Jeremy Pike Recordings

Jeremy Pike studied violin and piano at the Junior Department of the Royal Academy of Music whilst taking composition lessons with Bryan Kelly and Sir Lennox Berkeley. He read Music at King’s College, Cambridge, studying composition with Gordon Crosse. After a postgraduate year studying composition (with Paul Patterson) and conducting at the Royal Academy of Music he won the annual Polish government scholarship, enabling him to study composition with Henryk Górecki in Katowice. In 1998 he was awarded a Churchill Fellowship for research into the application of new technology to the arts, based at Stanford University in the USA and at IRCAM in Paris. He gained a PhD from London University in 2000. He has directed the electro-acoustic music studios at the Royal Academy of Music and Warwick University, and since 1989 he has held the post of Head of Composition at Chetham’s School of Music in Manchester.

His extensive list of compositions comprises orchestral, chamber and vocal music, including Missa Brevis commissioned by Warwick University, a bassoon concerto for Graham Salvage & the RNCM New Ensemble and The Crossing Point, premièred by the City of London Sinfonia in 2005. His fourth string quartet won the Cambridge University composition prize and came second in the 1977 national Clement’s Memorial Prize. His fifth quartet was runner up for the 1985 Carl Maria von Weber International Composers’ Competition. Recent performances of his music have included Processions and Aphelion for violin and piano, both broadcast on BBC Radio 3 from the Wigmore Hall and Bridgewater Hall, Cascades for violin and harpsichord, premièred in Hong Kong and in a tour of mainland China with broadcasts on the Hong Kong national radio RTHK4, as well as A Forsaken Garden and The Cat and the Moon both commissioned for the 2017 and 2018 William Alwyn Festivals. A Street under Siege for symphony orchestra, winner of the Goldsmiths Composition Prize, was performed in Manchester’s Stoller Hall in 2019. CD recordings of his music include Three Pieces for Piano recorded by Jonathan Middleton, Processions for violin and piano and Closed Circuit for clarinet, piano and live electronics, recorded by Roger Heaton and Stephen Pruslin. Jeremy frequently gives recitals with his daughter, violinist Jennifer Pike, including appearances on BBC Radio 3.

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