Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1946-06-30
- Works
- 4
Top works
- How music works
- Choral Album
- Four lyrical pieces [for cello and piano]
- Three Shakespeare songs
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 726
- Total plays
- 2,510
Tags
contemporary classicalcomposerchoralClassicalbritish
Giles Swayne is a cousin of Elizabeth Maconchy. He spent much of his childhood in Liverpool, and began composing at a young age. He was educated at Ampleforth College and at Cambridge University, where he worked with Raymond Leppard and Nicholas Maw before spending three years at the Royal Academy of Music as a student of Birtwistle, Alan Bush and, once again, Maw. During the years 1976 to 1977 he attended several of Olivier Messiaen's classes at <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Giles+Swayne">
Key dates
- Born
- 30 June 1946
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Hitchin
- Occupation
- composer
- Educated at
- Trinity College
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Genre
- opera
- Image
- Giles Swayne (2009).jpg
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Connections
Categories
1946 births20th-century British classical composers20th-century English composers20th-century English male composers21st-century British classical composers21st-century British male musiciansAlumni of the Royal Academy of MusicAlumni of Trinity College, CambridgeBritish male opera composersConservatoire de Paris alumniEnglish classical composers