Robin Grant
Biography
Robin Grant was born in 1955 in Great Britain. He studied composition at the Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester, with Anthony Gilbert, graduating in 1986. Since then he has worked as a freelance composer.
Robin was awarded the John Clementi Collard Fellowship in 1996 partly due to the success of his chamber opera I am… In Search of John Clare. The work was commissioned by the RNCM as part of the Manchester Year of Drama, 1994. The Sunday Telegraph wrote 'It's combination of song, folksong, off-stage chorus, speech and melodrama is highly imaginative… it is a genuine work of art.'
More vocal works followed, including A Dot On The Sun (chamber opera, UCL commission, 1996) and song cycles A Pretty Wench (Wendy Nieper, ABH 12/95) and The Nailmaker (Julian Pike, ABH 4/97). His instrumental works include the chamber concerto Out Of The Dark, Persevera (oboe and string quartet), Miniature Mechanisms (septet) and the string quartet Anima Mundi.
Robin has also composed several school and community cantatas for choir and orchestra including Iron Mad Wilkinson (published by Goodmusic). His latest cantata, This Land, Our Land, commissioned by Wolverhampton Borough Council, will be performed at The Millennium Dome, Greenwich on 6 July 2000.
Robin teaches part-time at the Birmingham Conservatoire where his classes include composition, twentieth century music analysis and orchestration.