Composers & Authors
Gavin Bryars

Gavin Bryars

born: 01/16/1943
nationality: United Kingdom

Upcoming:

The Adnan Songbook
Conductor: Mark Shiell
10/17/2008 | Verbrugghen Hall, Sydney Conservatorium of Music - Sydney, NSW - Australia

Glorious Hill
10/20/2008 | Queen Elizabeth Hall - London - United Kingdom

News
Bryars - BIPED

09/19/2008

Gavin Bryars - BIPED in London

Gavin Bryars' work BIPED, written in 1999 in collaboration with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, will return to the Barbican this autumn, as part of the 10th anniversary celebrations for "bite" (Barbican International Theatre Events). The company is presenting two separate programmes, ...

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Gavin Bryars

06/30/2008

Gavin Bryars - The Art of Sound

""What happens when visual artists think in sound, and musicians go beyond their notes?" This is the question posed by the Royal Northern College of Music in advance of their extraordinary multi-media exhibition of music and art at Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester on Friday 4 July.  ...

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Gavin Bryars

02/26/2008

A Man in a Room, Gambling

On Thursday 28 February, The Gavin Bryars Ensemble will be performing selections from Gavin Bryars and Juan Muñoz’s collaborative work A Man in a Room, Gambling . The concert is part of the current Juan Muñoz exhibition at the Tate Modern in London.   Commissioned ...

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01/14/2008

Work of the Week - Gavin Bryars: The Sinking of the Titanic

16th January is Gavin Bryars' 65th Birthday. Co-incidentally one of New York's most celebrated ensembles, Wordless Music, presents his early experimental work The Sinking of the Titanic on the 16th and 17th January at St Paul the Apostle. The Sinking of the Titanic was written in ...

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12/17/2007

schott aktuell - the journal 1/2008 online

Download complete issue (PDF, 1.4 MB)   21 st Century Violin & Viola Concertos Contents:  p. 2-5: World Premieres: John Casken: Blue Medusa in Manchester - Peter Eötvös: Levitation ...

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12/05/2007

New Releases on GB Records

Following on from the highly acclaimed On Photography CD, GB Records have announced two new releases Glorious Hill and A Listening Room.   Gavin Bryars’ close relationship with ensembles from the Baltic and his famed choral writing makes a strong reappearance with Glorious ...

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08/13/2007

Work of the Week - Gavin Bryars: Amjad

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Gavin Bryars - To Define Happiness

04/03/2007

Gavin Bryars - To Define Happiness

Gavin Bryars has collaborated with Estonian producer, director and playwright Peeter Jalakas to write To Define Happiness .  The idea grew out of a workshop at the Von Krahl Academy in Tallin, Estonia on the theme of cosmology.  The work is inspired by physicist and philosopher Stephen ...

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02/20/2007

Work of the Week - Gavin Bryars: Nothing Like the Sun

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