BRIAN WRIGHT
For additional details and audio samples:
Brian Wright: lute song page
Brian Wright: lute solos, duos & ensemble music page
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Brian Wright is a Fellow of Trinity College of Music (London) and studied with Anthony Rooley, Adele Krama, Michael Jesset and Anthony Gilbert (composition). He has given recitals at Music Societies, Festivals, Independent schools; performed on radio and TV and for the National Trust throughout the U.K.
International recitals, teaching, adjudication at competitions, radio and TV have taken place in Italy, Spain, Belgium, Yugoslavia, Ukraine, Holland, Germany, Eire, Slovakia, Poland, Czech republic, Russia, Bulgaria, China, Belarus and the U.S.A.Many of his international concerts have been supported by the British Council.
Since 1992 he has taught at the International Summer School of Early Music in Valtice, Czech Republic and in 2003 he made a film for Czech TV on the subject of his concert activities with the Czech singer Jarmila Chaloupkova.
He is a published composer and has provided music for television films. He has made a number of recordings and his compositions and arrangements have been played by leading lutenists and guitarists. His major works include the setting of all the songs in the plays of Shakespeare; the lute tutor, LUTECOSMOS and 5 sonatas for solo guitar. In october of 2011 his "Elegy for Ian Harwood" was performed by Emma Kirkby and Jeni Melia at the memorial service for Ian Harwood.
For further information go to:
www.youtube.com and search for brian wright ,lute
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LIST OF COMPOSITIONS
Music
for solo lute
Suite in 8 movements *
Suite No 2 Variations and Fugue on an original
theme*
Tombeau pour Monsieur Reinhardt*
3 Jazz Sketches*
Metamorphosis on a Galliard of John Dowland ##
Epigrams ##
Five Fugues ##
Lutecosmos: A Method for Renaissance Lute in 6 books ##
Chasing Shadows: Seven easy pieces *
Music
for lute and melody instrument
Three for Two: for lute and renaissance flute*
3 Dialogues for lute and treble viol*
n.b. Some of these pieces can be heard on on
www.youtube.com
(search
for brian wright, lute).
Lute
Songs
The Complete Shakespeare Songs in five books
bk.1
Sigh again Shakespeare *
bk.2 A
New Varietie of Shakespeare Songs *
bk.3 O
Mistress Mine*
bk.4
Orpheus with his Lute ##
bk.5
Love, love, nothing but love ##
A Chinese Lachrimae (a song cycle)*
Claire de Lune (a song cycle in French with
poems by Paul Verlaine)*
Melodies pour Colette (a song cycle in French,
various poets) #
Three Lyric Poems of Torquato Tasso (in
Italian)*
Five Medieval Carols on Medieval texts*
Valse Melancolique (a song cycle in French,
various poets) ##
Sister Awake (a song cycle, various poems by
women)
Songs from the Sanskrit (a song cycle) ##
Hommage to Caccini (three dramatic monodies,
poems by Thomas Hardy) ##
Arrangements
for the lute
Three songs by Petr Eben for voice and lute ##
Four songs by Bohuslav Martinu for voice and
lute ##
Moravian Folk Songs by Leos Janacek for voice
and lute ##
Three Religious Songs by Antonin Dvorak for
voice and lute ##
Reigious Songs by Adam Michna for voice and
lute##
The Jazz Waltz, thirteen pieces by Dave
Brubeck, John Lewis, Jim Hall, Bill Evans and others
arranged for solo lute ##
The Entertainer by Scott Joplin arranged for solo lute ##
Music for the Guitar
Sonata no2 for solo guitar ##
Sonatina alla Spagnuola for solo guitar ##
Changes: easy pieces for 1 or 2 guitars ##
Elegy for guitar and orchestra ##
The Jazz Waltz: thirteen pieces by Dave
Brubeck, John Lewis, Jim Hall, Bill Evans and others
arranged for solo guitar ##
3 songs of George Gershwin arranged for solo
guitar ##
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Published by The Lute Society
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Published by the Société Francaise de Luth
## available from the composer lutewright(at)hotmail.com