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2 unusual facts about Kevin Volans


Bart Schneemann

Many composers have written music especially for him, including Tristan Keuris, Wolfgang Rihm, John Zorn, Gia Kantsjeli, Kevin Volans, George Crumb, György Kurtág and Jacob ter Veldhuis.

City Music Society

Furthermore, over the years the Society has commissioned many new works - on average one every three years - from a wide and diverse range of British composers, including Roger Smalley, Nicholas Maw, Diana Burrell, Richard Rodney Bennett, Elizabeth Maconchy, Phyllis Tate, Robin Holloway, John McCabe, Geoffrey Burgon, Peter-Paul Nash, Kevin Volans and Michael Berkeley.


Dublin Guitar Quartet

The group's core repertoire consists of transcriptions of works by these composers along with original compositions by Leo Brouwer, Kevin Volans and others.

National Chamber Choir

The Choir’s repertoire spans from early to contemporary music, regularly commissioning pioneering vocal work by both Irish and International composers such as Gerald Barry (composer), Andrew Hamilton, Siobhán Cleary, Kevin Volans and Tarik O'Regan.


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