Kevin Volans
Born: 26th July 1949, Pietermaritzburg, SA
Nationality: South African/Irish
Kevin Volans is a South African-born Irish composer and pianist. He studied with Karlheinz Stockhausen and Mauricio Kagel in Cologne in the 1970s and later became associated with the Neue Einfachheit (New Simplicity) movement in the city. In the late 1970s he became interested in the indigenous music of his homeland and began a series of pieces which attempted to combine aspects of African and contemporary European music. Although Volans later moved away from any direct engagement with African music, certain residual elements such as interlocking rhythms, repetition and open forms are still detectable in his music since the early 1990s which have taken a new direction more redolent of certain schools of abstract art. He settled in Ireland permanently in 1986 and was granted Irish citizenship in 1994.
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- Concerto for Piano and Wind Instruments (1)
- Desert Steps for 2 guitars, viola & cello (1)
- Kneeling Dance (1)
- Leaping Dance (1)
- Movement for String Quartet (1)
- Piano Trio (2)
- String Quartet No. 1 - White Man Sleeps (3)
- String Quartet No. 2 - Hunting: Gathering (2)
- String Quartet No. 3 - The Songlines (1)
- String Quartet No. 4 - The Ramanujan Notebooks (1)
- String Quartet No. 5 - Dancers on a Plane (1)
- This is How it is (1)
- Umzi Watsha (The House is Burning) (1)
- Untitled (In memoriam G.V.H.) (1)
- Walking Song (4)
- White Man Sleeps (5)
- White Man Sleeps: First Dance (1)
- Wrist Rock (2)
