Sir Harrison Birtwistle CH (15 July 1934 – 18 April 2022) was an English composer of contemporary classical music best known for his operas, often based...

October 2013 starring Ian McDiarmid as Calum MacLeod. The composer Sir Harrison Birtwistle lived on Raasay from 1975 to 1983. His Duets for Storab, takes...

first Duke of Wellington. Famous academy alumni include Sir Simon Rattle, Sir Harrison Birtwistle, Sir Elton John and Annie Lennox. The academy provides undergraduate...

Ireland". HeraldScotland. 21 April 2019. Retrieved 24 October 2020. "Sir Harrison Birtwistle obituary". The Guardian. 18 April 2022. Retrieved 18 April 2022...

begleitet. "Sir Harrison Birtwistle – Bow Down – Universal Edition". universaledition.com. Retrieved 24 November 2015. "Sir Harrison Birtwistle – Yan Tan...

excellent flair for the dramatic and superb musicality. More recently Sir Harrison Birtwistle has emerged as one of Britain's most significant contemporary composers...

Piergiorgio Bellocchio, 90, Italian literary critic and writer. Sir Harrison Birtwistle, 87, English composer (The Triumph of Time, The Mask of Orpheus...

John Cage, Steve Reich, Jonathan Harvey, Helmut Lachenmann and Sir Harrison Birtwistle. Its programme also includes improvisation, installation, sound...

The Corridor is a chamber opera composed by Harrison Birtwistle to an English language libretto by David Harsent. It premiered at the Aldeburgh Festival...

composers include Hugh Wood (1932– Parbold), Sir Peter Maxwell Davies (1934–2016, Salford), Sir Harrison Birtwistle (1934–2022, Accrington), Gordon Crosse (1937–...

(Everton, Birmingham City, Oldham Athletic) (b. 1933). 18 April Sir Harrison Birtwistle, composer (The Triumph of Time, The Mask of Orpheus, Gawain, The...

a list of compositions by Harrison Birtwistle (1934–2022), a British composer of contemporary classical music. Birtwistle's music was published by Universal...

WNO for Moses und Aron. Atherton has a close relationship with Sir Harrison Birtwistle who has written two chamber operas for her and the British tenor...

Death in Venice. He has had roles written specially for him by Sir Harrison Birtwistle (Orpheus / The Second Mrs Kong) and Judith Weir (A Military Governor...

Harrison Birtwistle: Man, Mind, Music. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. ISBN 978-0-8014-8672-2. Cross, Jonathan. 2001. "Birtwistle, Sir Harrison"....

Vanraj Bhatia (film music composer) E. Power Biggs (organist) Sir Harrison Birtwistle (composer) Amy Black (mezzo-soprano) Henry Blagrove (violinist)...

Dorset in 1963. He is the son of the composer Sir Harrison Birtwistle and the brother of artist Adam Birtwistle. He attended Portree High School, Isle of...

designed similar action scenes for the Bond films. The film was Sir Harrison Birtwistle's only film score. United Artists released The Offence early in...

Andriessen, Mauricio Kagel, Sir John Tavener and Henk Badings composed for the choir. More recently also Sir Harrison Birtwistle, Fred Momotenko and James...

Vaughan Williams Trust Scholar, under the supervision of Sir Harrison Birtwistle. Though also a Sir Richard Stapley Educational Trust Scholar, he eventually...

include Sir Simon Rattle, Sir Harrison Birtwistle, Sir Elton John and Annie Lennox. The emergence of figures such as Sir Edward Elgar and Sir Arthur Sullivan...

neighbouring Gillingham, Dorset, on the Exeter to Waterloo line. Sir Harrison Birtwistle (1934–2022), composer Edward Henslow (1879–1947), British Army...

– Concerto for Piano and Orchestra Kalevi Aho, Sally Beamish, Sir Harrison Birtwistle, Richard Blackford, Gavin Bryars, Brett Dean, Dai Fujikura, Wim...

Godunov. He published his first full-length book on the composer Sir Harrison Birtwistle in 1984 with a follow-up in 1988. He was commissioned by Faber...

including Sir Harrison Birtwistle's Grimethorpe Aria, written for the band, and Hans Werner Henze's Ragtimes and Habaneras as well as several pieces by Sir Malcolm...

(Musicsales) Harrison Birtwistle Night (UniversalEdition/Boosey) Harrison Birtwistle Tenebrae (Universal Edition/Boosey) Harrison Birtwistle White and Light...

novelist. Sir Harrison Birtwistle, composer Professor Colin Blakemore, neurobiologist and former chief executive of the Medical Research Council Sir Ronald...

Gallery. Adam Birtwistle was born in Eton in 1959 and is the son of the composer Sir Harrison Birtwistle and brother of the artist Silas Birtwistle. After attending...

Berio – Leaf - Universal Edition Sir Harrison Birtwistle – Cortege - Universal Edition "My Way of Life". Work Detail - Sir Peter Maxwell Davies - maxopus...

was subsequently broadcast by BBC Radio 3. It was also chosen by Sir Harrison Birtwistle for performance at the 2003 Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival...