Margaret Lucy Wilkins
Lucy Wilkins (born 13 November 1939) is an
.Biography
Margaret Lucy Wilkins was born in
Wilkins taught music theory and piano in
Wilkins co-founded the Scottish Early Music Consort (1969) and later founded the new-music ensemble Polyphonia (1989), serving as music director from 1989 to 1993. She has been a member of professional organizations including the executive committee of the British Academy of Composers and Songwriters, the Council of the Society for the Promotion of New Music, the Board of Directors of the International Alliance of Women in Music, and the Honor Committee of the Fondazione Donne in Musica.[2]
Wilkins is the author of Creative Music Composition: The Young Composer's Voice, 2006,
Awards
- First Prize in the Young Composers Competition of the New Cantata Orchestra of London (1970, for Concerto Grosso)
- The Scottish Arts Council Award for Composers (1970)
- The Cappiani Prize for Women Composers (1971, for The Silver Casket)
- First Prize in the competition for teaching music in Halifax (1973, for Instrumental Interludes)
Works
Wilkins has composed stage, orchestral, chamber, choral, vocal, piano, organ, harpsichord and electro-acoustic music. Selected works include:
- Concerto Grosso
- The Silver Casket
- Instrumental Interludes
- Aspects of Night
- Deux ex Machina
- Gitanjali
- Discover Oakwell
- Suite for Two for violin and viola (1968)
- Struwwelpeter (1973)
- Burnt Sienna: Etude for String Trio (1974)
- Lest We Forget (1979)
- A Dance to the Music of Time (1979)
- 366 for Solo Trombone (1986)
- Symphony (1989)
- Musica Angelorum (1991)
- Rituelle (1999)
- Trompettes de Mort (2003)[3]
References
- ISBN 978-0-393-03487-5.
- ^ "Wilkins, Margaret Lucy". Retrieved 30 September 2010.
- ^ "Margaret Lucy Wilkins". Retrieved 30 September 2010.