University of York Music Press

We are delighted to be adding four new composers to our catalogue. Their work will make a substantial addition to our concert repertoire. It is diverse in style ranging from music inspired by folk song to sound installations:

Ambrose Field is a composer and sound designer who lectures in composition at the University of York; his music uses sound alone to generate drama, tension and impact. The BBC's Hear and Now programme described his music as "pushing against its boundaries and aspiring to the visual". Working in Dolby7® Digital Surround EX™; 5/1 and 7/1 cinema formats, and benefiting from recent research into Ambisonics™, his work has been commissioned and supported by various commercial and art-funding bodies, including UNESCO, the GMEB France, The National Centre for Popular Music, U.K., The British Academy, Sonic Arts Network, CDP and the iCMA.

Jeremy Dale Roberts, who recently retired as Head of Composition at the Royal College of Music, London, was a visiting Professor of Composition at the University of Iowa for the 1999-2000 academic year. His compositions have been performed at the Edinburgh and Aldeburgh Festivals, the Venice Biennale, the Diorama de Geneve, and the festivals of Avignon and Paris. They include Croquis for string trio, written for members of the Arditti Quartet (BBC commission) and In the Same Space, nine poems of Constantin Cavafy, written for Stephen Varcoe.

Laurence Roman completed his PhD in Composition at the University of York, is a Lecturer in Music at Thames Valley University and lives in Reading. His recent compositions reflect a wide range of interests: Three Orphans for three female voices was commissioned by Juice vocal ensemble and was performed in April 2003 and January 2004. Three Hungarian Peasant Songs was commissioned and performed by Etone vocal ensemble, September 2002. Other works have been performed in recent years by the York New Music Group, the Cambridge University New Music Society and the Crescendo Chamber Ensemble in Taiwan.

John Stringer, born in Newcastle, first studied oboe, conducting and composition at Huddersfield Polytechnic before studying at the University of York with Roger Marsh. His work has been performed by the Philharmonia and BBC Symphony Orchestras, Basel Soloists, Corrente Ensemble, Black Hair, New Music Players, de ereprijs, Apollo Saxophone Quartet and the 4 Mality Percussion Quartet. He has worked with Jonathan Harvey, James Wood, Hanna Kulenty, Richard Ayres, Hans Abrahamsen, Stephen Montague, Robert Saxton and Karlheinz Stockhausen and is currently composing a work for cello and piano for Paolo Baroni.