Anna Clyne
Anna Clyne (born 9 March 1980, in London) is an English composer, now resident in the US. She has worked in both acoustic music and electro-acoustic music.
Biography
Clyne began writing music as a child, completing her first composition at age 11. She formally studied music at the University of Edinburgh, from which she graduated with a first-class Bachelor of Music degree with honours. She later studied at the Manhattan School of Music and earned a MA degree in music. Her teachers have included Marina Adamia, Marjan Mozetich and Julia Wolfe.
Clyne was director of the New York Youth Symphony's "Making Score" programme for young composers from 2008 to 2010. In October 2009, Clyne and Mason Bates were named co-composers in residence with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (CSO), as of the 2010–2011 season.[1] She took up the residency in 2010, for a scheduled term of 2 years. In January 2012, her CSO contract as co-composer in residence was extended through the 2013–2014 season.[2] After completing her tenure with the CSO, Clyne was announced as the composer-in-residence for Orchestre national d'Île-de-France from 2014 to 2016, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra's 2015–2016 season, and The Berkeley Symphony Orchestra from 2017–2019. Clyne was appointed Associate Composer with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra from 2019–2022.[3]
In 2013, the concert overture Masquerade was commissioned by BBC Radio 3 to open the Last Night of the Proms, where the BBC Symphony Orchestra was conducted by Marin Alsop.[4][5] Clyne was nominated for the 2015 Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Classical Composition for her double violin concerto, Prince of Clouds. Works for soloist and orchestra form an important part of her output, as is also evident from The Seamstress (2015), a single-movement violin concerto that incorporates a whispered recitation of the poem A Coat by Yeats,[5] and the five movement cello concerto Dance (2019), commissioned by Inbal Segev and recorded by her in 2020.[6]
In 2018, the music critic Corinna da Fonseca Wollheim selected Clyne's composition, Lavender Rain, for a New York Times feature on "5 Minutes that Will Make You Love Classical Music."[7] A CD of her orchestral music, Mythologies, was released in October 2020.[5]
Compositions
Orchestra
Chamber orchestra
Chamber music
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Soloist and orchestra
Solo and Deut
Brass ensemble
Ensemble with voice
Choral works
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Discography
- Mythologies (AVIE 2020)
- Mythologies on Vinyl (AVIE 2020)
- DANCE (AVIE 2020)
- Touch Harmonious (In A Circle 2020)
- E PLURIBUS UNUM (Navona 2020)
- The World is (Y)ours (Arcantus 2019)
- The Violin (National Sawdust Tracks 2017)
- BOAC Field Recordings (Cantaloupe 2015)
- Two x Four (Cedille 2014)
- Blue Moth (Tzadik 2012)
- Arcana VI by John Zorn (Tzadik 2012)
- ACO Playing it Unsafe (ACO 2011)
- The Exploding Piano (CD Baby 2010)
- I Am Not (New Amsterdam 2010)
References
- ^ Steve Smith (16 December 2009). "The New Faces Among the Older Guard". The New York Times. Retrieved 6 February 2011.
- ^ "CSO Music Director Extends Terms of Mead Composers-in-Residence Mason Bates and Anna Clyne for Two Years" (PDF) (Press release). Chicago Symphony Orchestra. 31 January 2012. Retrieved 3 February 2012.
- ^ "Composer Anna Clyne to Hold Residency with Baltimore Symphony Orchestra This Season". Broadway World. 19 September 2015. Retrieved 9 August 2016.
- ^ "Prom 75: Last Night of the Proms". BBC Music Events. Retrieved 13 December 2021.
- ^ a b c AVIE AV2434
- ^ "Anna Clyne: DANCE - Edward Elgar: Cello Concerto". Presto Music. Retrieved 13 December 2021.
- ^ "5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Classical Music (Published 2018)". The New York Times. 6 September 2018. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 16 December 2020.