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Jonathan Harvey (born 3 May 1939 in Sutton Coldfield) is a British composer. He has held teaching positions at universities and music conservatories in Europe and the USA and is frequently invited to teach in summer schools around the world.
He studied with Erwin Stein and Hans Keller at St John's College, Cambridge, eventually obtaining a PhD. Early musical influences included Schoenberg, Berg, Messiaen and Britten. While undertaking postgraduate study at Glasgow University, Harvey was a cellist in the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Around this time, he became interested in the music of Karlheinz Stockhausen. In 1969 he took up a Harkness Fellowship at Princeton University, where he encountered Milton Babbitt, another strong influence on his music. In the 1980s Harvey produced much music at IRCAM after receiving an invitation from Pierre Boulez to work there.
Harvey is a Visiting Professor of Music at University of Oxford, Imperial College London, and an Honorary Professor at Sussex University.
From 2005 to 2008, Jonathan Harvey held the post of Composer in Association with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.[1]
In 2009 he was Composer in Residence at the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival.[2][3]
Selected works
- Advaya for cello, electronic keyboard and electronics (1994)
- Bhakti for 15 players and quadrophonic tape (1982)
- Body Mandala for orchestra (2006)
- Cello Concerto (1990)
- Chant for solo cello (or solo viola) (1992-94)
- Come Holy Ghost for choir (1984)
- Curve with Plateaux for solo cello (1982)
- Death of Light/Light of Death for chamber ensemble of 5 players after Grunewald's Crucifixion in the Issenheim Altarpiece (1998)
- Dialogue and Song for cello (1965/1977)
- Dum Transisset Sabbatum for choir (1995)
- Fantasia for organ (1991)
- Flight-Elegy for violin and piano (1983-89)
- Forms of Emptiness for choir (1986)
- Four Images after Yeats for piano (1969)
- From Silence for soprano, 6 players and tape (1988)
- God is our Refuge for choir and organ (1986)
- Imaginings for cello and live electronics
- Lauds for choir and solo cello (1987)
- Jubilus for viola and chamber ensemble (2003)
- Limen for solo cello
- Lotuses for flute quartet (1992)
- Madonna of Winter and Spring for orchestra, synthesizer and electronics (1986)
- Mortuos Plango, Vivos Voco, computer-manipulated concrete sounds (pre-recorded quadraphonic tape), for tape
- Mythic Figures (1980)
- Nachtlied for soprano, piano and tape (1984)
- Nataraja for flute, piccolo and piano (1983)
- O Jesu Nomen Dulce for choir (1979)
- One Evening... for soprano, mezzo, soprano, chamber ensemble of 8 players, 2 technicians and electronics (1993-94)
- Percussion Concerto (1997)
- Philia's Dream for cello and synthesizer
- Piano Trio (1971)
- Ricercare una Melodia for solo trumpet/cello/flute/oboe/trombone with tape delay system (1984)
- Riti for solo cello
- Ritual Melodies for quadrophonic tape (1989-90)
- Scena for violin and chamber ensemble of 9 players (1992)
- Serenade in Homage to Mozart for wind ensemble of 10 players (1991)
- Song Offerings for soprano and chamber ensemble of 8 players (1985)
- String Quartet No. 1 (1977)
- String Quartet No. 2 (1988)
- String Quartet No. 3 (1995)
- String Quartet No. 4 with live electronics (2003)
- String Trio (2004)
- Sufi Dance for solo guitar (1997)
- The Angels for choir (1994)
- The Riot for flute, piccolo, bass clarinet and piano (1993)
- Three Sketches for solo cello (1989)
- Tombeau de Messiaen for piano and tape (1994)
- Tranquil Abiding for chamber orchestra (1998)
- Valley of Aosta for 13 players and electronics (1998)
- Vers for piano (2000)
- Wheel of Emptiness for chamber ensemble of 16 players (1997)
References
- ^ Jonathan Harvey, composer's biography
- ^ Composer in Residence Jonathan Harvey in conversation, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival
- ^ Jonathan Harvey: HCMF focus 2009, Faber Music
External links
- Jonathan Harvey website
- Excerpts from sound archives of Harvey's works.
- (French) A biography of Jonathan Harvey (composer), from IRCAM's website.
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