Justin Connolly, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Justin Connolly

British composer

Date of Birth: 11-Aug-1933

Place of Birth: London

Profession: composer, music pedagogue

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Leo


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About Justin Connolly

  • Justin Riveagh Connolly (born London, 11 August 1933) is a British composer and teacher. He was educated at Westminster School, and then briefly studied law at the Middle Temple before deciding on a career in music.
  • He studied with Peter Racine Fricker at the Royal College of Music, graduating with a BMus degree, and then travelled to Yale University in the USA on a Harkness Fellowship in the late 60s, where he studied with Mel Powell.
  • He then briefly taught at Yale before returning to the UK.
  • He taught for many years at the Royal College of Music, later moving to the Royal Academy of Music, retiring from teaching in 1995.
  • He currently lives in Greenwich in the south-east area of greater London. His music is characterised by an outwardly modernist idiom, although Connolly professes a strong affinity with the music of the nineteenth century.
  • His style is glittering, sometimes pointillist, and is often concerned with the interplay of complex and detailed textures.
  • His music is rigorously crafted and often explores ideas related to philosophy, literature and history. Works include a brass quintet Cinquepaces, two Sonatinas for piano solo, concertos for viola, organ and piano (the latter the result of a BBC commission premièred in 2004), four vocal cycles setting the poetry of Wallace Stevens, and a number of instrumental chamber pieces.
  • His music is published by Novello & Co (Music Sales). Highly regarded as a teacher, his former students include the British composer Alwynne Pritchard.

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