Jim Parker (composer)
Jim Parker ( born 1934 in Hartlepool ) is a British composer of the 20th and 21st centuries.
Life
Parker joined the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London with the honors due to a silver medal.
From the 1960s to the 1970s, he was an important partner for the British chamber music and also in the folk music as a composer. So he wrote for The Barrow Poets instrumental pieces as well as music that accompanied the argument advanced by the band poetry. He invented a double bass, fiddle Cacaco that of William Bealby -Wright (former voice of Doggerel Bank and a poet from the Isle of Man) was played, while Parker mostly played clarinet, English horn.
After this initial period, Parker focused more on composing and conducting. He created the music for the British Poet Laureate Sir John Betjeman. The recordings made at that time are now (2011) as a classic. Other recordings for example, Captain Beaky that were successful in the charts, meant that Parker has received orders from television and theaters. So he composed, for example, for three musicals in West End Theatres.
At various television programs and settings of silent movies like Harold Lloyd Girls Shy of 1921 and the production and directing Lois Weber The blot of the same year Parker composed the music.
Parker created hundreds of compositions for films in television programs such as for Moll Flanders, Tom Jones, A Rather English Marriage, Midsummer Murders / Inspector Barnaby, The House of Eliott and for the trilogy House of Cards / A house of cards. Further work was carried out for children's programs on television.
For concert halls created Parker composed for the Nash Ensemble, the Philip Jones Brass Ensemble, the Hilliard Ensemble, the Albion Ensemble, the Wallace Collection and Poems in the Underground. Internationally known are his grades for A Londoner in New York, a five-part suite for brass ensemble. Furthermore, Mississippi Five for a quintet with flute, oboe, clarinet, horn and bassoon, a brass quintet The Golden Section and a clarinet concerto.
Awards
Parker has received four times (1993, 1996, 1997 and 1998), the award for Best Original Television Music of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts and was nominated in 1990 for it.