Peter Fribbins

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Peter Fribbins
Born (1969-06-04) 4 June 1969 (age 53)
London, England
OccupationComposer
NationalityEnglish
Alma mater Royal Academy of Music

Peter Fribbins (born 4 June 1969 in London, England) is a British composer. He studied music at the Royal Academy of Music, Royal Holloway and Nottingham universities, and composition with Hans Werner Henze in London and Italy. [1]

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A number of his key works are literary-inspired, and much of his music is for strings, notable exceptions being the early wind quintet 'In Xanadu' from 1992 (after Coleridge), 'Porphyria's Lover' (1999) for flute and piano (after Browning), and the clarinet and piano '...That Which Echoes in Eternity' (after lines from Dante's Divine Comedy). Of his two string quartets, the first is subtitled 'I Have the Serpent Brought' after lines by John Donne from his poem 'Twicknam Garden', and the second (2006) commissioned by the Chilingirian Quartet (Levon Chilingirian), subtitled 'After Cromer' since much of the thematic material is derived from the English hymn of the same name. Other chamber works for strings include two piano trios – the first, more substantial one premiered in Vienna in 2004, and the latter, an evocative single-movement piece (2007) entitled 'Softly, in the Dusk...' after the poem 'Piano' by D. H. Lawrence – a Cello Sonata commissioned by Raphael Wallfisch and John York (2005) and the Quintet for Clarinet and Strings (2002). Larger scale works include the Piano Concerto (2010), which is subtitled 'The Moving Finger Writes'; a quotation from FitzGerald's translation of The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, [2] and the Violin Concerto (2015) commissioned by the French violinist Philippe Graffin. [3] There are also songs and various smaller instrumental works.

Peter Fribbins is also Director of Music at Middlesex University, [4] London (since 2004) and Artistic Director of the long-established series of Sunday London Chamber Music Society Concerts, [5] formerly at Conway Hall and resident at Kings Place since 2008.

His concert work is often linked with a group of British composers called 'Music Haven', not a school as such, but a collection of composers (c.f. the French 'Les Six' or the British 'Manchester School', from the early and late twentieth-century respectively), mostly London-based and with broadly similar interests and aesthetic outlook, reflecting sympathies for British masters such as Britten and Tippett and the music of the First Viennese School, especially Haydn and Beethoven, as well as the Scandinavian influences of Sibelius and Nielsen. The group includes James Francis Brown, Northern Irish-born Alan Mills, Matthew Taylor, John Hawkins, Geoff Palmer, and more peripherally two older British composers, David Matthews and by association, John McCabe CBE. The set of piano pieces 'Seven Haydn Fantasies for John McCabe' – each composed by a different composer and published in 2009 on the occasion of the latter's 70th birthday – is in many ways typical of the group's work.

Recordings

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Notable works

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Orchestral

Chamber

Wind / vocal

Piano / keyboard

Further reading

Dromey, Christopher. "Prospects for Neomodernism in the Music of Matthew Taylor and Peter Fribbins". International Journal of Contemporary Composition (IJCC) Volume 7 (2013): pp 01–19. Print and Online

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References

  1. ↑ "Peter Fribbins - Composer" . Retrieved 11 August 2020.
  2. ↑ "Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, by Omar Khayyam". Gutenberg.org. Retrieved 11 August 2020.
  3. ↑ "CBA - Philippe Graffin Biography". Archived from the original on 12 March 2016. Retrieved 28 July 2015.
  4. ↑ "Prof Peter Fribbins" . Retrieved 11 August 2020.
  5. ↑ "The London Chamber Music Society" . Retrieved 11 August 2020.
  6. ↑ Dromey, Christopher. "Prospects for Neomodernism in the Music of Matthew Taylor and Peter Fribbins". International Journal of Contemporary Composition (IJCC) Volume 7 (2013): p. 18, Print and Online
  7. ↑ "Dances and Laments by Peter Fribbins Details Guildmusic - Onlineshop f?r CDs und DVDs aus Klassik, Weltmusik, Jazz, Blues, Gospel". Guildmusic.com. Retrieved 11 August 2020.
  8. ↑ "The Moving Finger Writes by Peter Fribbins Details Guildmusic - Onlineshop f?r CDs und DVDs aus Klassik, Weltmusik, Jazz, Blues, Gospel". Guildmusic.com. Retrieved 11 August 2020.
  9. ↑ Dromey, Christopher. "Prospects for Neomodernism in the Music of Matthew Taylor and Peter Fribbins". International Journal of Contemporary Composition (IJCC) Volume 7 (2013): pp. 17–18
  10. ↑ Wayback Machine Link
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