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duet for piccolo and bass clarinet

performed by Vanessa Parker (piccolo) and Isobel McKeeve (bass clarinet), recorded in Trinity Laban studio

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take 2

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Performed by the Waldstein Quartet
Recorded in Trinity Laban Studio, Greenwich

four dimensional music

Jeremy Pike's Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis were commissioned by Ribchester Chorale who first performed it during Evensong in Norwich Cathedral in 1998. It is scored for eight part a capella choir with a solo part for counter tenor (or alto). The Magnificat is here performed by the choir of Chetham's School of Music.

Magnificat for eight part a capella choir

Jeremy Pike's Missa Brevis was commissioned by Warwick University Chamber Choir, and is written for SATB choir and piano. Here is the premiere given by the choir under their conductor Colin Touchin.

Missa Brevis

An extract from "Aphelion", for violin and piano by Jeremy Pike. Performed by Jennifer Pike (violin) and Martin Roscoe (piano), in the Bridgewater Hall Manchester, broadcast on BBC Radio 3 in June 2009. Premiered on BBC Four TV, BBC Young Musician of the Year, 2002.
The score is published by Composers Edition:
https://composersedition.com/jeremy-pike-aphelion/

Aphelion

Jeremy Pike starting composing at the age of five, and soon started lessons with Christopher Finzi. He travelled to London to study piano with Christopher Elton and violin at the Junior Department of the Royal Academy of Music whilst taking composition lessons with Bryan Kelly and Sir Lennox Berkeley. At the age of seventeen he went to King's College, Cambridge, on an open scholarship, where he studied composition with Gordon Crosse and piano with Phyllis Palmer. In his final year he won the university composition prize and conducted the university orchestra, chamber orchestra and numerous college orchestras. He continued his studies in composition with Paul Patterson and conducting at the RAM, before winning a Polish government scholarship to study composition with Henryk Górecki in Katowice, where he met his wife Teresa. His fifth string quartet was runner up for the international Carl Maria von Weber composition prize in 1985.
He has directed the electro-acoustic music studios at the Royal Academy of Music and the University of Warwick and he is currently Head of Composition at Chetham's School of Music in Manchester. In 1998 he was awarded a Churchill Fellowship, enabling him to undertake research in the USA and France into the application of new technology to the arts. He gained a PhD from London University in 2000.
Major commissions include a Bassoon Concerto and The Crossing Point, premiered by the City of London Sinfonia in November 2005. He frequently gives recitals with his daughter Jennifer, including live broadcasts on BBC Radio 3. Recent BBC Radio 3 broadcast performances of his music have included Processions for violin and piano from the Wigmore Hall in London.

Aphelion

Jeremy Pike

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