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David Sawer (born 14 September 1961) is a British composer of opera and choral, orchestral and chamber music. ==Biography== Sawer was born in Stockport, England. After attending Ipswich School, he studied music at the University of York where he began composing for contemporary music-theatre pieces. He directed the UK premieres of Kagel's ''Kantrimiusik'' and ''Mare Nostrum'' at the ICA, appeared as soloist in ''Phonophonie'', and conducted the UK premiere of Kagel's ''Szenario'' at the South Bank Centre, London. In 1984 he won a DAAD scholarship to study with Mauricio Kagel in Cologne. Even from this point his career, Sawer's music tends to define each piece within theatrical terms. Indeed, Sawer has described himself as a "theatre person". His works often reference the visual arts, and in particular surrealist imagery. For example, his piano piece, ''The Melancholy of Departure'' was inspired by the shadowy and irrational perspectives of a De Chirico painting. In 1992 Sawer was awarded the Fulbright-Chester-Schirmer-Scholarship and lived in the USA for a year. His compositional career was supported by further awards and fellowships, including a Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award in 1993, and a residence with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra in 1996. He is a Professor of Composition at the Royal Academy of Music, London. Sawer has received numerous commissions that have resulted in impressive works for the concert hall, dance, film, theatre and radio. His 50-minute radio composition ''Swansong'' (1989), a collage of orchestral, choral and electronic sounds, conjuring the musical utopia envisioned by the dying Berlioz, won a Sony Radio Award and a Prix Italia Special Mention. If Sawer's early work reflected a variety of influences – from Igor Stravinsky to György Ligeti and Luciano Berio – these have been shed, gradually, as he matured. Certain characteristics remain from his early music: for instance the blurring of background and foreground in his first orchestral work, ''Trompe l'oeil'' (1982; since withdrawn). Ensembles who have performed his work include the Asko/Schoenberg Ensemble, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, Klangforum Wien, London Sinfonietta and musikFabrik. In the theatre, he has worked with playwrights Howard Barker, Edward Bond, Nick Dear, Paul Godfrey and David Harrower. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「David Sawer」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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