ISM Articles about Andrew Downes

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Andrew Downes' talk on "Listening" for the ISM Conference, 1988

ISM Journal articles spanning a lot of the career of English composer Andrew Downes, about his numerous performances and his School of Composition and Creative Studies at Royal Birmingham Conservatoire in the 1990s and beyond.

1990: Andrew Downes' Sonata for Two Pianos

November 1990: School of Creative Studies; Andrew Downes' The Marshes of Glynn; Symphonies 1 and 2; Birmingham Conservatoire Symphony Orchestra

February 1991: School of Creative Studies; Andrew Downes' Song of the Prairies

March 1991: School of Creative Studies

June 1991: Fireworks Fantasia; School of Creative Studies; Andrew Downes' Centenary Firedances

July 1991: School of Creative Studies

January 1992: School of Creative Studies

March 1993: Andrew Downes' Symphony No.3; A St Luke Passion

March 1993: School of Creative Studies; Andrew Downes' Symphony No 3

September 1993: Andrew Downes' A St Luke Passion; Suite for Brass Quintet; Ballads for Christmas

September 1993: School of Creative Studies

October 1993: School of Creative Studies; Andrew Downes' A St Luke Passion

March 1994: School of Creative Studies; Andrew Downes' Sonata for Violin and Piano

May 1994: School of Creative Studies

June 1994: School of Creative Studies

August 1994: School of Creative Studies

October 1994: School of Creative Studies; Andrew Downes' Sonata for Violin and Piano; Songs from Spoon River; Blazon for Brass Quintet; Centenary Firedances; The Death of Goliath

November 1994: School of Creative Studies

January 1995: School of Composition and Creative Studies

May 1995: Andrew Downes' Fanfare for Madam Speaker; Sonata for 8 Horns

May 1995: School of Composition and Creative Studies; Andrew Downes' String Quartet No.3; Fanfare for Madam Speaker; radio interview

November 1995: Andrew Downes' Sonata for Two Pianos

December 1995: Andrew Downes' Idyll: In the Gardens of Burdwan, Sonata for Oboe and Piano

January 1996: Indo-Jazz fusions and Andrew Downes' Mela Kamavardhani

February 1996: School of Creative Studies: Indo Jazz Fusions

February 1996: School of Composition

May 1996: Andrew Downes: Sonata for Two Pianos

June 1996: School of Composition and Creative Studies; Andrew Downes' Sonata for Eight Flutes

June 1996: Andrew Downes' Symphony No 4 for Symphonic Wind Band; Sonata for 8 Horns

July 1996: Andrew Downes' Concert Overture Towards a New Age

October 1996: School of Composition and Creative Studies; Andrew Downes' Sonata for Eight Flutes

March 1997: Andrew Downes' Concert Overture Towards a New Age; Fourth Symphony for Symphonic Concert Band; Concerto for Two Pianos and Strings; Concerto for Guitar, Bass Guitar and Strings

March 1997: Andrew Downes' Concert Overture Towards a New Age

May 1997: Composition teaching in New Mexico and Andrew Downes' Sonata for Eight Flutes or Flute Choir

May 1997: School of Creative Studies

June 1997: School of Composition; Andrew Downes' Concerto for Guitar, Bass Guitar and Strings, and Concerto for 2 Pianos and Strings

November 1997: Andrew Downes' Fantasia for Alto & Bass Flute Solos with 5-Part Concert Flute Choir Accompaniment

February 1998: School of Composition; Andrew Downes' Symphony No.4 for Wind Band

May 1998: Andrew Downes' Concerto for Two Pianos and String Orchestra

June 1998: School of Composition; Andrew Downes' Fantasia for Alto & Bass Flute Solos with 5-Part Concert Flute Choir Accompaniment

November 1998: Gold medal for Andrew Downes from the Institution of Mechanical Engineers for his Concert Overture Towards a New Age

March 1999: School of Composition; Andrew Downes' Sonata for 8 Flutes or Flute Choir

May 1999: School of Composition and Creative Studies; Andrew Downes' Sonata for 8 Flutes or Flute Choir

June 1999: Andrew Downes' Concerto for Two Pianos and String Orchestra; Symphony No.4 for Wind Band; Sonata for 8 Flutes or Flute Choir; Fantasia for Alto and Bass Flute Solos with Flute Choir; The Souls of the Righteous; String Quartet No.1 and No.3

June 1999: Birmingham Chamber Music Society composition prize

January 2000: Andrew Downes' Sonata for Eight Horns; Concerto for Guitar, Bass Guitar & Strings; Flute works

March 2000: School of Creative Studies; Andrew Downes' New Dawn; Flute music

October 2000: School of Composition and Creative Studies; Andrew Downes' Sonata for Piccolo and Piano

December 2000: Andrew Downes' Sonata for Eight Pianists playing Four Pianos

January 2001: Andrew Downes' Concerto for Four Horns and Symphony Orchestra

February 2001: Andrew Downes' Piano Sonata No.1

March 2001: Andrew Downes' Sonata for Eight Horns CD; Sonata for Brass Sextet; Concerto for 4 Horns & Orchestra; works for Flute Choir CD; Concerto for Guitar, Bass Guitar & Strings CD; song cycles CD; Sonata for Oboe and Piano CD; The Marshes of Glynn and Centenary Firedances CD; Sacred Choral Music CD

September 2001: Andrew Downes' Symphony No.2; Oratorio New Dawn; Sonata for 8 Horns; Concerto fo 4 Horns and Symphony Orchestra

December 2001: Birmingham Conservatoire School of Composition and Creative Studies Music Extra Festival; Andrew Downes' Symphony No.5 for Flute Orchestra

