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Geoffrey Alvarez is a British/Nicaraguan composer and conductor. He chairs the annual international composition competition run by the Alvarez Chamber Orchestra.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Musique sans Frontiers Composition Competition )〕 He is also a writer on music and inventor of Gravesian Analysis.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Geoffrey Alvarez (1999). The Five Seasons: Graves's Goddess Sings. ''Gravesiana'', Vol 2, No 2. 165-176. )〕 ==Education and work== Alvarez studied composition privately with Giles Swayne, then with Paul Patterson at the Royal Academy of Music as a Leverhulme scholar, and later at the University of York with David Blake and Richard Orton, where he obtained a D.Phil. Some of his papers are published in ''Gravesiana: The Journal of the Robert Graves Society'', whilst he has contributed several articles for ''Tempo'' on the work of composers such as Michael Finnissy〔Tempo, no. 205 (July 1998), p 25, Cambridge University Press〕 and Alexander Goehr Arianna (Goehr).〔Tempo, no. 208 (April 1999), p 52, Cambridge University Press〕 His own work (his setting of Psalm XXIII in Hebrew) was reviewed in the same publication by Mark R. Taylor.〔Tempo, no. 217 (July 2001), p 53, Cambridge University Press〕 His compositions range from the wind quintet ''The Travelling Musicians'', performed by the Harlequin Wind Quintet in the Purcell Room in 2001 to seven symphonies and numerous operas including a collaboration with poet Ruth Fainlight commissioned by the Garden Venture of the Royal Opera House: ''The European Story''.〔Fainlight R. Selected Poems. Sinclair-Stevenson: London 1995〕 In November 2006, Geoffrey Alvarez returned from Poland as a prize-winning finalist and soloist with the Arthur Rubenstein Łódź Philharmonic Orchestra in the Final of the Tansman 6th International Competition of Musical Personalities, Composers Competition, Łódź 2006〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Interview with David Bruce on Composition Today. )〕 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「Geoffrey Álvarez」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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