David Sawer

Quick Facts

Full Name	David Sawer
Occupation	Composer
Date Of Birth	Sep 14, 1961(1961-09-14)
Age	63
Birthplace	Stockport
Country	United Kingdom
Birth City	England
Horoscope	Virgo

David Sawer Biography

David Sawer is one of the most popular and richest Composer who was born on September 14, 1961 in Stockport, England, United Kingdom. David Sawer (born 14 September 1961) David Sawer (born 14 September 1961) is an British music composer for opera as well as chamber, orchestral, and choral music.

In 1992 Sawer was awarded the Fulbright-Chester-Schirmer-Scholarship and lived in the USA for a year. He received an award from the Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award back in 1993. He also won and an Arts Foundation Fellowship in 1995 and a residency in the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra in 1996. He was given the Civitella Ranieri Foundation Fellowship in 2006, and also an MacDowell Colony Fellowship, taking residence in the year 2016. He is a composition teacher in The Royal Academy of Music, London.

Sawer has been the recipient of many commissions, which have produced impressive pieces for concert halls as well as film, dance theatre, and radio. The radio piece he composed for him, 50 minutes long Swansong (1989) which is an orchestral collage electronic, choral, and orchestral sounds that was inspired to the music composed by Hector Berlioz, won a Sony Radio Award and a Prix Italia Special Mention.

David Sawer Net Worth

David Sawer is one of the richest Composer from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, David Sawer 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Sawer’s work is a mix of influences, ranging from Igor Stravinsky to Gyorgy Ligeti and Luciano Berio. Certain aspects are inherited from his early work such as the blurring of the background and the foreground in his orchestral debut composition, Trompe l’oeil (1982; now it was withdrawn).

In 1984, he received the DAAD grant to learn in the studio of Mauricio Kagel at the University of Cologne. Since the beginning of his career, Sawer’s work tends to categorize the piece as a theatrical piece. In fact, Sawer has described himself as an “theatre person”. His works frequently reference the visual arts and specifically, surrealist images. For instance his piano piece The Melancholy of Departure was in the spirit of the dark and irrational perspective of the de Chirico painting.

Recent works include Flesh and Blood, a dramatic scene for two voices and orchestra, premiered at the Barbican by the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Ilan Volkov, with soloists Christine Rice and Marcus Farnsworth, Wonder, for SATB choir, included in the Choirbook for the Queen, a concert suite of Rumpelstiltskin , premiered by BCMG at the Wigmore Hall, conducted by George Benjamin, and The Lighthouse Keepers, a radio play based on a Grand Guignol play, adapted by David Harrower, for the 2013 Cheltenham Festival. Future commissions include works for Onyx Brass/2014 New Music Biennial, Aurora Orchestra/NMC Recordings/Science Museum, London Sinfonietta/Royal Ballet/RPS Drummond Fund, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group/Feeney Trust and the BBC Singers.

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David Ranked on the list of most popular Composer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. David Sawer celebrates birthday on September 14 of every year.