Kevin Volans
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1949
- Works
- 6
Top works
- This is how it is
- She who sleeps with a small blanket
- Cicada
- String quartet no. 2
- String quartet no. 2
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Ireland
- Active from
- 1949-07-06
classical
Discography
- Hunting: Gathering1991
- Volans: Kneeling Dance / Lang: Face So Pale / Reich: Four Organs / Moran: Three Dances1993
- String Quartet no. 2 "Hunting: Gathering" / String Quartet no. 3 "The Songlines"1994
- White Man Sleeps1994
- The Ramanujan Notebooks / Dancers on a Plane / "Movement" for String Quartet1995
- Concerto for Piano and Wind Instruments / This Is How It Is / Leaping Dance / Walking Song / Untitled1997
- Cicada2000
- Hunting: Gathering2002
- Trio Concerto / Symphony: Daar kom die Alibama / Concerto for Piano and Winds2014
- Lenguas de fuego2021
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 5,353
- Total plays
- 27,988
Tags
contemporary classicalClassicalminimalismminimalneoclassical
Kevin Volans is a composer associated with the post-minimalist movement in contemporary composition. He was born in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa on July 6, 1949, and even though he has spent most of his life outside his native country, is the best known South African composer active today. In 1972, he graduated from the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg with a Bachelors of Music degree, followed by post-graduate education at the University of Aberdeen. <a href="https://www.last.fm/m
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Kevin
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- South Africa
- Place of birth
- Pietermaritzburg
- Occupation
- musician
- Educated at
- University of Aberdeen
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Genre
- opera
- Official website
- kevinvolans.com
- Image
- Kevin Volans (comp) 2015 (Annamarie Ursula) P1200477.JPG
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- date of birth
- 1949-07-26
- Commons category
- Kevin Volans
- member of
- Aosdána
- P12674
- 4161 Amasis
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