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Michael Finnissy - Dust in the Road Film (Part 3) AndrewToovey 81 views
Michael Finnissy - Dust in the Road Film (Part 2) AndrewToovey 65 views
Michael Finnissy - Dust in the Road Film (Part 1) AndrewToovey 113 views
Alperton Community School Winter Concert 2011 (Part 6 of 6) AndrewToovey 55 views Winter Concert 6
Alperton Community School Winter Concert 2011 (Part 3 of 6) AndrewToovey 40 views Winter Concert 3
Alperton Community School Winter Concert 2011 (Part 5 of 6) AndrewToovey 65 views Winter Concert 5
Alperton Community School Winter Concert 2011 (Part 4 of 6) AndrewToovey 63 views Winter Concert 4
Alperton Community School Winter Concert 2011 (Part 2 of 6) AndrewToovey 68 views Winter Concert 2
ACS Alperton Community School Dhol (Part 2 of 2) AndrewToovey 164 views ACS Alperton Community School Dholpart part 2 of 2. ACS teacher Jagdeep Sehra with dhol players. ACS visits other local schools in London Borough of Brent for performances ...
Brent Town Hall Alperton Community School Dhol Performance 2011 AndrewToovey 100 views Brent Town Hall Dhol Performance from 2011 celebrating the new Mayor of Brent inaugural meeting. Featuring on the dhols Jai, Janki, Sachin, Harshil, Jaidev, Krishan, Vinay,...

About Andrew Toovey - Composer

Follow the music score while listening to this growing catalogue of my music compositions over the years. This includes the complete video of the first production of my first opera Ubu from the Banff Centre, Canada. Some of the recent uploads have videos/photos I have taken to give a visual element other than the music score. I like images of things that are just part of my day. Nothing special or thought about too much. I am also putting up fairly rare footage of extracts/sections of other composer's and artists work, or parts of films about this music/art that I feel are important and interesting to people that are as passionate about music and art as I am.

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About this user

Andrew Toovey was born in London in 1962, and studied composition with Jonathan Harvey, Michael Finnissy and briefly with Morton Feldman. He has won a series of prestigious composition prizes including the Tippett Prize, Terra Nova Prize, the Bernard Shore Viola Composition Award and an RVW Trust Award.

Toovey was associate composer for the Young Concert Artists Trust (YCAT) from 1993-5 and has been the artistic director of the new music ensemble IXION since founding the group in 1987 He was composer-in-residence at the Banff Centre, Canada for four successive years with his operas and music theatre works. Two CDs of his music were released on the Largo label in 1998. He has worked extensively on education projects for Glyndebourne Opera, English National Opera, Huddersfield Festival, the South Bank Centre and the London Festival Orchestra, and has been composer-in-residence at Opera Factory and the South Bank Summer School.

Toovey's works have been performed throughout the UK, Europe, Canada, Japan, Australia, New Zealand and the USA. His works have also been featured at the Bergen, Brighton, Gaudeamus, Huddersfield and ISCM festivals and the Darmstadt and Dartington summer schools. His music has been frequently broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and various European radio stations.

Toovey's work embraces a huge diversity of influences, from musical extremes such as Feldman and Finnissy, or the poetry of Artaud, Cummings and Rilke, to a passion for 20th century art - especially that by Bacon, Beuys, Davies, Hayter, Klee, Miro, Newman, Rauschenberg, Riley, Rothko and many more. And films by directors such as kurosawa, Almodovar, Fassbinder and Terrence Davies.

Recent commissions have included Music for the Painter Jack Smith (Brighton Festival), Dutch Dykes (De Ereprijs), Self portrait as a Tiger! (Ensemble Reconsil Wein), Going Home (Szymanowski String Quartet). He was commissioned by the BBC to write a viola concerto, premiered by Lawrence Power and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, and has completed a half hour orchestral piece 'Ubu's Journey' based on music from his first opera UBU.
Other commissions have included Acrobats, for COMA, mini opera I'll be there for you, commissioned by English Touring Opera, solo violin work Transparencies written for an exhibition of artist Julian Grater, and Noh for solo cello written for sculptor John Davies. He is currently writing a chamber opera called The Renderer's Son based on Narrow Rooms, the novel by James Purdy, and possibly a Violin Concerto.

Hometown

Harlesden

Country

United Kingdom

Occupation

Composer and Music Teacher (Bishop Ramsey CofE school 1987-97) Vyners school (1997) currently Head of music at Alperton Community School, Wembley, London. (1998- )

Companies

Artistic director of music group IXION Ensemble (1987- )Compositions with arts council group Sound and Music, publisher Boosey and Hawkes and ARSBM (Spectrum piano pieces). CD's on German Label Largo and individual pieces on other labels.

Schools

BMus (Hons) Surrey University (1981-84) MA and MPhil at Sussex University (1984-6) PGCE Institute of Education, London University (1986-7) Teachers Michael Finnissy, Jonathan Harvey and briefly Morton Feldman (Dartington Summer School) Sladebrook High School and Brondesbury and Kilburn, London.

Interests

Music, Music, Music. Also collecting art and just about everything else you can think of. Very ramdomly some favourite composers are Finnissy, Feldman, Varese, Stockhausen, Beethoven, Scelsi, Shostakovich, Tchaikovsky, Xenakis, Zemlinsky - lots more. Love outsider art and art by (ramdom selection) Bridget Riley, Hayter, John Davies, Franko B, Ken Kiff, Kossoff....

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