Biography cecilia mcdowalll

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    Biography

    Cecilia McDowall was born in London in 1951, educated at Edinburgh and London Universities and was a prize-winning student at Trinity College of Music. She has a distinctive style which speaks directly to listeners, instrumentalists and singers alike. Her most characteristic works fuse fluent melodic lines with occasional dissonant harmonies and rhythmic exuberance.

    Her music has been commissioned and performed by leading choirs, including the BBC Singers, ensembles, and at festivals worldwide. She has won many awards and has been short-listed four times for the British Composer Awards.

    Choral works published by OUP in the New Horizons series include three Latin motets: Ave Regina, Ave Maria and Regina Caeli, the exuberant Christmas cantata Christus Natus Est, the sumptuous peace motet Ave maris stella and the Magnificat.

    McDowall's works are regularly broadcast on BBC Radio and readily available on CD. Three Latin motets have been recorded by the renorned Ame

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    Cecilia McDowall

    British composer (born 1951)

    Cecilia McDowall (born 1951 in London, England) is a British composer, particularly known for her choral compositions.[1]

    Life and career

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    Born in London, McDowall attended Grey Coat Hospital School and read music at the University of Edinburgh, continuing her studies at Trinity College of Music in London and later completing an MMus in composition. She studied with Joseph Horovitz, Robert Saxton and Adam Gorb. She has won many awards and has been short-listed seven times for the British Composer Awards.[2] In 2014 she won the British Composer Award for her choral piece Night Flight.[3]

    Her publisher since 2010 has been Oxford University Press. Since 2015, she has been Visiting Composer in Dulwich College, London.[4] In 2015, she served on the panel for a Women Composers Competition of The Arcadian Singers of Oxford.[5] She lives in Chiswick.[6]

    Music

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    Composer: McDowall, Cecilia (b. 1951)

    Born in London, England, in 1951 Cecilia McDowall has been described bygd the International Record Review as having ‘a communicative gift that is very rare in modern music’. Often inspired by extra-musical influences, her writing combines a rhythmic vitality with expressive lyricism and fryst vatten, at times, intensely moving. She has won many awards and her works have been broadcast on BBC Radio and worldwide. She was short-listed for the 2005 British Composer Awards in two categories and short-listed again for the 2008 British Composer Awards. She has been represented at major festivals both in Britain and abroad and much of her work is on disc. A new choral disc, featuring the City of Canterbury Chamber Choir and soprano, Rachel Nicholls, was released on the Dutton Epoch label in 2009. The American choir, Phoenix Chorale, have recorded her Three Latin motets on Chandos (Spotless Rose) which won a Grammy award in 2009; they were also nominated fo