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Peter Seabourne composer b.1960

UK composer who studied with Robin Holloway at Clare College, Cambridge (1980-3) and at York for a doctorate in composition with David Blake (1983-7).

During his student years works were performed on London's South Bank, The Institute for Contemporary Arts, Turner Sims Hall, Southampton, and at many festivals including Huddersfield, Camden, Cambridge, York Spring, Devizes. He won two national prizes, RVW Trust (joint winner) in 1985 and Benjamin Britten (2nd) in 1986. Works were played by Endymion, Vega Wind Quintet, Circle, Lontano, Tapestry.

In the late 1980s he abandoned writing and only recommenced in 2001. Since that time his work has received international recognition. Further prizes were awarded in the 1st Uuno Klami Competition in Finland (3rd and Orchestra Prize) in 2004; Ivan Spassov Competition in Bulgaria (3rd) also in 2004; IMRO Competition in Ireland 2005 and 2006 (Highly Commended, and 1st Prize respectively).

His work has been played in many European and American venues, often commmissioned, including Kotkta, Kuovola and Lahti, Finland (Piano Concerto no.1 and The Sadness of the King); Paul Klee Zentrum, Bern, Switzerland (Storyteller for solo double bass and ensemble); Lviv Philharmonic Hall, Ukraine (violin, cello and piano works); Olomouc, Czech Republic (Double Concerto for horn and orcehstra); Rio 'Cello Festival, Brazil ("on the blue shore of silence"). Other works have been given in New York, Chicago, London, Brussels, Bologna, Yerevan, Reutlingen, Koblenz, Sligo, Minnesota and Tønsberg.

Seabourne's work lies outside many current stylistic trends. However, it has its own distinctive modernity. His influences are widely drawn, but Janacek is a central one.