Ayres Shortlisted for Toonzetters Prize
Richard Ayres has been shortlisted for Toonzetters 2012, a Dutch competition aimed at promoting new music in Holland. His work, No. 46 will be performed this summer and is being considered for three prizes awarded by Toonzetters.
English-born Richard Ayres decided on a career in music after following Morton Feldman's classes at the Darmstadt and Dartington summer schools. He studied composition, electronic music, and trombone at Huddersfield Polytechnic, then moved to Den Haag to study with Louis Andriessen at the Royal Conservatoire. He settled in Holland where he has taught at the Amsterdam Conservatoire since 2006. He is currently working on his second opera, Peter Pan.
No. 46 for orchestra is Ayres’ most recent work. It was premiered in June 2011 at the Holland Festival. The piece is an interpretation of how the composer experiences life. About the work Ayres simply states: “I hope it contains happy bits, sad and tragic bits, serious bits, funny bits, and bits that we don't quite understand.”
Toonzetters is the leading event in Holland for generating new works, and some of the best Dutch compositions come out of this competition each year. From hundreds of submissions, ten works are chosen to be performed as part of the Holland Festival. This year’s finalists will have their work programmed in a set of concerts taking place on Saturday 23 June at Amsterdam’s Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ.
(02/02/2012)
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