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James Lark

Event date:

August 2012

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James studied composition with Robin Holloway and has had music performed by the choir of St Paul’s Cathedral, Cambridge New Music Society, English Voices and the Choirs of Trinity, Selwyn and Girton Colleges in Cambridge. he has been ommissioned to write two organ works for the CULS service in King’s College, Cambridge celebrating 800 years of the university (June 2009), and a Fantasia for a recital by internationally renowned organist Guy Bovet (February 2003). James is currently composer-in-residence at Bedford School.

His original composition for theatre includes Lysistrata for Watford Palace Theatre, the book, lyrics and music for the Edinburgh Fringe sell-out Tony Blair – the Musical (“the seeds are here for a much bigger production – here is talent to be nurtured” – The Stage) and one-man musical The Rise and Fall of Deon Vonniget. He has worked with a variety of groups as musical director, with experience of teaching challenging music to a mixture of adults and children in Richard Taylor’s Whistle Down the Wind, and have conducted orchestral and choral ensembles, and has also written and directed music for NewsRevue, Ealing Live!, Focus Theatre Company and the Cambridge Footlights Dramatic Club.

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