Melinda Maxwell

{{Short description|English oboist and composer}}

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Melinda Maxwell (born 1953 in London) is an English oboist and composer. She is principal oboist of the ensemble Endymion and the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, and a regularly principal of the London Sinfonietta. She has been an academic teacher at the Royal Academy of Music, Birmingham Conservatoire, Trinity College and the Royal Northern College of Music.

Compositions

  • Pibroch for solo oboe and drone (1981)
  • Transformations for soprano and chamber ensemble (1990)
  • Endless Chain for oboe, saxophone and percussion (1992)
  • Elegy for oboe and piano (1994)
  • Three movements for solo clarinet (1994)
  • Pelagos for string trio (1995)
  • From Tree to Tree for string sextet (1998)
  • Songlines and Cadences for clarinet and harp (1999)
  • Song for Sidney for solo oboe and two echo oboes (2001)
  • Crane Dance for double-reed ensemble (2008)
  • Singla Rock for mixed quintet (2009)

References

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{{cite web

| url = http://www.rncm.ac.uk/people/melinda-maxwell/

| title = Melinda Maxwell

| work = RNCM

| publisher = Royal Northern College of Music

| accessdate = 16 August 2014

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{{cite web

|url=http://www.york.ac.uk/music/careers/alumni/maxwell/

|title=Melinda Maxwell

|work=University of York Department of Music

|accessdate=17 August 2014

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{{cite web

|url=http://www.endymion.org.uk/about/21-2/

|title=Melinda Maxwell – oboe

|work=Endymion

|accessdate=17 August 2014

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{{cite AV media notes

|title=Melinda Maxwell: composer and oboist

|year=2004

|type=booklet

|publisher=Dutton Laboratories

|id=CDLX7139

|location=Watford

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{{cite AV media notes

|title=Melinda Maxwell: In Manchester

|year=2007

|type=booklet

|publisher=Dutton Laboratories

|id=CDLX7180

|location=Watford

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{{cite AV media notes

|title=British Women Composers, Volume 2

|year=1992

|type=booklet

|publisher=Lontano Records Ltd.

|id=LNT103

|location=London

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{{cite AV media notes

|title=Birtwistle – Maxwell – Holt

|year=1997

|type=booklet

|publisher=NMC Recordings Ltd.

|id=NMCD042S

|location=London

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{{cite AV media notes

|title=Sound Census

|year=2010

|type=booklet

|publisher=NMC Recordings Ltd.

|id=NMCD160

|location=London

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Category:20th-century English classical composers

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Category:English women classical composers

Category:1953 births

Category:British classical oboists

Category:Women oboists

Category:Living people

Category:20th-century English women composers

Category:21st-century English women composers

Category:Academics of the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire