Cecilia McDowall
Born: 1951, London, England
Nationality: English
Cecilia McDowall is a British composer. Often inspired by extra-musical influences, her writing combines a rhythmic vitality with expressive lyricism 'which is, at times, intensely moving'. She read music at the University of Edinburgh continuing her studies at Trinity College of Music, London, later completing an MMus in composition. She studied with Joseph Horovitz, Robert Saxton and Adam Gorb. She has won many awards and has been short-listed seven times for the British Composer Awards.
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Cecilia McDowall on her Da Vinci Requiem and Seventy Degrees below Zero
24th May 2023
The composer discusses two of her new large-scale choral works, her approaches to matching words to music, and her aims as a contemporary composer.
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Cecilia McDowall at 70
12th Jun 2021
The composer talks about the new album of her choral works recorded by Stephen Layton and Trinity College Choir, and looks back over her musical career.
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Popular Works: McDowall, C
- A Tree is a Song (2)
- A Winter's Night (3)
- Adoro te devote (2)
- Alma redemptoris mater (3)
- Annunciation, a carol for Advent (1)
- Aurea luce (2)
- Ave maris stella for Choir, Soprano & String Orchestra (2)
- Before The Paling Of The Stars (2)
- Celebration (2)
- Century Dances (2)
- Church bells beyond the stars (2)
- Come home little sister (2)
- Deus, qui claro lumine (1)
- Dream City for flute, clarinet, string quartet and harp (2)
- Gaude et laetare (2)
- George Herbert Trilogy (2)
- Hodie Gloriosa (1)
- I have done what is mine to do (1)
- Laudate (2008) (1)
- Lonely Hearts (1)
- Not Just a Place for flute, cello & piano (1)
- Not Just a Place for solo violin, solo double bass & strings (2)
- Now may we singen, a carol for Christmas (2)
- O Antiphon Sequence (2)
- O Oriens (8)
- Of a Rose (3)
- On Angel’s Wing (1)
- Pavane (2)
- Regina Caeli (3)
- Rise heart; thy Lord is risen (2)
- Shakespeare Songs (4) (2)
- Stabat Mater (1)
- Standing as I do before God (6)
- The Lord is Good (2)
- The Moon Dances for flute & piano (2)
- There Is No Rose (2)
- Three Latin Motets (3)
- Vespers in Venice (2)
- Winter Music (2)
- Y Deryn Pur (The Gentle Dove) (2)
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