Richard Caradon

Member

Composer/Lyricist:	Composer
Genre:	Concert
Email:	richard_carder@yahoo.co.uk

Biography

Sulyen Caradon was born in Gravesend in 1942, of Cornish extraction. His mother, Margaret, was a piano student at the Royal Academy of Music before the war. After a childhood of piano lessons and singing in choirs, he took up the clarinet at Ardingly College, from where he proceeded to the Guildhall School of Music to study composition with Peter Wishart, and later, Michael Bowles at the Birmingham School of Music. He played in Cornelius Cardew's SCRATCH ORCHESTRA in London during the sixties, and, more recently, co-ordinated the South-West Region of COMA (Contemporary Music for Amateurs) from 1993-98. He plays clarinet in his professional quintet, SYLFANOME, and conducts the amateur, ZEPHYRIAN WOODWIND ORCHESTRA.

Having a strong interest in ecology, he stood as Green Party candidate for North Somerset in the 1979 General Election, and has continued involvement with the local group of Friends of the Earth.

Important Works		Performances
FOLK DANCE VARIATIONS Op.12 for 4 blockflutes TRIPTYCH for 2 clarinets Op.14 SWINGENDO Op.26 for woodwind quintet (published by PHYLLOSCOPUS) NOWHERE Op. 27 Song-cycle for high voice, flute, viola, bass clarinet (published by DA CAPO) THE ROMAN BATTLE Op.28 Wind Band PEACE PRAYER Op. 30 for SATB voices (published by HANDLO) WASSAIL RHAPSODY for baritone solo, choir, reader and orchestra		None added