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	Gavin Bryars
		Bryars was also involved around this time with the Portsmouth Sinfonia[?], an ensemble which was made up of performers of all musical abilities which played (or attempted to play) popular classical works.
		Bryars' later works have included A Man In A Room, Gambling, which was written on a commission from BBC Radio 3[?] and Artangel[?].
		Bryars has written a large number of other works, including three operas, and a number of instrumental pieces, among them three string quartets and several concertos.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ga/Gavin_Bryars.html (435 words)

	Gavin Bryars - Biography - AOL Music
		Bryars originally thought of the piece as a musical equivalent of conceptual art and did not originally intend for the piece to be performed.
		In 1977, Bryars collaborated with librettist Fred Orton on the opera Irma, which was staged by Tom Phillips and released on Obscure with an orchestra conducted by Bryars.
		Bryars capped a productive period of his career with a self-titled collection of works in a variety of settings in 1998, followed by the CD reissue of his first album and the archival Joseph Holbrooke tape.
	music.aol.com /artist/gavin-bryars/2971/biography (903 words)

	The Music Show - 21/02/2004: Gavin Bryars
		Gavin Bryars is the composer-in-residence at this year’s Festival of Perth.
		Gavin Bryars: Well I think the first stuff was when I was a teenage schoolboy was things like the Gerry Mulligan Quartet, the Modern Jazz Quartet, Dave Brubeck, but then very quickly I got hooked on Ornette Coleman and Miles Davis, Bill Evans, and the more adventurous stuff.
		Gavin Bryars: Well when I was working as a jazz musician, I was getting more and more interested in composed music, especially the music of Cage and the composers around Cage, Martin Feldman and Christian Wolf and so on, and that area interested me immensely.
	www.abc.net.au /rn/music/mshow/s1077806.htm (4192 words)

	Greg Sandow -- Gavin Bryars
		Bryars has said, made people weep when he accidentally left it playing with the door of his recording studio open, and the finished work goes even deeper.
		Bryars says he relishes "the full and satisfying effect of a single chord," while having no formulae to tell him how one sound is connected to the next.
		Bryars is one of the most distinctive composers alive, and one of the few who takes new classical music out of its self-imposed ghetto.
	www.gregsandow.com /bryars.htm (1110 words)

	Bryars, Gavin
		Gavin Bryars, born in 1943 in Goole, Yorkshire, is the most provocative and original member of an unusually gifted generation of composers.
		Bryars has worked for many years with early music performers and has now embarked on a series of seven books of madrigals: to date three are finished - for the Hilliard Ensemble (texts by Blake Morrison), for the Trio Mediaeval Sextet (texts by Petrarch) and for Red Byrd (texts Petrarch translated J. Synge).
		Gavin Bryars was featured composer at the NYYD Festival in Tallin in Autumn 2003, and toured widely with his Ensemble.
	www.schott-music.com /autoren/KomponistenAZ/show,3498.html (620 words)

	Gavin Bryars
		Now one of the better-known modern composers, Gavin Bryars began his music career as a jazz bassist, performing in an improvisational context with musicians such as guitarist Derek Bailey and drummer Tony Oxley.
		Bryars first established himself as a composer in his own right with the piece The Sinking of the Titanic (1969).
		Throughout the subsequent decades, Bryars has explored a wide variety of musical settings -- including full-scale operas, string quartets, works for solo bass (with musician Charlie Haden), vocal arrangements (for The Hilliard Ensemble), and, of course, numerous commissions for orchestra.
	www.nndb.com /people/751/000044619 (236 words)

	Decca Music Group - Composers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Gavin Bryars is one of Britain's leading composers.
		Gavin Bryars' new opera based on Jules Verne's novella Doctor Ox's Experiment, with poet Blake Morrison, jointly commissioned by Opéra de Lyon, English National Opera, Canadian Opera Company and BBC Television will receive its première in June 1997.
		He is founder and director of the Gavin Bryars Ensemble, which makes regular international tours, with performances in France, Italy, Spain, Belgium, Holland and Austria, as well as annual concerts at the South Bank Centre in London.
	www.deccaclassics.com /music/composers/bryars.html (424 words)

	Gavin Bryars - Free Music Downloads, Videos, Lyrics, CDs, MP3s, Bio, Merchandise and Links
		In 1977, Bryars collaborated with librettist Fred Orton on the opera +Irma, which was staged by Tom Phillips and released on Obscure with an orchestra conducted by Bryars.
		Thus inspired, Bryars began composing his first solo opera, +Medea, which was staged by Robert Wilson in Paris and Lyon in 1984.
		Bryars' second opera, +Doctor Ox's Experiment, was based on a story by Jules Verne and was staged by Canadian film director Atom Egoyan in London in 1998.
	www.artistdirect.com /nad/music/artist/bio/0,,409352,00.html (935 words)

