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Music
Piano Quintet Op. 8 composed 1988 and recorded by the Australian String Quartet in 1992.
Life
Douglas Weiland (born 1954, Malvern, Worcestershire, United Kingdom) is a modern-classical composer.
Formerly a violinist — 2 years English Chamber Orchestra, 7 years Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, and 5 years as a founder member of the Australian Quartet (1985–1990), he has been a full-time composer for the past 18 years.
Weiland has produced numerous and acclaimed chamber, orchestraland choralworks, many commissioned for and performed by some of the world’s greatest artists: Sir Neville Marriner and Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, Altenberg Trio Wien, William Hennessy’s Australian Quartet, Marie-Noëlle Kendall, Andrew Marriner, Kenneth Sillito, Steven Isserlis, and the young Hamer Quartet.
Three early major chamberworks (1985–1988) were commissioned for William Hennessy’s newly formed Australian Quartet, and announced Weiland as a new voice, categorised by modern-classical hall-marks – aspiring to the achievements of Bartók, Prokofiev, Sibelius, Tippett — as distinct from avant-garde.
Weiland was Composer-in-Residence for the Norfolk and Norwich Music Club from 2003–2007.