Profile of Dr Peter Flinn

Name:

Dr Peter Flinn

Position:

Lecturer in Music

Email:

p.e.r.flinn@bangor.ac.uk

Location:

Music Annexe

Phone:

382185

Background

I studied as firstly an undergraduate then a postgraduate student here in Bangor, completing a Bachelor’s Degree in 1989, a Master’s Degree in 1991 and a Doctorate in 1994 whilst also undertaking a certificate in teaching at higher education level. I have lectured at universities in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and Scarborough, and gave the pre-concert talks at the North Wales Theatre, Llandudno for four seasons. My area of research is in Composition and I have received a number of performances and broadcasts on radio and TV. My current research projects include two commercially-available CDs which are due to be released in December 2006 and March 2007.

Teaching

My teaching area duplicates my research in that I teach Composition at first year level and supervise third year and post-graduate students in composition projects. I also teach in the areas of Twentieth Century Music and Orchestration.

Responsibilities

Apart from Research and Teaching, I also administer the university’s concerts series in liason with the Pro Vice Chancellor’s office, and am the School’s Disability Representative. I also have a number of personal tutees in all three undergraduate years and some post-graduates.

Research and Publications

1a. Past Research: works composed

Three Contrasting Pieces for solo organ 1994

I Giocoso: won Tlws y Prif Gyfansoddwr at Royal National Eisteddfod 1994 (see 1b below) (duration: 6 minutes)

II Lento (duration 6.5 minutes)

III Presto (duration 4 minutes)

Three Poems for Orchestra 1998

Written for the Bangor University Symphony Orchestra

I Storm (duration: 4 minutes)

II Dreamscape (duration: 6.5 minutes)

III Clowning (duration: 4 minutes)

What Cheer? (SATB Choir with organ) 1994, revised 2006

Commissioned by the Bangor University Choir, with funds from the Arts Council of Wales

(duration: 3 minutes)

Published September 2006 by Chichester Music Press

There is no Rose of such Virtue (SATB unaccompanied) 1994, revised 2006

Commissioned by the Bangor University Choir, with funds from the Arts Council of Wales

(duration: 4.5 minutes)

Published September 2006 by Chichester Music Press

Fanfare for the Launch of a Ship (Brass Band) 2001

Requested by Bangor University to mark the occasion of the launch of the new Prince Madog II Ship, July 2001

(duration: 1.25 minutes)

Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence (SATB unaccompanied) 1994, revised 2002 to deal with range difficulties.

(duration: 4 minutes)

Published May 2005 by Chichester Music press

Down To Earth (Double Bass and Piano) 2002

Commissioned by Bass-Fest

(duration: 3 minutes)

Published April 2002 by Recital Music

Lullaby and Dances (unaccompanied solo treble / tenor recorder) 1999, revised 2002 on recommendations from the commissioner and in preparation for publishing

Commissioned by John Turner

I Line Dance (duration: 3.5 minutes)

II Lullaby (duration: 4 minutes)

III Round Dance (duration: 3 minutes)

Published August 2005 by Peacock Press

Jaran Kepang (string orchestra) 2002

Commissioned by the Ida Carroll Trust in memory of Peter Crossley-Holland

(duration: 14 minutes, with the second part transcribed from "Dreamscape" from Three Poems for Orchestra - see above)

Meditation on the Blessed Eucharist (Solo organ) 2003

(duration: 4.5 minutes)

(see 1b for details of publishing)

Three Miniature Portraits (clarinet choir) 2005

commissioned by the North Wales Clarinet Choir

(duration: 10 minutes)

Published August 2005 by Chichester Music Press

Lamentationes (string quartet) 2005

commissioned by the Fitzwilliam Quartet

(duration: 19 minutes)

this piece is to be published by Recital Music in 2006

Percussion Quartet

commissioned by Backbeat Percussion Quartet

(duration: 15 minutes)

this piece is to be published by Chichester Music Press, 2007

Octet (clt, bsn, hrn, 2 vln, vla, c & db) 2005

for Ensemble Cymru

duration: 5.5 minutes

Published November 2005 by Chichester Music Press

Symphonic Suite

for the Royal Ballet Sinfonia

Five movements

duration: 32 minutes

this piece is currently in publication by Chichester Music Press, expected to be available Spring 2007

Soliloquium for solo unaccompanied violin

for Katherine Betteridge

to be performed in Bangor University final MA Recital, subject to approval from the examining board

duration: 7 minutes

this piece is currently in publication by Chichester Music Press, expected to be available December 2006

Piano Sonata

for Jana Frenklova

duration: 16 minutes

this piece is currently in publication by Chichester Music Press, expected to be available Spring 2007

1b. Performances and Broadcasts already taken place

Three Contrasting Pieces for solo organ

The winning composition in the Tlws y Prif Gyfansoddwr at the Royal National Eisteddfod 1994,

receiving radio broadcasts on BBC Radio Cymru and BBC Radio Wales, and television broacasts on S4C (all August 1994) and a section of the piece was broadcast subsquently on a BBC 2 "review" of the Eisteddfod (December 1994). All performances given in Neath Wales, by Huw Tregelles Williams

This set of pieces, along with Meditation on the Blessed Eucharist (see below) and a new work (see section 2) are to be published as one volume to be released in February 2006 by Chichester Music Press

Three Poems for Orchestra

Performed by the Bangor University Symphony Orchestra, with John Hywel (conductor), Bangor March 1998

and subsequently by the Bangor University Music Society Orchestra, December 2001

What Cheer?

