WE are the music-makers, And we are the dreamers of dreams.
(Arthur O'Shaughnessy)

 

 

                               HarpsichordFest 2006

 

Graham Fitkin

 

' a clever, absolutely fresh sounding, jazzy effusion of ideas, carefully structured and paced so as to keep the listener riveted at every stage'.   The Guardian

Graham Fitkin's 'post-minimalist' label often falls short of describing his true style which although unashamedly tonal and repetitive, is also concerned with the shifting of tonal centres and with the mechanisms of manipulating repetitive processes.

He is also particularly drawn to the possibilities of texture from multiple keyboards, having worked with Piano Circus and founding and performing in the 4-piano group Nanquidno. His two most recent major works for keyboards are CIRCUIT, a Double Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra recently commissioned by the BBC and KAPLAN, a sixty-minute piece for two synthesisers and film based on the central character from Hitchcock's 'North by Northwest' which has toured the UK, Japan and Holland.

Fitkin has collaborated with today's foremost performers of new music including the Apollo Saxophone Quartet, the Smith Quartet and Ensemble Bash. He has also worked with many of the world's great choreographers and dance companies and has been commissioned by orchestras such as the Halle, the BBC Philharmonic and the Bournemouth Symphony.

He continues to compose, perform and conduct with the Graham Fitkin Group, an ensemble of saxophones, strings and piano.

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