Frank Denyer
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Frank Denyer Born London April 12 1943 Is A British Composer. His Music Uses A Combination Of Conventional Instruments And New Unusual And Structurally Modified Instruments. Partly Due To His Studies Of Non-Western Music Much Of Denyer's Music Is Microtonal. Denyer Was A Chorister At Canterbury Cathedral And Later Studied At The Guildhall In London. In 1966 He Co-Founded And Was Director Of The Society Of Hermes An Arts Club For New Music Painting Poetry And Theatre In Shepherds Bush London. He Formed And Directed Mouth Of Hermes A Professional Instrumental Ensemble Devoted To New And Experimental Forms Of Music. He Toured Widely With The Ensemble In Europe Scandinavia And The U.K. In The Years Up To 1974 Presenting New Compositions. During This Time He Was Lecturer In Composition And 20th Century Studies At Hornsey College Of Art. This Early Period Culminated In His Being A Featured Composer/performer At The Festival D’Orleans France In 1973. Denyer Left The UK For A Time In 1974 To Begin What He Calls His "musical Travels" And To Undertake His First Attempts At Ethnomusicological Fieldwork In West Asia And The Kulu Valley In North India . In The Summer Of 1974 He Was A Visiting Lecturer At The National Institute Of Design Ahmedabad India. Between 1974 And 1977 He Was A PhD Student In Ethnomusicology At Wesleyan University In Connecticut. Thereafter He Was Research Fellow In African Music At The Institute Of African Studies University Of Nairobi Kenya And Then Lecturer In Ethnomusicology At Kenyatta University College In Nairobi. The Impact Of These Studies On His Subsequent Musical Output Is Profound But Denyer Has Never Been Interested In Hybridization Or "crossover". Upon His Return To England In 1981 He Began Teaching At Dartington College Of Arts In Devon Where He Is Currently Professor Of Composition. Together With James Fulkerson Co-Founded The Barton Workshop In Amsterdam In 1990 To Perform American Experimental Music And His Own Compositions His Recordings Of The Solo Piano Music And Ensemble Works Of Morton Feldman Galina Ustvolskaya Christian Wolff John Cage Jerry Hunt James Tenney Alvin Lucier And Others Have Met With Wide Acclaim. Denyer's Music Has Remained Resolutely Independent Of Musical Fashion. An Early Interest In Melody In The 1970s Has Remained A Feature Of His Work As Seen Perhaps In Its Most Extreme Form In His Works For Shakuhachi Collected On The 2007 CD Music For Shakuhachi. His Music Shows An Extraordinary Ear For Timbre And For Novel Combinations Of Acoustic Sounds. The First Of His Large-Scale Works A Monkey's Paw Premiered At Darmstadt In 1990 See Discography Displays This Clearly. More Recently An Interest In Extremely Quiet Sounds Has Characterised Several Works Including Prison Song Faint Traces And Tentative Thoughts Silenced Voices Collectively Forming His Prison Trilogy 1999-2003 .
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Frank Denyer Born London April 12 1943 Is A British Composer. His Music Uses A Combination Of Conventional Instruments And New Unusual And Structurally Modified Instruments. Partly Due To His Studies Of Non-Western Music Much Of Denyer's Music Is Microtonal. Denyer Was A Chorister At Canterbury Cathedral And Later Studied At The Guildhall In London. In 1966 He Co-Founded And Was Director Of The Society Of Hermes An Arts Club For New Music Painting Poetry And Theatre In Shepherds Bush London. He Formed And Directed Mouth Of Hermes A Professional Instrumental Ensemble Devoted To New And Experimental Forms Of Music. He Toured Widely With The Ensemble In Europe Scandinavia And The U.K. In The Years Up To 1974 Presenting New Compositions. During This Time He Was Lecturer In Composition And 20th Century Studies At Hornsey College Of Art. This Early Period Culminated In His Being A Featured Composer/performer At The Festival D’Orleans France In 1973. Denyer Left The UK For A Time In 1974 To Begin What He Calls His "musical Travels" And To Undertake His First Attempts At Ethnomusicological Fieldwork In West Asia And The Kulu Valley In North India . In The Summer Of 1974 He Was A Visiting Lecturer At The National Institute Of Design Ahmedabad India. Between 1974 And 1977 He Was A PhD Student In Ethnomusicology At Wesleyan University In Connecticut. Thereafter He Was Research Fellow In African Music At The Institute Of African Studies University Of Nairobi Kenya And Then Lecturer In Ethnomusicology At Kenyatta University College In Nairobi. The Impact Of These Studies On His Subsequent Musical Output Is Profound But Denyer Has Never Been Interested In Hybridization Or "crossover". Upon His Return To England In 1981 He Began Teaching At Dartington College Of Arts In Devon Where He Is Currently Professor Of Composition. Together With James Fulkerson Co-Founded The Barton Workshop In Amsterdam In 1990 To Perform American Experimental Music And His Own Compositions His Recordings Of The Solo Piano Music And Ensemble Works Of Morton Feldman Galina Ustvolskaya Christian Wolff John Cage Jerry Hunt James Tenney Alvin Lucier And Others Have Met With Wide Acclaim. Denyer's Music Has Remained Resolutely Independent Of Musical Fashion. An Early Interest In Melody In The 1970s Has Remained A Feature Of His Work As Seen Perhaps In Its Most Extreme Form In His Works For Shakuhachi Collected On The 2007 CD Music For Shakuhachi. His Music Shows An Extraordinary Ear For Timbre And For Novel Combinations Of Acoustic Sounds. The First Of His Large-Scale Works A Monkey's Paw Premiered At Darmstadt In 1990 See Discography Displays This Clearly. More Recently An Interest In Extremely Quiet Sounds Has Characterised Several Works Including Prison Song Faint Traces And Tentative Thoughts Silenced Voices Collectively Forming His Prison Trilogy 1999-2003 .
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