Sally Beamishaus modern

Sally Beamish (* 26. August 1956) is a British composer and violist. Her works include chamber, vocal, choral and orchestral music. She has also worked in the field of music, theatre, film and television, as well as composing for children and for her local community.

Life

Sarah Frances Beamish was born on 26 August 1956 in London, to William Anthony Alten Beamish and Ursula Mary Beamish (née Snow). She attended the Camden School for Girls and the National Youth Orchestra. She studied viola at the Royal Northern College of Music, where she received composition lessons from Anthony Gilbert and Lennox Berkeley. She later studied in Germany at the Hochschule für Musik Detmold, with the Italian violist Bruno Giuranna.

As a violist in the Raphael Ensemble, she recorded four discs of string sextets. However, it was as a composer that she made her mark, particularly after moving from London to Scotland. She has written a large amount of music for orchestra, including two symphonies and several concertos (for violin, viola, cello, oboe, saxophone, saxophone quartet, trumpet, percussion, flute and accordion). She has also written chamber and instrumental music, film scores, theatre music, and music for amateurs.

In September 1993, Beamish received the Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award for outstanding achievement in composition. In 1994 and 1995 she co-hosted the Scottish Chamber Orchestra (SCO) composers’ course in Hoy with Sir Peter Maxwell Davies. From 1998 to 2002, she was composer in residence with the Swedish Chamber Orchestra and the SCO, for whom she wrote four major works. Beamish won a ‘Creative Scotland’ Award from the Scottish Arts Council which enabled her to write her oratorio for the 2001 BBC Proms – the Knotgrass Elegy premiered by the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus with Sir Andrew Davis.

Other works include three viola concerti, five string quartets, two percussion concerti (the second of which was written for Colin Currie with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Stanford Lively Arts and the Bergen Symphony Orchestra and premiered in 2012), and works for traditional instruments, including a concerto for clàrsach and fiddle concerto premiered by Catriona Mackay and Chris Stout in 2012. In December 2010, it was announced that Beamish had been selected as one of twenty composers to participate in the New Music 20×12 project as part of the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad. Beamish will compose a new work for the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment to be premiered in 2012.

She has a series of recordings on the BIS label.

In December 2017, Northern Ballet premiered The Little Mermaid, a full-length ballet with her orchestral score.

In 2012, and again in 2015, she was featured as BBC Radio 3’s Composer of the Week. In March 2016, Beamish was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Scotland’s National Academy for science and the arts. Beamish was presented with the ‘Award for Inspiration’ at the 2018 British Composer Awards. Beamish was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2020 Birthday Honours for services to music.
Source Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sally_Beamish

Discography































Sheet music

Score for choire

The Judas Passion for Soli, Chorus and Chamber Orchestra (2017)for 4-stimmig4 part, Chor & Orchesterchoir and orchestra, Gemischter Chormixed choir;

for 4-stimmig4 part, Chor & Orchesterchoir and orchestra, Gemischter Chormixed choir;

A Shakespeare Masque for 2 Adult Choirs (with soloists), Children's Choir, Percussion and Broken Consortfor 4-stimmig4 part, Chor & Orchesterchoir and orchestra, Gemischter Chormixed choir, Kinderchorchildrens choir; Percussionpercussion



for 4-stimmig4 part, Chor & Orchesterchoir and orchestra, Gemischter Chormixed choir, Kinderchorchildrens choir; Percussionpercussion

Christmas Light for Mixed Choir SATB and Carillonfor 4-stimmig4 part, Gemischter Chormixed choir; Carilloncarillon
Edition: Klavierauszugpiano reduction

for 4-stimmig4 part, Gemischter Chormixed choir; Carilloncarillon
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Bird Year for unaccompanied choir (SATB)for 4-stimmig4 part, A-Cappellaa cappella, Gemischter Chormixed choir;
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for 4-stimmig4 part, A-Cappellaa cappella, Gemischter Chormixed choir;
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Good Wish for Choir SATBfor 4-stimmig4 part, A-Cappellaa cappella, Gemischter Chormixed choir;
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for 4-stimmig4 part, A-Cappellaa cappella, Gemischter Chormixed choir;
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Be Stillfor 4-stimmig4 part, Gemischter Chormixed choir; Orgelorgel
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for 4-stimmig4 part, Gemischter Chormixed choir; Orgelorgel
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Innocence And Experiencefor Gemischter Chormixed choir; Klavierpiano
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  • Infant Joy
  • Infant Sorrow
  • Nurse’s Song of Experience
  • Nurse’s Song of Innocence
  • The Echoing Green
  • The Garden of Love
  • The Little Boy Lost
  • The Little Vagabond
for Gemischter Chormixed choir; Klavierpiano
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In the stillnessfor 4-stimmig4 part, A-Cappellaa cappella, Gemischter Chormixed choir;
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for 4-stimmig4 part, A-Cappellaa cappella, Gemischter Chormixed choir;
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Score for chamber music

