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Sound and Music exhibition features York composers

17 March 2016

A music collection curated by composer, conductor, teacher and academic Alexander Kolassa, on behalf of Sound and Music, features two York composers. 

Northern Innovation and the British Music Collection showcases work by UYMP composer Trevor Wishart and Sheffield-born Bernard Rands, who was a Professor of Music at the University of York Music Department from 1969 - 1975. 

The exhibition is an "exploration of contemporary and experimental music in the English industrial North."

Kolassa says he is "interested in reappraising what significance our country’s industrial north might have had for the direction modern British music has taken over the past 60 years."

The collection is available to view online at the British Music Collection website. 

Trevor Wishart was born in 1946. He has held composer residencies in Australia, Canada, Holland, Berlin and the USA and at the Universities of York, Cambridge and Birmingham. His works have been commissioned internationally and have won prizes at the Gaudeamus Festival, Linz Ars Electronics and the Bourges Festival.

He is currently Honorary Visiting Professor at the University of York, and an AHRB Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham.

Bernard Rands was born in 1934. He studied music and English literature at the University of Wales, Bangor, and composition with Pierre Boulez and Bruno Maderna in Darmstadt, Germany. He also studied with Luigi Dallapiccola and Luciano Berio in Milan, Italy.

In 1984, Rands won the Pulitizer Prize for Music for his work Canti del Sole.

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