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Keith Perreur-Lloyd, classical orchestral music composer Biography and Discography...

Biography

A childhood exposed to much classical music, cinema, and the theatre, led to Keith having the idea of being composer since his youth. A life-time of travel and working all over the world in broadcasting - with over a thousand radio-play recordings for the BBC in London; programmes for the Rhodesian Broadcasting Corporation, Forces Broadcasting Service - Cyprus, Teheran Television, CKGM and CBC/Radio-Canada, and the Salzburg Music Festival Announcer in the 60's.

His novel Island of Jacarandas, was set in Rhodesia where he lived with his family for several years.

He was commissioned by Recorded Books in NY to read the unabridged text for the book by Le Carre, A Murder of Quality - and later set up his own enterprise, Audioscape, to produce dramatisations of classic works, including a biography of Beethoven in which he took the lead role.

Keith retained the musical ideas that he created as a young man, in his head for over half a century. It was his discovery of Sibelius Software which enabled him to resurrect his original improvisations and commit them to manuscript. He has worked as a full-time composer since 2000, producing one major work (Concerto or Symphony), during each of the past 10 years.

A paternal aunt was married to Serge Poliakoff, a russian painter who died in 1969. His maternal great-aunt was married to Pierre Mendes-France, a prime minister of France in 1954-55.

Discography

• Concerto for MAN 2010

• Clarinet Concerto 2009 (Beguiling Spirit)

• Concerto for Tuba and Everyone 2008

• Concerto for Forest and Orchestra 2007

• 2nd Piano Concerto 2006 (Breakout)

• Viola Concerto 2005 (The Sweetness of Sorrow)

• Choral Symphony 2004 (Eulogy Cantata)

• Cello Concerto 2003 (Träumesturm)

• Violin Concerto 2002 (In Pursuit of Innocence)

• Piano Concerto 2001 (Aera Dementia)

Reviews

Simon Hewitt-Jones - Violinist

I greatly enjoyed listening to your work! I thought that your writing conveys very strong imagery. This is really important, and I think you depict the emotional content of the work very well (and I’m sure it would work better with human performers too!). Just two examples that I found especially effective were the birdlike flitteriness (for want of a better word!) of the violin part in the higher registers, and the use of the church bell-like percussion sounds – I felt at times as if I were listening to Dickensian gothic novel!

Talking of which, the murky, dark textures that you create are very powerful. The different shades and shadowy sounds created by your use of dissonance and mixed harmonic texture are interesting; they seem to create, well, murkiness really (!), which fits the music well. I think you have some wonderful ideas and motifs…….

The ending of the work is very exciting, really excellent.

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Maestro Ashkenazy

Re: Piano Concerto 2001 “He enjoyed the piece and his feeling is that as it’s well written in a very dynamic and jazzy sort of style, it would be best-suited to a young, up-and-coming pianist.”

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Pollyanna Gunning - Sanctuary Records

Re: Piano Concerto 2001 & Violin Concerto 2002 Hello, thanks for sending in your CDs, I received them yesterday. I think your music is really dramatic and exciting, reminding me in places of Stravinsky or Bartok, and in other places of some of my favourite film scores. I do wish you the best of luck, and keep at the composing! Best wishes, Polly

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Sigiswald Kuijken – Violinist

I think the concerto was written for ‘cross-over’ audiences in a clever way, and is easy to listen to, with lots of variety; very professional, even although the work was not to my musical taste.

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Ben Finn – Managing Director, Sibelius Software Ltd

Many thanks for sending us the CD of your piano and violin concertos, which I've just been listening to - very interesting pieces. The piano opening is particularly unusual.

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Mark Andrew James - Conductor, Sussex Symphony Orchestra

Re: Piano Concerto 2001 The work itself I feel is extremely good, it is very episodic and atmospheric! There is much aggression in the work and pent up feelings coupled with a painful agony which perfectly depicts those events (2001) and the eventual futility of it all.

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Jochen Brusch – Violinist

This is to express my profound admiration for your wonderful composition. I listened to your violin concerto several times and want to tell You, that You achieved something very, very special and quite extraordinary about this opus of yours.

I do wish you all good luck with the promotion of your wonderful music.

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Nina Kavtaradze - Pianist

Re: Piano Concerto 2001 & Violin Concerto 2002 & Cello Concerto Many thanks for the music!

I´ve just now listened to the concert with great pleasure! Everything, from start to end, is interesting and exciting. All I can say is: congratulations!

With the best of wishes for success in performing the concert in many countries!

