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Gavin Bryars
Classical / Classical Opera and Vocal / Experimental




United Kingdom

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Member Since3/14/2007
Band Websitewww.gavinbryars.com
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Record LabelG.B. Records
Type of LabelIndie


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   Upcoming Shows ( view all )
Oct 3 2009 8:00P
The Venue, Leeds College of Music Leeds
Oct 10 2009 8:00P
Staatstheater Mainz
Dec 8 2009 8:00P
NDR, Rolf-Liebermann-Studio Hamburg, Hamburg
Dec 13 2009 7:30P
Wigmore Hall London
Jan 4 2010 8:00P
Dublin Eire Dublin
Feb 19 2010 8:15P
Vrendenburg Leidsche Rijn Utrecht, Utrecht
Feb 20 2010 8:15P
Muziekgebouw aan’t IJ, Grote Zaal Amsterdam
Apr 7 2010 8:15P
Het Musiektheater Amsterdam
Apr 9 2010 8:15P
Het Musiektheater Amsterdam
Apr 10 2010 8:15P
Het Musiektheater Amsterdam
Apr 11 2010 4:00P
Het Musiektheater Amsterdam
Apr 13 2010 8:15P
Het Musiektheater Amsterdam
Apr 14 2010 8:15P
Het Musiektheater Amsterdam
Apr 15 2010 8:00P
Teatro Monumental Madrid
Apr 15 2010 8:15P
Het Musiektheater Amsterdam
Apr 16 2010 8:00P
Teatro Monumenal Madrid
Apr 17 2010 8:15P
Het Musiektheater Amsterdam
Apr 18 2010 4:00P
Het Musiektheater Amsterdam
Apr 20 2010 8:15P
Het Muziektheater Amsterdam
Apr 21 2010 8:00P
diSingel Antwerpen, Antwerp
Dec 31 2010 12:00A
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   About Gavin Bryars

Biography

This is the official MySpace page for Gavin Bryars and is maintained by colleagues at Gavin's music publisher, Schott Music Limited. Messages will be passed on to the composer.

Studied philosophy at Sheffield University and became a professional jazz bassist and a pioneer of free improvisation working especially with Derek Bailey and Tony Oxley. In the late 1960s he worked with John Cage and this influenced early works such as the indeterminately scored The Sinking of the Titanic of 1969 and the classic Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet of 1971.

A major turning point in his development was his first opera Medea, premièred at the Opéra de Lyon and Opéra de Paris in 1984 (directed and designed by Robert Wilson). He has written two further operas, both with libretti by his long time collaborator Blake Morrison: Doctor Ox's Experiment (ENO 1998, directed by Atom Egoyan), and G (directed by Georges Delnon), commissioned by the Staatstheater Mainz for the Gutenberg 600th anniversary.

He has produced a large body of chamber music including 3 string quartets and a saxophone quartet both for his own ensemble and for other performers. He has also written extensively for strings as well as producing concertos for violin, viola, cello, double bass (plus one for jazz bass), saxophone and bass oboe. He has also written much choral music, chiefly for the Latvian Radio Choir, with whom he has recently recorded a second CD, and for the Estonian Male Choir.

He taught for a number of years in art colleges and has collaborated with many visual artists such as Bruce McLean, Tim Head, James Hugonin, Bill Woodrow and Will Alsop (Valencia Architecture Biennale). In 2006 he was a guest speaker at the 10th Alvar Aalto Architecture Symposium in Finland. He has made installations/performances for the Liverpool Tate Gallery, the Tate St. Ives, the Chateau d'Oiron, among others and worked closely with the late Juan Muñoz, notably on A Man in a Room, Gambling.

Bryars has worked for many years with early music performers and has embarked on a series of books of madrigals: the first for the Hilliard Ensemble (texts by Blake Morrison), the second for the Trio Mediaeval Sextet (Petrarch sonnets), and the third for Red Byrd (Petrarch, translated by Synge). A fourth has been started (longer Petrarch poems) and there are two books of Irish Madrigals. He has written a large number of "Laude", many for the soprano Anna Maria Friman, and is working on settings of old Irish texts with the singer Iarla I'Lionaird. He is also working on settings of Faroese saga poetry for the Faroese bass Rúni Brattaberg, following their work together on settings of old Icelandic saga poetry.

Many choreographers have used his music and he has also worked closely with a wide range of choreographers and dancers including Lucinda Child (for Rambert Dance Company), Laurie Booth, William Forsyth (Frankfurt Ballet), Edouard Lock (La La La Human Steps). In 1999 he collaborated with Merce Cunningham on BIPED and from 2002 he worked closely with Carolyn Carlson, initially on Writings on Water for the Venice Biennale. His latest dance collaboration is Amjad, with Edouard Lock and La La La Human Steps, which is touring the world and comes to the UK in early 2008. David Dawson brings his own choreography to Bryars' Third String Quartet from Dresden to English National Ballet in July 2008.

He recently completed a theatre piece, To Define Happiness, with Peeter Jalakas for Von Krahl theatre in Tallinn, and a project around Shakespeare's sonnets, Nothing Like the Sun, with the Royal Shakespeare Company and Opera North. This has prompted an extended sonnets series setting Edwin Morgan's sonnets for American and European male voice choirs. He is also developing two chamber operas with Canadian writer Marilyn Bowering (on Marilyn Monroe) and with Glen David Gold (on the magician Erdnase).

Gavin Bryars' work is widely recorded on Incus, ECM, Point, Philips, Argo, Clarinet Classics, Daphénéo, CBC Records, Touch, Mode, and on his own label GB Records.

He is an Associate Research Fellow at Dartington College of Arts and Regent of the Collège de 'Pataphysique.



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Nov 16 2009 12:37 PM

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Nov 5 2009 12:09 PM

Interesting music here as usual! Keep it up! Preview for all tracks of my debut album Symbiosis of Contradictions are now available on my myspace page through zimbalam player. Mp3 release is now available in all the major stores worldwide. Greetings from the snowy Moscow/Russia /Ivan
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Nov 2 2009 10:51 AM

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Nov 2 2009 9:01 AM

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Nov 1 2009 4:54 PM

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Mushio FUNAZAWA

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Nov 1 2009 1:52 PM


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Thank you very much
MaCu

MaCu



Nov 1 2009 1:26 PM

unbelievable wonderful music !!!!

cannot stop to listen to.

many thanks for accepting my request

have a great day





Shaomi

Shaomi
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Sep 8 2009 9:09 PM

Thank you for the wonderful, deep music... "Jesus blood..." is a favorite of mine, i can listen to it for hours sometimes, so hypnotic and beautiful... & i love many of your other works, too.

Love from France,

Shaomi.
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Powerplant

Powerplant



Aug 12 2009 9:38 PM

Inspiring as always, thanks.

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Jun 24 2009 7:46 PM

Thanks for the add- was reduced to a blubbering wreck by J.B.N.F.M.Y at St Georges in Bristol- along with most of the audience!
PAULO CASTRO (Composer)

PAULO CASTRO (Composer)



Jun 23 2009 10:40 PM

My compliments and thanks for meeting that magnificent art project,best regards!
Marc-Henri Arfeux

Marc-Henri Arfeux



May 27 2009 4:58 PM

I will never forget the greta experience of The man who mistook his wife for a hat, given live in Lyon a few years ago. I also love Gavin Bryars 's chamber music. Thank you for this page about him.

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