Gavin Bryars is an English composer and double bassist. He has been active in, or has produced works in, a variety of styles of music, including jazz, free improvisation, minimalism, historicism, experimental music, avant-garde and neoclassicism. Born in Goole, in East Yorkshire, England, Bryars studied philosophy at Sheffield University but became a jazz bassist during his three years as a philosophy student. The first musical work for which he is remembered was his role as bassist in the trio Joseph Holbrooke, alongside guitarist Derek Bailey and drummer Tony Oxley. The trio began by playing relatively traditional jazz before moving into free improvisation. However, Bryars became dissatisfied with this when he saw a young bassist (later revealed to be Johnny Dyani) play in a manner which seemed to him to be artificial, and he became interested in composition instead. Bryars’s first works as a composer owe much to the New York School of John Cage (with whom he briefly studied), Morton Feldman, Earle Brown and minimalism. One of his earliest pieces, The Sinking of the Titanic (1969), is an indeterminist work which allows the performers to take a number of sound sources related to the sinking of the RMS Titanic and make them into a piece of music. Bryars’s later works have included A Man In A Room, Gambling (1992), which was written on commission from BBC Radio 3 and Artangel. Bryars’s music is heard beneath monologues spoken by the Spanish artist Juan Muñoz, who talks about methods of cheating at card games. The ten short works were played on Radio 3 without any introductory announcements, and Bryars is quoted as saying that he hoped they would appear to the listener in a similar way to the shipping forecast, both mysterious and accepted without question. Bryars has written a large number of other works, including four operas, and a number of instrumental pieces, among them three string quartets and several concertos. He has written several pieces for choreographers, including Biped (1999) for Merce Cunningham. Between 1981–1984 he participated in the CIVIL warS, a vast, never-completed multimedia project by Robert Wilson, who also directed his first opera "Medea". He has also written a large body of vocal and choral music for groups such as the Hilliard Ensemble, the Latvian Radio Choir, the Estonian National Men’s Choir, Red Byrd, Trio Mediaeval and has written a great deal for early music performers including 5 books of madrigals and a collection of over 40 "laude". Bryars When Harry Met Addie (a tribute to jazz singer Adelaide Hall and saxophonist Harry Carney) was premiered at the Duke Ellington Memorial Concert at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London on 1 May 1999. The piece was performed by the London Sinfonietta Big Band and was commissioned by the baritone saxophonist/bass clarinettist John Surman. Cristina Zavalloni sang the soprano and the London Sinfonietta Big Band was conducted by Diego Masson· Bryars founded the music department at Leicester Polytechnic (now De Montfort University), and taught there for a number of years, but left in 1994 to concentrate on composition and performance. He lives in England, and, for part of the year, on the west coast of Canada.
for male choir
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 755234
"Farewell to St. Petersburg"
for: Double bass, orchestra
Piano reduction, solo part
Item no.: 750292
for mixed choir (SAATTBB) and lightly amplified double bass
for: gemischter Chor (SAATTBB) und leicht verstärkten Kontrabass (sempre pizz.)
Chorstimme
Item no.: 432775
for four unaccompanied voices or male choir (CtenTTBar)
for: Countertenor, 2 Tenöre und Bariton; solo Singstimmen oder Männerchor
Choir score
Item no.: 580437
(Farewell to philosophy)
for: Cello, orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 144087
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Set of parts
Item no.: 143929
for soprano saxophone and chamber orchestra
for: Sopran-Saxophon und Kammerorchester
Piano reduction, solo part
Item no.: 295143
"Between the National and the Bristol"
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Study score
Item no.: 133787
for viol consort (5 players)
for: Gamben-Ensemble (Sopran, 2 Tenöre und 2 Bässe)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 792444
for chorus and orchestra
for: Choir, orchestra
Choir score
Item no.: 747683
arranged for double bass choir
for: Kontrabass Ensemble (minimum 8 Spielern)
Einzelstimme Kontrabass 5
Item no.: 758472
for two pianos, six or eight hands
for: 2 Klaviere 6- oder 8-händig
Spielpartitur
Item no.: 168417
for cello and piano
for: Cello, piano
Item no.: 163008
for cello or viola, piano and optional electric guitar
for: Violoncello oder Bratsche und Klavier und optional Elektro-Gitarre
Score, Parts
Item no.: 491854
for unaccompanied female voices
for: Sopran solo und 3 Soprane
Score
Item no.: 750174
from A Worcester Ladymass
for: 3 Soprane
Music score
Item no.: 729091
arranged for double bass choir
for: Kontrabass Ensemble (minimum 8 Spielern)
Einzelstimme Kontrabass 8
Item no.: 793082
for two violins
for: 2 violins
Music score
Item no.: 1549006
for harpsichord
for: Harpsichord
Item no.: 241159
arranged for double bass choir
for: Kontrabass Ensemble (minimum 8 Spieler)
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1544618
arranged for double bass choir
for: Kontrabass Ensemble (minimum 8 Spielern)
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 641243
for 21 solo strings
for: 21 Solo-Streicher
Study score
Item no.: 137257
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1652261
for four male voices
for: 4 Männerstimmen (CtenTTBar)
Score
Item no.: 784058
arranged for double bass choir
for: Kontrabass Ensemble (minimum 8 Spielern)
Einzelstimme Kontrabass 6
Item no.: 793080
for soprano saxophone or clarinet and piano
for: Sopran-Saxophon (Klarinette) und Klavier
Score, part
Item no.: 738918
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Set of parts
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for cello and piano
for: Cello, piano
Item no.: 429237
für gemischten Chor (SATB), Harmonium und Klavier
for: gemischter Chor (SATB), Harmonium und Klavier
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 385550
Choral Music of Our Time
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 695462
("Farewell to St. Petersburg")
for: Kontrabass solo, Männerchor (B) ad libitum und Kammerorchester
Study score
Item no.: 1544473
(Four "I Tatti" Madrigals)
for: gemischten Singstimmen (STTTBarB)
Choir score
Item no.: 1546170
for viol consort (5 players)
for: Gamben-Ensemble (Sopran, 2 Tenöre und 2 Bässe)
Score, Parts
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for: Organ
Item no.: 157549
("Farewell to St. Petersburg")
for: Double bass, orchestra
Piano reduction, solo part
Item no.: 459508
for: 9 Klarinetten
Score
Item no.: 206430
for mixed voices a capella
for: Singstimmen a cappella
Score
Item no.: 742198
Farewell to philosophy
for: Cello, orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 748900
arranged for double bass choir
for: Kontrabass Ensemble (minimum 8 Spieler)
Score
Item no.: 757055
arranged for double bass choir
for: Kontrabass Ensemble (minimum 8 Spieler)
Einzelstimme Kontrabass 6
Item no.: 784793
for four male voices (ATTBar) and low string quartet
for: 4 Männerstimmen (ATTBar), 2 Violas, Violoncello und Kontrabass (ad libitum)
Score
Item no.: 298540
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 776547
arranged for double bass choir
for: Kontrabass Ensemble (minimum 8 Spielern)
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 641251
No. 2 from "Fourth Book of Madrigals"
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 466321
für Violoncello
for: Cello
Item no.: 560152
arranged for double bass choir
for: Kontrabass Ensemble (minimum 8 Spielern)
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1544630
arranged for double bass choir
for: Kontrabass Ensemble (minimum 8 Spielern)
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1544620
"Between the National and the Bristol"
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Set of parts
Item no.: 143930
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