www.antbailey.com

Anthony Bailey Curriculum Vitae

Instruments
Composition and Clarinet

Address
Ground Floor Flat, 10 Minford Gardens, London, W14 0AN

Phone
07930 410 740

Email
ant@antbailey.com

Websites
www.antbailey.com
www.chinookclarinetquartet.co.uk
www.siriusensemble.com

Date of Birth
27-5-1977

Education
1990-95 Royal College of Music Junior Dept
Timothy Blinko (composition)
1995-99 Royal College of Music
BMus (Hons) Class I
Timothy Salter (composition) Colin Bradbury (clarinet)
1999-2000 Royal College of Music, MMus

Prizes
Cruft prize, Farrar prize, Horovitz prize (RCM Composition)
Manilow prize, Fallows prize (RCM)
Countess of Munster Award, 1999

Works commissioned and performed by:
Milton Keynes Chorale (choir, Adopt-a-Composer), David Campbell (clarinet, Cambridge Summer Festival), Angus Meryon (clarinet, Purcell Room, London), Southwark Concert Band, British Clarinet Ensemble, Chinook Clarinet Quartet, Sam Newbold (Piano), RCM Wind Ensemble (London, Vienna, Austrian Radio), Alberes String Quartet, Colchester Institute Wind Orchestra, The Double Bass Club of Great Britain, Redhill Sinfonia, RCM Symphony Orchestra, Opera for Sirius Opera (Bloomsbury Theatre)

Published Works
Reynard Music: Towards the Wind, College Counterpoint and six arrangements
ventil8: Books of clarinet and saxophone studies Bailey and Bach

Performance Experience
Chinook Clarinet Quartet, Emerald Ensemble, Manchester Camerata, ENO Orchestra, Britten Pears Orchestra, Southbank Sinfonia, RPO Education Project, Leader of the British Clarinet Ensemble, rock band Countermine

Recordings
Chinook Clarinet Quartet, The Grace of Cunning and Deception
Royal Artillery Band, Sousa (Naxos)
British Clarinet Ensemble (Clarinet Classics)

Other
Board of Directors, Clarinet and Saxophone Society of Great Britain, Journalist for Clarinet and Winds Magazines

Recent projects
The Black Monk. An opera after Chekhov, performed and recorded 28th, 29th, 30th October 2003, Bloomsbury Theatre, London.
"Adopt-a-composer" scheme. Commission by SPNM, the PRS Foundation and Making Music to create a new collaborative for amateur choir Milton Keynes Chorale, premiere July 2006.
Work in progress: A piece for the Philharmonia Orchestra's PLAY.orchestra project, Summer 2006, and an orchestration of his Three Voltskaya Songs for soprano and ensemble.