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Simon Holt

*1958 GB
Composer of Classical

Simon Holt (born February 21, 1958, Bolton, England) is a British composer. Simon Holt was educated at Bolton School. Shortly after graduating from the Royal Northern College of Music, he became firmly established on the new music circuit with a series of commissions and fruitful collaborations with the London Sinfonietta and the Nash Ensemble. Influenced by Messiaen, Xenakis and Feldman as well as visual artists such as Goya, Giacometti and Brancusi, his music is complex, dramatic and often enigmatic. The intricate internal structures of his works are concealed by a seemingly impulsive nature. During the 1980s he worked primarily in complex soundworlds, while since the 1990s the dense textures have often been offset by Feldmanesque moments of calm, that Holt refers to as ‘still centres’.

     
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String Quartet No. 3: I. Matins on Bracing Change by JACK Quartet, Doric String Quartet, Carducci String Quartet & Guy Johnston
A Table of Noises: I. Jute on Holt: A Table of Noises, St. Vitus in the Kettle & Witness to a Snow Miracle by Simon Holt, Colin Currie, Chloë Hanslip, Hallé & Nicholas Collon
Klop's Last Bite: No. 10, The Mad Flea Exacts Revenge on Holt: A Book of Colours by Simon Holt & Rolf Hind
String Quartet No. 3: III. A Ladder to the Moon on Bracing Change by JACK Quartet, Doric String Quartet, Carducci String Quartet & Guy Johnston
String Quartet No. 3: II. Wu Ping's Nail House on Bracing Change by JACK Quartet, Doric String Quartet, Carducci String Quartet & Guy Johnston
Feet of Clay on Heinen, Ulrich: Baroque and Contemporary Music for Solo Cello by Ulrich Heinen
A Table of Noises: Ghost I on Holt: A Table of Noises, St. Vitus in the Kettle & Witness to a Snow Miracle by Simon Holt, Colin Currie, Chloë Hanslip, Hallé & Nicholas Collon
A Table of Noises: II. Fly on Holt: A Table of Noises, St. Vitus in the Kettle & Witness to a Snow Miracle by Simon Holt, Colin Currie, Chloë Hanslip, Hallé & Nicholas Collon
String Quartet No. 3: VI. Night's Mantle Descends on Bracing Change by JACK Quartet, Doric String Quartet, Carducci String Quartet & Guy Johnston
Maiastra for Solo Flute on Sounds from Within by Wissam Boustany & Stefan Warzycki

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Discography
Title Artist Year Type
Bracing ChangeSimon Holt, The JACK Quartet, Donnacha Dennehy, Doric String Quartet, Anthony Gilbert, The Carducci String Quartet, Guy Johnston2017Album
A Book Of ColoursSimon Holt - Rolf Hind2009Album
Boots Of Lead – Feet Of ClaySimon Holt2004Album
....Era MadrugadaSimon Holt - The Nash Ensemble, Lionel Friend1993Album
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