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Dennis Wickens

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Composer/Lyricist: Composer
Genre: Concert

Biography

Important Works Performances
  1. Five Songs for Tenor & Orchestra (For Gerald English)
  2. O vos omnes, Motet for SATB unacc. - Performed at the 1966 Three Choirs Festival and recorded by Worcester Cathedral Choir under Christopher Robinson
  3. Song Cycle; The Everlasting Voices - 1st performed by Gerald English & Raymond Grissel 6 Feb 1968, City Music Society, then at the 1967 Cheltenham Festival by Ian & Jennifer Partridge, who later broadcast the work
  4. Double Concerto for Harmonica & Violin, with strings & percussion - Commissioned and performed by Orchestra da Camera with Sylvia Cleaver & James Hughes under Leon Lovett at Birmingham University
  5. Sinfonia - Commissioned and performed by Orchestra da Camera under John Engleheart in Bridgenorth, 1975
  6. Concertante Music for Brass & Percussion Or for Brass Band
  7. Symphony, for brass band, two trumpet groups, piano & percussion - 1st performed at the RNCM under Timothy Reynish 1994
  8. Concerto for Piano & Orchestra
  9. Four Sonnets of Charles Turner (Tennyson) for med. Voice & piano - 1st performed by Henry Herford & Robin Bowman at Standlake, Oxon., 18 Sept 1993
  10. Three Housman Settings for med. voice & piano, the third of which, "I woke from dreams", won 1st prize in the English Poetry & Song Society's Housman Competition.
  11. Introspection, for high voice & piano - This setting won 1st prize in the EPSS’s Kathleen Raine Competition
  12. Into Perspective-September 2001, for violin & piano
  13. Festival Cantata: Hail, Bright Cecilia, for SATB Soli, mixed chorus, strings, harp, organ & percussion
  14. The Remains of Dreams,(Douglas Corder); cantata for female chorus & orchestra
  15. Gloria, for SATB chorus, organ, brass quintet & percussion
  16. Song Cycle for Baritone & Piano: The Heart Oppressed, Seven poems by Sir Thomas Wyatt
  17. Sonata for Piano
  18. Theme & Variations for Cello & Piano
  19. Triptych, for Orchestra
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