MARTIN DALBY COMPOSER martindalby@btinternet.com

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BIOGRAPHY MARTIN DALBY was born in Aberdeen in 1942. He was educated at Aberdeen Grammar School and in 1960 won a Foundation Scholarship to the Royal College of Music in London where he studied composition with Herbert Howells and viola with Frederick Riddle. In 1963 the Octavia Prize and a Sir James Caird Travelling Scholarship enabled him to spend two years in Italy where besides composing he played the viola with a small Italian Chamber Orchestra. In 1965 he was appointed as a music producer to the BBC's newly formed Music Programme (later to be Radio 3.) In 1971 he became the Cramb Research Fellow in Composition at the University of Glasgow and in 1972 returned to the BBC as Head of Music, Scotland where he began the development of the public profile of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, both in Great Britain and abroad, which increases as time goes on. In 1991 he relinquished this post in order to pursue a more creative role. A result of this was the production, amongst other things, of BBC Scotland's massive radio history, Scotland's Music.  He won a Sony Gold Award for it.  In 1993 he retired from the BBC and now composes full time. He has written a large amount of music: for orchestra, for chorus, for brass bands and wind bands, for the Church, for film, radio and television, many songs and song cycles, and chamber music ranging from duos and trios to octets and nonets.  Most of it has been commissioned: from festivals such as Edinburgh, Cheltenham, Cardiff, Orkney and Peterborough, or from orchestras and ensembles. It has been performed widely throughout the world notably at such festivals as the Warsaw Autumn and the Henry Wood Proms in London for which in 1991  he wrote The Mary Bean for the Royal Scottish National Orchestra. This was his fourth performance at the Proms.  Work for his home city occupied him after that.  First, The White Maa for the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, music to celebrate 200 years of Union Street in Aberdeen and more recently a String Quartet to celebrate 500 years of Aberdeen University. In 1998 he composed his third Piano Sonata for Peter Seivewright and a year later, a short piece for the National Youth String Orchestra of Scotland, The First Thursday in May welcoming the return of a Government in Scotland. At this time he was reliving his fascination with the music of the great Scots fiddler and composer, J. Scott Skinner, creating his own five movement Orchestral Suite A Wheen in Doric, from it. The act of "rebuilding" Skinner's tender and characteristically Scottish music is born of devotion not of destruction.  More recently his attention has turned to writing vocal music both for children and adults. He is completing a set of songs for voice and piano in memory of one of his Labradors, A Little Songbook for Tessa. Sunbeam for Sheba (2002) is likewise a song in memory of a labrador — Tessa’s mother. He is also completing a substantial work for eight double basses and is beginning to write  Lang Johnnie More: an essay with trumpet mutes. Dalby has a profound interest in Scotland: he and John Purser made a massive series for BBC Radio Scotland called Scotland's Music. They won a Sony Award for it.  He, with his colleagues, won a Gramophone award for their production of the CD of James MacMillan's The  Confession of Isobel Gowdie. His composing peers awarded him a "Gold Badge" in 1999 which he accepted with a speech about sheep. He is a hill walker; he is interested in railways and literature; he is a bird watcher and he also holds a Private Pilot’s Licence. Dalby has always concerned himself with the interests of his fellow composers. He helped in forming and running several chamber groups in Scotland. He was Chairman of the Composers' Guild of Great Britain from 1995 to 1998 and was a founding director of both The British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors (BASCA) and British Music Rights. His membership of the BASCA Concert Executive Committee continued from its start until 2009. He was also Warden of the Incorporated Society of Musicians’ Performers and Composers Section in 2001 and 2002. He retains his interest in the ISM as Convener of its South-West Scotland Centre. Back to top

CONTACT ADDRESSES Boosey & Hawkes Music Publishers Ltd, 295 Regent Street, London, W1R 8JH. Tel: 0171 580 2060 0171 637 3490 Fax: 0171 581 5580 Boosey & Hawkes Music Publishers Ltd, The Hyde, Edgware Road, London, NW9 6JN. Tel: 0181 205 3861 Fax: 0181 200 3737 British Music Information Centre, 10 Stratford Place, London, W1N 9AE. Tel: 0171 499 8567 Fax: 0171 499 4795 e-mail: bmic@bmic.co.uk Carnegie Dunfermline Trust, Abbey Park House, Dunfermline, Fife. Tel: 01383 7223638 Chester Music, 8/9 Frith Street, London, W1V 5TZ. Tel: 0171 434 0066 Fax: 0171 287 6329 e-mail: music@musicsales.co.uk Chester Music, Hire and Distribution, Newmarket Road, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, IP33 3YB. Tel: 01284 702600 Fax: 01284 768301 Martin Dalby 23 Muirpark Way Drymen, G63 ODX. Tel: 01360 660427 Fax: 01360 660397 e-mail:  martin.dalby@drymen.net Faber Music Ltd, 3 Queen Square, London, WC1N 3AU. Tel: 0171 278 7436 0171 833 7906 (sales) Fax: 0171 833 7939 e-mail: info@fabermusic.co.uk Alfred Lengnick & Co, 3rd Floor, 25-29 Fulham High Street, London, SW6 3JH. Tel: 0171 731 8595 Fax: 0171 384 1854 Alfred Lengnick & Co, Pigeon Ho Meadow, 27 Grove Road, Beaconsfield, Bucks, HP9 1UR Tel: 01494 681216 Fax: 01494 670443 Distribution: William Elkin Music Services Station Road Industrial Estate, Salhouse, Norwich, NR13 6NY. Music Sales Ltd, 8-9 Frith Street, London, W1V 5TZ. Tel: 0171 434 0066 Fax: 0171 439 2848 e-mail: music@musicsales.co.uk Novello & Co Ltd., c/o Music Sales Ltd. 8-9 Frith Street, London, W1V 5TZ. Tel: 0171 434 0066 Fax: 0171 287 6329 0171 439 2848 e-mail: music@musicsales.co.uk Novello & Co Ltd Hire Library, Newmarket Road, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, IP33 3YB. Tel: 01284 705705 Fax: 01284 703401 Oxford University Press Music Department, Gt Clarendon Street, Oxford, OX2 6DP. Tel: 01865 556767 Fax: 01865 267749 e-mail: music.enquiry@oup.co.uk Trade Orders: Oxford University Press, Saxon Way West, Corby, Northants, NN18 9ES. Oxford University Press, New Music Promotion, 70 Baker Street, London, W1M 1DJ. Tel: 0171 616 5900 Fax: 0171 616 5901 e-mail: repertoire.promotion@oup.co.uk Scottish Music Information Centre, 1 Bowmont Gardens, Glasgow, G12 9LR. Tel: 0141 334 6393 Fax: 0141 337 1161 e-mail: smic@glasgow.almac.co.uk Warwick Music Holloway House Market Place Warwick England CV 34 4SJ Tel:  024 76 712081 Fax: 024 76 712550 Sales - Tel:  +44 08080 927 9425 Sales - Fax: +44 1926 419701 e-mail:sales@warwickmusic.com website:www.warwickmusic.com Yorke Edition, The Bothy Grove Cottage  Southgate S/Creake Norfolk NR21 9PA Tel: 01328 823 501 Fax: 01328 823 502 e-mail: enquiries@yorkedition.co.uk   Back to top

Martin Dalby is a Member of the Incorporated Society of Musicians