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Alan Davis - Recorder
Alan Davis was born in Birmingham in 1945. He studied the clarinet at the Royal College of Music with Sidney Fell and Thea King. He subsequently read music at Keble College, Oxford, and in 1970 was awarded the degree of MA by Birmingham University for research on the music of Jacques Hotteterre. His growing interest in renaissance and baroque music led him to the recorder, and most of his professional life has been devoted to studying, playing, teaching and composing for that instrument. He has performed extensively in both early and contemporary music. He has been a regular member of various ensembles including Trio Faronell and Borromini Ensemble, and has given many recitals throughout the UK with David Ponsford. He has commissioned and premiered numerous works by British composers including John Casken, Colin Hand, John Joubert, Edwin Roxburgh and Philip Wilby. In the 1980s failing eyesight obliged him to limit his performing activities to repertoire which could be comfortably memorised. This excluded many of the more complex contemporary works. However, he was able to divert his interest in new music into composition, in which he has been increasingly engaged in recent years. He was greatly encouraged and supported in this by a four year period of study with Judith Weir. He composes primarily but not exclusively for the recorder, and many of his works are published variously by Heinrichshofen, Novello, Peacock and Schott. Alan Davis has maintained a strong commitment to music education. He teaches regularly on summer schools in the UK and Czech Republic, and has held recorder teaching appointments at Birmingham Conservatoire and the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, and with Birmingham Music Service. He currently teaches at Chethams School of Music and in the Junior School of the Royal Northern College of Music, and continues to direct Birmingham Schools’ Recorder Sinfonia which he founded in 1979. David Ponsford on Guild Music
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