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First name: Nigel
Last name: Keay
Dates: 1955
Category: Quartet
Nationality:
Opus name: Quartet (1986)
Publisher:
Peculiarities: https://www.sounz.org.nz/works/12045
Information: Nigel Keay was born in Palmerston North, New Zealand in 1955. He has been a freelance musician since 1983 working as a composer, violist, and violin teacher Between 1983 and 1995 he received several grants from the Arts Council of New Zealand for various commissions. . His music, which ranges from solo and chamber music combinations to full symphony orchestra, has sometimes been driven by literary and philosophical ideas. Throughout his career he has wherever possible played in or directed his own works. He became an Associate-Violist with the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra in 1994. Nigel Keay moved to France in 1998 (he acquired French citizenship in 2000) and lives now in Paris where he continues to work as a freelance composer and violist. In 2001 his Viola Concerto 2 was performed at the 29th International Viola Congress in Wellingtonwith F. In 2002 he was commissioned by Radio France to compose a work for multiple broadcasts on its France Musiques and France Culture stations (Tango Suite 3). Between 2003 and 2005 he gave multiple performances of his String Quartet No.2 in Paris and Bavaria with his own group, Quatuor Aphanès. In 2005 a Parisian string orchestra, Orchestre à cordes Idoménée conducted by Didier Jacquin, performed Nigel Keay's Serenade for Strings 5 in its first programme. In 2006 Nigel Keay created the Ensemble de l'APEIM 6 with the conductor and pianist Elizabeth Askren.