1. Graham Waterhouse was born on 2 November 1962 and is an English composer and cellist who specializes in chamber music.
22 Facts About Graham Waterhouse
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Graham Waterhouse has composed a cello concerto, Three Pieces for Solo Cello and Variations for Cello Solo for his own instrument, and string quartets and compositions that juxtapose a quartet with a solo instrument, including Piccolo Quintet, Bassoon Quintet and the piano quintet Rhapsodie Macabre.
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Graham Waterhouse has set poetry for speaking voice and cello, such as Der Handschuh, and has written song cycles.
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Graham Waterhouse's compositions reflect the individual capacity and character of players and instruments, from the piccolo to the contrabassoon.
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Since 1998, Waterhouse has organised a concert series at the Gasteig in Munich, often playing with members of the Munich Philharmonic.
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Graham Waterhouse's works have been performed internationally and several have been recorded.
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Graham Waterhouse has been awarded prizes for several of his compositions, and has been composer in residence at institutions in European countries.
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Graham Waterhouse achieved a PhD from the University of Birmingham in 2018.
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Graham Waterhouse was born in London, the son of the noted bassoonist and musicologist William Waterhouse and the pianist and music teacher Elisabeth Waterhouse.
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Graham Waterhouse attended Highgate School and studied music at the University of Cambridge, and in Germany at the Folkwang Hochschule and Hochschule fur Musik Koln.
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Graham Waterhouse has received commissions by the International Double Reed Society, the Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne, Munich Biennale, Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival, Orquesta Sinfonica Nacional del Estado de Mexico, the Kaske Stiftung and the Park Lane Group, among others.
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Graham Waterhouse's compositions have earned prizes at competitions of and of Via Nova in Weimar.
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Graham Waterhouse has performed as the soloist of his Cello Concerto in Mexico City, Nizhny Novgorod, Weimar, Baden-Baden, St Martin, Idstein, Cambridge, and on 8 July 2016 once more in Nizhny Nowgorod, with the Academic Symphony Orchestra conducted by Alexander Skulsky.
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In 2001, Graham Waterhouse was the composer in residence of, in 2006 in Albertville, France, and in 2008 Musician By-Fellow at Churchill College, University of Cambridge.
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Graham Waterhouse has worked with Ensemble Modern and participated in the concert tour 2001 of the Ensemble Modern Orchestra under Pierre Boulez.
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Graham Waterhouse has performed with the ensembles musikFabrik and Kammerensemble Neue Musik Berlin, among others.
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Graham Waterhouse established in 1998 a regular chamber music concert series at Gasteig Munich, programming contemporary works alongside classical repertory.
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Graham Waterhouse has collaborated with the composers Jens Josef and Rudi Spring.
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Graham Waterhouse's compositions reflect the individual capacity and character of players and instruments from piccolo to contrabassoon, even unusual ones such as the heckelphone or didgeridoo.
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Graham Waterhouse wrote several compositions for cello and speaking voice, based on literature as diverse as limerick, ballad and drama, which he plays and recites himself.
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Graham Waterhouse has lectured on contemporary music at the yearly Komponisten-Colloquium of the University of Oldenburg, initiated by Violeta Dinescu.
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Graham Waterhouse's music has been recorded, notably on Portrait with works for piano, clarinet and cello, and Portrait 2 with music for string orchestra, played by the English Chamber Orchestra, and for wind ensemble, played by Endymion.