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Richard Ayres was born in Cornwall (Great Britain) in 1965. In 1986 he followed Morton Feldman's classes at the Darmstadt and Dartington summer schools, and after this experience decided to make music a full-time occupation.
He studied composition, electronic music, and trombone at the polytechnic in Huddersfield, graduating with Distinction in 1989. Since September 1989 he has lived and worked in the Netherlands. He followed the postgraduate composition course at the Royal Conservatoire in Den Haag, studying with Louis Andriessen, and graduating in 1992. He subsequently taught there from 2004-6 before taking up his current position at the Amsterdam Conservatoire.
From 1990 Richard Ayres has worked as composer receiving performances from among others the ASKO Ensemble, the Schönberg Ensemble, Ives Ensemble, Orkest de Volharding, Maarten Altena Ensemble, The Netherlands Ballet Orchestra, Netherlands Radio Symphony Orchestra, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Apartment House, London Sinfonietta, Klangforum Wien, MusikFabrik, Continuum (Canada) as well as writing for ensembles with more unusual instrumentations formed for specific projects.
In September 1994 during the Gaudeamus Music week he was awarded the International Gaudeamus prize for composition, and in June 1999 "No.31" (for trumpet and ensemble) was awarded a "recommendation" at the Unesco Rostrum of Composers in Paris. In 2003 Ayres was awarded the Vermeulen Prize, the highest award for a composition in the Netherlands.
He was Featured Composer at the Huddersfield Festival in 2003 and his music has been heard at the Aldeburgh Festival: his first opera, The Cricket Recovers was premiered there in 2005. It has since had new productions in Stuttgart, Weimar and Braunschweig. He is currently writing his second opera, Peter Pan.
In the orchestral arena his No. 37b for orchestra was premiered at the Donaueschingen Musiktage by the SWR Sinfonieorchester Freiburg and Baden-Baden and has since been taken up by the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. No. 40 NONcerto for oboe and chamber orchestra was premiered by Baart Schneemann and the Netherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra in 2006.
2008 saw the premiere of No. 42 In the Alps for soprano and ensemble which was premiered and toured throughout Holland by Barbara Hannigan and the Netherlands Wind Ensemble. He also wrote No. 43 Glorious, a work for chamber ensemble and film
a collaboration with film-maker Guy Maddin for the SHIFT Festival in Amsterdam and Canada.
He studied composition, electronic music, and trombone at the polytechnic in Huddersfield, graduating with Distinction in 1989. Since September 1989 he has lived and worked in the Netherlands. He followed the postgraduate composition course at the Royal Conservatoire in Den Haag, studying with Louis Andriessen, and graduating in 1992. He subsequently taught there from 2004-6 before taking up his current position at the Amsterdam Conservatoire.
From 1990 Richard Ayres has worked as composer receiving performances from among others the ASKO Ensemble, the Schönberg Ensemble, Ives Ensemble, Orkest de Volharding, Maarten Altena Ensemble, The Netherlands Ballet Orchestra, Netherlands Radio Symphony Orchestra, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Apartment House, London Sinfonietta, Klangforum Wien, MusikFabrik, Continuum (Canada) as well as writing for ensembles with more unusual instrumentations formed for specific projects.
In September 1994 during the Gaudeamus Music week he was awarded the International Gaudeamus prize for composition, and in June 1999 "No.31" (for trumpet and ensemble) was awarded a "recommendation" at the Unesco Rostrum of Composers in Paris. In 2003 Ayres was awarded the Vermeulen Prize, the highest award for a composition in the Netherlands.
He was Featured Composer at the Huddersfield Festival in 2003 and his music has been heard at the Aldeburgh Festival: his first opera, The Cricket Recovers was premiered there in 2005. It has since had new productions in Stuttgart, Weimar and Braunschweig. He is currently writing his second opera, Peter Pan.
In the orchestral arena his No. 37b for orchestra was premiered at the Donaueschingen Musiktage by the SWR Sinfonieorchester Freiburg and Baden-Baden and has since been taken up by the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. No. 40 NONcerto for oboe and chamber orchestra was premiered by Baart Schneemann and the Netherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra in 2006.
2008 saw the premiere of No. 42 In the Alps for soprano and ensemble which was premiered and toured throughout Holland by Barbara Hannigan and the Netherlands Wind Ensemble. He also wrote No. 43 Glorious, a work for chamber ensemble and film
a collaboration with film-maker Guy Maddin for the SHIFT Festival in Amsterdam and Canada.
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