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He has also written four operas for children, and in 1998 the National Youth Orchestra of Scotland’s tour programme included '' Capriccio '', which was performed at venues including the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam and the London Proms. |
He has also written four operas for children, and in 1998 the National Youth Orchestra of Scotland’s tour programme included '' Capriccio '', which was performed at venues including the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam and the London Proms. |
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In 2006 Boyle won a Creative Scotland Award to enable him to write an opera with a libretto by the Scottish writer and poet Dilys Rose on the subject of the nineteenth century feral child, Kaspar Hauser. The opera ('' Kaspar Hauser, Child of Europe '') was premiered at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland to critical acclaim in March 2010 and, later that year, won for Boyle a British Composer Award in the Stage category at the annual BASCA (British Association of Songwriters Composer and Authors) ceremony in London. The citation of the judging panel read “A very accomplished score: a powerful and disturbing story told with theatrical flair, dramatic pacing and excellent characterisation. The music flows in an uninhibited and unselfconscious stream”. In April 2012 a second production in association with the Hochschule fur Musik Nurnberg received performances in Germany and Scotland. |
In 2006 Boyle won a Creative Scotland Award to enable him to write an opera with a libretto by the Scottish writer and poet Dilys Rose on the subject of the nineteenth century feral child, Kaspar Hauser. The opera ('' Kaspar Hauser, Child of Europe '') was premiered at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland to critical acclaim in March 2010 and, later that year, won for Boyle a British Composer Award in the Stage category at the annual BASCA (British Association of Songwriters Composer and Authors) ceremony in London.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.musicweek.com/news/read/2010-british-composer-awards-winners-announced/044329|title=2010 British Composer Awards winners announced|author=|publisher=Music Week|accessdate=29 April 2015}}</ref> The citation of the judging panel read “A very accomplished score: a powerful and disturbing story told with theatrical flair, dramatic pacing and excellent characterisation. The music flows in an uninhibited and unselfconscious stream”. In April 2012 a second production in association with the Hochschule fur Musik Nurnberg received performances in Germany and Scotland. |
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Rory Boyle is a Scottish composer and currently Professor of Composition at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland
Early Life and Education
Boyle was born in Ayr, Scotland on 9 March 1951. His father was a Major in the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders and his mother a very talented amateur pianist and accordionist. His parents separated when he was 5 years old, and he and his sister were brought up by their mother, firstly in Edinburgh and then on a farm in Stirlingshire. He was a chorister at St. George’s Chapel, Windsor and then won a music bursary to Eton College.
Career
Encouraged by his music teacher Boyle studied composition with Frank Spedding at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama (now The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland). He also studied piano (with Lawrence Glover), organ (with George McPhee) and harpsichord (with Andrew Davis who, at the time, was associate conductor of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra) during his studies there.
He then went on to win a Caird Scholarship to study privately with Lennox Berkeley in London. As the conductor Nicholas Cleobury wrote in the 1998 Proms programme, “Boyle chose his teachers well: Spedding encouraged his individual voice; Berkeley reduced wastage and honed his orchestration”.
Whilst still a student at the RSAMD Boyle won the BBC Scottish Composers’ Prize with his first orchestral score and further important awards followed. These included two Royal Philharmonic Prizes, as well as the Zaiks Prize in the International Competition set up in memory of Kazimierz Serocki, one of the leading figures in the Polish avant garde, for his orchestral score Winter Music which was premièred in Cracow in 1987.
His list of works covers most genres and he has received commissions from many societies, festivals and organisations. He has also written for many leading performers including Evelyn Glennie ( Marimba Concerto ), Michael Chance ( Lord Lundy ), Nicholas Daniel ( Oboe Concerto – Sorella ), David Hubbard ( Bassoon Concerto – That Blessed Wood ), Fine Arts Brass Quintet ( Giochi di Sospiri and Elegy for the Black Bitch – nominated for a British Composer Award in 2005), and Karen Cargill ( Watching Over You ).
He has collaborated with several writers, including Vikram Seth ( 8 Beastly Tales ), Richard Stilgoe ( Mine Host ), and Dilys Rose ( Kaspar Hauser and Watching over You ).
