Composer Profile - Paul Ayres

Paul Ayres many compositions include works for:

Solo voice: texts by Wilfred Owen, Brian Patten, John Donne, Shakespeare and others - work has been broadcast on BBC TV's This is the Day.

Choir music for amateur and professional groups, concert or church use, performed by many choirs in the UK and broadcast on Classic FM.

Theatre music - musicals (The Gentile, Doctor Frankenstein, Goblins) and incidental music for many plays.

Instrumental compositions include commissions from Air Concertante Denmark (2 saxophones and organ), Ocarina Workshop Northamptonshire (ocarina quartet) and private sponsors (piano/organ);

Arrangements for various musicians, from Meatloaf's "Bat out of Hell" for BBC TV's Even Further Abroad with Jonathan Meades to spirituals and hymns.

Paul was selected as a finalist in the BBC Young Composer of the Year Award 1992.

Works available from Nymet Music:
Canonic Movement No. 1 for clarinet, 'cello and piano
The Schoolboy for voice and piano

(of acappella versions of four spirituals) "well and aptly arranged"
John Rutter

"a versatile and sensitive composer, equally at home in a wide variety of styles"
The Church Times 4.x.96

"an impressively versatile range of style and inventiveness"
John Scott, Director of Music, St Paul's Cathedral, London

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