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Artist
Geoffrey Poole
12+ albums
composercontemporary classicalUKenglishwestern classical music
about
Geoffrey Poole is a contemporary classical composer with a bold and independent outlook. Much of his most characteristic work has been inspired by the mutual interrogation of classical tradition and high folk traditions from Europe, Africa and Asia. English by birth in 1949 he has also lived in East Africa (1985-7) and in the USA as Visiting Fellow in Composition at Princeton (1997-8), and studied traditional performance in Korea (2008) and Gambia (2009). After a substantial career at Manchester he is currently Professor of Composition at Bristol University. He was married to composer Beth Wiseman from 1977 until her death in 2007, and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts the same year. His works include three string quartets commissioned by The Lindsays, orchestral music performed by the Halle, RLPO, BBCSO, BBC Philharmonic Orchestra and others, choral music broadcast by The King’s Singers, the Tavener Consort / BCMG and a major concerto for vocalities, The Colour of My Song which was commissioned 2006 by the BBC Singers. Other colourful large-scale compositions are the Sheherazade-like voyage Sailing With Archangels for Wind Orchestra and some very unusual concertos: Two-Way Talking for Ghanean Drummer and 5 ensembles, Swans Reflecting Elephants for Javanese Gamelan and chamber orchestra, and Lucifer a black comedy for piano and 21 loud instruments. He has written several works for amateurs or younger players, including the widely known recorder p
top songs
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Lucifer: New Babylon
742Crux Coronis
283Epilogue: Blessed Jesu
234Wymondham Chants: Epilogue: Blessed Jesu
195Wymondham Chants: Prologue: Ave, rex angelorum
126Wymondham Chants: Scherzo: Tutivillus
117Wymondham Chants: Scherzo. Tutivillus
118Wymondham Chants: Prayer: Mary modyr
109Heynonnynonny Smallprint
1010Prologue: Ave, rex angelorum
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