Dr Bryn Harrisonb.d.harrison@hud.ac.uk | 01484 472402
Bryn Harrison (b. 1969) studied composition with Gavin Bryars at De Montfort University, Leicester and briefly with Alvin Lucier, Christian Wolff and Peter Kotik during the 2001 Ostrava New Music Days. His music has been performed extensively in the UK at most of Britain’s leading festivals and broadcast on BBC Radio 3. He has established a particularly close association with the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival receiving prizes there in 1993 and 1995 and commissions from the festival in 1999 and 2002.
In 1999 Bryn was selected to compete for the International Gaudeamus Prize in the Netherlands and since then he has received many performances throughout Europe, USA and Japan including those at festivals such as Wien Horgange, Ultraschall, Hannover Biennale, Festival Klangspuren, Europaischer Musikmonat, Wittener Tage and the Paris Festival Automne. He was invited to attend the ISCM World Music Days in Yokohama, Japan in 2001 and to the same festival in Lucerne, Switzerland in 2004.
Commissions include those for the London Symphony Orchestra, Ensemble Recherche, Apartment House, Plus-Minus, Klangforum Wien, Ixion, London Sinfonietta, Suono Mobile, 175 East, Chroma and Birmingham Contemporary Music Group and Asamisimasa as well as performances from duos and soloists such as Darragh Morgan and Mary Dullea, Duo Contour, Anton Lukoszevieze, Irvine Arditti and Mieko Kanno, Susan Knight, Clive Williamson, Andrew Sparling, Jonathan Powell, Philip Thomas and the internationally-acclaimed accordionist Teodoro Anzellotti.
Over the last five years he has participated on a number of projects with painter and printmaker Mike Walker as well as collaborating recently with artist book-maker John McDowall.
His In Nomine after William Byrd (1999) recorded by Ensemble Recherche is available on the Kairos CD The Witten In Nomine Broken Consort Book and Listenings I recorded by Darragh Morgan and Mary Dullea is available on the NMC disc 'Opera'.
Harrison, B (2012) ‘Scanning the Temporal Surface’ CeReNem journal (3).
Harrison, B (2012) Vessels for solo piano (30') [Composition]
Harrison, B (2012) Eight Voices [Composition]
Harrison, B (2011) ‘The Tempo of Enclosed Spaces: A short, personal reflection on the ensemble music of Aldo Clementi’ Contemporary Music Review , 30 (3-4), pp. 269-274. ISSN 0749-4467
Harrison, B (2011) Five Distances (2011) 10’ Mezzo-soprano voice and piano [Composition]
Bellamy, M., Harrison, B., Cassidy, A. and Lim, L. (2010) Transference [Audio]
Harrison, B (2010) M.C.E. (2010) 20’ Solo classical guitar [Composition]
Harrison, B (2009) surface forms (repeating)(10'30'') [Composition]
Harrison, B (2009) ‘Bryn Harrison’. In: The Ashgate Research Companion to Experimental Music. London, UK: Ashgate. pp. 283-292. ISBN 9780754662822
Harrison, B (2009) Gently Rising [Composition]
Harrison, B (2009) an oblique [Audio]
Harrison, B (2008) Quietly Rising (Piano piece December 2008)(4') [Composition]
Harrison, B (2008) Five Miniatures in Three Parts [Composition]
Harrison, B (2008) to be (an ever opening flower) [Composition]
Harrison, B (2008) Five Miniatures in Three Parts (2008) (8') [Composition]
Harrison, B (2008) an oblique [Composition]
Harrison, B (2008) Repetitions in Extended Time [Composition]
Harrison, B (2007) a leaf falls on loneliness (2007) (15') [Composition]
Harrison, B (2007) Plane Image (2007) 8' [Composition]
Harrison, B (2006) Shifting Light (7 minutes) [Composition]
Harrison, B (2006) four cycles for large ensemble (15 players) [Composition]
Clarke, E., Cook, N., Harrison, B. and Thomas, P. (2005) ‘Interpretation and performance in Bryn Harrison’s être-temps’ Musicae Scientiae: the journal of the European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music , 9 (1), pp. 31-74. ISSN 1029-8649
Harrison, B (2005) six symmetries for large ensemble (17 players) [Composition]
Harrison, B (2002) Low time patterns [#1-5] for 7 players (mixed ensemble) [Composition]