Ring Time (Trio Version) for Flute, Trumpet in C and Violoncellofor Cellocello, Flöteflute, Trompetetrumpet

for Cellocello, Flöteflute, Trompetetrumpet

Yon Wild Mossy Mountains for Vocal Duetfor Klavierpiano
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for Klavierpiano
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Yeats Interlude for Recorder, Oboe, Violin and Cellofor Cellocello, Flöteflute, Oboeoboe, Violineviolin



for Cellocello, Flöteflute, Oboeoboe, Violineviolin

Dances and Nocturnes for Violin, Double Bass and Pianofor Klavierpiano, Kontrabassdoublebass, Violineviolin

for Klavierpiano, Kontrabassdoublebass, Violineviolin

Juno for Trumpet in C and Organfor Orgelorgel, Trompetetrumpet

for Orgelorgel, Trompetetrumpet

Words for my Daughter for Flute and Pianofor Flöteflute, Klavierpiano

for Flöteflute, Klavierpiano

Five Changing Pictures for Chamber Quintetfor Cellocello, Klavierpiano, Kontrabassdoublebass, Streicherstrings, Violaviola, Violineviolin

for Cellocello, Klavierpiano, Kontrabassdoublebass, Streicherstrings, Violaviola, Violineviolin

La Mer (Debussy) Arranged for Piano Triofor Cellocello, Klavierpiano, Violineviolin



for Cellocello, Klavierpiano, Violineviolin

Dance the Beginning of the World for Violin, Violoncello and Pianofor Cellocello, Klavierpiano, Violineviolin

for Cellocello, Klavierpiano, Violineviolin

Bassoon-nova for Bassoon and Pianofor Fagottbassoon, Klavierpiano

for Fagottbassoon, Klavierpiano

Sonatafor Klavierpiano, Violineviolin

for Klavierpiano, Violineviolin

Sonata for Viola and Piano für Viola und Klavierfor Klavierpiano, Violaviola
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for Klavierpiano, Violaviola
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Cramasie Threid for Soprano and Violoncellofor Cellocello



for Cellocello

The Naming of Birds for Wind Quintetfor Bläserwind section

for Bläserwind section

Stone, Salt and Sky for Violin and Violoncello (2021)for Cellocello, Violineviolin

for Cellocello, Violineviolin

Wild Swans for Violin and Pianofor Klavierpiano, Violineviolin



for Klavierpiano, Violineviolin

Tom's Turn for Alto Saxophone (2021)for Saxophonsaxophone

for Saxophonsaxophone

The Flittin’ for Clarinet and Violinfor Klarinetteclarinet, Violineviolin



for Klarinetteclarinet, Violineviolin

Praeludium and Allegro for Solo Violinfor Violineviolin



for Violineviolin

Adagio and Variations for Wind Quintetfor Bläserwind section



for Bläserwind section

Intrada e Fuga for Solo Violinfor Violineviolin

for Violineviolin

Buzz for Soprano and Violafor Violaviola



for Violaviola

The Wiser Maid for String Sextetfor Streicherstrings

for Streicherstrings

Songs and Blessingsfor Fagottbassoon, Klavierpiano, Oboeoboe, Violaviola, Violineviolin