	Gavin Bryars : After the Requiem - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect
		After the Requiem continued Gavin Bryars' journey away from the more experimental work that made his reputation early in his career toward pieces possessing a more melancholic and romantic quality.
		In fact, Bryars' earliest musical ventures were as a member of the British free improvisation community, so the inclusion of Parker has some historical background.
		Fans of Bryars' more substantial work from the '70s or his improvising skills in groups like Joseph Holbrooke may find After the Requiem a little too sweet for their tastes, while listeners who are looking for something a bit meatier than Arvo Part or Henryk Gorecki may find their appetite satisfied.
	www.artistdirect.com /store/artist/album/0,,58615,00.html (303 words)

	Gavin Bryars
		Bryars has been writing a series of Laude over the past few years and for the first time a selection are now available on commerical release.
		Bryars travelled with Brattaberg to caves in his native Faroe Islands to pre-record sounds which will be used and manipulated within each performance by live sound technician Chris Ekers.
		Gavin Bryars Third Book of Madrigals was premiered on Thursday 27 November during the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival by vocal ensemble Red Byrd.
	www.schott-music.com /news/komponistennews/show,3735.html (732 words)

	Composers - Bryars, Gavin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Though their conceptual nature was new to British music, it was thoroughly in keeping with Bryars’ own creative concerns, combining an openness to experience with an imagination rich in powers of association.
		Bryars has worked for many years with early music performers and has now embarked on a series of seven books of madrigals: to date two are finished - for the Hilliard Ensemble (texts by Blake Morrison) and for the Trio Mediaeval Sextet (texts by Petrarch).
		This autumn Gavin Bryars is featured composer at the NYYD Festival in Tallin, and is touring widely with his Ensemble.
	schott-cms.com /nocache/smi_en/autoren/KomponistenAZ/2,734800ef01e.html (629 words)

	AmbientMusicGuide.com - Gavin Bryars
		Bryars' music is hard to categorise; “contemporary classical” and “minimalist” are terms that pop up fairly regularly whenever this UK composer's name is mentioned.
		Using a looped excerpt from a tape of an old tramp singing, Bryars gradually evolves a slow orchestral arrangement around it which grows in intensity over 70-plus minutes and is eventually joined towards the end by the gravely voiced Tom Waits.
		Using the hymn "Autumn" as his departure point, Bryars imagines what it was like to be on the infamous sinking ship as the house band continued to play its soothing melody.
	www.ambientmusicguide.com /pages/B/bryars.php (267 words)

	Gavin Bryars - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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 was a founding member of the Portsmouth Sinfonia, an orchestra whose membership consisted of performers who "embrace the full range of musical competence" - and who played (or attempted to play) popular classical works.
		In one of the first three releases from the label, Brian Eno's album Discreet Music, Bryars conducted and co-arranged the three pieces "Three Variations on the Canon in D Major by Johann Pachelbel" which constitute the second half of the album.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gavin_Bryars (645 words)

	Interview: Gavin Bryars
		Bryars: Brian Eno actually admires this kind of music, which he first heard as a painting student developing into a rock musician.
		Bryars: The academic area of new music or modern music festivals is not something which attracts me at all.
		Bryars: I did that as a personal journey when I was a philosophy student and working as a jazz musician, so I moved from philosphy to music.
	www.culturekiosque.com /klassik/intervie/e_bryars.htm (2887 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Bryars: Jesus's Blood Never Failed Me Yet: Music: Gavin Bryars (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Bryars - The Sinking of the Titanic ~ Gavin Bryars
		Bryars has taken 20 seconds of recorded material, almost ambient in the way it was captured, and spun a deeply moving piece of music around it.
		Add the wonderfully sympathetic Gavin Bryars orchestration, sometimes extremely simple, other times rich and lush, and you have a the most unlikely blend of vocal line and harmonic backing that fixes you in the strangest way.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Bryars-Jesuss-Blood-Never-Failed/dp/B0000040UT (1233 words)

	Disquiet: interviews: Gavin Bryars (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Gavin Bryars' musical clarity apparently has its source in confusion.
		And Bryars' most recent recording, Vita Nova (ECM New Series), is something of a curriculum vitae of the composer's holy resources, from the call-to-worship bells that open "Four Elements," to the variety of Church prayer that inform the album's two vocal set pieces, both with Latin texts.
		Production is very much a hands-on process for Bryars; working closely with his sound designer, he strives to convince today's classical audience that the recording studio is not, to borrow a phrase from his ECM label mate Arvo Part, a tabula rasa.
	www.disquiet.com /bryars.html (528 words)

