Name Rhian Samuel | Role Composer | |
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Rhian Samuel, born in Aberdare, Wales in 1944, is a Welsh composer.
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Education
She was educated in Britain and the United States, and joined the teaching staff of City University, London in 1995, where she became Professor of Music in 1999. Previously, she had taught at the University of Reading (as Head of Department in 1993–95) and at the St. Louis Conservatory, St. Louis, United States.
Composition
Samuel has composed over 80 published works. Her music has been performed in several countries. She has written chamber, vocal, choral, and orchestral music spanning from Elegy-Symphony (St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, 1981) to TIrluniau/Landscapes (BBC commission, BBC NOW, Proms 2000); in 1983 she won the ASCAP/Rudolf Nissim Prize for La Belle Dame sans Merci. She has also written about music: as co-editor of the New Grove (Norton) Dictionary of Women Composers, she has been prominent on issues concerning gender and music. She also writes on the operas of Harrison Birtwistle, having been commissioned by the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, to write programme essays on both Gawain and The Minotaur. Her most recent CD, Light and Water, is issued on the Deux-Elles label. In 2006 she was awarded the Glyndŵr Award for an Outstanding Contribution to the Arts in Wales.
Her Path Through the Woods for recorder and strings was premiered at Temple of Peace, Cardiff, in April 2011 by Pamela Thorby and the Welsh Sinfonia, conducted by Mark Eager.