Gervase de Peyer

Gervase de Peyer Alan ( born April 11, 1926 in London ) is a British clarinetist and conductor.

Life

Gervase de Peyer studied at Bedales School. He won there a scholarship for the Royal College of Music, where he studied clarinet with Frederick Thurston and piano with Arthur Alexander. Towards the end of the Second World War he served in the Royal Marines band service. After the war he returned to the Royal College of Music, and two years later began to study in Paris under Louis Cahuzac.

In 1950 he was one of the musicians who founded the Melos Ensemble, with whom he played until 1974. He directed the recording program of the ensemble with EMI from 1963 to 1973.

Josef Krips won it in 1956 as the first clarinetist of the London Symphony Orchestra. He played with the LSO to 1973. He conducted the English Chamber Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Melos Sinfonia and the London Symphony Orchestra Wind Ensemble. In 1959 he began to teach at the Royal Academy of Music.

Since the 1970s he has lived in the United States. He was a founding member in 1969 of The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center in New York and played 20 years with the ensemble.

Music

Gervase de Peyer clarinet concertos played the world premiere of the composer Arnold Cooke, Sebastian Forbes, Alun Hoddinott, Joseph Horovitz, Thea Musgrave, Elizabeth Maconchy, William Mathias and Edwin Roxburgh. In 1987 he gave the premiere of the Sonata for Clarinet Solo by Miklos Rozsa. He was a soloist of the concerts of Aaron Copland and Paul Hindemith conducted by the composer.