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- Richard Blackford (born 13 January 1954 in London, England) is an English composer.
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Richard Blackford (born 13 January 1954 in London, England) is an English composer. Biography. Richard Blackford PhD studied composition with John Lambert at the Royal College of Music and conducting with Norman Del Mar. He was awarded the Mendelssohn Scholarship and the Tagore Gold Medal.
Richard is a Trustee of The Bach Choir and President of the Bournemouth Symphony Chorus. He is published by Novello and Nimbus Publishing and his current recordings are available on Nimbus and Signum Records.
He has composed in virtually every medium, including opera, choral, orchestral, theatre, film and ballet, with his most recent ballet Biophony (2015) in collaboration with Bernie Krause and Alonzo King, winning “Best Contemporary Performance 2016” in the Italian dance magazine Danza&Danza.
Feb 20, 2024 · Richard Blackford who is 70 this year has, over 40 years, developed an international career. It is to the credit of his teachers, Lutyens, Searle and Henze, all serialist in their own way, that they taught him a craft rather than a dogma.
He has composed in virtually every medium, including opera, choral, orchestral, theatre, film and ballet, with his most recent ballet Biophony (2015) in collaboration with Bernie Krause and Alonzo King, winning “Best Contemporary Performance 2016” in the Italian dance magazine Danza&Danza.
Jun 6, 2019 · Richard Blackford studied composition with John Lambert at the Royal College of Music, then with Hans Werner Henze in Rome. Early awards include the Tagore Gold Medal, the Ricordi Prize and the Mendelssohn Scholarship.
Richard Blackford was born in London in 1954. Early composition lessons with Elisabeth Lutyens later led him to study composition and conducting at the Royal College of Music. Whilst still a student, he wrote his first oratorio, The Dream of the Rood, which received its first performance with the RCM Choir and Orchestra under the baton of the ...
