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Written for Trinity College of Music where the composer Gordon Carr was a professor for eighteen years. Fun music and rhythmically demanding.
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Written for Trinity College of Music where the composer Gordon Carr was a professor for eighteen years. Fun music and rhythmically demanding.
Review: “Movements 1 and 3, A Prayer and Waltz are slow and soothing, while movements 2 and 4 Diversion and Valete are very fast paced. For colleges, conservatories and professionals.” – New Issues, June 1998
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Biography
Biography
Carr, Gordon
Gordon Carr was born in Matlock, Derbyshire in 1943 and educated at Dulwich College and the Royal Academy of Music where he studied the horn with Barry Tuckwell. He has enjoyed a varied freelance career, which encompassed playing with all the major London orchestras. As a session musician he played on the soundtrack of numerous films including 'The Boys from Brazil', 'The Spy who Loved Me' and 'Straw Dogs' and on the backing tracks of much pop music. As a soloist he appeared at the Wigmore Hall, on the South Bank and around the UK, Italy and Belgium. In his twenties he began to write music, and wrote several large scale works for the Locke Brass Consort whilst a member of this group. In all he has written in excess of 130 works. For thirty years he taught at The Centre for Young Musicians and throughout his career has coached and conducted on holiday music courses. Conducting engagements have been with The Locke Brass Consort, London Brass Consort, London Youth Symphonic Band, London Youth Chamber Orchestra, Royal Academy of Music Brass Ensemble, London College of Music Symphonic Band and the International Summer School Orchestra at Keele.
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