Romolo valli biography of christopher brown

Romolo Valli (7 February – 1 February ) was an Italian actor.

Christopher Brown b. Summary English composers have often been renowned for their choral music and this is a tradition in which Christopher Brown has excelled. From he studied at the Royal Academy of Music with Lennox Berkeley, whose grace and naturalness as a composer he inherited, and completed his studies with a year in Berlin with Boris Blacher.

In he was the first British composer to win the coveted Prince Pierre of Monaco Prize with his Soliloquy, a work that also brought him a second Guinness Prize in the same year, while his 2nd String Quartet was awarded first prize in the Washington International Competition. His style is essentially lyrical and vocal, and this has led him to write a wide range of choral and vocal music in all genres.

Many of the early pieces were short works such as the Three Shakespeare Songs , Elegy and a number of Christmas pieces. Hodie Salvator Apparuit and Aubade both show his skill in writing more extended and elaborate choral textures, and these he has further explored in later works such as the Herrick Songs, From the Doorways of the Dawn, Mass for 4 Voices and To Musick, Sing!

Alongside these unaccompanied works there has been a steady stream of pieces for larger choral and orchestral forces.

Romolo Valli (Reggio Emilia, February 7, - Rome, February 1, ) was an Italian actor.

The cantata Seascape proved particularly effective and moving, and has been recorded. There are several impressive orchestral works, including a Feeney Trust commission for the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra entitled Triptych, the Organ Concerto written for the St. He has always shown an especial sympathy for strings, and Sonata for Strings and Into the Sun combine brilliant textures with taut structures and an expressive lyricism.

There are several song cycles including the set of seasonal songs for tenor and guitar All Year Round. He has always enjoyed working with and writing for amateurs and young performers, and has been particularly aware of the need to forge a musical language which communicates clearly and vividly, while maintaining its own distinctive voice and integrity.

Besides his work as a composer, he has also taught composition for more than 30 years at the Royal Academy of Music, has been active as conductor of the Huntingdonshire Philharmonic, the Cambridge Players, the New Cambridge Singers and the Dorset Bach Cantata Club, and is much in demand as a music typesetter. His own company Musography publishes not only many of his works but also several of his own practical performing editions of Baroque music by Bach, Handel, Purcell and others.

His achievements are considerable and his message is as refreshing as it is individual.