Jonathan Harvey

HARVEY, JONATHAN Performance List as at 02/04/2007
### World premiere, ## National premiere, # Capital premiere, p = provisional
03/06/07 How could the soul not take flight Opéra Nationale de Paris, Bastille France
06/06/07 Wagner Dream ## soloists of the Netherlands Opera/Ictus/IRCAM/Martyn Brabbins/Pierre Audi
Holland Festival, Zuiveringshal Oost Cultuurpark Westergasfabriek, Amsterdam Netherlands
08/06/07 Wagner Dream soloists of the Netherlands Opera/Ictus/IRCAM/Martyn Brabbins/Pierre Audi
Holland Festival, Zuiveringshal Oost Cultuurpark Westergasfabriek, Amsterdam Netherlands
09/06/07 Wagner Dream soloists of the Netherlands Opera/Ictus/IRCAM/Martyn Brabbins/Pierre Audi
Holland Festival, Zuiveringshal Oost Cultuurpark Westergasfabriek, Amsterdam Netherlands
09/06/07 Sprechgesang Peter Veale/musikFabrik/Peter Rundel Agora Festival, Maison de la Radio France France
09/06/07 Calling Across Time Orchestre de Paris Radio France France
11/06/07 Wagner Dream soloists of the Netherlands Opera/Ictus/IRCAM/Martyn Brabbins/Pierre Audi Holland Festival, Zuiveringshal Oost Cultuurpark Westergasfabriek, Amsterdam Netherlands
12/06/07 Wagner Dream soloists of the Netherlands Opera/Ictus/IRCAM/Martyn Brabbins/Pierre Audi
Holland Festival, Zuiveringshal Oost Cultuurpark Westergasfabriek, Amsterdam Netherlands
13/06/07 Hidden Voice 1 Nieuw Ensemble/Asko Muziekgebouw, (Holland Festival) Amsterdam Netherlands
13/06/07 Wagner Dream The Netherlands Opera, IRCAM Holland Festival, Zuiveringshal Oost Cultuurpark Westergasfabriek, Amsterdam Netherlands
13/06/07 Calling Across Time Nieuw Ensemble/Asko Muziekgebouw, (Holland Festival) Amsterdam Netherlands
13/06/07 Death of Light, Light of Death Nieuw Ensemble/Asko Muziekgebouw, (Holland Festival) Amsterdam Netherlands
13/06/07 Jubilus Nieuw Ensemble/Asko Muziekgebouw, (Holland Festival) Amsterdam Netherlands
13/06/07 Hidden Voice 2 Nieuw Ensemble/Asko Muziekgebouw, (Holland Festival) Amsterdam Netherlands
13/06/07 Sprechgesang ## Marieke Schut/Nieuw Ensemble/ASKO Ensemble/Ed Spanjaard Muziekgebouw, (Holland Festival) Amsterdam Netherlands
14/06/07 Chant iRCAM ESPACE DE PROJECTiON, PARIS France
14/06/07 Curve with Plateaux iRCAM ESPACE DE PROJECTiON, PARIS France
16/06/07 Mortuos Plango, Vivos Voco Spitalfields Festival, Shoreditch Church, London UK
16/06/07 Tombeau de Messiaen Philip Mead Spitalfields Festival, London UK
21/06/07 Climbing Frame CoMA/Gregory Rose Spitalfields Festival, Christ Church, London UK
23/06/07 Wagner Dream soloists of the Netherlands Opera/Ictus/IRCAM/Martyn Brabbins/Pierre Audi (concert perf) Agora Festival: Nanterre Amandiers France
24/06/07 Climbing Frame CoMA ensemble/Gregory Rose Corsham Festival, Corsham, Wiltshire UK
24/06/07 Wagner Dream soloists of the Netherlands Opera/Ictus/IRCAM/Martyn Brabbins/Pierre Audi (concert perf) Agora Festival: Nanterre Amandiers France
07/07/07 Body Mandala BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra/Illan Volkov BBC Radio 3 UK
07/07/07 Timepieces BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra/Ilan Volkov BBC Radio 3 UK
12/07/07 String Quartet No 4 Arditti Quartet Metz France
31/07/07 Death of Light, Light of Death Ictus Festival di Crete Senesi, Siena Italy Clarinet Trio Ensemble Integrales Bregenzer Festspiele Austria
09/09/07 String Quartet No 2 Arditti Quartet Beethoven Festival, Bonn Germany
23/09/07 Madonna of Winter and Spring Casa da Musica Symphony Orchestra/Baldur Brönnimann Musica Viva Festival, Casa de Musica, Porto Portugal
29/09/07 Tombeau de Messiaen tbc CBSO Centre, Birmingham UK
29/09/07 Ricercare una melodia Kyle Horch (saxophone) CBSO Centre, Birmingham UK
10/10/07 Sprechgesang Peter Veale/musikFabrik/tbc Biennale de Venezia Italy
12/10/07 Jubilus Steven Dann/tbc/tbc Soundstreams, Toronto Canada
13/10/07 Sprechgesang Peter Veale/MusikFabrik/Peter Rundel Palais des fêtes, Festival MUSICA, Strasbourg France
**/11/07 Song Offerings Lausanne Conservatory France
**/11/07 Lotuses Lausanne Conservatory France
**/11/07 Death of Light, Light of Death Lausanne Conservatory France
**/11/07 Clarinet Trio Lausanne Conservatory France
14/11/07 Nataraja Lausanne Conservatory France
14/11/07 Ricercare una Melodia (trumpet) Lausanne Conservatory France
14/11/07 Album Lausanne Conservatory France
14/11/07 Tombeau de Messiaen Lausanne Conservatory France
18/11/07 Sprechgesang musikFabrik St Paul's Hall, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival UK
18/01/08 Bhakti Ensemble Intercontemporain/Susanna Mälkki Cité de la Musique, Paris France
17/02/08 String Quartet No 4 Diotima Quartet Festival ECLAT, Stuttgart Germany
17/02/08 Song Offerings RAM Student ensemble Royal Academy of Music, London UK
29/03/08 New work: Rundfunkchor Rundfunkchor Berlin/Berliner Philharmoniker/Sir Simon Rattle Berlin & Semana de Musica Religiosa de Cuenca Philharmonie, Berlin Germany
30/03/08 New work: Rundfunkchor Rundfunkchor Berlin/Berliner Philharmoniker/Sir Simon Rattle Berlin & Semana de Musica Religiosa de Cuenca Berlin Philharmonie, Germany
27/04/08 Tombeau de Messiaen Bahar Dardanca Studio Ernest Ansermet, Geneva Switzerland
25/05/08 Mothers Shall Not Cry New London Chamber Choir/Brighton Festival Chorus/Philharmonia Orchestra/Sir Andrew Davis Brighton Festival UK
07/06/08 Wheel of Emptiness Pierre-Andre Valade (cond) CBSO Centre, Birmingham UK
24/10/08 ...towards a pure land Lithuanian State SO/Peter Eötvös ISCM World Music Days/Gaida Festival, Vilnius Lithuania
26/10/08 Sprechgesang tbc/Ensemble Modern/Peter Eötvös ISCM World Music Days/Gaida Festival, Vilnius Lithuania
26/10/08 Mortuos Plango, Vivos Voco ISCM World Music Days/Gaida Festival, St Catharina Church, Vilnius Lithuania
**/04/09 Passion and Resurrection New London Chamber Choir/tbc Casa da Musica, Porto Portugal

