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Profile of Graeme Cotterill

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Name:

Graeme Cotterill

Position:

Lecturer (part-time)

Email:

Location:

School of Music

Phone:

382183

Background:

Originally from Newport, South Wales, I came to Bangor in 2003 and graduated with a first class honours degree in 2006 and an MPhil in 2008.  Once a bassoonist and former member of the National Youth Orchestra of Wales, I am now more likely to be found perusing research material in the field of recent Welsh Music; especially the music of Grace Williams.  To relax, I keep tabs on the exploits of Glamorgan Cricket Club, bat enthusiastically but somewhat incapably, and bowl either erratic off-spin or deeply unthreatening medium pace.

Teaching:

Benjamin Britten
British Chamber Music since WWI
Music in Wales: The Twentieth Century

Harmony and Counterpoint

Astudiaeth Cerddoriaeth y Gorllewin (seminar supervision)
Harmoni a Gwrthbwynt (seminar supervision)
Writing About Music (seminar supervision)

Responsibilities:

Accompanist for first year Solo Performance students
Rehearsal Accompanist, Bangor University Chamber Choir
Rehearsal Accompanist, Bangor University Chorus

Research Interests:

Welsh Music in the twentieth century: I am currently working towards an PhD exploring issues of nationality in the music of Grace Williams and editing many of her unpublished works to enable modern performances.

Main publications:

Contributions to the 'Grace Williams Centenary Edition' (Oriana Publications, Cardiff) of Grace Williams's major orchestral works:

Symphonic Impressions (broadcast by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales on BBC Radio 3)

Symphony No. 2 (performed by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales at BBC Hoddinott Hall, Cardiff)

Missa Cambrensis

Four Illustrations for the Legend of Rhiannon

Castell Caernarfon

Ballads

Four Mediaeval Welsh Poems

Gogonedawg Arglwydd

Performing editions of Grace Williams's songs and chamber music:


Sextet (performed and premiered by Ensemble Cymru at the North Wales International Music Festival, St Asaph)
Slow, slow fresh fount; Lights Out; I had a little nut tree; Green Rain (performed by Alex Jarrett and Graeme Cotterill in the BBC Grace Williams Studio, Cardiff)

Research Assistant with the Bangor University projects 'A Discography of Traditional Welsh Music' and 'The Music of the Chirk Castle Manuscripts'.