Ian Vine
Ian Vine (born 3 January 1974 in Portsmouth, England) is a British composer. Vine grew up in Libya and Hong Kong.[1] He studied composition at the Royal Northern College of Music with Anthony Gilbert and privately with Simon Holt.[1][2]
There are traces Near and Far Eastern modalities as well as gestural and formal elements in his music.[1] SIRI (1997), for solo percussion with electronics, uses a rhythmic and structural language found in the highly ritualised percussion music of Japan and Korea.
writing on water (1999-), commissioned by Matthew Herbert and released on the Accidental label, is an expanding collection of short (sometimes only 20 seconds long) works using recorded acoustic instruments; and shadow grounds (1999), commissioned by the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival for the ensemble recherche as part of their In Nomine Broken Consort Book, a three-minute non-miniature of suspended sound.[1]
His three black moons (1999), commissioned by the London Sinfonietta,[1] was described by The Guardian, '...the most striking piece takes its title from an Alexander Calder mobile - its magical floating sonorities had a Feldmanesque beauty.'
The Guardian has written of him that "Vine's music, clearly influenced by Morton Feldman, is beautifully imagined and precisely focused".[1]
Vine is the artistic director of new music ensemble Radius.[2]
Key works
[edit]- white river sand (2002) - large ensemble
- espinas (1999) - large ensemble
- siri (1997) and siri2 (2000) - for solo percussion and percussion quartet respectively
Recordings
[edit]- forty works for Richard, self-released, not on label (2011)
- held/always/immer/gehalten, self-released, not on label (2012)
- frieze/static form/division, self-released, not on label (2014)
- forty objects/forty-five objects, self-released, not on label (2015)
- interstices, self-released, not on label (2015)
- copies I-V, self-released, not on label (2016)
works appear on
[edit]- writing on water (2000), on You Are Here, Accidental Records (2003)
- shadow grounds (1999), The Witten In Nomine Broken Consort Book, ensemble recherche, Kairos (2004)
- ocre oscuro (2007), on Jerwood Series 5, London Sinfonietta Label (2009)
References
[edit]External links
[edit]- Official website
- Ian Vine discography at Discogs
- Ian Vine at AllMusic
- Ian Vine at IMDb
- Ian Vine nmcrec.co.uk
- AMN Reviews: Ian Vine – held/always/immer/gehalten avantmusicnews.com 30 July 2013
- 1974 births
- Living people
- Musicians from Portsmouth
- 20th-century classical composers
- 21st-century classical composers
- English classical composers
- English male classical composers
- 20th-century English composers
- 20th-century British male musicians
- 21st-century English composers
- 21st-century British male musicians