Jonathan Harvey is one of the busiest UK contemporary composers, with his work regularly performed all across Europe and the UK. Very much in demand, Harvey's work is attracting commissions from many international organisations, his music being extensively played at all major international contemporary music festivals and large venues including the ENO, Theatre de la Monnaie, Brussels and the Netherlands Opera. His diary is currently full with commissions all the way up to 2010.

A favourite with contemporary musicians, Harvey's music is a constant in many celebrated contemporary ensembles.. repertoires - Ensemble Intercontemporain, Asko, Nieuw Ensemble (Amsterdam), Ictus Ensemble (Brussels), TM+, Accroche Note, Ensemble Modern,and Arditti Quartet. Currently, there are around 80 recordings of Jonathan Harvey..s compositions available on CD.

Born in Sutton Coldfield in 1939, Jonathan Harvey was brought up in a musical family. His biggest early influence was his father who often composed at the family piano. His father..s musical friends would gather at the house, Jonathan joining them on cello, his brother on violin. Another early influence was that of the Benedictine monasteries he visited in his twenties. For several days at a time he would immerse himself in the quietude and ritual of these places, which only enhanced his readings of St. John of the Cross and other Christian mystics. With no desire to become a monk, Harvey remained connected to Christianity, exploring Hinduism and Buddhism, meditating and writing music, embracing both the sensuous and the spiritual. After winning a scholarship from Repton to St. John's College, Cambridge, Harvey studied with Erwin Stein, and Hans Keller, acquainting himself with procedures in medieval and renaissance music, as well as Schoenberg, Berg, Messiaen and, his mentor, Britten. He obtained his PhD from Glasgow Univeristy and a brief stint as deputy cellist with the BBC Scottish Orchestra followed before joining Academia in 1964 at the Music Department of Southampton University.

Jonathan Harvey was put firmly on the map of contemporary music when his work got noticed by legendary Pierre Boulez in early 1980s. An invitation from Boulez to work at IRCAM soon followed resulting in eight realisations for the Ensemble Intercontemporain, including the tape piece Mortuos Plango, Vivos Voco - the first wholly electronic piece to be performed at the Proms - Bhakti for ensemble and electronics, Ritual Melodies for computer-manipulated sounds, Advaya for cello and live and pre-recorded sounds, String Quartet No.4 and the opera Wagner Dream. Harvey has composed for most other genres: orchestra (including Madonna of Winter and Spring, Tranquil Abiding and White as Jasmine), chamber (including four String Quartets, Soleil Noir/Chitra, and Death of Light, Light of Death, for instance) as well as works for solo instruments, most notably writing Percussion Concerto for Evelyn Glennie and Bird Concerto with Pianosong for Joanna McGregor. Producing a large output of choral works, including the large cantata with electronics Mothers shall not Cry (2000), Harvey's church opera Passion and Resurrection (l981) was the subject of a BBC television film. His opera Inquest of Love, commissioned by ENO, was premiered there in 1993 and subsequently performed at Theatre de la Monnaie, Brussels in 1994. His third opera, Wagner Dream, will be performed in three capitals in 2007. It's subject is Wagner's vision at death of the Buddhist legend of Prakriti and Ananda,'Die Sieger'.

In 1999 Jonathan Harvey published two books, on inspiration (Music and Inspiration) and spirituality (In Quest of Spirit). He has also published a book on Stockhausen. Today, Harvey holds posts at St John's College, Cambridge (Honorary Fellow) and Sussex University (Honorary Professor of Music) as well as being Composer-in-Residence at the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. He was professor at Stanford University, California from 1995-2000. Happily married to Rosa, Jonathan Harvey lives a quite life in Lewes when not criss-crossing Europe to attend his numerous performances. He has two grown up children .. Anna Harvey, London based singer songwriter and band member of electro pop outfit Fake Fur and Dominic Harvey .. architect surfer residing at the South of France. He has 3 grandchildren. -------