Robert Saxton

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Robert Saxton (born 1953 in London) is a British composer. [edit] Biography After early advice and encouragement from Benjamin Britten, Robert Saxton took private composition lessons with Elisabeth Lutyens. He went on to study with Robin Holloway at Cambridge University, with Robert Sherlaw Johnson as a post-graduate at Oxford University, and later with Berio. His music is intellectual and complex, texturally intricate, yet earthy and immediate. It draws on many influences including the English visionary tradition and his own Jewish heritage. Saxton is also a distinguished teacher; he has been Head of Composition at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and the Royal Academy of Music and is currently a Lecturer, Fellow and Tutor in Music at Worcester College, Oxford. He has written commissioned works for: the LSO, the Fires of London, the London Sinfonietta, the LPO, the English Chamber Orchestra, the Nash Ensemble, BBC (Radio, TV and the Proms), the Cheltenham, Aldeburgh, Harrogate and Lichfield festivals and Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival/Opera North and the Chilingirian String Quartet. He has also written works for: Mstislav Rostropovich, Teresa Cahill, Steven Isserlis, Leon Fleisher, Paul Silverthorne and John Wallace. His music has been recorded by: Collins Classics, EMI, Sony Classical, Hyperion and NMC. [1] Recent works include Ring Time (1994), A Yardstick to the Stars (1995), Canticum Luminis (1995), Music for St Catharine for organ (1998), a sonata fo

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Saxton: Piano Works

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Scenes from the Epic of Gilgamesh: I. Prologue

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Robert Saxton: Scenes from the Epic of Gilgamesh & The Resurrection of the Soldiers

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Robert Saxton: Portrait

Saxton: The Wandering Jew

Robert Saxton: Music to Celebrate the Resurrection, I Will Awake the Dawn, Violin Concerto, In the Beginning & Caritas

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The NMC Songbook

Robert Saxton: A Yardstick to the Stars & Other Works

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Robert Saxton: String Quartets Nos. 3-4 & Sonata for Solo Violin "Reflections in Time"

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Don't Talk - Just Listen!

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Psalm: Contemporary British Trumpet Concertos

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Robert Saxton: Caritas/ Ancora

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