Oliver Knussen, Don Banks, Gunther Schuller, Robin Holloway, and Thea Musgrave have written concertos ; Richard Rodney Bennett wrote " Acteon " for horn and large orchestra.

** Elliott Carter ( composer ), Oliver Knussen ( conductor ) & the London Symphony Orchestra for Carter: Violin Concerto

He was married to Sue Knussen, a US-born producer and director of music programmes for BBC television and for the UK's Channel 4 – for which she made Leaving Home, an introduction to 20th Century music presented by Simon Rattle in a series of seven one-hour programmes, which won the 1996 BAFTA award for Best Arts Series.

Though Oliver Knussen began composing at about the age of six, it was an ITV programme about his father's work with the London Symphony Orchestra that prompted the commissioning for his first symphony ( 1966 – 1967 ).

"... I knew there were a number of Dickinson poems addressed to her sister, Sue, so one week I read all 1, 700 poems of Emily Dickinson ... and I copied out about 35 of them by hand, Knussen told Tom Service in London's The Guardian I have no idea where the notes for this piece come from ... It seemed to want to be written ... I wasn't sure whether it ... ought to be let out at all ... because I didn't want it to be a self-indulgent thing.

Other works from this decade include Cyclops 2000 for Oliver Knussen and the London Sinfonietta ; Ashberyana, settings of poetry by John Ashbery ; Spin5, a chamber concerto for violinist Jennifer Koh ; the Fourth Piano Sonata, for Anne-Marie McDermott ; Synaxis ; Metagong ; and It Happens Like This, a dramatic cantata on seven poems by James Tate premiered at Tanglewood with the composer conducting.

( chamber version, live recording ), The Group for Contemporary Music, Oliver Knussen, conductor.

** Elliott Carter ( composer ), Oliver Knussen ( conductor ) & the London Symphony Orchestra for Carter: Violin Concerto

Contemporary – Robin Holloway: Second Concerto for Orchestra ; BBC Symphony Orchestra / Oliver Knussen, NMC

Josefowicz is acclaimed for championing new compositions, including the works of John Adams, Oliver Knussen and Thomas Adès.

Anderson has also used both live and pre-recorded electronics in his large-scale Book of Hours for 20 players and electronics, composed for the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, who gave the first performance in February 2005 with Oliver Knussen.

* 2007 Best of Category ( Contemporary ) Gramophone Award Winner for the recording Alhambra Fantasy ( BBC Sinfonietta / Oliver Knussen )

Oliver and Sue Knussen had a daughter, Sonya, who is a mezzo-soprano.

Sue Knussen died of a blood infection in London in 2003.

The Sue Knussen Composers Fund ( previously, the Sue Knussen Commissioning Fund ) " honours her memory and professional legacy ... and ... commissions works from emerging composers to be performed by contemporary music ensembles worldwide.

He has made numerous recordings, on such labels as RCA Victor, featuring music from Bach ( including four recordings of the Goldberg Variations-the first made when he was 18, the fourth when he was 47 ), Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Chopin, Brahms, and Dvořák as well as numerous more recent composers such as Reger, Berg, Webern, Schoenberg, Messiaen, Takemitsu, Oliver Knussen, Peter Lieberson, Stefan Wolpe and Charles Wuorinen.

Alhambra Fantasy, a recording of five of Anderson's orchestral and ensemble pieces conducted by Oliver Knussen, won the 2007 Gramophone Best of Category ( Contemporary ) Award, from a shortlist which also included the NMC disc Book of Hours.

Other British composers writing well-received operas in the late 20th century include Richard Rodney Bennett ( e. g. The Mines of Sulphur ), Harrison Birtwistle ( Punch and Judy ), Peter Maxwell Davies ( Taverner ) and Oliver Knussen ( Where the Wild Things Are ).

Some younger composers such as Oliver Knussen, Thomas Adès, and Michael Daugherty did not rise to prominence until late in the 20th century.

In addition to a vast catalog of recordings created with the ensemble's music directors, the orchestra has made many recordings with guest conductors Vladimir Ashkenazy, Oliver Knussen, Kurt Sanderling, Yoel Levi, Riccardo Chailly, Michael Tilson Thomas, and Louis Lane ( the orchestra's longtime Associate Conductor ).

His father, Stuart Knussen, was principal double bass of the London Symphony Orchestra, and also participated in a number of premieres of Benjamin Britten's music.

