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Douglas Finch was born in Winnipeg and began improvising, composing and performing on the piano from an early age with the help of his mother. He later continued studying with Winnifred Sim, Jean Broadfoot and at the University of Western Ontario with William Aide. After receiving a Masters from Juilliard in New York under Beveridge Webster, Douglas won several awards and was a finalist at the Queen Elisabeth International Piano Competition in Brussels.
After moving to London, he co-founded The Continuum Ensemble in 1994 and has collaborated in premiering many new works. He appears regularly with the ensemble at the Spitalfields and other Festivals and at the South Bank Centre, featuring composers such as Julian Anderson, Georges Aperghis, Henri Dutilleux, Charles Ives, Claude Vivier, Errollyn Wallen, Iannis Xenakis and many others.
His CD with The Continuum Ensemble of Roger Smalley’s solo and chamber music for NMC was released in April 2004 to critical acclaim. He has become renowned for his improvisational skills, which have been heard on numerous concerts and broadcasts including CBC’s Morningside and BBC Radio 3’s Music Matters.
He has composed for piano, chamber ensemble, orchestra, theatre and film and his score for the feature film Painted Angels , was described in The Independent as ‘an extraordinary triumph of artistic will’. He will be writing music for another film by Jon Sanders this autumn and Waterloo, Frederick Harris, and Boosey & Hawkes have published his music.
Douglas Finch has been Head of the Keyboard Faculty at Trinity College of Music since February 1999. |
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