Anthony Payne, Esq's Biography
- Forename(s)
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Anthony Edward
- Sex
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Male
- Date of Birth
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2/8/1936
- Surname
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PAYNE
- Style
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Anthony Payne, Esq
- Recreations
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films, British countryside
Anthony Payne, Esq's Professional Career
- Career
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composer; visiting Milhaud prof of music Mills Coll Oakland California 1983, teacher in composition NSW Conservatorium Sydney Aust 1986 and Univ of West Australia 1996, visiting professorial fell in composition Univ of E Anglia 2012; memb: Soc for the Promotion of New Music (chm 1969-71), Macnaghten Concerts Soc (chm 1965-67), Boise Mendelssohn Fndn, Br Acad of Composers and Songwriters, Musicians Benevolent Fund, RVW Tst; Hon DMus: Univ of Birmingham 2001, Kingston Univ 2003, Univ of Durham 2007; FRCM 2005; Works incl: Phoenix Mass 1968-72, Paean (for solo piano) 1971, Concerto for Orchestra 1974, The World's Winter (for soprano and 8 players) 1976, String Quartet 1978, The Stones and Lonely Places Sing (for 7 players) 1979, The Song of the Clouds (for oboe and orchestra) 1980, A Day in the Life of a Mayfly (for 6 players) 1981, Evening Land (for soprano and piano) 1981, Spring's Shining Wake (for chamber orchestra) 1981, Songs and Seascapes (for strings) 1984, The Spirit's Harvest (for orchestra) 1985, The Song Streams in the Firmament (for 6 players) 1986, Half Heard in the Stillness (for orchestra) 1987, Consort Music for String Quintet 1987, Sea Change (for 7 players) 1988, Time's Arrow (for orchestra) 1990, Symphonies of Wind and Rain (for chamber orchestra) 1991, A Hidden Music (for chamber orchestra) 1992, The Seeds Long Hidden..... Orchestral Variations 1994, Empty Landscape - Heart's Ease (for 6 players) 1995, completion of Elgar's Third Symphony 1994-97, Piano Trio 1998, Scenes from The Woodlanders (for soprano and 4 players) 1999, Of Knots and Skeins (for violin and piano) 2000, Twixt Heaven and Charing Cross (for unaccompanied choir) 2001, Visions and Journeys (for orchestra) 2002, Poems of Edward Thomas (for soprano and 4 players) 2003, Storm Chorale (for solo violin) 2003, Horn Trio 2005, completion of Elgar's Sixth Pomp and Circumstance 2005, Windows on Eternity (for chamber orchestra) 2006, Piano Quintet 2007, Out of the Depths Comes Song (for cello and piano) 2008, From a Mouthful of Air (for 5 players) 2009, The Period of Cosmography (for orchestra) 2009, String Quartet No 2 2010, The Unknown Country (for 8 players) 2012
Anthony Payne, Esq's Publications
- Books and Publications
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Schoenberg (1968), Frank Bridge Radical and Conservative (1984), Elgar's Third Symphony, The Story of the Reconstruction (1998)
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