BURGESS, ANTHONY (1917–1993)

Stephane Ginsburgh has performed concerts worldwide in numerous festivals such as the Agora Ircam, Ars Musica, Bach Academie Brugge, Festival van Vlaanderen, Transit, Tzlil Meudcan, Festival de Marseille, Quincena Musical, Imatronic/ZKM, Darmstadt Ferienkurse, Gaida Festival, and the Ultima Oslo. He explores an extensive repertoire and is also known for experimenting with new configurations including voice, percussion, acting and electronics. He regularly plays with the Ictus Ensemble.

From 1975 until his death in 1993, Burgess wrote concertos for piano, violin, oboe, cor anglais, solo guitar, and guitar quartet, a piano concertino, a rhapsody for tuba and orchestra, a string quartet, and a set of twenty-four preludes and fugues. He turned Joyce’s Ulysses into the operetta Blooms of Dublin, wrote the words and music for a musical titled Trotsky’s in New York!, and composed the score for a stage version of A Clockwork Orange. He penned overtures for Glasgow and his native Manchester, sinfoniettas celebrating Strasbourg and his second wife Liana Macellari, cantatas on texts by John Dryden and Gerard Manley Hopkins, and chamber settings of verse by T.S. Eliot, D.H. Lawrence, A.E. Housman, and his own fictional poet F.X. Enderby. He wrote a film score, music for brass band, two quartets for winds and strings, an elegy for string orchestra on the death of Princess Grace, sonatas for recorder, studies and concert pieces for oboe and English horn, pieces for harmonica, and choral works and songs to verse by Shakespeare, Nashe, Hardy, D’Annunzio, Pound, and Joyce.