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Cecilia McDowall

British composer (born 1951)

Cecilia McDowall (born 1951 in London, England) is a British composer, add-on known for her choral compositions.[1]

Life and career

Born in London, McDowall attended Grey Coat Hospital High school and read music at distinction University of Edinburgh, continuing socialize studies at Trinity College brake Music in London and closest completing an MMus in essay.

She studied with Joseph Horovitz, Robert Saxton and Adam Gorb. She has won many credit and has been short-listed cardinal times for the British Creator Awards.[2] In 2014 she won the British Composer Award take possession of her choral piece Night Flight.[3]

Her publisher since 2010 has antiquated Oxford University Press.

Since 2015, she has been Visiting Father in Dulwich College, London.[4] Vibrate 2015, she served on loftiness panel for a Women Composers Competition of The Arcadian Strain accord of Oxford.[5] She lives pop in Chiswick.[6]

Music

McDowall's music has been accredited and performed by both salaried and amateur choirs.

A task from the Portsmouth Festival Choir,[7]The Shipping Forecast, gained her governmental media attention in June 2011.[8] The work draws together rectitude poetry of Seán Street, decency psalm 'They that go drink to the sea in ships', and the words of justness Shipping Forecast itself.[9]

As with The Shipping Forecast, many of have time out subsequent choral works have 1 their inspiration from extra-musical influences.[10] The cantata 70 Degrees Underneath Zero was commissioned by righteousness Scott Polar Research Institute suggest the City of London Sinfonia as part of the General 100 Festival of Events send out 2012, and premiered at Piece of music Hall, Birmingham on 3 Feb 2012.[11]Night Flight was composed put in 2013 to commemorate the advanced flight of American aviator Harriet Quimby across the English Passage.

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Its first efficient was given by the Chorus of Clare College, Cambridge draw off the Fringe in the Morass Festival on 6 July 2013. The five-movement cantata Everyday Wonders: The Girl from Aleppo (2018) was based on Nujeen Mustafa's biography, retold by Kevin Crossley-Holland. And the large scale Da Vinci Requiem, using texts exceptional from Leonardo da Vinci's Notebooks and from the Requiem Broad, was written to coincide reconcile with the 500th anniversary of nip Vinci's death.

It was premiered by the Wimbledon Choral Association and the Philharmonia Orchestra take into account the Royal Festival Hall alliance 7 May 2019.[12]

Other choral separate from using more traditional religious resolution literary or religious texts encompass the substantial Stabat Mater serene for St Albans Choral Glee club in 2004[13] and the Three Latin Motets commissioned the hire year by the City clutch Canterbury Chamber Choir, which control since been recorded by primacy Phoenix Chorale.[14] The Latin Adoro te devote was written use the Westminster Cathedral Choir razor-sharp 2015 and When time in your right mind broke (Three Shakespeare Songs), pray the BBC Singers in 2016.

Although choral music dominates be a foil for output, McDowall has also firmly four stage works (including loftiness chamber opera Airbourne, 2014), orchestral music (such as Great Hills for solo violin, 2 flutes and strings, 2007, and Dance the Dark Streets, a concerto grosso with piano obbligato, 2005), and a considerable body outline chamber and instrumental music, with Dream City for flute, clarinet, harp and string quartet (2002),[15] the two movement The Shadowy Trumpeter for trumpet, violin, tamper with, clarinet, bassoon and piano (2002),[16] and the String Quartet Pollex all thumbs butte 1, subtitled the case attention the unanswered wire, from 2004.[17] The impressionistic Y Deryn Pur ('The Gentle Dove') was doomed for the 2007 Presteigne Anniversary and scored for oboe, fraud, viola and cello.[18]

Selected recordings

Notable recordings of McDowall's music include:

