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Jonathan Dean Harvey (3 May 1939 – 4 December 2012) [1] [2] was a British composer. He held teaching positions at universities and music conservatories in Europe and the United States. He held teaching positions at universities and music conservatories in Europe and the United States.
Harvey was born in Liverpool, Lancashire in 1968 to Maureen and Brian Harvey. [1] He has a brother, Timothy, who is a music teacher in Chester. A former secondary school English teacher, his first serious attempt as a playwright was in 1987. He entered a competition, with a first prize of £1,000, for young writers at the Liverpool Playhouse ...
Dec 7, 2012 · Jonathan Harvey was born on May 3, 1939, in Sutton Coldfield, a small town near Birmingham, England. He was a chorister at St Michael’s College, Tenbury, where he came to love the Anglican ...
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Jul 25, 2023 · Harvey’s first experience of performing music came as a boy chorister at St Michael’s College, Tenbury, where he sang two services every day. This early imme...
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Jonathan Harvey Composer. ‘He is a rare spirit, ever in search of the new and numinous’ The Sunday Times.
Born in Warwickshire in 1939, Jonathan Harvey was a chorister at St Michael’s College, Tenbury and later a major music scholar at St John’s College, Cambridge. He gained doctorates from the universities of Glasgow and Cambridge and (on the advice of Benjamin Britten) also studied privately with Erwin Stein and Hans Keller.
Dec 6, 2012 · Robert Barr. Jonathan Harvey, a British modernist composer whose operas and other works reflected a deep engagement with spirituality, has died at age 73. Faber Music, which published many of ...