Harry Whalley

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Harry Whalley (born 1984) is a Belfast-born composer based in Scotland whose output includes classical music, jazz, and film music. [1]

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Life and career

Whalley studied composition with Malcolm Edmonstone and later with Nigel Osborne and Peter Nelson and was awarded a Ph.D. in 2014. His music has been performed by the Hebrides Ensemble, Artisan Trio, Red Note Ensemble, Vancouver Miniaturists Ensemble, Gildas Quartet, Edinburgh Quartet, Ensemble Eunoia and music for film at Palm Spring, Los Angeles, Berlin, and London.

In 2012, he was a winner of the West Cork Chamber Music Festival competition in composition [2] for his string quartet Compression, which was performed by the Gildas Quartet and run as a master class with Thomas Larcher before its premiere. Harry Whalley is course leader in Music Composition and technology at the University for the Creative Arts. [3]

Selected works

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References

  1. Harry Whalley at IMDb
  2. "West Cork Chamber Music Festival, Past Winners" (PDF). Westcorkmusic.ie.
  3. "University for the Creative Arts, Music Composition and Technology". Uca.ac.uk. Retrieved 20 August 2017.
  4. "Harry Whalley's Entangled Music – conducted by James Lowe". Soundandmusic.org. Retrieved 16 January 2016.
  5. Whalley, J. Harry; Mavros, Panagiotis; Furniss, Peter (2015). "Clasp Together: Composing for Mind and Machine". Empirical Musicology Review . 9 (3–4): 263. doi: 10.18061/emr.v9i3-4.4348 .
  6. "Gig review: Red Note Ensemble, Edinburgh Jam House". The Scotsman .
  7. "A Little Harmonic Labyrinth". List.co.uk.