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Born: June 10th, 1960
Country of origin: United Kingdom

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Three Farewells
April 2nd, 2012 | Fassbinder Hall, Teatro Elfo Pucci - Milan - Italy

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1960

Born 10 June at Corringham, in Essex

1966

Begins piano lessons

1969

First attempts at composition

1974

Accepted by the Junior Department of the Royal College of Music; studies composition with Oliver Knussen

1981

Night Dances awarded the Guinness Prize for composition

1982

First performances of Night Dances for orchestra by the London Sinfonietta; and Entranced for piano

1983

Wins a Mendelssohn Scholarship enabling him to attend the Tanglewood Summer School, where he studies with Gunther Schuller and informally with Hans Werner Henze. Lament for a Hanging Man, commissioned by Gemini

1985

On All Fours, commissioned by the London Sinfonietta. Henze commissions the opera Greek for the Munich Biennale; Feeney Trust commissions Three Screaming Popes for the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra

1987

Release, composed for a BBC Television documentary as part of the Sound on Film series

1988

First performance of Greek at the Munich Biennale; UK première at the Edinburgh Festival

1989

Three Screaming Popes first performed in Birmingham

1990

Becomes Composer-in-Association with the CBSO; Kai, for cello and ensemble, written for the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group

1991

Momentum, commissioned for the opening of Symphony Hall, Birmingham; Some Days premièred at the BBC Proms

1992

Leaving, composed for the City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus

1993

Drowned Out marks the end of Birmingham residency; Your Rockaby, for soprano saxophone and orchestra completed

1995

Becomes Composer-in-Association at English National Opera; Dispelling the Fears (orchestral version)

1996

First complete performance of Blood on the Floor

1997

Aldeburgh Festival premières of Twice through the Heart and The Country of the Blind; begins compostion of The Silver Tassie

1998

Silent Cities, for orchestra premièred in Tokyo

1999

Completes The Silver Tassie; About Time, for ensemble and period-instrument orchestra; Your Rockaby featured in BBC TV documentary series Six Pieces of Britain

2000-2003

Associate Composer with the BBC Symphony Orchestra

2001

Première of The Silver Tassie at ENO

2001

The
Silver Tassie wins a South Bank Show Award and Olivier Award for opera.

2002

Scorched for jazz trio and orchestra

2002

Simon Rattle performs Blood on the Floor in his opening concerts as Chief Conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic.

2003

Major retrospective at the Barbican Centre, London in conjunction with the BBC