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Kevin Bowyer
12+ albums
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Kevin Bowyer was born in Southend-on-Sea in January 1961 and studied with Christopher Bowers-Broadbent, David Sanger, Virginia Black and Paul Steinitz. He has won first prizes in five international organ competitions and has gained a reputation for playing unusual and new music and for taking on “impossible” projects. In 1987 he gave the world premiere of Kaikhosru Sorabji’s two hour solo Symphony for Organ, considered “impossible” ever since its publication in 1925. Other UK premieres have included works by Brian Ferneyhough (Sieben Sterne), Anthony Gilbert (Halifenu Vine Dance), Charles Wuorinen (Natural Fantasy) and Iannis Xenakis (Gmeeoorh). Sorabji’s massive Second Organ Symphony (1929-32, about 6½ hours) is scheduled for performance in 2007. At home Kevin has played solo and concerto concerts in most of the major venues and festivals. Trips and tours abroad have taken him throughout Europe, North America, Australia and Japan. In summer 2003 he played the complete solo organ Symphonies of Widor and Vierne and the complete organ works of Olivier Messiaen in three concerts in the same week, 16 hours of music, at St. Giles, Cripplegate. Kevin has released a great number of solo CDs, many of which have won awards. These include many landmark recordings of contemporary music as well as the complete organ music of J S Bach and music by Alkan, Brahms, Schumann, Reubke, Hindemith, Schoenberg, Messiaen, Alain, etc. Jonathan Wearn, writing in MusicWeb Interna
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PART: Arvo Part - A Portrait (KIMBERLEY)
Pärt / Rautavaara / Gubaidulina / Górecki: Music For Organ
Phillip Glass/Christopher Bowers-Broadbent - Music for Organ
Christmas Organ Music
Christmas Organ Music - Kevin Bowyer at the Organ of Chichester Cathedral
J.S. Bach - The Works for Organ vol. 1
J. S. Bach - Works For Organ: Volume 16
Bach: The Works for Organ, Vol. 8
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John Tavener - A Portrait
Pärt, Rautavaara, Gubaidulina & Górecki: Music for Organ
The Complete Works for Organ, Vol. XIV
Glass & Bowers-Broadbent: Music for Organ