Nicholas Vines

Nicholas Vines (born Sydney, 1976), is an Australian composer currently based in the United States. He studied at the University of Sydney with Anne Boyd, Peter Sculthorpe and Ross Edwards. He completed a PhD at Harvard University studying with Harrison Birtwistle, Bernard Rands, Magnus Lindberg, Julian Anderson, Lee Hyla, Mario Davidovsky, Judith Weir, and Michael Finnissy. Currently he holds the position of Lecturer in Music Theory at Harvard University. He is a professor of music at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Vines's music is always direct, gestural and colourful, and at the same time displays a high degree of technical virtuosity. This allows for the seamless formation of rhetorical structures allied to complex motivic transformations.

External links

• Nicholas Vines
• Australian Music Centre Biography

References

• http://www.amcoz.com.au/composers/composer.asp?id=28462 (accessed 3/9/7)

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