Barrie Webb & Peter Neville
Barrie Webb & Peter Neville
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About Barrie Webb & Peter Neville
Barrie Webb studied trombone with Vinko Globokar and conducting with Constantin Bugeanu. His solo performances have been broadcast by the BBC, Radio France, RAI(Italy), Voice of Music (Israel), ABC (Australia) NHK (Japan) etc. and are recorded on CD for Radio France/MFA, MPS (UK), Move (Australia), Metier (UK) and Col Legno (Germany). Recent performance highlights include Takemitsu’s concerto Fantasma/Cantos II at the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, a broadcast performance of Donald Erb’s Concerto and the world premiere of Vladimir Scolnic’s Time Interferences for trombone and orchestra, broadcast on national radio in three countries and published on CD. In 2004 he gave the second performance (and made the first recording) of René Leibowitz’s Concertino with the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra at Tokyo’s Suntory Hall, broadcast by NHK. Barrie Webb enjoys a parallel career as an orchestral conductor, directing a variety of classical and contemporary repertoire, including televised concerts in Romania and Moldova, premieres of Walton and Britten in Taiwan, a conducting residency in Melbourne, and regular concerts with the University of Huddersfield Symphony Orchestra. He has also directed contemporary ensembles in the UK, Europe and Australia. He has recorded for the BBC and on CD for MPS, Metier, BML (UK), Ricordi and Vienna Modern Masters. Barrie Webb is Professor of Music at the University of Huddersfield, where he teaches conducting and composition and directs the University’s performance programme. His teaching and performing residencies include the Darmstadt Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik, (1984–1994) the Dartington International Summer School (1983–2002), the 2003 Akiyoshidai Contemporary Music Seminar and Festival, Japan, and several in Australia from 1988 to the present day. Since 2000 he has made numerous concert and educational appearances in Japan, Korea, Taiwan, China and Australia. In 2007 he will guest edit an issue of Contemporary Music Review on the subject of contemporary performance. Peter Neville is a graduate of the Victorian College of the Arts where he was appointed Head of Percussion in 2000. Whilst he works across the range of musical styles he has a particular commitment to new music. As percussionist of the Elision Ensemble for twenty years, Peter has been involved with practically all their concerts, compact discs, and international tours. With Elision he has premiered works written specially for him including Chris Dench's Driftglass for percussion and ensemble and Richard Barrett's Abglanzbeladen-Auseinandergeschrieben. Peter is also a member of Jouissance, the David Chesworth Ensemble and SPEAK Percussion and has recorded and toured internationally with each of them. His orchestral work has included tours to Europe with the Australian Youth Orchestra and Japan with the Melbourne Symphony. With the MSO he also took part in the Australian premiere of Messiaen's Turangalila Symphony, in the presence of the composer, and in their Australian tour with Elton John. He has performed in numerous musicals, including West Side Story, Cats and Company and three Australian tours of the Broadway version of The Pirates of Penzance. He toured Australia as musical director of Tap Dogs. Other theatrical tours have included the Australia/China tour of Playbox Theatre's Cho-Cho-San, and Richard the Third with the Royal Shakespeare Company. Within ballet orchestras he has participated in performances by the Bolshoi Ballet, the Russian State Ballet, the Nureyev Farewell Tour and the Netherlands Dance Theatre. With Human Veins Dance Theatre he took part in the Australian premieres of Iannis Xenakis' Oresteia, and was also guest drummer with the Balanescu Quartet in their three Australian seasons of Possessed with the Meryl Tankard Australian Dance Theatre. Peter Neville appears on CD recordings ranging from pop albums by Peter Andre to the experimental industrial album New Maps of Hell by sound artist Paul Schutze.
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