David Andrew Jennings is an English

composer A composer is a person who writes music. The term is especially used to indicate composers of Western classical music, or those who are composers by occupation. Many composers are, or were, also skilled performers of music. Etymology and def ...

(born

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, 30 May 1972). He read music at the

University of Durham Durham University (legally the University of Durham) is a collegiate public research university in Durham, England, founded by an Act of Parliament in 1832 and incorporated by royal charter in 1837. It was the first recognised university to ...

, studying composition with John Casken (a pupil of Witold Lutosławski) and again at Postgraduate level with Casken at the

University of Manchester The University of Manchester is a public university, public research university in Manchester, England. The main campus is south of Manchester city centre, Manchester City Centre on Wilmslow Road, Oxford Road. The University of Manchester is c ...

. Jennings has additionally benefited from regular consultations with Arthur Butterworth (a pupil of Ralph Vaughan Williams). Jennings' compositions employ a style that combines romanticism with more recent musical developments. His music is known to have been inspired by the works of poets and visual artists, especially English watercolourists from the early 1800s. In 2012, The Divine Art label released a recording of Jennings' Piano Music performed by James Willshire, which was nominated as one of Music Web International's Recordings of the Year 2013. Jennings has also composed orchestral, vocal and chamber music.

Recorded and published works

* Piano Sonata, Op. 1 * Three Sonatinas, Op. 2 * Prelude and Fugue, Op. 6
Divine Art recordingJames Willshire
* Three Lyrical Pieces, Op. 17 * Miniature Suite, Op. 18 * Harvest Moon Suite, Op. 19 * ''Melancholy. A Fragment''., Op. 23

Other works

* Passacaglia and Fugue (In memory of Arthur Butterworth), Op.12 * ''Three Irish Pieces'' (2011), violin and piano, Op. 20 * ''A Weardale Rhapsody'' (2018), violin and piano, Op. 22

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Jennings, David Living people 1972 births English composers Alumni of University College, Durham Alumni of the University of Manchester People educated at Mount St Mary's College