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| JENNIFER FOWLER - COMPOSER | |
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| LATEST NEWS: | |
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A piece for string orchestra: "Plainsong for
Strings" has been chosen for performance at the International
Congress of Women in Music in Beijing in April 2008. It will be performed
at the China Conservatory of Music, Beijing, 20 April 2008.
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"Streaming Up" for 4 bassoons and piano has
been chosen for performance at the festival "Fou de Basson" in Angouleme, France, in June 2008. | |
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"Cycling" for piano has been chosen by the
Music Conservatory in Vibo Valentia, Calabria, Italy, to be included in a CD project of piano music for children. This piece was also recently played as part of a piano competition for youth in Krusevac, Serbia. | |
| BIOGRAPHY |
| JENNIFER FOWLER was born in Western Australia in 1939. During her student years at the University of Western Australia she won several composition prizes and was awarded the University's Convocation Award for outstanding results. While still a student she had pieces performed in the Festival of Perth and broadcast by the ABC. |
| In 1968 she spent a year working at the Electronic Music Studios of the University of Utrecht, on a Dutch Government scholarship. Since 1969, she has been living in London where she works as a free-lance composer. |
| She has won a number of international prizes for composition: in 1970 a prize from the Academy of the Arts in Berlin; in 1971 joint winner of the Radcliffe Award of Great Britain; in 1975, 1st prize in the International Competition for Women Composers in Mannheim, the Miriam Gideon prize from the International Association of Women in Music, 2003; and 2nd prize in the Christopher Bodman Memorial Competition, 2006. |
| Her output includes orchestral works, wind music, chamber music, pieces for voice and instrumental ensemble, solo music, and choir and vocal ensembles of various kinds. She has had pieces commissioned and broadcast by radio stations all over the world. |
| PERFORMANCES |
| Festival performances include the ISCM World Music Days; Gaudeamus Music Week, Holland; Huddersfield Festival of Contemporary Music; the Proms season in Sydney; the International Sydney Spring Festival; the "Ring of Fire" Festival, London; the Festival of Perth and Women in Music festivals in London, Atlanta, Alaska, Melbourne Sydney and Canberra. |
| Her music is available from the British Music Information Centre in London, or the Australian Music Centre, Sydney. (see addresses below) |
| DISCOGRAPHY AND CRITICAL NOTICES | |
| A number of pieces are available on CD including: | |
| Sydney Dreaming - Veni Sancte Spiritus for chamber choir performed by The Contemporary Singers on Sydney Dreaming ABC Classics 454 510-2 | |
- - - a fascinating exercise in the interaction of lingering resonance. | |
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It is an astonishing piece - I don't know another piece like it. | |
| Blow Flute: Answer Echoes in Antique Lands Dying for solo flute
played by Laura Chislett on The Flute Ascendant Vox Australis VAST007-2 | |
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Listen to excerpts from Jenny
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SYDNEY DREAMING
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BLOW FLUTE | 
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| CREDO |
| My aim is to convey a sense of direction in music, which is guided by a kind of logic: an evolving logic in which one cannot foresee the next step, since there are many possibilites open, yet which will have a sound of inevitability when it arrives. I like to build-in a bias which allows change while retaining inner consistency. One needs to stimulate the imagination, step off the known paths, see a vision. Then one can communicate the sense of excitement! |
| CURRENT NEWS |
| A piece for string orchestra: "Plainsong for Strings" has been chosen for performance at the International Congress of Women in Music in Beijing in April 2008. It will be performed at the China Conservatory of Music, Beijing, 20 April 2008. |
| "Streaming Up" for 4 bassoons and piano
has been chosen for performance at the festival "Fou de Basson" in Angouleme, France, in June 2008. |
| "Cycling" for piano has been chosen by
the Music Conservatory in Vibo Valentia, Calabria, Italy, to be included in a CD project of piano music for children. This piece was also recently played as part of a piano competition for youth in Krusevac, Serbia. |
| "Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis", commissioned by Women in Music, UK, as part of the Magnificat Project, is to be performed at Trinity College, Melbourne University, Australia, on 4 May 2008. |
| A revised version of "When David Heard" for choir was premiered by the Sydney Chamber Choir, conducted by Roland Peelman, in Sydney in June 2007. The performance was broadcast by the ABC. |
| Other recent performances include: "Answer Echoes" for flute quartet performed by Image as part of the Natale in Musica 2007 in Rome; "Lament" for clarinet and cello performed by Claricello in Indiana, USA; and "Streaming Up" for flute, oboe, clarinet, cello and piano performed by North/South Consonance in New York City. |
| The piece, "Bone Dance", for 4 trombones won second prize in the Christopher Bodman Memorial Composers' Competition in 2006. |
| "Magnificat 11" for soprano, flute, cello and harp won the Miriam Gideon prize awarded by the International Association of Women in Music in July 2003. |
| A commission from The Song Company of Sydney of a
cycle of nine songs: "Eat and Be Eaten" for 1 - 6 singers with harp interludes on the subject of food - all its myths, metaphors and significance, was given a High Commendation by the judges of the Paul Lowin Awards of 2001. The Paul Lowin Awards are Australia's richest composition prizes. |
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| CONTACT INFORMATION |
| For detailed brochure and further information contact: |
| Echoes Music, 21 Deodar Road, London SW15 2NP, UK E-mail: 100611.2060@compuserve.com |
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| The British Music Information Centre,
Lincoln House, 75 Westminster Bridge Road, London SE1 7HS E-mail: bmic@bmic.co.uk |
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The Australian Music Centre, PO Box N690, Grosvenor Place, NSW
1220, Australia |
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