Simon Holt

Simon Holt ( born February 21, 1958 in Bolton) is an English composer.

Holt studied composition with Anthony Gilbert at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester. He became known by the idea of his works at the International Music Festival Bath 1985. He wrote numerous chamber works. For the London Sinfonietta in 1983 Kites and 1988 Ballad of the Black Sorrow was born. Also for the Nash Ensemble composed several pieces Holt. Twice he was commissioned to compose works for the Proms; 1987 Syrensong was listed, in 1993, the Viola Concerto Walking with the River's Roar with soloist Nobuko Imai.

The piece Lilith was played in 1993 with the Meltdown Festival in London by the Ensemble Modern conducted by Markus Stenz and in France by L' Ensemble intercontemporain under the direction of Simon Rattle. Rohan de Saram played at the Cheltenham Festival 1995, the first performance of the cello concerto Daedalus Remembers, this is the third part of the Icarus Trilogy. Holt's first opera, The Nightingale 's to Blame (after Federico Garcia Lorca) was performed in 1998 at the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival.

The piece Sunrise ' yellow noise for soprano and orchestra, premiered in 2000 by the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Lisa Milne under Simon Rattle received the 2001 Prix de la Fondation Prince Pierre. In the same year were at the Cheltenham International Festival of Music as part of a composer portraits Sphinx for English horn and drums, Two movements for string quartet and Clandestiny to listen for soprano and organ. Sunrise and Two Movements are two parts of rules devised to five pieces of work cycle The Ribbon of Time.

His opera, first performed in 2003 Who Put Bella in the Wych Elm has been awarded the 2004 Grawemeyer Award for Best stage work.

Holt teaches composition at the Royal Holloway, University of London.

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• Composer of classical music ( 20th century)
• Born in 1958
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