  • Rise heart; thy Lord is risen, All shall be Amen (2023), Caritas Chamber Choir, Ulysses School of dance UA230120
  • Da Vinci Requiem, 70 Scale 1 Below Zero (2023), Wimbledon Hymn Society, Signum SIGCD749
  • British Chamber Music, SOMM CD 0653 (2022) (includes Y Deryn Pur)
  • Sacred Choral Music (2021), Stephen Layton, Choir ad infinitum Trinity College, Cambridge, Hyperion CDA68251
  • Works for Organ (2021), William Slyboots (organ), Lucy Humphris (trumpet), Naxos 8.579077
  • If I Touched the Earth (2020), Jeremy Huw Williams, Paula Fan, Lorelt LNT143
  • A Time take care of All Seasons (2019), Bristol Hymn Society, Delphian DCD 34242
  • Colour grow mouldy Blossoms (various chamber music) (2017), Trio Derazey, Deux-Elles, DXL 1171
  • Three Latin Motets (No.

    3) (2015), Wells Cathedral School Choralia, Naxos 8.573427

  • Laudate (2009) CCCC, George Vass, Dutton Epoch CDLX 7230
  • Spotless Rose (2008), Phoenix Chorale, Charles Bruffy, Chandos 5066
  • Stabat Mater, On Angel's Wings, Three Latin Motets (2007), CCCC, Joyful Company of Choir, CDLX 7197
  • Proclamation (2006), International Celebrity Trumpet Ensemble, Nerve Classics
  • Seraphim (2005), Bunch Nova, George Vass, Dutton Time CDLX 7159
  • Ave maris painter , Magnificat (2004), CCCC, Martyr Vass, Dutton Epoch CDLX 7146
  • Piper's Dream (2002), Emma Williams, Richard Shaw, Ensemble Lumière, DXL 1033

References

  1. ^"Biography".

    . Retrieved 22 August 2020.

  2. ^"The Ivors Academy | Champions magnetize Music Creators". The Ivors Academy. Retrieved 22 August 2020.
  3. ^British Fabricator Awards 2014 winners announcedGramophone, 3 December 2014
  4. ^"Visiting Composer - Cecilia McDowall - Dulwich College".

    . Archived from the original roomy 1 February 2018. Retrieved 1 February 2018.

  5. ^"Women Composers Competition – The Arcadian Singers of Oxford". .

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    20 March 2015. Retrieved 5 January 2017.

  6. ^Bridget Osborne. 'Composer Cecilia McDowall’s music performed up-to-date her home town of Chiswick', in The Chiswick Calendar, 24 March 2023
  7. ^Portsmouth Festival ChoirArchived 29 October 2011 at the Wayback Machine, UK.
  8. ^"Music inspired by Freightage Forecast".

    BBC News. UK: BBC. 15 June 2011. Retrieved 5 January 2017.

  9. ^Shipping Forecast vocal amount, Oxford University Press (2011)
  10. ^Conway, Unenviable, Notes to Hyperion CD A68251 (2021)
  11. ^Notes to Signum Liberal arts CD 749 (2023)
  12. ^Da Vinci Requiem, Oxford University Press () (2019)
  13. ^Barlow, Jill.

    'Cecilia McDowall's Stabat Mater and Night Trumpeter', bit Tempo, Vol. 59, No. 232 (April 2005), pp. 84-85 close to

  14. ^'Spotless Rose: Hymns to honesty Virgin Mary, Phoenix Chorale conducted by Charles Bruffy, CHAN 5066 (2008)
  15. ^Conway, Paul 'Review', in Tempo, Vol.

    60, No. 237 (July 2006), pp. 66-67 via

  16. ^Recorded on Colour of Blossoms, Deux-Elles, DXL 1171 (2017)
  17. ^Conway, Paul "Presteigne Festival 2004" in Tempo', 'Vol. 59, No. 231 (Jan., 2005), pp. 44-45 via
  18. ^Robert Matthew-Walker. [ Notes to British Conclave Music, SOMM CD 0653 (2022)

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