Douglas Seville took a degree in Music at Huddersfield Polytechnic and

went on to study for an M.A. in Composition at Keele University. After

gaining experience as a professional musician, instrumental teacher and

tutor at Manchester Metropolitan University, he further developed his

skills as a composer by studying for a Ph.D. at Birmingham

Conservatoire, which was awarded in March, 2004. He also gained

Qualified Teacher Status from the University of Glamorgan in 2002 and

has been a tutor with the Open College of the Arts for ten years.

 

His interest and experience as a musician cover both classical and

contemporary music as a cellist, and jazz music as a pianist. As a

result, his compositions reflect his interest and experience in a wide

variety of styles, emphasised by theatricality of performance, a key

element in many works. His prolonged involvement in the composition and

performance of music theatre works, in which music is used to react

against the submissive nature of the formal concert is seen as a

personal response to his practical experience. In recent years, his

compositions have been performed in Birmingham and London and several

new works are scheduled for performance over the next twelve months.

 

Douglas Seville provides comprehensive tuition in composition for

learners of any age and experience which is designed to help develop

the technical and musical skills required in order to become

accomplished composers. An individual programme is delivered by postal

or one-to-one tuition by a highly experienced, qualified tutor, whose

wide-ranging experience as a composer and instrumentalist could help

you to achieve necessary qualifications or long-held ambitions.

 

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