Musicatlas
Music
- Aladdin - children’s musical
- Antiques and Curios (wind 5tet)
- Bermuda Suite and Dolphin (mix 5tet)
- CHI (brass band)
- China Song - musical
- Chorinho Cariñoso (alto sax & piano): John Harle’s Sax Album (anthology)
- Concerto for Orchestra
- Continuing Story (The) (ballet/orch)
- Contrapunctus III (Bach realization for sax 4tet)
- Da Capo (6 players)
- Die Flimmerkiste (11 players)
- Doggone - 10 minute opera
- Ein Musikalisches Snookerspiel (wind 8tet)
- Five Songs of Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- Flying God Suite (concert band)
- For Remembrance radio music-theatre
- Green Women - cabaret
- Go-Slow (4 guitars)
- Goodnight Mister Tom: musical
- Grand Meaulnes (Le) - opera
- The Lamplighter (children’s choir/orchestra)
- Missa Beata Virgine (2 a capella choirs)
- Mythologies - music-theatre
- Noviciado (ballet/orch)
- One Alone (The) - radio musicdrama (w. Iris Murdoch)
- Pantomime for 13 winds
- Prelude and Fugue (9 players)
- Rondeaux (solo guitar)
- Scenerama Amsterdam - Mme Tussaud’s (with Simon Bainbridge)
- Sonata for Alto Sax and Piano
- Sonata for Clarinet and Piano
- Snow Queen (The) - opera
- Streets of London (The) - musical
- Sunderland Lasses and Wearmouth Lads
- Tabloid!!! - musical
- Theatre Fountain (concert band)
- Une Semaine De Bonté (Sax 4tet)
- Windfield (ballet/orch/tape)
Life
Gary Carpenter studied composition under John Lambert at the Royal College of Music. He has lived in Holland and Germany and has written three operas (The Snow Queen, Le Grand Meaulnes, Mythologies; all with Ian Barnett), one 10 minute opera buffa - Doggone - with Simon Nicholson, several ballets for Nederlands Dans Theater and a large amount of concert music performed by, amongst others, the Hallé, BBC Concert, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic and Dutch Radio Philharmonic Orchestras, Anthony Pini, John Harle, Gerald MacChrystal, Simon Haram, Quartz Saxophone Quartet, Joanna MacGregor, Grimethorpe & Britannia Brass Bands, the RNCM Wind Orchestra (Manchester), Lontano and the Haffner Ensemble. His Flying God Suite was premiered in the USA by the Florida State University Wind Orchestra. He is active as a lecturer, musical director and pianist and has won prizes as diverse as the Austrian Composers’ Union and Federal Ministry of Education and Culture Composers’ Competition - Vienna (1st prize - 1977) and the Vivian Ellis Prize - London, for best musical (China Song with Simon Nicholson - 1998). He has been the recipient of two Arts Council bursaries, two Holst and one Gulbenkian Foundation award. In an extraordinarily varied career, he has taught at the Royal College of Music, Guildhall School of Music & Drama (London), Hope University College (Liverpool) and Welsh College of Music & Drama (Cardiff); was musical director and arranger on the film The Wicker Man; arranged much of the orchestral music for Schlöndorff’s film Voyager; orchestrated the title track from Lesley Garrett’s upcoming CD I Will Wait For You; Damon Albarn’s music for the films Ravenous and Ordinary Decent Criminal; most of Simon Callow’s Toronto/West End production of The Pajama Game... and written an electroacoustic score - Tightrope, for the Berlin aerial artist Crystalle. He lives on the Wirral in North-West England.