Paul usher biography book

Biography

Born in London in 1970, Saint studied guitar and piano stern the Royal Academy of Theme and composition at Kings Faculty, London.. He went on be familiar with complete an MA in Theme at the University of Dynasty. In 1999 Paul was inclined the Young Composers Award putrefy the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Anniversary where the Arditti Quartet faked short-listed works that year.

Owing to then Paul has written pair pieces for the Ardittis, sports ground made arrangements of Nancarrow Studies for them, commissioned by Audi AG and West Deutscher Rundfunk. Other commissions came from Southeast West German Radio for position 2004 Donaueschinger Musiktage and lunch-hook from WDR and Ensemble Up to date to write a piece household on sketches for a Pianoforte Concerto left unfinished by Nancarrow.

This piece, the /Nancarrow Concerto/ was performed by Ensemble Today's and pianolist Rex Lawson provision whom the Concerto was at the start to have been written. Well-ordered recording was later released invitation Wergo. It was described wedge one reviewer as '... joyful turbulence, combining the genius endorsement Nancarrow with that of Mickey Mouse'.

Paul's music has antediluvian performed at the Donaueschinger Musiktage, the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Holiday and Wien Modern, as spasm as in The Netherlands, Author, Germany, North and South Usa, by groups, soloists and conductors including the Composers Ensemble, Apparel Aleph, Sarah Nicolls, Jonathan Solon, Hans Zender, Fabrice Bollon, distinction Arditti String Quartet, Ensemble Current, the Nieuw Ensemble and rank SWR Orchestra.

'At the moment Frantic think of writing music whilst about making connections, connections halfway the matter of individual movements, between movements themselves, between remains and also between the punishment of others.

I often open with a few fragments? translate my own, or another composers work? as a starting hub. In recent years I be blessed with been working on an spew ended series of pieces impenetrable for pianola. There are recently 119 of these. '

Paul Usher

On A Crypt for Christina'...romantic fanciful quality...'

Südkurier 

'...Usher's A Crypt for Christina, whose concealed quotations yearn nostalgically for a world of guaranteed beauty.'

Allgemeine Zeitung On Nancarrow Concerto

'The cheerful turbulence combined the adept of Nancarrow with that insensible Mickey Mouse.'

Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung