Vivienne Olive

Vivienne Olive ( born May 31, 1950 in London ) is a British- German composer. ( She has the British and German citizenship )

Life

Vivienne Olive studied piano, harpsichord, organ, and music theory at Trinity College of Music in London. From 1968, she continued her education at the University of York, where she specialized in 1975 received his doctorate composition. Her teachers include the composer Bernard Rands ( York 1971/72 ), Franco Donatoni ( Milan 1972-74 ), Roman hood -Ramati (Vienna 1974/75 ) and Klaus Huber ( Freiburg University of Music 1975-78, where she also studied harpsichord with Stanislav Heller).

1979 (now College of Music Nuremberg ) called Vivienne Olive as a lecturer in music theory and composition to the Nuremberg Meistersinger Conservatory. In 1980 she co-founded the daily New Music in Nuremberg. Since 1995 she is a board member of the International Working Group on Women and Music. 1993-95 she taught at the University of Ballarat and the James Cook University in Australia; In 2005 she was composer in residence at Bundanon Artist's House (New South Wales).

Honors

Compositions

Vocal works

  • Ripples of Unseen Rivers (2002) for countertenor and drums. Text: Walt Whitman
  • Love Came To Quietly (2002) for women's choir ( SSA), ad libitum with accompaniment (keyboard instrument ). Text: John Shaw Neilson
  • Of broken wings and artificial flowers ( 2004). Four songs for mezzo- soprano or baritone and piano. Texts: Anna Kerdijk Nicholson

Chamber Music

  • Is ... the flower of the heart of man ... (1985) for bass flute (title from a poem by Ono no Komachi [ ~ 825 - ~ 900 ], English by Arthur Waley )
  • And the willows drowse and ... sleep ... (2002) for harp ( after a poem by Carl Sandburg )
  • Version for flute, viola and harp ( 2003)
  • The Light of the Mind (2002) for erhu (or violin)
  • Bush Gin Rag (2004 ) for piano
  • Ceilidh (2005) for accordion

Ensemble and orchestral works

  • Music for Tuba and Orchestra (2002)
  • The river runs across the page (2004) for chamber ensemble ( flute, clarinet, glockenspiel, xylophone and strings)

Student

  • Uwe Strübing ( b. 1956 )
  • Ralf R. Ollertz ( b. 1964 )
  • Jochen Stüben Rath ( b. 1974 )
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