Serkin is a committed performer of new and recent music, having premiered or been the dedicatee of many new works by such composers as Takemitsu, Lieberson, Knussen, Elliott Carter and Charles Wuorinen.

The latter work has been performed by the Ensemble InterContemporain, the Asko Ensemble and the Ensemble Modern, often under the direction of Oliver Knussen, a regular collaborator and continuing advocate of Anderson's music.

Oliver Knussen studied composition with John Lambert between 1963 and 1969, and also received encouragement from Britten.

The BBC commission Broken Symmetry was first performed by its dedicatees, the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Oliver Knussen, in March 1992, and repeated at the 1992 Proms.

Performing in the world's major concert halls, Josefowicz continues to play traditional masterworks and champions contemporary compositions, exposing audiences around the world to the aforementioned new violin concertos, with ensembles including the Chicago Symphony Orchestra ( Salonen ), New York City Ballet Orchestra ( Salonen ), St. Louis Symphony Orchestra ( Adès ), Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra ( Matthews ), New World Symphony ( Adès ), Royal Scottish National Orchestra ( Knussen ), Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra ( Mackey ), Cleveland Orchestra ( Adams ), Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra ( Adès ), and Atlanta Symphony Orchestra ( Adès ).

Aged 15, Knussen stepped in to conduct his symphony's première at the Royal Festival Hall, London, on 7 April 1968 after István Kertész fell ill. After that debut, Daniel Barenboim asked him to conduct the work's first two movements in New York a week later.

Since September 2006, Knussen has been Artist-in-Association to the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, and since 2009 to the BBC Symphony Orchestra.

Peter Wiegold, John Woolrich and Oliver Knussen are the current artists-in-association with BCMG, with Knussen having begun his 3-year contract in 2006.

* Horn Concerto: Aho, Arnold, Arutiunian, Atterberg, Bowen, Carter, Davies, Glière, Gipps, Hindemith, Hovhaness, Jacob, Knussen, Ligeti, Murail, Penderecki, Strauss, Tomasi, J. Williams

After Britten ’ s own death in 1976, the artistic direction of the Festival was shared ; many world-class musicians joined the artistic team, including at various times Philip Ledger, Colin Graham, Steuart Bedford, Mstislav Rostropovich, Murray Perahia, Simon Rattle, John Shirley-Quirk and Oliver Knussen.

Many new works were presented under the baton of Oliver Knussen, himself a notable contributor to the new works presented at the Festival.

The 2012 Festival, had Oliver Knussen as Artist in Residence, and the typically eclectic progamme included new productions by Netia Jones of Knussen ’ s Where the Wild Things Are and Higglety Pigglety Pop !, a concert series exploring the work of Helmut Lachenmann, recitals by Menahem Pressler, Ian Bostridge, Peter Serkin, Miklós Perényi, Dezsö Ránki and the Arditti and Keller Quartets, the CBSO with the UK premiere of a work by Elliott Carter, as well as dramatised performances with film at the Leiston Long Shop Museum, the complete screening with live accompaniment of Britten ’ s 1930s film scores, a promenade performance of John Cage ’ s Song Books in the Hoffmann Building under the banner of # Faster than Sound, and open-air community events on Aldeburgh Beach.

The composer and conductor Oliver Knussen took up the post of artist in association in July 2009.

His initial musical studies were with Oliver Knussen, John Lambert, and later with Gunther Schuller.

Contemporary composers whose works were released by Deutsche Grammophon include Sofia Gubaidulina, Oliver Knussen, Mark Anthony Turnage, Peter Eötvös, Luigi Nono, and Philip Glass.

Living composers include Sir George Martin, John Tavener, Harrison Birtwistle, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Oliver Knussen, Harry Gregson Williams, Mike Oldfield, John Rutter, James MacMillan, Joby Talbot, John Powell, David Arnold, Anne Dudley, Trevor Horn, John Murphy, Brian Eno, Clint Mansell, Craig Armstrong and Michael Nyman.

Oliver Knussen CBE ( born 12 June 1952 ) is a British composer and conductor.

Oliver Knussen was born in Glasgow, Scotland.

Knussen lives in Snape, Suffolk, Benjamin Britten's base during one of his most creative periods.

Knussen has been Principal Guest Conductor of The Hague's Het Residentie Orkest ( Residentie Orchestra ) between 1992 and 1996, the Aldeburgh Festival's co-Artistic Director between 1983 and 1998 and the London Sinfonietta's Music Director between 1998 and 2002 – and is now that ensemble's Conductor Laureate.