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Jacob A. Shaw - Cellist

So I listened to the piece and I thought it was really very good. Usually I don't like contemporary works but your concerto was very imaginative, I think it used the compass of the cello very well, whilst maintaining melodies at the same time; this is where a lot of modern works go wrong.

I would very much like to study the full score.

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Katarzyna Duda - Violinist

I listened yesterday your Concert and I am very impressed your fantastic work. In my opinion your Violin Concerto is outstanding masterpiece! I liked it very much because your concerto has a lot in common with my favourite Shostakovich (specific harmony, orchestration). I think is very difficult for soloist and orchestra (and conductor, of course). Has anybody performed your concerto in France or somewhere else?

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Megan Spezeski - Harpist

I have listened to the piano concerto a few times now. What an interesting work- energetic, aggressive, and driven. To me, it's a blend of Stravinsky, Danny Elfman, Phillip Glass, Holst, and even Mozart, believe it or not! It is definitely a unique mix! I would be very interested to hear it live. I think it sounds like an exciting (and challenging) piece.. Sincerely, Megan

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George-Emmanuel Lazaridis - Pianist

The piano concerto is an exquisite piece, and I truly mean it when I say it is “geniusly” modern. “Modern” in a most original and meaningful way. It doesn’t sound ‘like’ anything else. And yet the sounds and rhythms it manages to create, refer to modern life: its REAL sounds and rhythms. You can hear familiar contemporary life sounds. but created by acoustic instruments and at the same time controlled and elevated into a great art-form.

I look forward to studying the score and perhaps meeting its wonderful composer soon.

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Jamie Walton – Cellist

Very interesting work which could benefit from some airing.

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Gregory Walmsley - Cellist

I like it !! The work is full of great interventions between the solo cello and individual instruments from the orchestra. The timpani and brass set up some really good sonorities with jazzy and dissonant solos, and yes, the cello part does appear to be quite busy and challengingly rewarding. The coda towards the end of the work will sound great, very atmospheric.

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Tony Matthews – Composer & Pianist

Re: Piano Concerto 2001 Somewhat blown away!! It takes a lot for me to listen to a work of this length. This is a wonderful work, highly dramatic, very powerful and very well written. This is an excellent piece.

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Volodja Balzalorsky - Violinist

My first impression is very strong. I like the music!

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Alexander Baillie - Cellist

I have just listened to the Cello Sinfonia. I am most impressed. I liked what I heard - a lot. It seems to be a work of great strength and beauty, with some extraordinary scoring and a powerful message.

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Vilmos Szabadi – Violinist

Yes! To play the music, and add it to my repertoire!!

Just came from Finland again and listened with lot of pleasure! I would like to play this concerto as well to enrich my repertoire indeed!

I am happy to play this concerto! First of all, when and with whom?

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Sebastian Comberti – Cello Classics Records

I have the tape in the car and have listened to it - it sounds interesting. Have you any prospects of a live performance? Was it written for any one in particular? I've listened again and despite the severe limitations of the computerised orchestra, it sounds interesting. Really it needs a live recording - maybe you should get a play-through by a conservatoire orchestra.

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Sharon Robinson & Jaime Laredo

Both of us (Sharon and Jaime) listened to both the violin concerto & the cello sinfonia. The impression we got from the computer-generated music was of an interesting & approachable style in both works……….. there clearly was some wonderful music-in-the-waiting!===

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Dino Mastroyiannis – pianist

Masterful composing technique and dazzling virtuosity make Keith Perreur-Lloyd’s Piano Concerto an outstanding work of our time. I would feel very proud to perform the world-premiere of this really sensational piece!===

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Monica Cuneo - violist

I listened to your viola concerto and some of your other work. I like the energy of your music. With real instruments it must be even more impressive.

I'd be interested in seeing the score and performing your concerto. I'd be excited and honoured to do your premiere, (or even if it's not the premiere!). ===

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Jake Barrett - SibeliusMusic Reviewer

Absolutely brilliant

This is probably the best piece I have come across while browsing through the scores at Sibelius. Not only that, it's one of the best pieces I've ever heard, period. Whoever said that it was a masterpiece is correct. I'm very happy to hear that it is receiving its world premiere in November. 1. It's brilliant. 2. It's about 200 pages long and it's brilliant. 3. It's very difficult and only professional pianists could even begin to think of playing this Once again, it's an incredible piece. I hope that the composer receives multiple commissions and lots of recording opportunities after this piece is premiered.

