Kevin Volans


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– Thu 4 Sep: Nassau oblige - 12 Widmungsmusiken (1813-2005) an die Herrscher der Dynastie Luxemburg-Nassau, for Woodwind-Quartet Wiesbaden, Germany
– Sat 6 Sep: Seann Branchfield Acoustic Performance Gizzy's Coffee 16 W 8th Street, New York, NY, USA
– Tue 16 Sep: Cycles - A feast of Orchestral Song Cadogan Hall, London, UK
– Thu 2 Oct: First performance of a work for orchestra Casa de la Musica, Quito, Ecuador
– Sun 5 Oct: Eisenhower Farewell Address Castro Valley Center for the Arts, Castro Valley, California, USA
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– Musikpreis Salzburg 2009 awarded to Klaus Huber 11 Aug 2008
– Wagstaff's Piano Quintet released on CD 6 Aug 2008
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– Norman Dello Joio dies at 95 29 Jul 2008
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Born: 26 July 1949 — Pietermaritzburg — South Africa
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In 1972, Kevin Volans graduated from the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg with a Bachelors of Music degree, followed by post-graduate education at the University of Aberdeen. From 1973 to 1981 he lived in Cologne, Germany, where he studied with Karlheinz Stockhausen at the Musikhochschule. He later became Stockhausen’s teaching assistant.

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