English composer (b1959) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jonathan DoveCBE (born 18 July 1959) is an English composer of opera, choral works, plays, films, and orchestral and chamber music. He has arranged a number of operas for English Touring Opera and the City of Birmingham Touring Opera (now Birmingham Opera Company), including in 1990 an 18-player two-evening adaptation of Wagner'sDer Ring des Nibelungen for CBTO. He was Artistic Director of the Spitalfields Festival from 2001 to 2006.
Dove was born in London; both his parents were architects. He studied music at the University of Cambridge, under Robin Holloway, and afterwards worked as a freelance arranger and accompanist until 1987, when he was employed by Glyndebourne Opera.[1]
Flight (1998), backstage at the Prinzregententheater in Munich, February 2017Swanhunter (2009), performed at the Linbury Studio Theatre (ROH) in London, April 2015
When She Died... (Death of a Princess) (television opera, commemorating the fifth anniversary of the death of Diana, Princess of Wales) (2002)
Man on the Moon (television opera, about Buzz Aldrin, second man to walk on the Moon, and the effects the experience had on him and his marriage) (2006)
There Was a Child (oratorio for soprano, tenor, chorus, and children's choirs) (2009)
In Damascus, a song-cycle for tenor and string quartet inspired by the Syrian refugee crisis, commissioned by the Sacconi Quartet and performed by the Sacconi Quartet and Mark Padmore.[19]