Gloss

Performing score

Forces or Category: Oboe & vibraphone

Gloss could be considered a companion piece to Random Girl (also for oboe and vibraphone), although it is rhythmically more formal and ...

Gloss

Performing score

Description

Gloss could be considered a companion piece to Random Girl (also for oboe and vibraphone), although it is rhythmically more formal and more restrained melodically.

Programme Notes:

Gloss for oboe and vibraphone was commissioned by New Noise and composed early in 2011. It follows Random Girl of 2003 but might have been written ten years earlier, being, rhythmically, more formal and, melodically, more restrained. Each instrument finds its own way of evoking space.

Howard Skempton 24 January 2012

Gloss

Performing score

Howard Skempton

Composer Information

Howard Skempton (b.1947)

Born in Chester in 1947, Howard Skempton has worked as a composer, accordionist, and music publisher. Renowned for the distinctive clarity of his musical language, he has composed over 300 pieces, many of which are miniatures for solo piano or accordion. His orchestral and instrumental works have been recorded by, among others, the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Ensemble Bash. In recent years, Skempton has concentrated increasingly on writing vocal and choral music; his choral commissions include works for the BBC Singers and the Belfast Philharmonic Society. He is currently an Honorary Professor of Music at De Montfort University.