	Eye Weekly - Gavin Bryars' idea of north - 02.11.99
		Talking by phone from England before making his third visit to the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra New Music Festival, Bryars agrees that public radio support has contributed to a healthier climate for new music here than in the U.S. Moreover, Canadians may be naturally sympathetic to his music.
		The title piece was written in memory of Bryars' friend Bill Cadman, a sound engineer who died in the 1988 Lockerbie plane crash, and is performed by the Hilliard Ensemble and Fretwork.
		For the recording, Bryars enlisted more Canadians -- David "Stretch" Quinney, whom he calls "one of the great recording engineers of all time," and producer (and host of CBC Radio's Two New Hours) David Jaeger, who pointed out to Bryars how these seemingly disparate works are connected.
	www.eye.net /eye/issue/issue_02.11.99/music/bryars.html (631 words)

	Amazon.com: Bryars: Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet: Music: Gavin Bryars,Michael Riesman,Tom Waits (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Bryars, who is one of England's best regarded minimalist composers, was helping with the audio on a friend's movie.
		Bryars gradually added accompanists, so that continuous loop of the the lonely ditty was eventually joined by a string section or an entire orchestra or whatever he had on hand.
		Bryars' tape of a "tramp" (his word) singing "Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet" quietly to himself is the basis for a stirring work, where building strings and orchestra create a tapestry that mesmerizes the listener.
	www.amazon.com /Bryars-Jesus-Blood-Never-Failed/dp/B0000040UT (1861 words)

	REDCAT: Season - Musical Explorations Series: Gavin Bryars
		Considered one of Britain's most important post-minimalist composers, Gavin Bryars mixes classical,jazz and modern influences in music that is both intellectually engaging and emotionally touching.
		Bryars currently works with the human voice and, in particular, with soloists who can cross over from classical to contemporary music.
		Meet Gavin Bryars after the concert during a post-concert discussion of the work.
	redcat.org /season/music/gavinbryars.html (240 words)

	BBC - Radio 3 New Music - Gavin Bryars - From Egil's Saga: interviews
		Robert Worby interviewed Gavin Bryars on 2nd March 2004 shortly before he started composing From Egil's Saga.
		Robert Worby asks Gavin Bryars about his earliest auditory memory, his choice of 'Desert Island Disc' and his reading preferences.
		Lastly, Gavin reveals from whom he would most like to take a lesson in composition.
	www.bbc.co.uk /radio3/newmusic/fromegilssagaiv.shtml (306 words)

	BBC - Radio 3 New Music - Gavin Bryars - From Egil's Saga
		Leading English experimental composer Gavin Bryars researched the Viking heritage of Eastern England for a new commission, ' From Egil's Saga '.
		Bryars, born 1943, was commissioned by Radio 3 and the Eastern Orchestral Board to create this new work, which was premiered on Thursday 11th November 2004 by the London Sinfonietta at the Cambridge Corn Exchange.
		To complement this commission Gavin Bryars devised a binaural fantasy exploring the Icelandic saga of Egil: Viking warrior, poet, philosopher, drinker.
	www.bbc.co.uk /radio3/newmusic/fromegilssaga.shtml (325 words)

	Amazon.ca: Gavin Bryars: Vita Nova: Music: Gavin Bryars,Roger Heaton,Annemarie Dreyer,Rebecca Firth,David James,Ulrike ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		~ Gavin Bryars (Composer), Roger Heaton (Conductor), Annemarie Dreyer (Performer), Rebecca Firth (Performer), David James (Performer), et al.
		Gavin Bryars writes for specific instrumentalists and singers rather than for performers in general--a powerful motivating force that--as Handel, Mozart, Britten, and others, including Bryars, have shown--often inspires great music.
		Bryars is a mature, thoughtful composer whose versatility--he writes for several different instrumental and vocal combinations here--never inhibits his originality.
	www.amazon.ca /Gavin-Bryars-Vita-Nova/dp/B0000031YN (355 words)

	Gavin Bryars (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Among the choreographers who have used Gavin Bryars music are William Forsythe, Lucinda Childs, Maguy Marin, Graeme Murphy, Siobhan Davies and Laurie Booth.
		The Gavin Bryars Band, led by the composer himself, regularly undertakes international tours.
		Bryars is married to Canadian film maker Anna Tchernakova.
	www.radio.cbc.ca /programs/2newhours/gavster.htm (199 words)

	Avantgarde Music. Gavin Bryars: biography, discography, reviews, links
		Bryars e' anche autore dell'opera Medea (1984) per Robert Wilson, cantata in francese e greco e suonata da un'orchestra priva di violini ma straripante di percussioni.
		Overall, Bryars' chamber works reveal how he fused his jazz roots and the classical/avantgarde techniques.
		Bryars' unique art is best represented by works such as Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet (1971), String Quartet No.1 (1986), Cadman Requiem (1989), After The Requiem (1991), The Green Ray (1991), Cello Concerto (1994), Violin Concerto (2000), which reveal the naive romanticism of his soul.
	www.scaruffi.com /oldavant/bryars.html (542 words)

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