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Ian Venables (born 1955) is a British composer of art songs and chamber music. ==Biography== Ian Venables was born in Liverpool in 1955 and was educated at Liverpool Collegiate Grammar School. He studied music with Richard Arnell at the Trinity College of Music, and later with Andrew Downes, John Mayer, and John Joubert at the Birmingham Conservatoire. His compositions encompass many genres, and, in particular, he has added significantly to the canon of English art song. Described as "one of the finest song composers of his generation," he has written over sixty works in this genre, which include seven song-cycles: ''Venetian Songs – Love’s Voice'', Op.22 (1995); ''Invite to Eternity'' for tenor and string quartet, Op.31 (1997); ''Songs of Eternity and Sorrow'' for tenor, string quartet, and piano, Op.36 (2004); ''On the Wings of Love'' for tenor, clarinet, and piano, Op.38 (2006); ''The Pine Boughs Past Music'' for baritone and piano, Op.39 (2010); ''Remember This'', Op.40; and ''The Song of the Severn'' for baritone, string quartet, and piano, Op.43 (2012). Other songs for solo voice and piano include ''Two Songs'', Op.28 (1997) and ''Six Songs'', Op.33 (1999–2003), ''A Dramatic Scena – At the Court of the Poisoned Rose'' for counter-tenor and piano, Op. 20 (1994). His songs have been performed by national and internationally acclaimed artists that include: Andrew Kennedy, Roderick Williams, Patricia Rozario, Ian Partridge, Allan Clayton, Caroline MacPhie, Daniel Norman, Howard Wong, Nathan Vale, Michael Lampard, Peter Savidge, Kevin McLean-Mair, Mary Plazas, Peter Wilman, Sally Porter Munro and Nicholas Mulroy. His many chamber works include ''Piano Quintet'', Op.27 (1995), described by Roderic Dunnett in The Independent as "lending a new late 20th Century dimension to the English pastoral," and ''String Quartet'', Op.32 (1998), as well as smaller pieces for solo instruments and piano. He has also written works for choir including ''Awake, Awake, the World is Young'', Op.34, and ''Rhapsody'' for organ, Op.25 (1996), brass and solo piano. He is an acknowledged expert on the 19th century poet and literary critic John Addington Symonds, and apart from having set five of his poems for voice and piano, he has contributed a significant essay to the book ''John Addington Symonds: Culture and the Demon Desire'' (Macmillan Press Ltd, 2000). He is president of the Arthur Bliss Society, vice-president of the Droitwich Concert Club, vice-president of the Gloucester Music Society, and a former chairman of the Ivor Gurney Society. His continuing work on the music of Gurney has led to 2003 orchestrations of two of his songs, counterparts to two that by Herbert Howells, and newly edited versions of Gurney's ''War Elegy'' (1919) and ''A Gloucestershire Rhapsody'' (1921), with Philip Lancaster. His works have been recorded on the Signum, Somm, Regent and Naxos labels. His music is published by Novello & Co 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「Ian Venables」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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