Anthony Gilbert

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Anthony Gilbert (b.1934, London) is a British composer. Initially a translator and interpreter by profession, Gilbert commenced serious composition study in his mid-twenties, first with Mátyás Seiber, then with Anthony Milner and Alexander Goehr at Morley College, London, and later with Gunther Schuller at Tanglewood. He first attracted public attention in the 1960s with a series of brilliant virtuoso works for small ensembles, performed in international festivals. Notable among these are Brighton Piece and Nine or Ten Osannas, the latter now commercially available on CD, and, for members of The Fires of London, Spell Respell for Basset Clarinet and Piano, and The Incredible Flute Music. During this time Gilbert began a close association with Schotts publishers, working his way up from warehouseman to Chief Editor of contemporary music and Head of Production. Leaving London for the North of England in 1970, first as Granada Arts Fellow at Lancaster University and then to teach Composition at the Royal Northern College of Music, he devoted the next ten years to writing larger works. These included an acclaimed Symphony, Ghost and Dream Dancing for orchestra - in effect a second Symphony - and two operas: The Scene-Machine for Staatstheater Kassel and The Chakravaka-Bird, a BBC Jubilee commission specifically for radio transmission. Among works for contemporary chamber orchestra, his Crow Cry for the London Sinfonietta and Towards Asāvari for solo piano and chamber orchestra,

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Bracing Change

Anthony Gilbert: Dream Carousels & Other Works

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The NMC Songbook

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Gilbert: Piano Music

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Schleichender Mord

Anthony Gilbert: On Beholding a Rainbow

Travelling with Time: Recent Music on Historical Themes by Anthony Gilbert

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Death in Fancy Dress

Piano Music

Prime Cuts

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NMC Songbook

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2011 WASBE Chiayi City, Taiwan: National Youth Wind Ensemble of Great Britain

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