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Russell Pascoe
1960 -
Great Britain, England
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Russell Pascoe (05/06/1960) is an English composer, conductor and teacher. He was born in Cornwall and educated at Helston School and Bristol University, where he studied composition with Derek Bourgeois. He is the Head of Music at Richard Lander School, where he conducts four choirs. In 1987 he founded the Cornwall Youth Chamber Choir and was awarded the Gorsedd prize. Pascoe has also worked with the Cornwall Male Voice Choir and Duchy Opera where he has been repetiteur and chorus master.
A Secular Requiem
| Period: | 21st century |
| Composed in: | 2013 |
| Musical form: | free |
| Text/libretto: | John Donne, Thomas Hardy, Rabindranath Tagore, Dylan Thomas, Hitomaro, Stephen Anderton, Walt Whitman and Anthony Pinching. |
| Duration: | ca, 50' |
March 2013 have seen the first performance of Pascoe's Secular Requiem which has been commissioned by The Three Spires Singers, conductor Christopher Gray with soloists Catherine Wyn-Rogers and Stephen Roberts. The work is a contemporary response to loss and is structured around the key phases of grief through poems that do not require any specific faith, but does not exclude it. The text was assembled by Professor Anthony Pinching and draws on the poetry of John Donne, Thomas Hardy, Rabindranath Tagore, Dylan Thomas, Hitomaro, Stephen Anderton, Walt Whitman and Anthony Pinching.