Performed by the Bangor University Choir, with David Evans (conductor) and William Reynolds (organ)

December 1999

A further performance will be given by the Bangor University Chamber Choir, with David Evans (conductor) and Martin Brown (organ), December 2006

There is no Rose of such Virtue

Performed by the Bangor University Choir, with David Evans (conductor), December 1999

A further performance will be given by the Bangor University Chamber Choir, with David Evans (conductor), December 2006

Fanfare for the Launch of a Ship

Requested by the University of Wales, Bangor, to mark the occasion of the launch of the new Prince Madog II ship. Performed by Menai Bridge Band, with Peter Smith (conductor), July 2001

Also performed by Hereford Town Band with Alfred Tubb (conductor) on various occasions between 2001-3 as an encore piece

Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence

Original (1994) version performed by the Bangor University Chamber Choir, with John Harper (conductor), Bangor, 1994, also performed at the Pontrhydfendigaid Eisteddfod, winning the choir the

the top prize. It was performed again in the Fishguard Eisteddfod in 1999, and there were six performances in Kilkenny, Cork and Dublin, Ireland, in July 1999 all with the Elizabethan Madrigal Singers of Aberystwyth with Neil O' Toole (conductor)

Revised version performed by the Elizabethan Madrigal Singers of Aberystwyth with Neil Sands (conductor), Aberystwyth, 2002, and there have been many other performances including Lodz Poland 2002, and Redwing Minnesota USA 2003

The revised version has recently been published by Chichester Music Press

Down to Earth

Performed by Jilan Anwar (double bass) and Mark Cracknell (piano) at the festival Bass-Fest, 2002 and performed by the same players in Sweden 2003.

The work is currently on the Trinity College of Music Grade 6 double bass syllabus, and will remain there until the year

The piece was published by Recital Music in 2002

Lullaby and Dances

Original version performed by John Turner in September 1999, in Stockport and in Bangor 2000

Revised version performed by Oliver Smith, Manchester and Bangor 2002

The third of this set of pieces is currently on the Trinity College of Music grade 8 recorder syllabus

The revised version was published by Peacock Press in 2005

Three Miniature Portraits

Performed by the North Wales Clarinet Choir and broadcast on BBC Radio Cymru and S4C Digital, August 2005

Published August 2005 by Chichester Music Press

Octet

Five performances given by Ensemble Cymru in September/October 2005 (St Asaph, Bangor, Pwllheli, Cilcain & Holyhead)

duration: 5.5 minutes

Published by Chichester Music Press in 2005

Symphonic Suite

for the Royal Ballet Sinfonia with Paul Murphy - conductor

recorded at Angel Studios, Islington, London, in December 2005 and September/October 2006 for two forthcoming CDs on the Campion Cameo label, under the "British Composer Series"

2a. Work in Progress and future plans

Short Song for Soprano and Recorder

for Alison Wells and John Turner

to be performed at the Bridgewater Hall, May 2007

To be published by Chichester Music Press

Anticipated duration: 3-4 minutes

Duet for Violin and Double Bass

for Catherine Lord and David Heyes

To be published by Recital Music

Anticipated duration: tba

short work for Organ

This is to be included in a volume of five organ pieces (see Three Contrasting Pieces and Meditation on the Blessed Eucharist in section 1a) to be published by Chichester Music Press in 2007

Expected completion: March 2007

Anticipated duration: 5 minutes

2b. Forthcoming Performances and Broadcasts

What Cheer?

A performance will be given by the Bangor University Chamber Choir, with David Evans (conductor) and Martin Brown (organ), December 2006

There is no Rose of such Virtue

A performance will be given by the Bangor University Chamber Choir, with David Evans (conductor), December 2006

Piano Sonata

a performance by Jana Frenklova will be taking place in December 2006

Three Miniature Portraits

A CD recording with other works commissioned by the North Wales Clarinet Choir is firmly proposed but not yet committed to.

Soliloquium for solo unaccompanied violin

for Katherine Betteridge

to be performed in Bangor University final MA Recital, October 2006

CD of Music by Peter Flinn

Recordings taking place between December 2005 - December 2006.

The CD is to be released on the Campion Cameo label in March 2007 under their "British Composer Series" the CD will include works mentioned above – Symphonic Suite (Royal Ballet Sinfonia), Piano Sonata (Jana Frenklova), solo unaccompanied violin piece (Katherine Betteridge), Lullaby and Dances (John Turner)

Compilation CD of Music by living British Composers

This is expected to be released in December 2006, and will include the Symphonic Suite (Royal Ballet Sinfonia, conducted by Paul Murphy)

3a. Peer Esteem Indicators

I won the Tlws y Prif Gyfansoddwr, August 1994 for the first of the Three Contrasting Pieces for solo organ

I presented a radio programme on BBC Radio Wales discussing the use of percussion in Orff's Carmina Burana, March 1997 with John Huw Davies, prior to a performance of the work in Bangor

I played the organ on BBC Radio 2's programme Sunday Half Hour, Easter 1998

I gave the pre-concert talks for the orchestral concerts at the North Wales Theatre for the four seasons 1998/99, 1999/2000, 2000/01 and 2001/02

I have been an examiner for the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music since 1998

I presented a paper titled You are the weakest link: good-bye!

discussing teaching composition at first year University level

Presented to the Centre for Learning and Staff Development as part of the Scheme for the Professional Development of Teachers in Higher Education, April 2002.