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Davismoon, Stephen (b. 1964, London). British composer of mostly orchestral and chamber works that have been performed throughout Europe and elsewhere.
Dr. Davismoon studied guitar with Antonio Albanes at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama from 1985–87 and composition with Eric Graebner at the University of Southampton from 1987–90, where he earned his BA. He then studied composition with Peter Nelson and Nigel Osborne at the University of Edinburgh from 1991–96 and there earned his PhD.
Among his honors are three scholarships to work at the Experimentalstudio of the Heinrich-Strobel-Stiftung in Freiburg im Breisgau (1996–97, 2000) and First Prize and the Ricordi Publishing Prize at the Kompositionsseminar in Boswil (1997, for ...against the grain). His It Was Spring was selected for performance at the International Youth Music Forum in Kyiv (1998) and he has also received scholarships to work at Les Ateliers UPIC Studios in Paris (1999) and CCMIX Studios in Paris (2001). Most recently, he was short-listed for the Creative Scotland Awards (2001, for Towards the Water's Edge). His music has been performed throughout Europe and in Uruguay.
Dr. Davismoon is also active in other positions. He has edited the volumes Luigi Nono The Suspended Song and Luigi Nono Fragments and Silence (both 1998), as well as Edgard Varèse Offerings and Edgard Varèse New Worlds (both 2004, all Contemporary Music Review), to all of which he contributed articles. He is now preparing a journal about Luciano Berio (due in 2009, Contemporary Music Review). He has served as a member of the editorial board of Contemporary Music Review since 1998 and of The Drouth since 2003, to which he has been an occasional contributor since 2003. He founded the Research Ensemble and the Sonic Fusion Festival in Edinburgh in 2006 and has served as the artistic director of each since 2006.
He has taught analysis, composition and contemporary music history as Reader in Music at the Ian Tomlin School of Music of Napier University in Edinburgh since 2000 and has also served as its head since 2007.
CONTACT INFORMATION
E-mail address: S.Davismoon@napier.ac.uk
Street address: Dr. Stephen Davismoon, 25 Stanmore Rd., Glasgow G42 9AH, Scotland, UK
Telephone (university): + 4413 1455 6200
COMPLETE LIST OF WORKS
ORCHESTRAL: It Was Spring, 13 strings, 1993; waiting...and the moon?...turns, small orchestra (14 players), 1995; ...outside dreaming, large orchestra (65 players), 1994–96; Concerto, tuba, small orchestra (flute, clarinet, bass clarinet, French horn, trumpet, harp, piano, celesta, 4 percussion), 2001
CHAMBER MUSIC: ...against the grain, percussion, live electronics, 1996; Thaw, French horn, 2 trumpets, trombone, tuba, 1997; ...staring through empty fields of time, trumpet, live electronics, 1998; (this has already) Passed/Passing, bass flute, 1999; beneath garlands, cello, piano, 2002; mist – branches against a white sky, piccolo, 2004; eleventeenth dream, 4 bass clarinets, 2005; Tower of Infinity, flute, live electronics, 2006; In Flight, violin, 2006; Beyond Your Valley, guitar, 2006–07; Mercy Litanies, bass clarinet, 2008
CHORAL: Gift (text by Ian Balch), mixed chorus, tubular bells, 2000; ...a common treasury ... fragmented (text by Gerard Winstanley), 6 mixed voices, 8-track tape, 2002
VOCAL: Last Waltz in Santiago (song-cycle, text by Ariel Dorfman), soprano, electric guitar, violin, live electronics, 1997; Patricia's Songs (song-cycle, text by Johnny Rodger), mezzo-soprano, flute (+ bass flute), clarinet (+ bass clarinet), French horn, violin, cello, piano, percussion, 2005–06; Love Eurydice (scenes from a music theatre work, text by Johnny Rodger), 4 voices, orchestra, 2006
ELECTROACOUSTIC: Basta!, 2-track tape, 1992; Towards the Water's Edge (installation), 16-track tape, 2005
PIANO: Ramuneles Fragmentai – Daisy Fragments, 2007
(Last updated on November 1, 2008)
