Peter Seabourne b.1960 (United Kingdom) After a childhood passion for composing formed Seabourne won a place in 1980 at Cambridge, studying with Robin Holloway. In 1987 he moved to York University, taking a doctorate. During these student years he won two national prizes and was widely performed in the UK. However, he became increasingly dissatisfied with his work, and grew to hate much in the new music world. This led to him to abandon writing for some 12 years. In…
Peter Seabourne b.1960 (United Kingdom) After a childhood passion for composing formed Seabourne won a place in 1980 at Cambridge, studying with Robin Holloway. In 1987 he moved to York University, taking a doctorate. During these student years he won two national prizes and was widely performed in the UK. However, he became increasingly dissatisfied with his work, and grew to hate much in the new music world. This led to him to abandon writing for some 12 years. In 2001 a combination of circumstances caused a sudden reawakening; there arrived a new voice, and a flood of new pieces, including concerti and other orchestral music, chamber, vocal and solo works. Since 2004 he has won six international prizes and has been commissioned many times. His work has been played in New York, Chicago, London, Rio de Janiero, Bologna, Budapest, Lviv, Yerevan etc.. and has been broadcast in Finland, Czech Republic, Germany and Norway. Seabourne’s musical language stands apart from much in contemporary writing, for which he retains a large measure of distrust. He follows his own path…. 2012