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Composer living in London, working in Europe and the UK.
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Steven Daverson (Northampton, UK, 1985) is an alumnus of the Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester, and the Royal College of Music, London, studying under David Horne, Jonathan Cole and Mark-Anthony Turnage. He also attended the Britten-Pears Young Artists course in Aldeburgh as well as the Summer Courses in Darmstadt, the Impuls Academy in Graz, and IRCAM in Paris, receiving tuition from Pierluigi Billone, Chaya Czernowin, Brian Ferneyhough, Beat Furrer, Oliver Knussen, Magnus Lindberg, Brice Pauset, Enno Poppe, and Rebecca Saunders, among others. Steven’s work has been featured at festivals across the UK and Europe, including the Aldeburgh Festival, the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Darmstadt Ferienkurse, Music of Today, Traiettoria Parma and the Wittener Tage für Neue Kammermusik; performed by ensembles such as the Arditti Quartet, BBC Singers, Ensemble Modern, Ensemble Recherche, Klangforum Wien, London Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Moscow Studio for New Music, broadcast on BBC Radio 3, SWR, NDR, Hessischer Rundfunk and Bayerischer Rundfunk. A CD of his chamber and ensemble music, Shadow Walker, is available on the Col Legno label (https://www.col-legno.com/en/shop/complete_catalog/shadow_walker). In 2011, Steven became the youngest-ever recipient of the Composer’s prize of the Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung, one of the most prestigious prizes in contemporary music. He was also the winner of the Royal Philharmonic Society Composer’s Prize for 2011 and the Fifth Jurgenson Composition Competition in 2010. Recent projects include an extended work for Ensemble Recherche entitled "Filonov’s Microscope", commissioned by the Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung and WDR to be premièred in Witten in May 2014; and "Pegasus" for female voice, chamber ensemble and live-electronics commissioned by the Harry and Alice Eiler Foundation for the Hamburg-based Decoder Ensemble, and performed at the Darmstadt Ferienkurse in 2014. Current work includes "Arkenar: A Report form the Interior", a new for microtonal tuba and live electronics after on Aleksey German's film "Hard To Be A God", for tuba player Jack Adler-McKean, for performance in the upcoming Darmstadt Ferienkurse 2016.

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IR
International R
11 years ago

Sceptics will no doubt point to this music's dense textures as indicative of its archetypical modernist complexity, but Daverson's ear for instrumental balance and sense of formal proportion make for an absorbing and (whisper it quietly!) pleasurable listen...a convincing overview of Daverson's output so far

TG
The G
12 years ago

the fractured, elusive surfaces and flurries of Daverson's music can suddenly crystallise into disconcertingly expressive gestures, which seem almost nostalgically tonal, so that nothing is ever quite as it seems

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