richard emsley
the website
Welcome to the website for the composer Richard Emsley. Use the images on the left-hand sidebar to navigate around the site to explore Emsley's work and activities.
Richard Emsley was born in Yorkshire and following study under Arnold Whittall at University College, Cardiff and at Dartington Summer School with Peter Maxwell Davies, he moved to London. He helped to form and direct the ground-breaking ensemble Suoraan which during the 1970s and 1980s brought the music of Xenakis, Holliger and others to the UK for the first time. He has written commissions for the Fires of London, Inner London Education Authority and others, and his music has been played at festivals and venues worldwide including ISCM World Music Days in 1999 and 2001, Evenings of New Music Bratislava, ...antasten... Pianoforum Heilbronn and Mostly Modern Dublin. A CD of his music was released in March 2002 by METIER.
Richard Emsley has been described in The Guardian as "..sensitive and unpretentious... a perceptive and cultivated musician, a connoisseur of refined sounds" .
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