Anna Clyne (born 9 March 1980, in London) is an English composer, now resident in New York City, US.[1] She has worked in both acoustic music and electroacoustic music.[2][3][4]
Biographyedit
Clyne began writing music as a child, completing her first composition at age 7. Her first composition to receive a public performance was at the Oxford Youth Prom when she was 11. She formally studied music at the University of Edinburgh, from which she graduated with a first-class Bachelor of Music degree with honours. She later studied at the Manhattan School of Music and earned a MA degree in music. Her teachers have included Marina Adamia, Marjan Mozetich and Julia Wolfe.
Clyne was director of the New York Youth Symphony's "Making Score" program for young composers from 2008 to 2010. In October 2009, Clyne and Mason Bates were named co-composers in residence with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (CSO), as of the 2010–2011 season.[5] She took up the residency in 2010, for a scheduled term of 3 years. In January 2012, her CSO contract as co-composer in residence was extended through the 2013–2015 season.[6] Clyne was announced as the composer-in-residence for Orchestre national d'Île-de-France from 2014 to 2016, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra's 2015–2016 season, and The Berkeley Symphony Orchestra from 2017–2019. Clyne was appointed Associate Composer with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra from 2019–2022.[7]
In 2013, the concert overture Masquerade was commissioned by BBC Radio 3 to open the Last Night of the Proms, where the BBC Symphony Orchestra was conducted by Marin Alsop.[17][18] Clyne was nominated for the 2015 Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Classical Composition for her double violin concerto, Prince of Clouds. Works for soloist and orchestra form an important part of her output, as is also evident from The Seamstress (2015), a single-movement violin concerto that incorporates a whispered recitation of the poem A Coat by Yeats,[18] and the five movement cello concerto Dance (2019), commissioned by Inbal Segev and recorded by her in 2020, which has received more than eight million plays on Spotify.[19][20]
Clyne has explored her fascination with visual arts in several projects: five contemporary artworks inspired Abstractions (2016); Color Field (2020), takes inspiration from the artwork of Mark Rothko; and a film collaboration with Jyll Bradley, entitled Woman Holding a Balance (2021).[24][25][26]
Clyne has been described as a ‘composer of uncommon gifts and unusual methods’ in a New York Times 2015 profile and ‘fearless’ by NPR.[27] In 2018, the music critic Corinna da Fonseca Wollheim selected Clyne's composition, Lavender Rain, for a New York Times feature on "5 Minutes that Will Make You Love Classical Music."[28]
A CD of her orchestral music, Mythologies, was released in October 2020.[18]
Compositionsedit
Orchestraedit
Wild Geese for orchestra and live electronics (2023)
Between the rooms for soprano and string quintet (2022)
This Lunar Beauty for soprano, mixed ensemble and pre-recorded audio (2015)
Postponeless Creature for 3 female voices and ensemble (2014)
The Lost Thought for 3 female voices and ensemble (2013)
As Sudden Shut for 3 female voices and ensemble (2012)
Blush for baritone, laptop and chamber ensemble (2007)
Choral worksedit
The Years for SATB chorus and orchestra (2021)
In Thy Beauty for soprano, SATB chorus and orchestra
The Heart of Night for choir (2020)
Body Compass for children's chorus and string quintet (2017)
Pocket Book LXV for 8 voices (2015)
Pocket Book VIII for 8 voices (2015)
Discographyedit
The Kreutzer Project (AVIE 2022)
Mythologies (AVIE 2020)
Mythologies on Vinyl (AVIE 2020)
DANCE (AVIE 2020)
Touch Harmonious (In A Circle 2020)
E PLURIBUS UNUM (Navona 2020)
The World is (Y)ours (Arcantus 2019)
The Violin (National Sawdust Tracks 2017)
BOAC Field Recordings (Cantaloupe 2015)
Two x Four (Cedille 2014)
Blue Moth (Tzadik 2012)
Arcana VI by John Zorn (Tzadik 2012)
ACO Playing it Unsafe (ACO 2011)
The Exploding Piano (CD Baby 2010)
I Am Not (New Amsterdam 2010)
Referencesedit
^"Anna Clyne: Her Life and Music". Boosey & Hawkes. Retrieved 2 July 2023.
