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Nicholas Sackman
12+ albums
composercontemporary classicalgammarecwestern classical music2juma
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Nicholas Sackman (born April 12, 1950) is an English classical composer. Sackman studied composition at the University of Nottingham, completed his MA at the University of Leeds with the composer Alexander Goehr in 1974, and was subsequently awarded a Doctorate of Music from the University of Nottingham in 1996. During this time he had many performances both in Great Britain and further afield with Ensembles and Cadenzas performed at the BBC Young Composers Forum and the Gaudeamus Festival, A Pair of Wings at the Bath Music Fest and the 1974 ISCM Festival, Paraphrase, premiered by the London Sinfonietta, the String Quartet no. 2 and his Piano Sonata, written for Peter Lawson. Following his study he became a Head of Music in secondary schools in London and then Hertfordshire, which led to a number of commissions for amateur orchestral players including Mosaic for the Nottingham Youth Orchestra, Cecilia dances for the Hertfordshire County Youth Orchestra, and sets of pieces for young performers entitled Folios. In 1990 he was awarded a composition lectureship at the University of Nottingham.[1] Following his appointment Sackman has received numerous commissions including his magnus orchestral work Hawthorn commissioned by the BBC, premiered at the 1993 Proms, and released by NMC Recordings, Vivace for Sinfonia ViVA, Meld for Philip Mead and the RNCM Brass Ensemble, a percussion quartet entitled Puppets for Drumstruck, and more recently Concerto in Black for the Birmingham Con
