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- Paul Ayres
- Paul Ayres was born in London, studied music at Oxford University,
and now works freelance as a composer & arranger, choral conductor
& musical director, and organist & accompanist. His music usually
involves words - solo songs, choral pieces, music for theatre productions
- and he is particularly interested in working with pre-existing music,
from arrangements of folksongs, hymns, jazz standards and nursery rhymes
to 're-compositions' of classical works, as in "Purcell's Funeral
Sentence" and "4A Wreck". New pieces for 2005 include "The
Spring" for the BBC Singers, "Three" for Gallions School
string orchestra, "Cole and Co" (children's opera) for the Essex
County Music Service, "This Sceptr'd Isle" for the Exmoor Singers
and "Sink or Swim" (incidental music) for Quicksilver Theatre
Company. Paul is assistant director of music at St George's Church Hanover
Square, plays piano for improvised comedy shows and has given many solo
organ recitals in the UK, Scandinavia, Europe, North America and Australia.
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- Please visit www.paulayres.co.uk to find out more.
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