Margaret Lucy Wilkins

Specialism:

Composition

Location:

Billericay
United Kingdom CM12

Additional Info:

Born in England in 1939, Margaret Lucy Wilkins’ musical career embraces composing, lecturing, performing and writing. Between 1976 and 2003, she was Principal Lecturer in Music at the University of Huddersfield, UK, where she was Head of Composition.
Margaret Lucy Wilkins’ compositions range from orchestral music, through chamber music and works for soloists, to electroacoustic music and pieces for students. Notable amongst her orchestral works are "Hymn to Creation" (1973), "Music of the Spheres" (BBC commission, 1976), "Revelations of the Seven Angels" (1988, a 50-minute work for over 100 performers divided into eight groups, designed for performance in a large cathedral space), Symphony (1989), "Musica Angelorum" (Goldberg commission, 1991) and "Rituelle" for 27 brass, wind and percussion players (2000).

Chamber music works include "Struwwelpeter" (1973), "Burnt Sienna:Etude for String Trio" (1974), "Ave Maria" (New Music Group of Scotland commission, 1975), "Aspects of Night" (John Turner commission, 1981), "Gitanjali" (William Byrd Singers commission, 1981), "Rêve, Réveil, Révélation, Réverbérations" (1988), "Trompettes de Mort" (Philip Mead commission, 2002).

Amongst Margaret Lucy Wilkins’ electroacoustic works are "Stringsing" and "L’Attente"."Discover Oakwell" (a long-running sound installation commissioned by Oakwell Hall, 1995, with funds from Kirklees Metropolitan Council and the European Commission). In 1999, this project won a Sandford Award for Heritage Education. In 1990, she composed "KANAL", a 90-minute multi-media work for 75 musicians, actors, dancers and electroacoustic music, which was performed at the 1992 ISCM ‘World Music Days’ in Poland.

Publications
CD
"Free Spirit: the Music of Margaret Lucy Wilkins"
Musica Angelorum, Struwwelpeter, Burnt Sienna, 366" for solo trombone, SYMPHONY.
Alison Wells, Barrie Webb, FIREBIRD ensemble, Sofia Soloists, Orchestra Simfonica Timisoara.
Vienna Modern Masters, VMM 3055 (2003).

DVD
"Revelations of the Seven Angels"
Orchestra e Coro Simfonica Timisoara, conductor Barrie Webb;
DVD Vienna Modern Masters, VMM 1055 (2004).

Book
"Creative Music Composition: the Young Composer’s Voice";
Routledge (New York and London, May, 2006), 288 pages.

Fees

Composers' commission fees are normally an all-inclusive fee, rather than an hourly rate.

Specialisms

Contemporary Music, Commissions, Contemporary Classical

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