David Revill (born 1964) has played, lectured and broadcast in countries such as Austria, Canada, Germany, Poland, Romania, and particularly, in recent years, the U.S.A. and France. From March to September 1997, Revill was resident in Minnesota, working as McKnight Visiting Composer under the auspices of the American Composers' Forum in St. Paul. Other residencies include commissioned composer at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls in Spring 1994 (the first non-American to hold the post), Guest Composer at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire (March 1996), and featured composer in the fifteenth anniversary festival of the Tiroler Ensemble für neue Musik in Innsbruck, Austria (November 1999). Joseph Hagedorn has recorded Harihara (solo guitar) for CD release. Revill has worked in electronic music studios in England and France, including six months in 1992 composing at Les Ateliers UPIC, then in Massy near Paris, thanks to a major grant from the Ralph Vaughan Williams Trust, London. This has become an ongoing involvement: he spent August 1993 at UPIC working on Salamandre for flute and tape, and the RVW Trust awarded another grant for work in the summer of 1995 (the first time two grants have been made to the same person). He was in residence at the Heinrich-Strobel-Stiftung, Freiburg in February 1997; at the beginning of 2001, he began work on a project utilising the resources of both UPIC and the Strobel-Stiftung, Governor Carlson. The current project is a solo work for Austrian accordeon virtuoso Harald Pröckl, Mechanischer Atem. Revill gave the world premiere of John Cage's Muoyce 2 in Warsaw (October 1993), and of Joseph Green's The Garden in Bristol (May 1995); he gave the British premiere of One4 for solo drummer the previous year, and of Muoyce 2 in February 1995. In October 1994, he presented Ryoanji and One8 with 15 Strings with 'cellist Michael Bach in Donaueschingen, performances broadcast in Germany ("unbelievable concentration," said Mannheimer Morgen) and now available on Col Legno and Mode Records. In July 1996, he recorded Stephen Davismoon's Against the Grain in Freiburg. Throughout summer 2000, he drummed for the Grant Hart Band. Revill wrote The Roaring Silence, the biography of John Cage (NY: Arcade; London: Bloomsbury), described by the U.S. Library Journal as "definitive" and by Merkur as "[die] erste wirklich umfassende Cage-Biographie." Tosende Stille, the German translation, appeared in 1995, and a Japanese translation is forthcoming. Besides The Roaring Silence, Revill was editorial advisor and contributed sixteen entries to Brian Morton and Pamela Collins, eds., Contemporary Composers (Chicago: St James' Press), was a contributor to the revision of The New Grove, and is currently preparing entries for MGG (Kassel: Bärenreiter). He has written for Music Today (Tokyo), MusikTexte (Köln), Modern and Contemporary France, Network (British Sociological Association), Classical Music, Classical Piano, Times, Times Higher Education Supplement, Independent, Guardian, and many others. Peters Edition, London, use his biographical note on Cage as a preface to his worklist, and he has written liner notes for recordings on the Koch and Naxos labels. Revill was an editorial consultant on monographs and journals for Gordon and Breech Science Publishers. Broadcasting experience includes appearances on Music in our Time, Hear and Now, Music Weekly, Kaleidoscope, Music Matters and The Radio Programme on BBC Radio, Arts National for CBC and a documentary for Polish television. In June and December 1995 he contributed to and was interviewed concerning "Horizontal Radio", a world-wide music collage by fax and Internet. Revill has lectured to, among others, the British Comparative Literature Association, the Modern Critical Theory Group, and at the American Center in Warsaw. In October 1999, he presented a session of the New Music Study Day of the Percussive Arts Society convention in Columbus, OH, with nineteen members of the percussion group of the Hartt School (CT). Lecture-tours have included visits to Mills College, Oakland, CA; University of California-Davis; UC-Santa Cruz; University of Wisconsin-Madison, Milwaukee, Oshkosh and Superior; Alverno College, Milwaukee; Carleton College and St Olaf College, Northfield, MN; St Cloud State University, MN; Augsburg College, Minneapolis, and Macalester College, St. Paul; Amherst College, MA; the Hartt School; Columbia University; University of New Hampshire; Bowdoin College, ME; Northeast Missouri State University; Missouri Western State College; and XYZ Student Art Collective (Blacksburg, Virginia). In Easter 1994 he lectured on the pedagogy programme of Ateliers UPIC, and, in the fall of 1999, at the Tiroler Landeskonservatorium in Innsbruck. David Revill, 524 North Pearl Street, River Falls, Wisconsin 54022 U.S.A. tel.: [1] (715) 426 9079 August 2001 |
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