Sherborne
WEEK ONE 30 July to 6 August
Alexander Technique and Chi Kung
Score Learning and General Musicianship
WEEK TWO 6 to 13 August
Alexander Technique and Chi Kung
Choral Masterpieces Choral Course
Score Learning and General Musicianship
Concertfest
Malcolm Singer, composer and conductor, is Director of Music at the Yehudi Menuhin School and a Professor of Composition at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. He read music at Magdalene College, Cambridge before studying in Europe with both Nadia Boulanger and Gyorgy Ligeti. He was later awarded a Harkness Fellowship, spending two years at Stanford University, California.
Malcolm’s compositions include Making Music , a commission by the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Kaddish for 24 solo voices written for the BBC Singers. A Hopeful Place was conducted by Lord Menuhin in the Royal Albert Hall, London and his children’s cantata Dragons (to poems by Nick Toczek) is published by Music Sales, London. Chamber works include a Quartet for Strings , a Nonet for Strings , a Piano Quartet ‘The Grammar of Hope’ and a recent Piano Trio . His opera The Jailer’s Tale was premiered by the Finchley Children’s Music Group in 2010. Malcolm celebrated his 60th birthday with a concert of his music and recent pieces include ‘Chagall’s Violin’ for seven violins, commissioned to commemorate Lord Menuhin’s centenary, with performances at King’s Place and the Wimbledon International Music Festival.