Gavin Bryars
Musicians · double-bassist · musicologist
English composer and double bassist
About Gavin Bryars
Richard Gavin Bryars (; born 16 January 1943) is an English composer and double bassist. He has worked in jazz, free improvisation, minimalism, historicism, avant-garde, and experimental music.
Quick facts
- Known for
- Amjad, Song VII: Her Shoes Off, so Silent (Duet), A Native Hill
- Born
- 1943-01-16
- Artist type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Goole
- Associated area
- United Kingdom
- Active period
- 1943-01-16
- MusicBrainz description
- English composer
- Genres
- classical
- Music tags
- british composer, classical, composer, to clean up
- ISNI
- 0000000114449288
- IPI
- 00065393658, 00065393756
Official & social profiles
External & source links
Gavin Bryars gallery
Albums, releases & recordings
Amjad
Song VII: Her Shoes Off, so Silent (Duet)
A Native Hill
Musique?
Crowhurst and Gavin Bryars Present Incoherent American Narrative
Perpetulum
Winestead
The Fifth Century
Madrigals Volume 1: Al suon dell'acque scriva
The Sinking of the Titanic
Hövdingar hittast (Heroes meet)
Around Britten
Mercy and Grand
On Photography
A Portrait
Cadman Requiem
A Man in a Room, Gambling
Farewell to Philosophy
The Last Days
Ensemble Pieces
The Sinking of the Titanic
Surprised by Beauty: Minimalism in Choral Music
Marshall: Out of the Darkness / Bryars: The Island Chapel / Pärt: Spiegel im Spiegel
Scattered Rhymes
Myths 3 : La nouvelle sérénité
Irma
Three String Quartets
Machine Music
Amjad
British Music for Harpsichord
The Sinking of the Titanic
Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet
Raising the Titanic: The Aphex Twin Remixes
Vita Nova
Piano Concerto, "The Solway Canal" / After Handel's Vesper / Ramble on Cortona
The Sinking of the Titanic
Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet
A Listening Room (Chambre d'écoute)
Three Viennese Dancers
After the Requiem
Sentieri Selvaggi Plays Gavin Bryars & Philip Glass
Hommages
I Have Heard It Said: Music of Gavin Bryars
Biped
Lockerbie Memorial Concert
New York
Silva Caledonia
O Domina Nostra