David Sawer
*14.09.1961

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David Sawer

The Composer

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David Sawer studied music at the University of York and subsequently won a DAAD scholarship to study in Cologne with Mauricio Kagel. In 1992 he was awarded the Fulbright-Chester-Schirmer Fellowship in Composition; a Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award followed in 1993 and, in 1995, the Arts Foundation’s Composer Fellowship. In 1996 he was composer-in-association with the Bournemouth Orchestras; in 2006 he was awarded a Civitella Ranieri Fellowship.

Byrnan Wood, his first large-scale orchestral piece, was premièred at the 1992 BBC Proms and subsequently recorded on the NMC label by the BBC Symphony Orchestra with [...]

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Sawer, From Morning to MidnightFrom Morning to Midnight (NMC D116)

The first full-length disc from David Sawer, featuring the greatest happiness principle for orchestra, ensemble works Tiroirs and The Memory of Water, and a specially-arranged orchestral suite taken from Sawer’s opera From Morning to Midnight, heard here for the first time.

The disc features the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, conducted by Martyn Brabbins and Susanna Malkki.

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Review

"Though the most substantial work in this collection is the 'symphonic' suite that the composer extracted from his opera, From Morning to Midnight, ... the other pieces, all from the late 1990s, show the unfailing [...]

10 of 33 Works

Between | for harp 1998
Byrnan Wood | for orchestra 1992
Caravan | for soprano, bass clarinet, horn and violoncello 2009
Cat's-eye | for chamber ensemble 1986
Etudes | for 2–6 actors/musicians 1984
Food of Love | for actress and piano 1988
From Morning to Midnight | Opera in 7 scenes 2001
From Morning to Midnight Symphonic Suite | for orchestra 2005
From the Little Town of W. to the Big City of B. | Interlude from the opera "Fr [...] 2001
Good Night | for alto flute/piccolo, harp, violin, viola and violoncello 1989

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