What have you composed for? Or what medium do you work around?
Television, Orchestra, Small Ensemble, Big Ensemble, Contemporary Ensembles
What is your favorite genre or style of music?
contemporary classical
Is music your main income source?
Yes!
About Me (Must include at least one paragraph of biographical information about you as a composer) - blank or minimal answers on this line will cause your request to be rejected. Include a link to your website if you have one.
I have composed everything from a sonata for solo guitar, to television work, theatre and community, large scale ensembles and bands. Past BAFTA music judge. Lecturer in Music Composition at LIPA in Liverpool for eight years,until 2008.
Website:
www.paulmitchell-davidson.com
Comments
Wowza. It is great to have somebody as obviously accomplished as you here. Listening to "The Galloping Cat". I love the complicated unison horn runs and I imagine that is you playing the guitar? I'm not worthy!!
Regards
Tom
Cheers
Adrian
Try Youtube in 2 parts
part 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZyTEka5UQc
part 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp551c28rAk&feature=related
If all else fails I'll giev you a link to the audio only
Thanks
adrian
Thanks for alerting me to the music you've just posted up on your site. I absolutely adore "Threnody". It's extremely moving and displays an enormous amount of emotion and feeling. I feel that anybody that experiments with pantonality MUST first learn to tackle all aspects of key based music first, otherwise I find their atonal music a bit careless. In 'Threnody', you've managed to explore extremely opposing genres and blended them with a huge amount of skill. Who would have thought it possible to have an atonal string quartet playing simultaneously with a jazz combo, and live instruments as well. It really is quite a masterpiece, and I shall be listening to it regularly.
My only despair is that you may find my music a touch on the crass side.
Thanks again for posting. I really did enjoy it.
Thanks for showing an interest.
The links are still active on THIS page - just three posts down. Click on them for the video and the sibelius score.
If you don't have sibelius scorch the PDF is also here
http://www.box.net/shared/o29xnjs59p
thanks again
adrian
I've been in the Isle of Man for a week, so I missed your last message. I would like to help you on the subject of the Chinese Writing, but you're best asking one of the admins of this site (on the home page), who can delve deeper into such issues.
I have enjoyed listening to your music, and it's great to hear something that is really performed live, as most music here is by "virtual instruments".
I know that you usually get paid to give advice on composition, so I just asked you as a small favour to take a quick listen to my piece - the added interest is that it's about Manchester. So if you ever do, I'd be more than grateful.
Best wishes
adrian.