Elgar Howarth
Elgar Howarth (born 4 November 1935), is an English conductor, composer and trumpeter.
Biography
Howarth was born at
He has worked with all leading British orchestras, as well as many orchestras worldwide. He played the opening bars of Tippett's King Priam at its Coventry premiere in 1962, (conducting the whole work years later for English National Opera).[2] He has conducted many operas, and premiered
As a composer and former trumpet player, he writes mainly for brass instruments. Swedish trumpeter Håkan Hardenberger has premiered several of his works on cornet, including his Cornet Concerto, Canto, and Capriccio. He has written arrangements such as The Carnival of Venice Variations for brass ensemble [4] and Modest Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition arranged for brass band. Composer Roy Newsome remarks that "Howarth's masterly rendition of Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition (1979) dwarfed all previous transcriptions."[5]
He was brought up in a brass band family and has maintained his interest in the art form. Howarth has made a huge contribution to the modern repertoire of brass band music. Many of his works are recorded, most notably by the Grimethorpe Colliery Band[6] and the Eikanger-Bjørsvik band. He also was one of the trumpeters who performed with The Beatles on the song "Magical Mystery Tour".
A number of personal copies of works he has conducted (some including annotations) are catalogued[7] at the University of East Anglia's School of Music.[8]
In December 2003, he was revealed to have rejected a
References
- ^ Elgar Howarth. Royal Academy of Music.
- ^ Clark A. King Priam (review of English National Opera at the London Coliseum November 1999). Opera, January 2000, Vol 51 No 1, p104-107.
- ^ "Elgar Howarth". Archived from the original on 3 October 2015. Retrieved 2 October 2015.
- ^ "The Carnival of Venice Variations". BBC. Retrieved 16 August 2015.
- ISBN 9780754607175. Retrieved 16 August 2015.
During the 1970s there was a spate of transcriptions of Tudor music, mainly by Elgar Howarth. However, Howarth's masterly rendition of Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition (1979) dwarfed all previous transcriptions.
- ^ Elgar Howarth. Grimethorpe Colliery Band.
- ^ Elgar Howarth Scores. University of East Anglia. Archived 7 February 2012 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ School of Music. University of East Anglia.
- ^ "Honoured? No thanks, say elite of arts and TV". The Independent. 22 December 2003. Retrieved 16 September 2021.