Kevin Volans

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Sat 26 May: The Hambleden Concerts 2012 - Music from around the World The Parish Church of St Mary the Virgin Hambleden Hambleden, RG9 6RT
Tue 29 May: Composers Voice Jan Hus Church, 351 East 74th Street, New York
Sat 2 Jun: Music for a Royal Occasion Middleton Parish Church, New Lane, Middleton Manchester M24
Fri 8 Jun: Vienna Here and Now St Lawrence Hall, 157 King E, Toronto
Fri 8 Jun: Shakuhachi Concert Raixa, Bunyola, Spain
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(1906) Gustav Mahler: Premiere of Symphony no. 6 in a minor, in Essen, Germany, with Mahler conducting.
(1990) Alfred Schnittke: Premiere of the violin concerto, in Evian, France.

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Born: 26 July 1949 — Pietermaritzburg — South Africa
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Life

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.

(Contribution by Edward Gonçalves Pinto <edward.gpinto(at)gmail.com>.)

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