Nigel Clarke

Nigel Clarke (born 1960) is a British composer and musician. He is a former head of composition and contemporary music at the London College of Music and Media.^[1]

Clarke began his career as a military bandsman, then studied composition at the Royal Academy of Music with composer Paul Patterson.^[2] While at the Royal Academy, he was awarded the Queen's Commendation for Excellence. Nigel was previously Young Composer in Residence at The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, Composition and Contemporary Music Tutor at the Royal Academy of Music, London, Head of Composition at the London College of Music and Media, a visiting tutor at the Royal Northern College of Music and Associate Composer to the world famous Black Dyke Mills Band and Associate Composer to the Band of the Grenadier Guards. He has also been guest professor at the Xinjiang Arts Institute in China and Associate Composer to the Royal Military School of Music, Kneller Hall. More recently he has become Associate Composer to Brass Band Buizingen in Belgium.

In 1997, Clarke visited the U.S. as part of the United States’ International Visitor Leadership Program, and the `President's Own' US Marine Band performed one of his pieces, "Samurai," conducted by Colonel Timothy Foley.^[2] The Winnipeg Fress Press described the piece as a throbbing, raucous work influenced by Japanese drumming.^[3] In 2008 the award of Doctor of Musical Arts was conferred upon him by Salford University.

Works by Nigel Clarke

Chamber music

• Echo & Narcissus - solo flute (1985)
• Spectroscope - solo cello (1987)
• Lindisfarne Stone - violin & Piano (1989)
• Flashpoint - solo viola (1990)
• Premonitions - solo trumpet (1990)
• Chinese Puzzles - flute & piano (1992)
• Pernambuco - solo violin (1993)
• On the Wings of the Wind - classical accordion (1993)
• The Hemlock Stone - solo clarinet (1997)
• The Devil and the Hemlock Stone - Clarinet and sound design (1999)
• Loulan - solo violin (2002)
• Equiano - clarinet quintet (2008)

Keyboard

• Solstice - solo piano (1991)

String orchestra

• Parnassus (1986)
• Winter Music (1991)
• The Miraculous Violin - violin concerto (2000)

Brass band

• Atlantic Toccata (1993)
• The City in the Sea - Euphonium Concerto - (1995)
• The Pendle Witches (1996)
• Mechanical Ballet (1997)
• Gwennan Gorn (1997)
• Breaking the Century (1999)
• Swift Severn's Flood (2009)
• Earthrise (2010)
• Tilbury Point - transcription (2010)
• New Work [title to be announced] (2011)

Symphonic wind orchestra/concert band

• Samurai (1995)
• City in the Sea - Euphonium Concerto (1997)
• Breaking the Century (1999)
• Battles & Chants - clarinet concerto (2001)
• Mata Hari (2002)
• Tilbury Point (2003)
• King Solomon's Mines (2003)
• Gagarin (2004)
• Forgotten Heroes (2005)
• Black Fire - violin concerto (2006)
• Fanfares & Celebrations (2007)
• Fields of Remembrance (2008)
• Heritage Suite (What Hope Saw) (2009)
• Their Finest Hour (2010)

Educational

• Featuring Rhythm - treble & bass clef brass instruments (1989)
• Sketches from Don Quixote Trombone (or tuba) and piano (1992)

Book contributions

• Miles, Tim and Westcombe, John. Music & Dyslexia: Opening News Doors.
• Miles, Tim; Ditchfield, Diane; and Westcombe, John.Music & Dyslexia: A Positive Approach.

References

1. ^ Bone, Lloyd E.; Paull, Eric R.; Morris, Winston. Guide to the Euphonium Repertoire. Indiana University Press, 2007, p. 452.
2. ^ ^{a b} Clarke, Nigel. Biography, Nigel-clarke.co.uk, accessed April 5, 2010.
3. ^ Nemerofsky, Gwenda. Unexpected percussion discussion bang on, Winnipeg Free Press, May 2, 2009.

External links

• Nigel Clarke's website
• Nigel Clarke at AllRovi
• Nigel Clarke at the Internet Movie Database

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