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Name
  
Edward McGuire

Role
  
Composer


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Albums
  
Music for Flute, Guitar and Piano, Entangled Fortunes

Music group
  
Whistlebinkies (Since 1973)

Similar People
  
Whistlebinkies, Red Note Ensemble, Sally Beamish, Thea Musgrave, BBC Scottish Symphon

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Edward ("Eddie") McGuire (born 1948 in Glasgow) is a Scottish composer whose work ranges from compositions for solo instruments and voice to large-scale orchestral and operatic works. McGuire studied composition with James Iliff at the Royal Academy of Music in London from 1966 to 1970 and then with Ingvar Lidholm in Stockholm in 1971.

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Career

As a student at the Royal Academy of Music McGuire won the Hecht Prize (1968) and the National Young Composers Competition (held in Liverpool University in 1969). A competition organised by the Society for the Promotion of New Music to find a modern test piece for the 1978 Carl Flesch International Violin Competition was won by McGuire with a solo violin piece, Rant. This piece was recently performed for a 65th birthday concert for Maguire organised by the BBC Scottish Symphony Club which was followed by another concert at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Another early success was when String Quartet was selected for the 40th anniversary Barbican Gala of the SPNM in 1983. McGuire's opera Cullercoats Tom, with a libretto by Michael Wilcox was premiered by Northern Sinfonia and Northern Stage in Newcastle upon Tyne in 1993. McGuire received a British Composers' Award in 2003. In 2004 he received a Creative Scotland Award which allowed him to create the work Defying Fate. He was commissioned to produce the finale for the 2006 St Magnus Festival, Ring of Strings. Calgacus, first recorded in 1997 by BBCSSO at the London Proms was performed again by the same orchestra for 2014 Celtic Connections.

McGuire plays the flute in the folk group the Whistlebinkies. In January 2006 he travelled to Hong Kong with the group to play a concert ("Scotland the Brave") with the Hong Kong Chamber Orchestra.

A CD of his music, Eddie McGuire: Music for Flute, Guitar and Piano, on the Delphian Record label was 'Editor's Choice' in Gramophone magazine in 2006. More recently Delphian Records recorded Entangled Fortunes with the Red Note Ensemble and once again featured in Gramophone's 'Editor's Choice'

Selected compositions

  • McGuire, Edward. Calgacus: Symphonic Poem. Glasgow: Scottish Music Information Centre, 1997. Musical score.
  • McGuire, Edward. Celtic Knotwork: For Three Recorders Score (playing Score). Glasgow: Scottish Music Centre, 1990. Musical score.
  • McGuire, Edward. Violin Sonata for Violin and Piano. Glasgow: Scottish Music Information Centre, 1997. Musical score.
  • McGuire, Edward. Romance for Cello, Guitar, 1994. Glasgow: Scottish Music Information Centre, 1998. Musical score.
  • McGuire, Edward. Concerto for Trombone: For Trombone and Orchestra. Glasgow: Scottish Music Information Centre, 1997. Musical score.
  • McGuire, Edward. Trio for Flute, Oboe, Bassoon: 1971. Edinburgh (28 Dalrymple Crescent, Edinburgh EH9 2NX: Scotus Music Publications, 1980. Musical score.
  • McGuire, Edward. Prelude 22: (the Big Bang) : Solo Trumpet. Coventry: Warwick Music, 2005. Musical score.
  • McGuire, Edward. Symphony for Orchestra: 1978. Edinburgh: Scotus Music, 1978. Musical score.
  • McGuire, Edward. Rant: For Solo Violin. Glasgow: Scottish Music Pub, 1986. Musical score.
  • Selected Recordings

  • McGuire, Eddie, William Sweeney, Alasdair Nicolson, and John M. Geddes. Luminate: Live Music Now Scotland Celebrates 30 Years. Edinburgh: Delphian Records, 2015. Sound recording.
  • Albannach. Cockenzie, East Lothian, Scotland: Greentrax Recordings, 2006. Sound recording.
  • AlbĂ©niz, Isaac, Jacques Ibert, Marin Marais, Edward McGuire, and Astor Piazzolla. Point of Departure. , 1994. Sound recording.
  • McGuire, Edward. Dancing Memories, Mrs. De Ruyg's Delight. S.l: s.n., 2006. Sound recording.
  • McGuire, Edward. Fast Peace 3. Point of Departure. the Alma Duo (Phyllis Kamrin, viola, and Michael Goldberg, guitar) perform McGuire's Fast Peace 3 (KA9001CD) Kamelion 1994
  • McGuire, Edward. Viola Pieces. James Durrant performs McGuire's Divertimento for 20 Violas, Prelude 6 and Martyr (ALTO CD1) Alto Records 1994
  • McGuire, Edward. Upstart Jugglers: Mr McFall's Chamber ensemble perform McGuire's Nocturnes (MMCC 003) Mr McFalls Chamber 2001
  • McGuire, Eddie. Music for Flute, Guitar and Piano (DCD34029) Delphian Records 2006: Nancy Ruffer (flute), Abigail James (guitar) and Dominic Saunders (piano) perform McGuire's Resistance Movement, Dark Cloud, Amazonia, Harbour of Harmonies, Caprice, Fountain of Tears, Prelude 13, Dancing Memories and Twelve White-Note Pieces
  • McGuire, Eddie. Flotilla: the Flotilla trio of 2 soprano saxophones and alto saxophone perform McGuire's Remembrance (ATKS 0802) Big Shed Music 2008
  • McGuire, Eddie. Knotwork: the Fell Clarinet Quartet perform McGuire's Celtic Knotwork and Chinese Knotwork (DCD34065) Delphian Records 2008
  • McGuire, Edward. Embracing the Unknown: the Edinburgh String Quartet with John Kenny (trombone) and Catriona McKay (harp) perform McGuire's Guest Sextet (BC3010) Brass Classics 2009
  • McGuire, Edward. The Prairie Song Project: Amy Morris (flute) and Michael Heaston (piano) perform McGuire's Aria Prairie Song Project 2012
  • McGuire, Edward. Guitar Phases: Stefan Grasse performs McGuire's Dark Cloud for 8 guitars (Xolo CD 1033) Xolo
  • References

    Edward McGuire (composer) Wikipedia