Philip Sawyers

{ Philip Sawyers (born 20 June 1951) is a British composer of orchestral and chamber music, including six symphonies. Sawyers was born in London. He began composing as a teenager, studying at Dartington College of Arts in Devon with Colin Sauer (violin) and Helen Glatz (composition), and then at the Guildhall School of Music where his teachers were Joan Spencer and Max Rostal (violin), and Buxton Orr, Patric Standford and Edmund Rubbra (composition). From 1973 Sawyers worked as an orchestral violinist with the Royal Opera House Orchestra, Covent Garden. He was a violin coach for the Kent County Youth Orchestra, and a visiting teacher at schools and colleges. In 1997 he spent a year in postgraduate study at Goldsmiths College. From 2000-2013 he was an examiner for the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music. {

Sawyers: Double Concerto for Violin & Cello - 2023-03-03 00:00:00

Philip Sawyers: Concertos - 2018-10-05 00:00:00

Sawyers: Symphony No. 3 / Songs of Loss and Regret - 2017-10-06 00:00:00

Sawyers: Cello Concerto, Symphony No. 2 & Concertante for Violin, Piano and Strings - 2014-07-01 00:00:00

Elgar & Sawyers: Violin Sonatas - 2013-09-01 00:00:00

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