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Giles Swayne (born June 30, 1946) is an English composer.

Biography

Swayne is a cousin of Elizabeth Maconchy. He spent much of his childhood in Liverpool, and began composing early. He later studied with Alan Bush and Olivier Messiaen. In 1990, he moved to Ghana, returning to Britain in 1996 in personally painful times chronicled in his autobiography (see the link below).

Selected compositions

CRY, opus 27 for 28 solo voices and electronics, commissioned by the BBC and premiered 1980 (recorded on the label NMC by the BBC Singers and John Poole, who has also premiered works with chorus by Havergal Brian
)
Magnificat, 1982
string quartets 1 – 3 (1971 to 1993)
Goodnight Sweet Ladies for soprano and piano, commissioned by Lord Harewood and written 1994–5 ()
The Silent Land, for cello and choir, premiered in 1998
HAVOC, for accompanied choir - a sequel to CRY; premiered 1999

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