Robin Field (16 September 1935 – 11 April 2024) was a British composer, a member of the Lakeland Composers group that also includes Arthur Butterworth, Gary Higginson and David Jennings.[1]
Born in Redditch, Worcestershire, Field received early tuition from Hugh Allen in Worcester, then studied with James Murray Brown in London and Durham, and Thomas Pitfield in Manchester.[2] Field combined his compositional activity with a full time career as an industrial chemist. He moved to the Lake District in 1962.[3]
His worklist of over 160 compositions includes a Violin Concerto, an Oboe Concerto, the Fantasia Concertante on a Theme of Guillaume de Machaut for oboe and strings (North West Arts Award, 1971), eight String Quartets, three Piano Sonatas, choral music (such as O Magnum Mysterium, for mixed chorus and organ) and songs. Among the songs are several cycles, such as When I Was One and Twenty (Housman) and A Sudden Revelation (Kenneth Steven).[4]
References
edit- ^ The Lakeland Composers website
- ^ Biography, British Music Collection
- ^ John France. Robin Field: Lake District Composer, Land of Lost Content, January 2015
- ^ David Jennings. 'An obituary' at MusicWeb International, 21 November, 2024