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Judith Weir

orn1954

Nationality: British

Publisher Chester Music

Photo Chris Christodoulou

Judith Weir was born into a Scottish family in 1954, but grew up near London. Shewas an oboe player, performing with the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain,and studied composition with John Tavener during her schooldays. She went on toCambridge University, where her composition teacher was Robin Holloway and in1975 attended summer school at Tanglewood, where she worked with GuntherSchuller. After this she spent several years working in schools and adult education in

rural southern England followed by a period based in Scotland, teaching at GlasgowUniversity and RSAMD.

During this time she began to write a series of operas (including King Haralds Saga,The Black Spider,A Night at the Chinese Opera, The Vanishing BridegroomandBlond Eckbert) which have subsequently received many performances in the UK,Germany, Austria, the Netherlands, Belgium and the USA. The most recent opera isMiss Fortune, premiered at Bregenz in 2011, and then staged at the Royal OperaHouse Covent Garden in 2012.

As residen t composer with the City of Birmi ngham Symph ony Orchestra in the 199 0s,she wrote several works for orchestra and chorus (including Forest, Storm and Weare Shadows) which were premiered by the orchestras then Music Director, SimonRattle. She has been commissioned by the Boston Symphony Orchestra ( MusicUntangled and Natural History) the Minnesota Orchestra (The Welcome Arrival ofRain) and the London Sinfonietta (Tiger under the Table) and has written concertworks for some notable singers, including Jane Manning, Dawn Upshaw, JessyeNorman and Alice Coote. Her latest vocal workis Good Morning, Midnight, premiered by Sarah Connolly and the AuroraOrchestra in May 2015.

She now lives in London, where she has had a long association with Spitalfields Music Festival and in recent years hastaught as a visiting professor at Princeton, Harvard and Cardiff universities. Honours for her work include the Critics Circle,South Bank Show, Elise L Stoeger and Ivor Novello awards, a CBE (1995) and the Queens Medal for Music (2007). In 2014she was appointed Master of The Queens Music in succession to Sir Peter Maxwell Davies. In January 2015 she became

Associate Compo ser to the BBC Sing ers.

Much of her music has been recorded, and is available on the NMC, Delphian and Signum labels. In 2014-15 there werereleases of The Vanishing Bridegroom (NMC) and Storm (BBC Singers/Signum).

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