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John Joubert

orn1927

Nationality: British

Publisher Novello & Co

Photo Graham Boulton

John Joubert was born in Cape Town in 1927. His father was a descendant ofProtestant refugees from France who had settled in the Cape then a Dutch colony in the seventeenth century. His mothers forebears were Dutch. Despite thisparentage he had the most English of upbringings, the Cape having been ceded toEngland after the fall of Napoleon. He received his earliest instruction in music at thehands of his mother who was an accomplished pianist, having studied for a time in

London with Harriet Cohen.

His schooling took place at an Anglican foundation run on the lines of an Englishpublic school. The music master there had been an assistant to Ivor Atkins atWorcester Cathedral. Whilst at school Joubert started composing and was veryfortunate to have been able to study composition with WH Bell, a distinguishedEnglish composer who had been the Principal of the South African College of Musicand a pupil of Frederick Corder, the teacher of Bax, Bantock and Holbrooke. He wasalso fortunate to be given the opportunity to have his earliest works performed, notonly at school but also by the Cape Town Municipal Orchestra.

In 1946 he was awarded a scholarship by the Performing Right Society to the RoyalAcademy of Music. Here his pri ncipal teachers in composition were Theo doreHolland and Howard Ferguson, but he also spent a stimulating term with Alan Bush.Whilst still at the Academy he composed his String Quartet No 1and theDivertimentofor Piano Duet, which became his Op 1 and Op 2 respectively. He was awarded boththe Frederick Corder and Royal Philharmonic Society prizes for composition.

Having graduated in 1950 with an external BMus degree from Durham University he was appointed later the same year to a

lectureship at Hull University, and his music soon began to be widely performed, published and broadcast. Among the moreambitious works of this period were Symphony No 1, the Piano Concertoand the three-act opera Silas Marner. Some of hissmaller choral works, notably the carol Torches, became popular and have remained in the repertoire ever since.

He continued his academic career at Birmingham where he was appointed Lecturer, later Senior Lecturer, and eventuallyReader in Music, at the University. Commissions continued to come his way, and amongst the works he composed atBirmingham were Symphony No 2, the opera Under Western Eyesand the oratorio The Raising of Lazarus.In the early 1980she began to feel that the increasing demands of his two professions were becoming too onerous for him and he took earlyretirement from the University in 1986 in order to devote his time exclusively to composition. In 1991 he was awarded anhonorary doctorate in music by Durham University. In addition to numerous smaller works, recent years have seen the firstperformances of his opera Jane Eyre, the full-length oratorio Wings of FaithandAn English Requiemfor soloists, chorus andorchestra. The latter was the centrepiece of Jouberts time as Composer in Residence at the 2010 Three Choirs Festival.Joubert's new Cello Concertocommissioned by Raphael Wallfisch was premiered in March 2012.

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