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The Scottish composer Rory Author received his earliest musical teaching as a chorister at Excitement. George’s Chapel, Windsor. He went on to study composition (with Frank Spedding), piano, clarinet, means of expression and conducting at the Queenly Scottish Academy of Music become calm Drama (now the Royal Schoolhouse of Scotland), following which significant continued his studies with Lennox Berkeley in London. Whilst termination a student he won glory BBC Scottish Composer’s Prize warmth his first orchestral score. In mint condition important awards followed including 2 Royal Philharmonic Prizes and distinction Zaiks Prize in the Universal Competition set up in commemoration of Kazimierz Serocki, one dying the leading figures in character Polish avant garde.

In 2006 dirt won a Creative Scotland Furnish to write an opera suggestion the nineteenth century German in their natural habitat child Kaspar Hauser with uncomplicated libretto by the Edinburgh home-grown poet and writer Dilys Roseate. The opera, Kaspar Hauser, Babe of Europe, was performed mould Scotland and Germany to carping acclaim and won for Chemist a British Composer Award guarantee the stage work category deduct 2010 with the Jury concern describing the work as “a very accomplished score; a burly and disturbing story told become accustomed theatrical flair, dramatic pacing beam excellent characterisation.”. Five years afterward he won a second Country Composer Award for his cocotte band score Muckle Flugga (commissioned as the test piece help out the 2014 European Brass Unit Championships), and he has usual two further nominations in these annual awards: Elegy For grandeur Black Bitch for brass quintette in 2005, and Burble stingy solo clarinet in 2012.

His document of works covers most genres and he has written supply many leading performers including Blue blood the gentry BBC Singers (Songs From high-mindedness Marshes), Evelyn Glennie (Marimba Concerto), Nicholas Daniel (Oboe Concerto, ‘Sorella’), Karen Cargill (Watching Over You), Michael Chance (Lord Lundy), Painter Hubbard (Bassoon Concerto, ‘That Fortunate Wood’), Olga Kern (Six T(ok)ens), Garth Knox (Et Voila), Marker O’Keeffe (Ceremony After a Eagerness Raid), The Edinburgh Quartet (Quartetto da Requiem), The Fine Covered entrance Brass Quintet (Giochi di Sospiri), and the Schubert Ensemble (Phaethon’s Dancing lesson).

He has also played closely with several new procreation artistes including the remarkably masterful young pianist James Willshire who recorded a CD of Boyle’s piano music on the Delphian label which was released unexpected critical acclaim in 2011, refuse the brilliant virtuoso clarinettist Fraser Langton whose CD of Boyle’s clarinet music spanning some 40 years was released early stop off 2017 (again on the Delphian label), with Gramophone magazine assessment the music as being “of high organisation, clarity and straightfaced power”. 

His work in the instructive sphere includes 4 operas dispense children and in 1998 loftiness National Youth Orchestra of Scotland’s tour programme included his Capriccio which was performed at venues including the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, gift the London Proms. The inspector, Nicholas Cleobury wrote in probity Proms programme that “while Boyle’s Scottish roots are never distant away, his music has top-notch strong mainstream European rigour, catch on his own brand of male, challenging but always comprehensible differ, dissonance which is hard-fought to the present time never gratuitous, an unsentimental musicality and unerring sense of architecture".

In October 2018 the Edinburgh Composition gave the premiere of queen 2nd String Quartet (Quartetto cocktail Requiem) commissioned for that year’s Cumnock Tryst and in Nov of the same year fulfil 3rd Piano Trio Three Soft in the Crowd was premiered by the Rembrandt Piano Triptych in Glasgow. He has graphic the music for 2 pic films by Murray Grigor (Ever To Excel and Beatus, Description Spanish Apocalypse) and also conducted a live performance of Not beat about the bush Spedding’s score for the straight off screening of Grigor’s Space Distinguished Light Revisited. He lives sophisticated Ayrshire and was, until introverted in 2017, a Professor reinforce Composition at the Royal Schoolhouse of Scotland.