for Fagottbassoon, Klavierpiano, Oboeoboe, Violaviola, Violineviolin

Ring Time (Piano Version) for Pianofor Klavierpiano

for Klavierpiano

Tom's Turn for Solo Clarinetfor Klarinetteclarinet

for Klarinetteclarinet

Lullaby for Owain for Solo Pianofor Klavierpiano

for Klavierpiano

Whisper for Three Suspended Cymbalsfor Percussionpercussion



for Percussionpercussion

Halbkreis for Viola and Pianofor Klavierpiano, Violaviola

for Klavierpiano, Violaviola

Merula Perpetua Viola und Klavierfor Klavierpiano, Violaviola



for Klavierpiano, Violaviola

Nine Fragments. String Quartet No. 4 (2018)for Streicherstrings



for Streicherstrings

Caprington Doubles for Organfor Orgelorgel

for Orgelorgel

Voices in Silence für Klavierfor Klavierpiano

for Klavierpiano

Pavan for Scottish Lever Harpfor Harfeharp



for Harfeharp

The Maiden and the Nightingalefor Streicherstrings

for Streicherstrings

Sonata for Violoncello and Pianofor Cellocello, Klavierpiano



for Cellocello, Klavierpiano

The Parting Glass for Clarinet solofor Klarinetteclarinet



for Klarinetteclarinet

The King's Alchemistfor Cellocello, Violaviola, Violineviolin

for Cellocello, Violaviola, Violineviolin

The Secret Dancer for Piano Quartet (2020)for Klavierpiano

for Klavierpiano

Pavan for 2 Harpsfor Harfeharp

for Harfeharp

Bratchwork for 4 Violasfor Violaviola

for Violaviola

Night Dances for Piano solo (2017)for Klavierpiano





for Klavierpiano

Divertimenti for String Quartetfor Streicherstrings



for Streicherstrings

String Quartet No. 1for Streicherstrings



for Streicherstrings

Mavisfor Klavierpiano

for Klavierpiano

Glanz for Violafor Violaviola

for Violaviola

Penillion für Violafor Violaviola



for Violaviola

Unquiet for Solo Guitar (2021)for Gitarreguitar

for Gitarreguitar

Trinculofor Klavierpiano, Trompetetrumpet

for Klavierpiano, Trompetetrumpet

Miranda Dreamingfor Cellocello

for Cellocello

Ring Timefor Streicherstrings

for Streicherstrings

Birdsfor Klavierpiano

for Klavierpiano

Calibanfor Klavierpiano, Saxophonsaxophone

for Klavierpiano, Saxophonsaxophone

Piano Sonatafor Klavierpiano

for Klavierpiano

Piobaireachd for Piano Triofor Klavierpiano

for Klavierpiano

Chaconnefor Orgelorgel

for Orgelorgel

Tree Carols for Baritone and String Quartet (2014)for Streicherstrings

for Streicherstrings

Suite for Solo Cello (2013)for Cellocello

for Cellocello

Penquin Caféfor Klavierpiano

for Klavierpiano

Haunted Housefor Klavierpiano

for Klavierpiano

Evening Lamentfor Klavierpiano





for Klavierpiano

October Serenadefor Orgelorgel



for Orgelorgel

Fanfare forfor Trompetetrumpet



for Trompetetrumpet

Fanfare for Two Trumpetsfor Trompetetrumpet



for Trompetetrumpet

Dream–childfor Klavierpiano, Violineviolin





for Klavierpiano, Violineviolin

Variationsfor Posaunetrombone

for Posaunetrombone

Partitafor Streicherstrings





for Streicherstrings

Maple for Cello solo (2020)for Cellocello





for Cellocello

Meditationfor Orgelorgel



for Orgelorgel

St Andrew's Bonesfor Hornfrench horn, Klavierpiano, Violineviolin

for Hornfrench horn, Klavierpiano, Violineviolin

Winter Journeyfor Klavierpiano



  • Donkey Song
  • Donkey Song With Extra Verse
  • Frog Song
  • Lullaby
  • Mice Song
  • Stag Song
for Klavierpiano

Score for orchestra

Caprington Doubles: A Fanfare for Gilmorehill (2001)for Bläserwind section, Hornfrench horn, Posaunetrombone, Trompetetrumpet, Tubatuba
Edition: Orchesterpartiturorchestral score

for Bläserwind section, Hornfrench horn, Posaunetrombone, Trompetetrumpet, Tubatuba
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A Book of Seasons for Solo Violin and Chamber Ensemble (1995)for Violineviolin
Edition: Orchesterpartiturorchestral score

for Violineviolin
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Piano Concerto No.1 - Hill Stanzas for piano/fortepiano and string orchestrafor Klavierpiano, Streicherstrings



for Klavierpiano, Streicherstrings

Hover for Oboes, Horns and String Orchestrafor Hornfrench horn, Oboeoboe, Streicherstrings
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for Hornfrench horn, Oboeoboe, Streicherstrings
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Cello Concerto No.1 'River' für Cellofor Cellocello, Percussionpercussion, Streicherstrings
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for Cellocello, Percussionpercussion, Streicherstrings
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Caliban for Orchestra (2017)
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The Little Mermaid. Ballet in 2 Acts (2017)
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Into the Furnace (Octet)for Fagottbassoon, Hornfrench horn, Klarinetteclarinet, Streicherstrings

for Fagottbassoon, Hornfrench horn, Klarinetteclarinet, Streicherstrings

The Caledonian Road for Orchestra
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City Stanzas - Klavierkonzert Nr. 3for Klavierpiano
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for Klavierpiano
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Cauldron of the Speckled Seas - Klavierkonzert Nr. 2for Klavierpiano
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for Klavierpiano
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Whitescape für Orchester
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Variations on a Theme of Benjamin Brittenfor Streicherstrings





for Streicherstrings