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| JENNIFER FOWLER - COMPOSER | |
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Jennifer Fowler has won the Sylvia Glickman Memorial
Prize for her
string quartet "Towards Release". The prize
is an international award for women composers,
administered by the International Alliance of
Women in Music. The judging panel was chaired by Professor Violeta
Dinescu of the University of Oldenburg, Germany.
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| 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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SYDNEY DREAMING
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BLOW FLUTE | 
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Review from the Beijing Congress, April 2008:
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"Jennifer Fowler's "Plainsong" was a gem
- it was a pleasure to hear such carefully crafted,
imaginative music."
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| Hsiao-Lan Wang, IAWM Journal | |
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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 |
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Jennifer Fowler has won the Sylvia Glickman
Memorial Prize for her
string quartet "Towards Release". The
prize is an international award
for women composers, administed by the
International Alliance
of Women in Music. The judging panel was chaired by
Professor Violeta Dinescu of the University
of Oldenburg, Germany.
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A piece for string orchestra: "Plainsong for
Strings" was chosen for performance at
the International Congress of Women in Music in Beijing in April 2008.
It was performed in the Forbidden City
Concert Hall.
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"Streaming Up" for 4 bassoons and piano,
and "Echoes from an Antique Land" for flute,
oboe, clarinet and bassoon, were 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.
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"Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis"
commissioned by Women in Music UK, as part of
the Magnificat Project, was performed at Trinity College, Melbourne
University, Australia in May 2008.
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Other recent performances include the revised
version of "When David Heard" for choir,
premiered by the Sydney Chamber Choir, conducted by Roland Peelman;
"Answer Echoes" for flute quartet
performed in Rome; "Lament" for clarinet and cello,
performed in Indiana, USA; "Streaming Up" for flute, oboe,
clarinet, cello and piano, performed in New
York City.
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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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