Colin Lawson

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Colin Lawson
FRCM
Birth nameColin James Lawson
Born (1949-07-24) 24 July 1949 (age 74)
Saltburn-by-the-Sea, North Yorkshire, England
GenresClassical
Occupation(s)Musician, scholar, broadcaster
Instrument(s)Clarinet

Colin James Lawson

clarinettist, scholar, and broadcaster
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Life and career

He was born in

Keble College, Oxford.[1] Postgraduate studies in music at the University of Birmingham saw Lawson awarded an MA in 1972 for his study of the clarinet in eighteenth-century repertoire. His pioneering doctoral research into the chalumeau[2] was completed at the University of Aberdeen in 1976. In 2000, in recognition of his work across theory and practice, Lawson received a DMus from the University of London. In 2015, celebrating Lawson's pre-eminence in performance studies, the University of Sheffield awarded him an HonDMus.[3]

Following academic positions in Aberdeen and Sheffield, Lawson was appointed to the Chair of Performance Studies at Goldsmiths, University of London in 1998. Between 2001 and 2005 he was Pro-Vice Chancellor and Dean of the London College of Music & Media at Thames Valley University (now the University of West London).[4] In July 2005 he became Director of the Royal College of Music, London, where he holds a Personal Chair in Historical Performance.[5]

Lawson is internationally recognised as a performer of chalumeaux and historical clarinets, having held principal positions with leading British period orchestras, notably The

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts and Carnegie Hall.[6] His extensive discography comprises concertos by Fasch, Hook, Mahon, Mozart, Spohr, Telemann, Vivaldi and Weber, as well as a considerable variety of chamber and orchestral music. Among recent recordings are two discs of sonatas by Xavier Lefèvre and a highly acclaimed CD of the Mozart Clarinet Quintet and other fragments.[7]

Lawson has an especially close association with Mozart’s

The Cambridge Companion to the Clarinet (1995), a Cambridge Handbook to Brahms’s Clarinet Quintet (1998) and The Cambridge Companion to the Orchestra (2003). With Robin Stowell he initiated the series of Cambridge Handbooks to the Historical Performance of Music, including their joint introductory volume (1999) as well as his own volume on the early clarinet (2000). The Cambridge History of Musical Performance edited by Lawson and Stowell was published in February 2012. Their most recent volume, The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Historical Performance in Music, was published in September 2018. In 2019 the volume was recognised as an "outstanding work of music reference", winning IAML's C.B. Oldman Award.[8]

In the Queen's

Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for services to music and music education.[9]

References

  1. ^ Pratt, George. ""Lawson, Colin."". Grove Music Online. Oxford Music Online. Retrieved 16 January 2012.
  2. ^ Lawson, Colin. ""Chalumeau."". Grove Music Online. Oxford Music Online. Retrieved 11 June 2016.
  3. ^ ""University recognises twelve honorary graduates during summer graduation."". Archived from the original on 11 January 2017. Retrieved 12 June 2016.
  4. ^ "Colin Lawson". Debrett's People of Today. Debrett's Limited. Retrieved 17 January 2012.
  5. ^ "Royal College of Music". Archived from the original on 7 December 2013. Retrieved 29 November 2013.
  6. ^ "Clarinet Classics". Archived from the original on 22 October 2011. Retrieved 17 January 2012.
  7. ^ ""Mozart Clarinet Quintet."". Retrieved 4 June 2024.
  8. ^ ""C.B. Oldman Award."". Retrieved 18 May 2020.
  9. ^ ""Birthday Honours 2016: the Prime Minister's list."" (PDF). Retrieved 10 June 2016.

External links

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