Roger Redgate is a British composer, conductor and improvisor. He was born in Bolton, Lancashire. He graduated at the Royal College of Music, where he won prizes for composition, violin performance, harmony and counterpoint. A DAAD scholarship enabled him to study with Brian Ferneyhough and Klaus Huber in Freiburg. From 1984 and 1994 he was a member of the Composers Forum at the Darmstadt summer school, where he received the Kranichsteiner Musikpreis for composition in 1988. From 1989 to 1992 he was Northern Arts Fellow in Composition at the universities of Durham and Newcastle. He is conductor and artistic director of Ensemble Exposé, which he founded in 1984 together with Richard Barrett, and with which he performs regularly at European festivals and on BBC Radio 3 and has released recordings, including a CD of the chamber music by Brian Ferneyhough He has worked in the fields of jazz, improvised music, film and television, and performance art. His compositions have been performed extensively throughout Europe, Australia and the United States and he has received commissions from the BBC, Biennale, and Ensemble 21 New York. He has published articles on music and culture, the music of Brian Ferneyhough and Michael Finnissy, including a chapter in the book Uncommon Ground: The Music of Michael Finnissy. CD recordings of his works are available on the NMC and Edition Zeitklang labels and further recordings are in preparation due for release on the Metier and NMC labels. His compositions are published by Éditions Henry Lemoine, Paris, United Music Publishers, London and the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music. Since 1997 Roger Redgate has been a lecturer in Goldsmiths College, University of London where he is Professor of Composition and Director of the Contemporary Music Research Unit.
Compositions
String Quartet No 4 Commissioned by the Kreutzer String Quartet
Black Icons cello/ensemble† 10' Commissioned by Alexander Ivashkin and the European Commission for the Studio for New Music, Moscow
Blue Scars, director Ian Cottage. Commissioned by the South Bank International Poetry Festival. First Screening: Purcell Room, The Southbank Centre, 1995.
Small Gestures, director Ian Cottage. Music for an experimental documentary. First Screening: London International Film Festival, 1994.
Sound installation
The Sunlight Cube playground, Gloucester Primary School, Peckham. In collaboration with artist Shirazeh Houshiary and architect Pip Horne
Discography
Ausgangspunkte recorded by Christoper Redgate on Oboe+: Berio and Beyond.
Complete piano music recorded by Nicolas Hodges
Feu la cendre, recorded by Frankin Cox, on The New Cello Vol 2
Single Combat, Improvised collaboration with Matt Wright
Graffiti recorded by Rico Gubler,
Black Icons"",recorded by Alexander Ivashkin and the Studio for New Music, Moscow
ruins true refuge, Recorded by Corrado Canonici on A Roaring Flame
+R, Recorded by Andrew Sparling on NMC D092
+R recorded by Rolf Borch on Step Inside
trace, Recorded by Thalia Myers on Spectrum NMC Recordings
arc, recorded by Thalia Myers on Spectrum NMC Recordings
Eperons, recorded by Peter Veale and Olaf Tzschoppe, Edition Zeitklang, Germany.
Mirlitonnades recorded by Alison Smart and Katharine Durran on"New French Song
Residua, recorded by Jane Chapman on "Wired: Works for Harpsichord and Electronics"
Oboe Quintet and Éperons, recorded by Christopher Redgate and the Kreutzer String Quartet, on "Greatest Hits of All Time"
