Nicholas Vines
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Nicholas Vines (born Sydney, 1976), is an Australian composer currently based in Sydney. He is particularly active at home and in Australia.
Interpreters of Vines’ work range from specialist new music ensembles to high school students. He has received prizes from the US, UK and Poland, as well as Australian honours such as APRA AMCOS Art Music Awards. His compositions are published by Faber Music,Titcomb 2009 Wirripang and the Australian Music Centre. Three albums of his music are available commercially: Torrid Nature ScenesLimelight 2013 (Stephen Drury & the Callithumpian Consort), Loose, Wet, PerforatedVittes 2018 (Guerilla Opera) and Hipster Zombies From MarsSounds Like Sydney 2022 Harry 2018 (Ryan MacEvoy McCullough).
While at the University of Sydney, Vines’s main teachers were Anne Boyd, Peter Sculthorpe and Ross Edwards. He later completed a PhD at Harvard University, studying with Harrison Birtwistle, Bernard Rands, Magnus Lindberg, Julian Anderson, Lee Hyla, Mario Davidovsky, Judith Weir and Michael Finnissy.
Vines actively identifies with transmodernism.Vines 2018 His compositional approach is rooted in the technical resources of the Western classical canon, while embracing sounds and ideas from an array of popular, experimental, Australian and non-Western traditions.Vines 2018 This combination of rigour and pluralism gives rise to music at once vectored and kaleidoscopic. Vines has worked in both traditional and bespoke forms, producing some eighty-five compositions. His output includes three operas,Keebaugh 2016 Guerrieri 2011 Schwartz 2011 Reid 2006 The Age 2004 a symphony, two string quartets,Nolan 2016 a piano quartet,Guerrieri 2015 numerous other chamber works,da Fonseca-Wollheim 2018 Lorenzon 2014 Patterson 2011 Catlett 2009 and twelve preludes,Sounds Like Sydney 2022 twenty-one miniatures and a variations & themeKerry 2015 for piano, as well as many examples of Gebrauchsmusik.
Vines is also a keen mentor of young composers. From 2007 to 2022, he ran the New Works Program for New England Conservatory’s Summer Institute for Contemporary Performance Practice.SICPP 2022 His role with the Artology Fanfare Project (2014–21) was significant, and he has been intrinsic to numerous school-based Australian music seminars. Vines currently teaches at Sydney Grammar School as the Senior Master in Academic Extension (Music). One of his initiatives is Composition Club, where he has taught his students about Peter Sculthorpe, video game soundtracks, Shostakovich, and Ava Max.
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External links
- [http://www.nicholasvines.com/ Nicholas Vines]
- [https://www.australianmusiccentre.com.au/artist/vines-nicholas Australian Music Centre Biography]
References
- Sounds Like Sydney (2022), Nicholas Vines And Rob Hao On Vines’ Indie Ditties, accessed 10/04/24, https://www.soundslikesydney.com.au/nicholas-vines-and-rob-hao-on-vines-indie-ditties
- Harry, Hollis (2018), New music: Reviews of this week's CD releases, accessed 10/04/24, https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-life/entertainment/music/2018/07/05/new-music-333
- PARMA Recordings (2018), THE INSIDE STORY: Nick Vines and HIPSTER ZOMBIES FROM MARS, accessed 10/04/24, https://www.parmarecordings.com/the-inside-story-nick-vines-and-hipster-zombies-from-mars
- Vines, Nicholas (2018), Insight-Hipster Zombies from Mars, Australian Music Centre, accessed 23/12/21, https://www.australianmusiccentre.com.au/article/insight-hipster-zombies-from-mars
- Vittes, Laurence (2018), VINES Loose, Wet, Perforated, Gramophone, accessed 10/04/24, https://www.gramophone.co.uk/review/vines-loose-wet-perforated
- Keebaugh, Aaron (2016), Guerilla Opera revives Vines’ dark, thoughtful morality play, Boston Classical Review, accessed 12/04/24, https://bostonclassicalreview.com/2016/09/guerilla-opera-revives-vines-dark-thoughtful-morality-play/
- Nolan, Paul (2016), ACACIA QUARTET PRESENTS ‘THE HARP AND THE HARPOON’ @THE UTZON ROOM, Sydney Arts Guide, accessed 12/04/24, https://sydneyartsguide.com.au/acacia-quartet-presents-the-harp-and-the-harpoon-the-utzon-room/
- Guerrieri, Matthew (2015), At SICPP, modernism in moderation on Monday, The Boston Globe, accessed 10/04/24, https://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/music/2015/06/16/sicpp-modernism-moderation-monday/skWQwNPsBLsGAc98URJMyI/story.html
- Kerry, Gordon (2015), Piano Inside Out, The Music Trust, accessed 12/4/24, https://musictrust.com.au/piano-inside-out-works-by-gyger-vines-rojas-young-whale-page-and-moles/
- Lorenzon, Matthew (2014), Metropolis: Syzygy Ensemble, Logic, Partial Durations, accessed 12/4/24, https://partialdurations.com/tag/nicholas-vines/
- Limelight (2013), Review: Nicholas Vines: Torrid Nature Scenes (Callithumpian Consort), accessed 10/04/24, https://limelight-arts.com.au/tag/callithumpian
- da Fonseca-Wollheim, Corinna (2013), Wiggling Worms and Fluttering Birds, The New York Times, accessed 11/4/24, https://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/03/arts/music/counter-induction-at-the-tenri-cultural-institute.html
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