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About Rory Boyle |
Short
Bio
Born in Ayr in 1951, he was a chorister at St George's
Chapel, Windsor, and studied composition with Frank Spedding
at the RSAMD, as well as piano, organ, clarinet and conducting.
A Caird Travelling scholarship enabled him to continue
his studies with Lennox Berkeley in London.
'While his Scottish roots are never far away, Boyle's
music has a strong, mainstream European, Stravinsky-based
rigour, with his own brand of virile, challenging but
always comprehensible counterpoint, dissonance which
is hard-fought yet never gratuitous, an unsentimental
lyricism and unerring sense of architecture' (Nicholas
Cleobury).
He
has won several important awards, most notably the BBC
Scottish Composers Prize for Variations on a theme of
Orlando Gibbons, and the Zaiks Prize for Winter
Music which was premiered in Krakow, Poland.
His list of works covers most genres from large orchestral
scores to incidental music for television. He has been
commissioned by many festivals, music societies and leading
performers, and he has also written extensively for younger
players with four children's operas included in the list.
His music is performed and broadcast widely both in Britain
and abroad, and several works have been recorded on CD.
He lives in South Ayrshire and divides his time between
composing and teaching at the RSAMD
in Glasgow.
| Discography |
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Flower
of All. Chamber Choir
of Malvern College. Centenary Celebration: Music
from Malvern College Chapel. Peartree Productions
PP9903CD. |
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Lament.
Adam Summerhayes (violin) and Catherine Summerhayes
(piano). Inscapes: New Music for PIano and Violin.
Sargasso SCD 28036. |
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Moduli.
Peter Seivewright (piano). Contemporary Scottish
Piano Music. Merlin MRFD 891706. |
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Campani
in Aria. Schubert
Ensemble. A White Room. NMC D075. |
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Capriccio.
National Youth Orchestra of Scotland / Jun'ichi
Hirokami. NYOS 006. |
Biography
and Discograhy Courtesy of
Scottish Music Information Centre © 2001 |
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