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Christopher Weeks was born and is based in Swansea, South Wales. As a clarinettist he was a member of the Glamorgan Youth Orchestra and the National Youth Orchestra of Wales.
His first string quartet was premiered by the Bingham Quartet at the Go West festival and was given further performances in Swansea and Cardiff by the Corinthian Quartet. The Second String Quartet was first performed at a Crwth concert in March 2000.
Among his other instrumental works are the Funeral Dances, for wind octet (commissioned by the Go West festival), the Passacaglia for brass quintet, Dual for violin and piano (commissioned by the Lower Machen Festival), sonatas for bassoon (commissioned by Peter Morgan) and clarinet (both performed by members of the PM Music Ensemble) and What the angel said…, scored for flute, oboe, clarinet, soprano saxophone, horn, bassoon and double bass.
Vocal music includes A Divine Image, settings of William Blake for tenor and piano, commissioned by the York Late Music Festival, Morgensternlieder, five poems of Christian Morgenstern for soprano and chamber ensemble and Il gran rifiuto (The great refusal), seven settings of the poems of Constantine Cavafy (also scored for soprano and chamber ensemble).
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with the members of the
Alauna Ensemble at the recording sessions for the Morgensternlieder,
Lower Machen, September 2002. |
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Instrumentation |
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Woodwind |
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Clarinet Sonata (1996) |
Clarinet and Piano |
11.00 |
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Bassoon Sonata (2000) |
Bassoon and Piano |
13.00 |
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Sonatina for Oboe and Harp (2005) |
Oboe and Harp |
9.30 |
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Woodwind Quintet (2004) |
Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Horn, Bassoon |
10.00 |
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What the angel said… (2002) |
Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Soprano Saxophone, |
8.00 |
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Strings |
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String Quartet No.1 (1997) |
2 Violins, Viola, Cello |
20.00 |
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String Quartet No.2 (2000) |
2 Violins, Viola, Cello |
18.00 |
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Dual (1998) |
Violin and Piano |
10.00 |
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Vocal |
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A Divine Image (1999) |
High Voice, Piano |
15.00 |
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Morgensternlieder (2001) |
Soprano, Piccolo/Flute, Clarinet/Bass Clarinet, Bassoon, Harp, 2 Violins, Viola, Cello |
22.00 |
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Il Gran Rifiuto (2005) |
Soprano, Piccolo/Flute, Oboe/Cor Anglais, |
25.00 |
