Julia Usher
JULIA USHER CURRICULUM VITAE
Composer, Music Therapist, Animateur in many Community Projects.Studied Cambridge and York Universities;Music Therapy Diploma (N-R; City University)
Principal composition areas:
Theatre pieces:
Handbook (1984) ; for Gemini, Almeida Theatre.The Orford Merman (1989); conducted Michael Finnissy, Arundel andBlackheath Festivals.
Unfinished Business (1991):Sculpted Sound, ACE Electr. Mus. Bursary.London.
Hope’s Perpetual Breath (1993); Inter Artes: Purcell Room and MAC.Choral:
A Grain of Sand in Lambeth (1986) Oratorio. Conducted Ivor Bolton,Piccadilly Festival.
Magnificat (2002) Millennium Commission.
Orchestral:
Genetic Code (1998) Performed in computer realisation at opening ofOld Labs concert hall, Newnham College Cambridge.
Camolodunum Sinfonia 2002 Colchester Youth Chamber Orchestra.Performed Charter Hall, “Sounding Out “ Festival.
Most recent Chamber Music:
Sacred Physic (1988 rev 2002) For John Turner. Metier Label CD
Mental Maps and Perceived Distance (1991) Sounds Positiveand also New London Wind concerts, London.
Before Light Ends. (2001) Piano. Commissioned by Robert Saxton inmemoriam R. Sherlaw-Johnson, performed in Holywell Music Room,Oxford. Recorded by Peter Lawson on Metier Label CD, 2002.
Lost Icons. (2002) Wind Quintet. Vega Wind Quintet, Colchester.
Periodic Table 1, Inertia. (2004) For Ensemble. ComposersEnsemble, Colchester New Music Concert,
Clavicle. A Touch Piece for Clavichord. (2004 - 7)British Clavichord Society Prize. Micaela Schmitz in London, 2007.
Unruly Sun. (2005) Harpsichord, vcl, vn. The Bande of Instruments.Semley Festival, Dorset.
Malkin; Shadow Games and Dances (2007): for IXION Ensemble,Colchester New Music.
