David Dubery (

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, 1948) is a South-African born British composer, pianist, vocal coach and academic. Dubery has been a music staff tutor at Long Millgate, Elizabeth Gaskell and Didsbury Colleges,

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,Metropolitan University, and Manchester School of Music for fourteen years (1972-1986), Manchester branch of The Actor’s Centre, Northern Actor’s Centre, and was vocal tutor/staff pianist & musical director for the Northern Ballet School for seventeen years (1986–2003). He also coached tenor

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.Russell Watson Finding My Voice 1407026003 - 2009 Page 194 "So first there was Valerie Watts. After her was the esteemed composer and vocal coach David Dubery, who was vocal coach for the Northern Ballet for seventeen years. After him, of course, Sir Bil], who's now my musical director and conductor."

Recordings

*David Dubery: ''Songs & Chamber Music'' - "Sonatina for Oboe and Piano". Three Songs to Poems by

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. Four Songs. Suite from ‘Degrees of Evidence’. "Remember". Two Stopfordian Impressions. Sonata for Cello and Piano Escapades. Walking Cimbrone. Harlequinade. "Mrs Harris in Paris".

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(mezzo-soprano with David Dubery piano), John Turner, Paul Janes,

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, Peter Dixon, Richard Simpson, Graham Salvage, Richard Williamson. Metier MSV28523 2011 *David Dubery; Observations. Seventeen songs and a string quartet. Three songs to poems by Douglas Gibson. Full fathom five. Time will not wait. Night Songs. Observations (6 songs to poems by

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). Cuarteto Ibérico (Ghosts of times past) for string quartet. James Gilchrist (tenor), Adrienne Murray (mezzo-soprano), Michael Cox (flute), David Dubery (piano) Cavaleri Quartet. Metier msv28548 2014 *

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“The man and his Music”. Sonata for recorder & piano.

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(recorder), Harvey Davies (piano). Metier msv77202 *

Antony Hopkins Antony Hopkins (born Ernest William Antony Reynolds; 21 March 1921 – 6 May 2014) was a composer, pianist, and conductor, as well as a writer and radio broadcaster. He was widely known for his books of musical analysis and for his radio progra ...

“A portrait”. “Evening in April”. Lesley-Jane Rogers (soprano), John Turner (recorder), Janet Simpson (piano). Divine art dda21217 *British Recorder Concertos “Mrs Harris in Paris” John Turner (recorder), Camerata Ensemble conducted by Philip McKenzie. Dutton CDLX7154

Publications

Home is the Sailor Two part song with Piano Roberton / Goodmusic 1980 The Wassail Bowl SATB a cappella MSM 1985 The Birds Medium Voice & Piano MSM 1985 Threesome for Two Players/ Sonatina Oboe & Piano Sunshine Music/Spartan Press 1994 Sonatina Recorder & Piano Peacock Press 2003 Mrs Harris in Paris Treble Recorder or Flute & Piano Peacock Press 2004 Three Songs to Poems by Robert Graves Medium Voice, Recorder (S/A) & Piano Peacock Press 2005 Away in a Manger (One night in December) Medium Voice, Flute or Recorder, & Piano Peacock Press 2007 Harlequinade Recorder & Guitar or Harpsichord Peacock Press 2010 A Bran Tub Descant Recorder & Piano Peacock Press 2010 Pipe Pieces Descant Recorder Forsyth 1996 Two Stopfordian Impressions Recorder or Oboe & Piano Forsyth 2010 Walking Cimbrone Bassoon & Piano Emerson Edition 2010 Escapades Flute or Recorder, Bassoon, & Piano Emerson Edition 2012 Since dawn is breaking Sonata for oboe and piano Emerson Edition 2016 An Aldeburgh Memoir: A first visit to the Aldeburgh Festival 1968. Manchester Sounds Volume 6-2006 Pages 145-151 / The Manchester Musical Heritage Trust in association with Forsyth Return to Aldeburgh: An account of the Adelburgh festival 1969 as a Duke of Hesse Scholar. Manchester Sounds/ Volume 8-2010 Pages 188-215 / The Manchester Musical Heritage Trust in association with Forsyth

External links

https://uk.linkedin.com/pub/david-dubery/79/8b3/8a2

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Dubery, David 1948 births Academics of Manchester Metropolitan University Living people 20th-century British classical composers British male classical composers English classical composers 21st-century British classical composers 20th-century British composers 21st-century British musicians Alumni of the Royal Northern College of Music 20th-century British male musicians 21st-century British male musicians