Judith Weir

Quick Facts

Full Name	Judith Weir
Occupation	Composer
Date Of Birth	May 11, 1954(1954-05-11)
Age	70
Birthplace	Cambridge
Country	United Kingdom
Birth City	England
Horoscope	Taurus

Judith Weir Biography

Judith Weir is one of the most popular and richest Composer who was born on May 11, 1954 in Cambridge, England, United Kingdom. Judith Weir CBE (born 1954) is a British composer, and also the only female Master in the Queen’s Music.

On the 21st of July, 2011, her debut opera in 17 years Miss Fortune (Achterbahn) was premiered on the festival of Bregenz in Austria. It was co- produced with Covent Garden, the Royal Opera, Covent Garden, London, and was composed in English.

In 2005, Weir was appointed CBE for services to music. On 30 June 2014, The Guardian stated that her appointment as the Master of the Queen’s Music, succeeding Sir Peter Maxwell Davies (whose term of office expired in March 2014), would be announced; this was officially confirmed on 21 July. In May 2015, Weir won The Ivors Classical Music Award at the Ivor Novello Awards.

The first public performance of Weir’s arrangement of the National Anthem of the UK, God Save the Queen, was performed at the reburial of King Richard III at Leicester Cathedral on 26 March 2015.

The American premiere of Miss Fortune Miss Fortune was originally planned in 2011 by the Santa Fe Opera to be included in its season for 2014. However, it was revealed during the summer 2012, that the show was going to be replaced by it being the North American premiere of Huang Ruo’s Dr. Sun Yat-sen.

Judith Weir Net Worth

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

Weir was born in Cambridge, England, to Scottish parents. She was a student of Sir John Tavener whilst at school (North London Collegiate School) and later together with Robin Holloway at King’s College, Cambridge, graduating in 1976. Her music frequently draws upon sources from the medieval period as well as the folklore and songs of her parents’ home country, Scotland. Although she has received global recognition with her chamber and orchestral work, Weir is best known for her theatrical and opera pieces. From 1995 until 2000, she served as the Artistic Director at the Spitalfields Festival in London. She was the Composer at the Association for the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra from 1995 until 1998. She was awarded Lincoln Center’s Stoeger Prize in 1997, the South Bank Show music award in 2001, and ISM’s Distinguished Musician Award in 2010. In 2007 she was the third winner from The Queen’s Medal for Music. She was Visiting the Distinguished Research Professor of Composition at Cardiff University from 2006 to 2009.

The musical language of Weir is quite traditional, and she has her having a “knack of making simple musical ideas appear freshly mysterious.” Her first stage production, The Black Spider, was a one-act operetta that was first performed at Canterbury in 1985. It was loosely in reference to the short story that was written from Jeremias Gotthelf. She has since written another “micro-opera”, three full-length operas, as well as an opera for television. In 1987 her first half-length work, A Night at the Chinese Opera, premiered at Kent Opera. The following year, she performed a additional three full-length operas The Vanishing Bridegroom (1990), Blond Eckbert (1994) The latter was being commissioned through the English National Opera and Miss Fortune (Achterbahn) (2011). In 2005, her opera Armida which was an opera for television, debuted at the age of four on Channel Four in the United Kingdom). The production was done in collaboration together with Margaret Williams. His commissions for works comprise woman.life.song (2000) in support of Jessye Norman and We are Shadows (1999) for Simon Rattle. The month of January, 2008 Weir featured in the annual BBC composer’s weekend held at the Barbican Centre in London. Four days of programs concluded with the first performance of her newest commission CONCRETE, which is an choral motet. The piece’s subject was an inspiration from the Barbican building itself . She describes it as an ‘imaginary digging that takes place in the Barbican Centre that burrows across 2,500 years’ worth of historic rubble’.

Miss Fortune moved to London in March 2012, garnering at least two negative reviews. Edward Seckerson in The Independent (London) wrote of “Miss Fortune in name and deed” and described the opera as “silly and naive” and “a waste of talent and resources”, with a libretto that “vacillates between the banal and the unintentionally comedic (or is that irony?), full of truisms and clunky metaphors” and “about as streetwise as a visitor from Venus”. Andrew Clements wrote in The Guardian of “a long two hours in the opera house” with scenes that “follow like cartoonish tableaux, without real characterisation, or confrontation, and without suggesting a dramatic shape”, and also criticised the “twee rhyming couplets and inert blank verse” of Weir’s libretto.

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