Scottish Music Centre - Industry Directory

Artists | Classical | Composers and Arrangers

Written in a wide range of genres with particular interest in opera: Fanny Robin (1975), Hedda Gabler (1985), The Mellstock Quire (1987). Other major works include the orchestral song cycles,Seven Poems by e.e. cummings (1977) and Homage to Thomas Hardy (1990). Main publisher Oxford University Press.

Artists | Classical | Literary Sources

Edward Harper has recently retired from being a Reader in Music at Edinburgh University. He studied at Christ Church, Oxford and the Royal College of Music, London, where his teachers included Gordon Jacob. He has written music in most genres, but has a particular penchant for opera, of which he has written five, including Fanny Robin (1974) and Hedda Gabler (1985), both performed by Scottish Opera. Other important works include two orchestral song cycles: ‘Seven Poems by e.e. cummings’, commissioned by the BBC in 1977 to mark the Queen’s Silver Jubilee and Homage to Thomas Hardy, a Cheltenham Festival commission in 1990. Recently he has completed two large-scale works involving school children, Music for King Arthur (2002) and The Voice of a City (2003). The latter included an adult community choir, the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and the new Usher Hall organ in Edinburgh and were both SCO commissions. Ballad for piano was commissioned by the Scottish International Piano Competition 2004. Harper is also active as a conductor and pianist. He was the Director of The New Music Group of Scotland and has recently formed a 'cello/piano duo with his wife, Louise Paterson.

© Copyright Edward Harper, 2005.

Artists | Classical | Piano

Edward Harper has recently retired from being a Reader in Music at Edinburgh University. He studied at Christ Church, Oxford and the Royal College of Music, London, where his teachers included Gordon Jacob. He has written music in most genres, but has a particular penchant for opera, of which he has written five, including Fanny Robin (1974) and Hedda Gabler (1985), both performed by Scottish Opera. Other important works include two orchestral song cycles: ‘Seven Poems by e.e. cummings’, commissioned by the BBC in 1977 to mark the Queen’s Silver Jubilee and Homage to Thomas Hardy, a Cheltenham Festival commission in 1990. Recently he has completed two large-scale works involving school children, Music for King Arthur (2002) and The Voice of a City (2003). The latter included an adult community choir, the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and the new Usher Hall organ in Edinburgh and were both SCO commissions. Ballad for piano was commissioned by the Scottish International Piano Competition 2004. Harper is also active as a conductor and pianist. He was the Director of The New Music Group of Scotland and has recently formed a 'cello/piano duo with his wife, Louise Paterson.

© Copyright Edward Harper, 2005.

Artists | Classical | Conductors/Choral Directors

Edward Harper has recently retired from being a Reader in Music at Edinburgh University. He studied at Christ Church, Oxford and the Royal College of Music, London, where his teachers included Gordon Jacob. He has written music in most genres, but has a particular penchant for opera, of which he has written five, including Fanny Robin (1974) and Hedda Gabler (1985), both performed by Scottish Opera. Other important works include two orchestral song cycles: ‘Seven Poems by e.e. cummings’, commissioned by the BBC in 1977 to mark the Queen’s Silver Jubilee and Homage to Thomas Hardy, a Cheltenham Festival commission in 1990. Recently he has completed two large-scale works involving school children, Music for King Arthur (2002) and The Voice of a City (2003). The latter included an adult community choir, the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and the new Usher Hall organ in Edinburgh and were both SCO commissions. Ballad for piano was commissioned by the Scottish International Piano Competition 2004. Harper is also active as a conductor and pianist. He was the Director of The New Music Group of Scotland and has recently formed a 'cello/piano duo with his wife, Louise Paterson.

© Copyright Edward Harper, 2005.