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Brian Chapple
Biography
Brian Chapple was born in London in 1945. He studied piano and composition at the Royal Academy of Music, where his principal teachers were Harry Isaacs and Sir Lennox Berkeley, and where he won major prizes for composition and musicianship. Early works include Green and Pleasant for orchestra, winner of BBC Monarchy 1000 Prize 1973 and selected for Unesco International Rostrum of Composers 1976; Scherzos for four pianos premiered in 1976 Proms. Piano Concerto, written for Howard Shelley and Premiered in Musica Nova Glasgow 1979, funded by Vaughan Williams Trust. Other commissions include Venus Fly Trap for the London Sinfonietta, Little Symphony for the Haydn Society, Missa Brevis for St. Paul’s Cathedral, Cantica and Magnificat (for soloists, chorus and orch.) by the Highgate Choral Society, Piano Sonata by Dartington Summer School. Other works include: large scale choral symphony In Ecclesiis, Lamentations of Jeremiah premiered by BBC Singers in Norwich Cathedral Contemporary Church Music Festival, In Memoriam, Three Motets, Five Blake Songs, Five Shakespeare Songs for six voices, and 3 Volumes of easy piano pieces:- In the Pink, Lazy Days, On the Cool Side.