Tim Souster

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Tim Souster was born in Bletchley, Buckinghamshire on 29 January 1943 and was educated at Bedford Modern School (1952-61). He read music at New College, Oxford (1961-4), studying with Bernard Rose, David Lumsden and Egon Wellesz. In 1964 he attended the summer music courses in Darmstadt given by Karlheinz Stockhausen and in 1965 took composition lessons in London with Richard Rodney Bennett. Two Choruses, settings for seven-part choir of Shakespeare and Gerard Manley Hopkins were begun in 1964 and completed in 1966. In 1965 Souster joined the BBC Third Programme (under William Glock) as producer of chamber music programmes, specialising in contemporary music. In this capacity he worked with composers such as Boulez, Berio, Barraqu, Cardew, Feldman, Henze and Stockhausen. He left the BBC in 1967 to devote his time to composing and to writing on contemporary concert music and rock, in particular for The Listener and the London Review of Books. During this period in London he wrote several choral, vocal and instrumental pieces, including Songs of Three Seasons for soprano and viola (1965), Poem in Depression at Wei Village for soprano and instruments (1965, rev. 1985), Study for Organ, the piano duet Metropolitan Games (commissioned by Susan Bradshaw and Richard Rodney Bennett), Parallels for two percussionists and Piano Piece No. 1 written for Roger Smalley. He also wrote Kyrie March and several other pieces for childrens choir, performed at Channing School in Highgate, where

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Swit Drimz

Nice and Nasty

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Stockhausen: Michael's Farewell

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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: TV Theme Music

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Souster: Equalisation & Sonata

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Ghost Stories

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DWS/LP 3478 - Nice and Nasty

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This Is... Science Fiction

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SW1T DR1MZ

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The Hitch-Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy T. V. Theme Music

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Sampled Library - Volume One

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Scream And Scream Again Vol. 2 (De Wolfe 3603)

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