^da Fonseca-Wollheim, Corinna (19 April 2015). "Anna Clyne a composer who creates with images". New York Times. Retrieved 12 December 2022.
^"New Music Tuesday composer Anna Clyne string quartet Woman Holding A Balance A Short Film". The Violin Channel. 23 March 2021. Retrieved 12 December 2022.
^Clyne, Anna (21 December 2022). "About". Anna Clyne. Retrieved 21 December 2022.
^Steve Smith (16 December 2009). "The New Faces Among the Older Guard". The New York Times. Retrieved 6 February 2011.
^"CSO Music Director Extends Terms of Mead Composers-in-Residence Mason Bates and Anna Clyne for Two Years" (PDF) (Press release). Chicago Symphony Orchestra. 31 January 2012. Retrieved 3 February 2012.
^"Composer Anna Clyne to Hold Residency with Baltimore Symphony Orchestra This Season". Broadway World. 19 September 2015. Retrieved 9 August 2016.
^"Sesongens Komponist". Trondheim Symphony Orchestra. 5 August 2022. Retrieved 21 December 2022.
^Anderson, Colin (13 April 2022). "New Artistic Leadership Team for the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra". Colin's Column. Retrieved 21 December 2022.
^Maddocks, Fiona (14 May 2022). "Leipzig Gewandhaus Andris Nelsons Rudolf Buchbinder Strauss Project part Barbican London Review Scottish Chamber Orchestra SCO Andrew Manze Anna Clyne The Years City Halls Glasgow". The Guardian. Retrieved 21 December 2022.
^"Beethoven and Clyne OSL Chamber Music Series 8pm". Carnegie Hall. 19 October 2022. Retrieved 21 December 2022.
^"National Symphony Orchestra Summer Music Institute Free Concert Series". Live Music Project. 24 July 2022. Retrieved 21 December 2022.
^"LA Phil Walt Disney Concert Hall 2022 2023". Classical California KUSC. 10 October 2022. Retrieved 21 December 2022.
^"Anna Clyne Orchestre National dile de France 2". Diaphonique. 12 December 2017. Retrieved 21 December 2022.
^"The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in 2022–23". Concertgebouworkest. 28 March 2022. Retrieved 21 December 2022.
^"SF Ballet Announces Details Of Next90 A New Works Festival Featuring Nine World Premieres 2022". Broadwayworld. 12 October 2022. Retrieved 21 December 2022.
^"Prom 75: Last Night of the Proms". BBC Music Events. Retrieved 13 December 2021.
^"Anna Clyne: DANCE – Edward Elgar: Cello Concerto". Presto Music. Retrieved 13 December 2021.
^"Anna Clyne's DANCE". Spotify. 12 December 2022. Retrieved 12 December 2022.
^"An Interview with Anna Clyne". Scottish Chamber Orchestra. 11 April 2021. Retrieved 21 December 2022.
^"Anna Clyne Weathered concerto for clarinetist Martin Frost". Boosey and Hawkes. 21 December 2022. Retrieved 21 December 2022.
^"Pekka Kuusisto and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra premiere works by Anna Clyne". Seen and Hear International. 10 November 2019. Retrieved 21 December 2022.
^"Anna Clyne Abstractions". Boosey & Hawkes. 21 December 2022. Retrieved 21 December 2022.
^"Anna Clyne Color Field". Boosey & Hawkes. 21 December 2022. Retrieved 21 December 2022.
^"Catalogue". Boosey & Hawkes. 21 December 2022. Retrieved 21 December 2022.
^"NPR music's 25 favorite songs of 2020 so far". NPR. 30 June 2020. Retrieved 21 December 2022.
^"5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Classical Music (Published 2018)". The New York Times. 6 September 2018. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 16 December 2020.
External linksedit
The New York Times | Anna Clyne, a Composer Who Creates With Images
Gramophone | Contemporary Composer: Anna Clyne | Richard Whitehouse has no doubt that things will only get better for this already popular and much-recorded composer
Los Angeles Times | L.A. Chamber Orchestra to premiere Anna Clyne’s ‘Prince of Clouds’
Chicago Reader | Anna Clyne scores big | Symphonies still prefer dead composers, but Clyne beat the odds to land a plum job with the CSO at the tender age of 30