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Dr. Jolyon Laycock
Composer, pianist,
researcher, music promoter.
Studied music at Nottingham University under Ivor Keys and Arnold
Whittall.
Completed M Phil
in Music Composition in 1971 working with Henri Pousseur, Roger Smalley, Pierre
Marietan, Michel Decoust, and Cornelius Cardew.
Ph.D at the University of York: A Changing Role for the
Composer in Society April 2002.
Now published as a book by
Peter Lang, Bern Switzerland 2005.
Director of
Sound Studio at Birmingham Arts Laboratory 1970-75
Director of Electronic
Sound Studio at Spectro Arts Workshop, Newcastle
on Tyne 1975-79
Music and
Dance Co-ordinator at the Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol
between 1979-1989
Concert Director at Bath
Spa University
College and the University
of Bath 1989-2000
Founded the
award-winning international concert programme Rainbow over Bath.
Seconded to the Bath
International Festival as Contemporary Music Programme Director 1994
Set up the European musical exchange
programme “Rainbow across Europe” funded by
the Kaleidoscope fund of the European Union and the Arts Council A4E Lottery 1996-2000. (Described by Gillian Perkins as a ground-breaking initiative which
took “creative music making into European classrooms in several countries at
once.”)
Composer in Residence at the Corsham
Festival June 2002.
Lecturer in Arts Management & Administration, Oxford Brookes
University 2004 to present.
Works include
experimental and environmental sound-scapes, music for solo piano, solo
woodwind, choir, orchestra and chamber ensemble and 2 operas.
1994 Commissioned by
the Diocese of Bath & Wells to write “Edgar the King”, a setting for soloists, choir
and orchestra of poems from the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle.
Educational and
community works include “Dream
River: Great Wall”, a
creative project for junior school children in collaboration with the UK
Chinese Ensemble funded by Youth Music in 2002 & 2003.
World premiere of “Among Seven Hills” (Sinfonia Concertante for piano and orchestra) by the Emerald Ensemble scheduled for 14 April 2010, Colston Hall, Bristol.