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Personal Profile For Prof Roger Heaton
Principal Lecturer: BA Music. School of Music and Performing Arts.
BMus (Hons) [Huddersfield University], MMus [King's College, London University].
Personal Statement:
Roger Heaton, clarinettist and conductor, performs throughout Europe as a soloist, he has played with the Arditti, Kreutzer and Smith String Quartets, and was a member of the London Sinfonietta and Ensemble Modern. He plays with the Gavin Bryars Ensemble, with whom he records regularly for CD and radio. His solo CD of works by Reich, Bryars, Feldman and others, was voted one of the top 50 classical CDs of 1995 by the BBC Music Magazine, and his recital CD, Hymnos, was one of the Sunday Times critics' best CDs of 1998. His CD of music by Erhard Grosskopf was released in 2001, his recording of Scelsi's clarinet concerto Kya came out on Metier in 2002, and Feldman's Clarinet and String Quartet was released also on Metier in September 2004. His solo CD of music by Tom Johnson was released on the Ants/Silenzio (Rome) in July (2006). He was Music Director and conductor of Rambert Dance Company, 1988-93, and Clarinet Professor at the Darmstadt Ferienkurse für Neue Musik, 1982-94.
Recent concerts include the Warsaw Autumn Festival, Vilnius, CDMC Madrid, Milan, Gent, Prague, Bergen, Regello, Odense, Tallin, Riga, and the Valencia Biennale, as well as a number of recordings for BBC Radio 3, most recently with the Uroboros Ensemble and the Contemporary Music Ensemble of Wales. Current 2007-08 season includes touring with Bryars, and the Fidelio Trio in programmes including Messiaen's 'Quartet for the End of Time', concerts in Dartington, Modena and Venice. He gives regular clarinet masterclasses at conservatoires in London and across Europe. His new book 'The Versatile Clarinet' was published by Routledge (New York) in December 2005; he is currently writing a chapter for The Cambridge History of Musical Performance and has contributed to the forthcoming Cambridge Companion to Recorded Music.
Professional Qualifications:
Membership of Professional Bodies/Subject Associations:
SPNM (Society for the Promotion of New Music)
Teaching Specialism:
Performance, contemporary music, music analysis
Key Publications/Exhibitions/Performances:
Tom Johnson solo works for clarinet, CD, Ants/Silenzio, Rome, 2006
'The Versatile Clarinet' (revised with new chapters), Routledge, New York, 2005
Feldman and Fox Clarinet Quintets, CD, Metier, 2004
Gavin Bryars: A Portrait, CD, Philips, 2003
Giacinto Scelsi Clarinet Concerto Kya, Firebird Ensemble, CD, Metier, January 2002
'Performance and Xenakis's Echange' in Changing Platforms: 30 Years of the Contemporary Music Network, Unknown Public/Arts Council of England, 2001
The Versatile Clarinet, Taylor and Francis, February 2001
Erhard Grosskopf: Sound pool - adagio, CD, [trio with Balanescu and Pruslin] DeutschlandRadio, Edel records (Akademie der Künste/Berlin), 2000
The Music of Philip Grange, CD, with Gemini Ensemble, Black Box, 1999
Numerous performances and radio recordings: Radio 3 Hear and Now (Italian chamber music), performances in Regello Festival, Italy, Dusseldorf, Dublin, London (Purcell Room), Huddersfield, Tate St. Ives, Modena, Dartington, London (Warehouse), etc.
Current Scholarship:
CD of Tom Johnson works for solo clarinet, released on Silenzio/Ants records, Rome July 2006
Chapter for CUP The Cambridge History of Musical Performance, 2009
Chapter for he CUP Cambridge Companion to Recorded Music, 2008
Ongoing numerous performances and recordings
External Examiners:
Manchester Metropolitan 1999-2003, Goldsmiths College London University 2003-05
Kingston University MA 2004-08 and Chief Post-graduate External 2006-08, University of East Anglia BA and MA, 2007-, Royal Northern College of Music MA 2007-
PhD examiner: De Montfort University 2003, Birmingham Conservatoire 2004, Bath Spa University internal examiner 2007.
Other External Roles:
External auditing/review and validation for BA Music programmes:
Manchester Metropolitan University (2008), Canterbury Christ Church University College (three times, most recent 2004, Internal Review of Music); Thames Valley University (London College of Music) (three times, most recent 2003)
Steering/Executive committee member Cheltenham International Music Festival from 2004-05
Board member Clarinet Classics CDs 2006-
Recent Professional Updating:
Last Updated: 04 March 2008.
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