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Trevor Kirby-Smith

A future Royal Albert Hall prom contender! Now that is what the future of music is all about. This is a stunning 21st century work. As you might be aware, this piano concerto is being performed at the Kosice Contemporary Music Festival, with Dino Mastroyiannis (soloist) and the Slovak Orchestra. Keith Perreur-Lloyd has bravely and effectively thrown down the gauntlet and there are others who clearly enjoy the concerto without worrying about form. I would like to hear this performed in the Royal Albert Hall during a promenade season. George-Emmanuel Lazaridis (pianist) has been quoted as saying, #An exquisite piece in an original and meaningful way………relates to modern life’s REAL sounds and rhythm.# I fully agree and to me it certainly is unique and emotionally exciting. It gave me great pleasure to listen to Keith Perreur-Lloyd’s mp3 of his Piano Concerto 2001.

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Mike Fackrell (BMus) (Fellowship in Composition from Trinity College, London (FTCL).

Piano Concerto by Perreur-Lloyd Superb! A tour-de-force, both for the orchestra and the solo instrument, using an eclectic musical language featuring tonality and dissonance equally. Full of memorable melodic and rhythmic 'hooks', this work is going to be rattling around in my brain for a long while yet. Many people seem to think that a musical structure without clear melodic/thematic and harmonic development, in a classical sense, is not musical. But we've had over a century of impressionism, dada, serialism, atonality, minimalism, aleatoric and other experimental idioms to liberate us from the bar line and the key signature. We are 'free' to develop a purely personal musical language. The musical language used in this Piano Concerto is just as ‘today’, as what we may hear whilst watching a Hollywood blockbuster, or playing a video game. Please guys, open your ears and give this a good listen. It really is worth it!!

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Michel Mañanes - Pianist

Piano Concerto 2006 It seems to me an extraordinary work: Full of new colours, ferocious and apocalyptic rhythms. A very Unique Work. I would be enchanted to perform it. Greetings and Congratulations.

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Jens Lühr - Pianist

Piano Concerto 2006 I listened to the concerto a few times again. I really do like it. The whole concerto is most impressive.

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Bryan Pezzone - Pianist

Piano Concerto 2006 The music is exciting and has depth and drive. I think the music is outstanding, and if I can help, I certainly am willing to do what I can. Thank you very much for having sent me this wonderful music. It is new and fascinating.

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Setrak Setrakian – Pianist

Piano Concerto 2006 I received The CD, I listened to it many times carefully It's a nice modern-style concerto, full of pianistic technique.

Congratulations. This concerto is no imitation!

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Nicholas Anderson - Cellist

CELLO CONCERTO I listened to the whole concerto. It's certainly a truly compelling work, and I would be very interested in performing it.

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Bruno Pasquier - Violist

After listening to this surprising and very interesting concerto, I would be more than happy to perform it. I would like to receive the viola part and also the main score.

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Rudolph Barshai – conductor

"........is very impressed with your Viola Concerto score, and is seriously considering arranging its performance"

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Elizabeth Wolff - Pianist

Both piano concertos are fabulous: your imagination, energy, fine orchestral artistry. I am now a fan.

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Zeno Alma - Harpist/Composer

Concerto for Forest and Orchestra Bravisimo Maestro Excellente. Dear Maestro Lloyd: I had the opportunity to listen to two of your Opuses. Cello Concerto 2003, & Concerto for Forest & Orchestra:

Before I entered into the Forest of Sonus I sat in the dark to accentuate your desired effect before listening to Concerto For Forest & Orchestra. Insects, bugs, birds chirping, scampering critters on the forest floor, leaves falling and even foliage growing, and with every footstep broken twigs, until finally the Sun Beams coming through the canopy and then vanishing again unable to penetrate the dense forest. You are a fascinating composer creating rich melodic textures, strata within strata of melodic passages of instrumentation.

The Cello Concerto was most interesting. In both of the Opuses I really enjoyed the way you employed the Timpanis. they created great depth of sound to your works and you really have an understanding for their use. I’m pleased to see that with each year your music continues to grow, evolve, and metamorphose.

I will return to your site and continue with the remaining Opuses.

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Gevorg Sargsyan - Conductor

Piano Concerto 2006 My faithful compliments! Piano concerto was among few contemporary concertos I really like, it has dynamic move, and very colorful (as much as I could imagine it via midi sound). Orchestration is impressive and doesn't affect solo part (thing, that I am used to be faced often...).

Being former cellist I was keen to listen to cello concerto. For cellist, it sounds quite challenging in a technical point of view... I realize, that you got your own style, somewhat closer to jazz(?) and rhythmical "brakes", which in fact makes your compositions "energic" and adds more colors. I liked the idea of different solos combined with cello in a first half.

Please accept my compliments!

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Helge Harding - Clarinetist

from my first reading it seems to be a very lively and vital piece that would need excellent musicians and enough rehearsal time. congratulations!!

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