Boyle has written for emerging artistes at the start of their careers – the pianist James Willshire has premièred several of his works and recorded much of Boyle’s piano music on a critically acclaimed [by whom?] CD. He has also written several pieces for the young clarinettist Fraser Langton including the solo piece, Burble , which was nominated for a British Composer Award in 2012.
He has also written four operas for children, and in 1998 the National Youth Orchestra of Scotland’s tour programme included Capriccio , which was performed at venues including the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam and the London Proms.
In 2006 Boyle won a Creative Scotland Award to enable him to write an opera with a libretto by the Scottish writer and poet Dilys Rose on the subject of the nineteenth century feral child, Kaspar Hauser. The opera ( Kaspar Hauser, Child of Europe ) was premiered at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland to critical acclaim in March 2010 and, later that year, won for Boyle a British Composer Award in the Stage category at the annual BASCA (British Association of Songwriters Composer and Authors) ceremony in London.[1] The citation of the judging panel read “A very accomplished score: a powerful and disturbing story told with theatrical flair, dramatic pacing and excellent characterisation. The music flows in an uninhibited and unselfconscious stream”. In April 2012 a second production in association with the Hochschule fur Musik Nurnberg received performances in Germany and Scotland.
Teaching
Boyle has held various teaching posts in England and Scotland. From 1979 to 1988 he was the Director of Music at Walhampton School, Lymington, and from 1988 to 2000, he was the Director of Music at Malvern College in Worcestershire. Since 2000, he has been a tutor at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and in 2013 he was made a Professor of Composition there.
Film
Boyle has scored several television documentaries and has also worked with the director Murray Grigor writing the music for both Ever To Excel , which was made in 2012 to mark 600 years of St Andrews University, with a narration by Sean Connery, and Beatus, The Spanish Apocalypse , premiered in New York in 2014, which explores the corpus of illuminated and illustrated medieval manuscripts based on the 8th century apocalyptic commentary by the monk, Saint Beatus of Liebana.
Selected Works
Orchestral
Winter Music (1986)
Concerto for Marimba & Orchestra (1992)
Capriccio (1995)
Auld Nick’s Dance Tunes Vol. 6 (2001). Flute and string orchestra
Sorella (2008) Concerto for Oboe & Orchestra
That Blessed Wood (2012). Concerto for Bassoon & Orchestra
Chamber
Cinderella (1990). Narrator, wind quintet & piano
Giochi di Sospiri (1992). Brass quintet
Four Ways to Play Reels (1997). Wind quintet
Lament (1999). Violin & piano
Phaethon’s Dancing Lesson (2002). Piano trio
Night’s Music (2004). Ensemble
Behemoths (2006). Wind ensemble
Tallis’ Light (2011). Brass quintet & organ
Dramatis Personae (2012). Clarinet & piano
Brass Band
Muckle Flugga (2013)
Opera
Augustine (1975). Children’s opera
The Ghost of Hamish Prong (2000). Children’s opera
Kaspar Hauser, the Child of Europe (2007)
Vocal/choral
Vigils (1971). Soprano, clarinet & piano
Passion Canticles (1981). SATB & organ
Two Love Lyrics (1984). Counter-tenor & lute
Ceremony after a Fire-raid (2004). Soprano & trumpet
A Handful of Leaves (2008). Mezzo-soprano, flute & piano
His Name is Time (2011). SATB & cello
Watching Over You (2014). Mezzo-soprano & small ensemble
Solo Instrumental
Toccata (1976). Organ
Sonata (1991). Piano
Reeling (2001). Piano
Lullabies for Daft Jamie (2003). Guitar
Touch (2008). Flute
Burble (2012). Clarinet “5” (2013). Piano
Sources
- "Scottish Music Centre: Rory Boyle". Retrieved 29 April 2015.
- "Royal Conservatoire of Scotland: Rory Boyle". Retrieved 29 April 2015.
References
- ^ "2010 British Composer Awards winners announced". Music Week. Retrieved 29 April 2015.
External links
Website: www.roryboyle.com[1]
Publisher: Chester Music (Music Sales Ltd.)
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