Rhian Samuel (b. 1944)
Composer; Editor
Works published by MoV
Rhyfedd, rhyfedd / Wonder, wonder
(Welsh or English) (SATB & organ)
Rhyfedd, rhyfedd / Wonder, wonder
(Welsh or English) (SATB & organ)
Rhian Samuel (b. 1944)
Rhian Samuel is a Welsh composer of over 140 published works for ensembles from full orchestra to solo instruments. The former include Tirluniau/Landscapes, premièred at the BBC Millenium Proms (2000), and Clytemnestra (for soprano and orchestra), recently issued on disc (BIS) and short-listed for a 2020 Gramophone Award. She has written for professional choirs including New College, Oxford (Ave Maria and Ave Regina Coelorum), and the BBC Singers (The Shape of Trees), as well as mixed college choirs, including her own at Reading University (Lovesongs and Observations) and City University, London, and those of Ithaca College, New York, and Washington University, St Louis, US. Samuel is the co-editor of the Norton/Grove Dictionary of Women Composers. In 2006 she was awarded the Glyndŵr Medal for services to the Arts in Wales.
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