Composer · b. 1943
Robin Holloway
Biography
Robin Holloway is a British composer whose music explores the relationship between modernism, Romanticism and tonality. A former chorister at St Paul’s Cathedral, he studied composition with Alexander Goehr as a teenager and taught at the University of Cambridge from 1975 to 2011. His pupils included Judith Weir and Thomas Adès.
His works include Scenes from Schumann, the Second Concerto for Orchestra and the opera Clarissa, first staged by English National Opera in 1990 under Oliver Knussen. His music has been recorded by NMC, Hyperion and Chandos and is published by Boosey & Hawkes.