composer. His career spanned jazz-rock, progressive rock, and contemporary music as well as modern jazz. He was known for his unique approach to improvisation and for many years ran a very popular Jazz Course at Dartington Summer School of Music where students of all ages and abilities, were encouraged to improvise - which was a very new area of music making to most of them - but they did so most successfully under his guidance and encouragement.
Keith Tippett
Keith Tippett (1947-2020) was a British jazz pianist and composer. His career spanned jazz-rock, progressive rock, and contemporary music as well as modern jazz. He was known for his unique approach to improvisation and for many years ran a very popular Jazz Course at Dartington Summer School of Music where students of all ages and abilities, were encouraged to improvise - which was a very new area of music making to most of them - but they did so most successfully under his guidance and encouragement.
Judith Weir
Dame Judith Weir, CBE, DBE, HonFRSE (born 1954) is a British composer and Master of the Queen's Music since 2014. Weir is the first woman to hold this office. Photographed at Dartington Summer School where she was teaching the composition course.
Judith Weir
Dame Judith Weir, CBE, DBE, HonFRSE (born 1954) is a British composer and Master of the Queen's Music since 2014. Weir is the first woman to hold this office. Photographed at Dartington Summer School where she was teaching the composition course.
Judith Weir
Dame Judith Weir, CBE, DBE, HonFRSE (born 1954) is a British composer and Master of the Queen's Music since 2014. Weir is the first woman to hold this office. Photographed at Dartington Summer School where she was teaching the composition course.
Richard Baker
Richard Bakeris a British composer and conductor who has worked with many of the UK's leading new music ensembles.

Harrison Birtwistle and Joanna MacGregor
Harrison Birtwistle and Joanna MacGregor photographed while recording Birtwistle's composition 'Harrison's Clocks' in the Great Hall at Dartington over three days in 1999.
Betsy Jolas
Betsy Jolas (born in Paris in 1926) is a Franco-American composer who studied in Paris with Darius Milhaud and Olivier Messiaen. Her father was the poet and journalist Eugene Jolas and her mother the American translator Maria MacDonald. Photographed here at Dartington Summer School of Music.
Elizabeth (Betsy) Jolas
Elizabeth (Betsy) Jolas born 5 August 1926, is a Franco-American composer. Her mother Maria McDonald was a singer and her father, the poet and translator Eugene Jolas who founded and edited the magazine 'transitition' which published over ten years most of the great writers of the interwar period.
Elizabeth (Betsy) Jolas
Betsy Jolas (born in Paris in 1926) is a Franco-American composer who studied in Paris with Darius Milhaud and Olivier Messiaen. Her father was the poet and journalist Eugene Jolas and her mother the American translator Maria MacDonald. Photographed here at Dartington Summer School of Music.
Elizabeth (Betsy) Jolas
Betsy Jolas (born in Paris in 1926) is a Franco-American composer who studied in Paris with Darius Milhaud and Olivier Messiaen. Her father was the poet and journalist Eugene Jolas and her mother the American translator Maria MacDonald. Photographed here at Dartington Summer School of Music.
Martin Butler
Martin Butler, born 1960, is an English musician and composer of classical music, photographed at Dartington Summer School of Music in 1999.