January 2002: Birmingham Conservatoire School of Composition and Creative Studies Music Extra Festival; Andrew Downes' Symphony No.5 for Flute Orchestra

February 2002: Andrew Downes' Sonata for Two Pianos

February 2002: Andrew Downes' Concerto for Four Horns and Symphony Orchestra

December 2002: Andrew Downes' Piano Sonata No.1

February 2003: Andrew Downes' Celtic Rhapsody for Soprano and Symphony Orchestra; Piano Sonata No.2; Piano Sonatina; Concerto for Native American Flute and Strings

September 2003: Andrew Downes' The Souls of the Righteous and The Lord is my Shepherd

December 2003: Andrew Downes' Piano Sonata No.2

February 2004: Andrew Downes' Dream-Land for soprano, soprano saxophone and piano

September 2004: Andrew Downes' Songs of Autumn; Dream-Land; Old Love's Domain; Songs from Spoon River; Mountain Song; Sonata for Flute and Piano; Sonata for Cello and Piano; Concerto for Guitar, Electric Bass Guitar and Strings; Symphony No.5 for flute orchestra; The Lord is my Shepherd; The Souls of the Righteous

November 2004: Andrew Downes' Ballads for Christmas

January 2005: Andrew Downes' Songs of Autumn; Preces and Responses; Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis from Runnymede Service; The Lord is my Shepherd CD; Mountain Song

March 2005: Andrew Downes' Ballads for Christmas; The Lord is my Shepherd and Our Father; Piano Sonata No.2; Old Love's Domain; Far from the Madding Crowd; Celtic Rhapsody

April 2005: Talk by Andrew Downes

August 2005: Talk by Andrew Downes, Chairman of the West Midlands Region

September 2005: Andrew Downes' Sonata for 8 Flutes; Sonata for 8 Horns; Celtic Rhapsody; Music for High Voices; Music for 8 Cellos and 5 Timpani; Dream-Land; The God Marduk; Sonatina for Piano; Piano Sonata No.2; Sonata for Oboe and Piano; Old Love's Domain; Responses; Toccata for Small Orchestra; O Praise the Lord; Carnival and Autumn Moon; I will Lift up mine Eyes to the Hills; The Forest at Dawn; The Lord is my Shepherd; The Souls of the Righteous; Five Dramatic Pieces for Eight Wagner Tubas

November 2005: Andrew Downes' Five Dramatic Pieces for Eight Wagner Tubas

December 2006: Pianist Duncan Honeybourne champions works of Andrew Downes; Seven Preludes for Piano; Sonata for Two Pianos; Old Love's Domain

January 2006: Andrew Downes, Chairman of the West Midlands Region

April 2006: Andrew Downes' Ballads for Christmas; Sonata for Oboe and Piano; Seven Preludes for Piano; Sonata for Cello and Piano; The Cottager and her Infant; Old Love's Domain; Far from the Madding Crowd

October 2006: Andrew Downes' Sonata for Two Pianos; Old Love's Domain; Far from the Madding Crowd; Mountain Song; Unaccompanied Sacred Choral Music; String Quartet No.1; Lost Love; Sonata for 8 Flutes or Flute Choir; O Love the Lord all Ye His Saints; 7 Preludes for Piano

February 2007: Vote of thanks to outgoing Chairman of the Birmingham Centre, Andrew Downes; Seven Preludes for Piano; Sonata for 8 Flutes or Flute Choir

May 2007: Andrew Downes' Symphony No.5 for flute orchestra; The Lord is my Shepherd; Prelude, Fanfare and Postlude for Organ; Sonata for Violin and Piano; Piano Sonata No.2; Centenary Firedances; Concerto for Native American Flute and Strings; String Quartet No.1; Sonata for Double Bass and Piano; Far from the Madding Crowd

December 2007: Andrew Downes' Pastorale, Elegy and Folk Dance; Sonata for Double Bass and Piano; Sonata for Organ; String Quartet No.1; Far from the Madding Crowd; Seven Preludes for Solo Piano; Sonata for Violin and Piano; The God Marduk; Mountain Song; Symphony No.5 for flute orchestra; The Souls of the Righteous; Songs from Spoon River; Christmas Cantata; Sacred Mass for Unaccompanied Solo Voice; Sacred Mass for Unaccompanied Solo Violin; Sonata for Violin, Horn and Piano; Sonata for Horn and Piano

June 2008: Andrew Downes' In Memoriam Herbert Howells

September 2008: Duncan Honeybourne's Piano Music from the Midlands CD

October 2009: Andrew Downes' Concerto for Piano and Symphony Orchestra

February 2009: Andrew Downes' Songs of Love

June 2009: Andrew Downes' Sonata for Flutes

June 2009: Andrew Downes' Sonata for Horn and Piano; Sonata for Violin, Horn and Piano; Finished Fields; Old Love's Domain; Songs from Spoon River; Lost Love; sacred choral music; In the Gardens of Burdwan: Sonata for Oboe and Piano; Suite for Six Horns; Concerto for Piano and Symphony Orchestra; Sonata for Contrabass Flute and Piano

January/February 2014: Andrew Downes' Butterfly; Jubilate; The Ballad of St Kenelm

May/June 2014: Andrew Downes Performance Prize

July/August 2016: Andrew Downes' Symphonies and Overtures recorded for CD by the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra under Ondrej Vrabec for the Artesmon Label

September 2020: #andrewdownes70, a year of concerts to celebrate the composer's 70th Birthday, raising money for Stoke Mandeville Spinal Research.

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