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Derek Bourgeois
Derek Bourgeois

Born
16.10.1941 in Kingston-on-Thames, England

Died
06.09.2017 in Poole

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Derek Bourgeois was born in Kingston on Thames in 1941. He graduated from Cambridge University with a first class honours degree in music, and a subsequent Doctorate. He spent two years at the Royal College of Music where he studied composition with Herbert Howells and conducting with Sir Adrian Boult.
He has composed one hundred and sixteen symphonies, seventeen concertos, several other extended orchestral works, seven major works for chorus and orchestra, two operas and a musical. As well as a considerable quantity of chamber, vocal and instrumental music, he has composed fifteen extended works for Brass Band and seven symphonies for Symphonic Wind Orchestra. He has also written a considerable amount of music for television productions.
From 1970 to 1984 he was a Lecturer in Music at Bristol University. He was the conductor of the Sun Life Band from 1980 until 1983, and during the same period was Chairman of the Composers’ Guild of Great Britain, and a member of the Music Advisory Panel of the Arts Council. In September 1984 he gave up his university post to become the Musical Director of the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain. In 1988 he founded the National Youth Chamber Orchestra of Great Britain which held its first course in the summer of 1989. In 1990 he was appointed Artistic Director of the Bristol Philharmonic Orchestra.
He left the National Youth Orchestra in August 1993 to become the Director of Music of St Paul's Girls' School in London. He retired to Mallorca in July 2002. In Spring 2009 he moved back to Dorset in England.
Derek Bourgeois died on September 6, 2017 at the age of 75.

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Bright lights city nights

Bright lights city nights

Band Land

Band Land

HAFABRA Overture

HAFABRA Overture

Metro Gnome

Metro Gnome

Serenade, Op. 22c

Serenade, Op. 22c

Music by Derek Bourgeois

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The Land of Zarathustra

The Land of Zarathustra

Kansas - Oboe Dream Dance - The Land of Zarathustra - Landscapes for Trumpet and Band - The Eight-Pointed Cross Chorale - Persian Dance No. 2 - The Sleeping Beauty - Battle of the Bulge - Rien...
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TDIV550
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Bright lights city nights

Bright lights city nights

HAFABRA Fanfare - Bright lights... city nights - Contrasts for Eb Clarinet and Tuba - Keyif - The Skaters' Waltz (Exerpts) - Arizona - Panga Lingua - Parade of the Tin Soldiers - The Canary...
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TDIV549
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Band Land

Band Land

Narrator text available in 6 languages: English , Français , Italiano , Deutsch , Espanol , Nederlands
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LM0133223
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HAFABRA Overture

HAFABRA Overture

- Pflichtstück der Höchststufe (Kategorie 5) für 2013 beim Deutschen Musikfest in Chemnitz - - Pflichtstück der Höchststufe (Kategorie 5) für 2012/2013 in...
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LM0316517
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Metro Gnome

Metro Gnome was written at the request of Louis Martinus. He asked if I could write another piece like Serenade with unusual time signatures, because it was good practice for young players to...
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LM090
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Serenade, Op. 22c

Derek Bourgeois wrote this Serenade for his own wedding, to be played by the organist as the guests left the ceremony. Not wishing to allow them the luxury of proceeding in an orderly 2/4, the...
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RS10062
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