Iain Bell

Iain Bell ( * 1980 in London) is an English composer.

Life

The stimulus to employment with classical music and especially vocal music, won him through his music teacher at school. He sees himself primarily as a composer for singers. As examples he cites the composer of (classical ) e- music sphere - including John Dunstable and William Walton, Benjamin Britten, György Ligeti, Alban Berg. On the other hand, he kindled in his puberty for Brant Bjork, Kylie Minogue and the Spice Girls.

Iain Bell's compositions have been played in London's Wigmore Hall and Carnegie Hall in New York City. He previously worked together with a number of known pianists, including Helmut German, Roger Vignoles, Iain Burnside and Julius Drake.

Bell wrote for the soprano Diana Damrau not just a song cycle with piano, which focuses on the commitment letters from Queen Victoria about her love for Prince Albert, but also a cycle with orchestra, which recorded in an interpretation with the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra under Walter Kobéra for broadcasting been. Finally, he wrote for Damrau the title role of his opera A Harlot 's Progress ( libretto: Peter Ackroyd after the cycle A Harlot 's Progress by William Hogarth ), which at the Theater an der Wien On October 13, 2013 provided the musical direction of Mikko Franck and directed by Jens- Daniel Herzog premiered.

He also wrote a cycle for countertenor Lawrence Zazzo on texts by William Shakespeare.

Works

Opera:

  • A Harlot 's Progress (Vienna 2013)

Orchestra:

  • Romance for tenor and strings
  • A London Diurne

Chamber music:

  • The undying splendor
  • Day turned into Night
  • Cradle Suite
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