Dr Kevin Flanagan

MA, BMus, PhD

Senior Lecturer, Music


Room: Hel 255

Email: Kevin.Flanagan@anglia.ac.uk
Personal website: www.kevinflanagan.net

Telephone: 0845 196 2509
International: +44 1223 363271 ext 2509


Kevin Flanagan comes from Lowell, Mass., USA. He initially studied music and philosophy at the University of New Hampshire, and was part of Antares, a free improvisatory group that toured the New England through the mid-70s to early 80s. During this period he was also involved in jazz, blues, and popular music, both recording and performing. He settled in the UK in the mid-80s, and worked on the London jazz and pop scene, playing and recording with members of Pink Floyd, Ben E. King, the Sex Pistols, Jools Holland, Led Zeppelin, B.B. King, Portishead, and many others. By the late 1980s he was primarily involved with jazz, playing with his own group or with musicians such as Dick Morrissey, Alan Barnes, Dave Newton, Gerard Precenser, Don Weller, Dave Cliff, Mark Edwards, Adrian Utley, and the Tommy Chase quartet around the festivals of the UK and Europe, such as Brecon, Edinburgh, Soho, and Bath in this country; and festivals in Milan, Paris, the North Sea festival, Poland, Portugal, Sweden and others. He has put out two successful CDs with Chris Ingham as the Flanagan-Ingham Quartet, and is presently collaborating with Dave Gordon in a series of poetry settings of the Pulitzer-prize winning Beat poet Gary Snyder.

As a graduate of Goldsmith's University, he specialized in analysis and post-1945 music. This was followed by an MA in composition at Anglia Ruskin University with Richard Hoadley, which resulted in the first SPNM commissioned performance of Like Miles by the London Metropolitan Orchestra. The most recent commission was Mode for Joe II, was performed at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London. His PhD in composition was with the composer Martin Butler at Sussex University, and is collaborating with composer/pianist Dave Gordon and poet Maolcolm Guite in the Riprap spoken text series with series of UK poets; Ruth Padel, Grevel Lindop, and Gwnyeth Lewis.


Compositions

Flanagan, K. (2009) The Holy Goof, libretto by Malcolm Guite: Cambridge, AMPublishing

Flanagan, K. (2008) Four Settings, text by the poet Grevel Lindop: Cambridge, AMPublishing

Flanagan, K. (2008) Three songs, for Malcolm, Cambridge, AMPublishing

Flanagan, K. (2007) Duo no. II for Violin and Piano: Cambridge, AMPublishing

Flanagan, K. (2007) Three for Malcolm, the first three of a series of settings of contemporary poets involving the Riprap quartet: Cambridge, AMPublishing

Flanagan, K. (2007) (New) Set for Violin and Piano, for Mifune Tsuji, and premiered in the Mumford Theatre, Cambridge: Cambridge, AMPublishing

Flanagan, K. (2007) The Ten Thousand Things, oratorio for four soloists, choir, and chamber orchestra, in collaboration with the poet Malcolm Guite of Girton College, Cambridge, first performed in West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge: Cambridge, AMPublishing

Flanagan, K. (2006) Riprap, CD recording released in March 2006 on the AMPublishing label, performed West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge in 2007. The pieces were also broadcast on the BBC World Service in October 2006, as well as being performed in the RFH on national poetry day in 2005: London, 33 Records.

Flanagan, K. (2006) P(arker's) Mood, for laptops and quintet: Cambridge, AMPublishing.

Flanagan, K. (2005) Double Concerto for Viola, Cello, and String Orchestra: Cambridge, AMPublishing.

Flanagan, K. (2003) Mode for Joe II, commissioned by the SPNM for Chamber Orchestra and the soloist Tim Whitehead for performance at the Queen Elizabeth Hall as part of the London Jazz Festival in November 2003: Cambridge, AMPublishing

Flanagan, K. (2003) Mode For Joe, commissioned by Damian Royannais, for saxophone and piano, performed at the UK Saxophone Congress in Cardiff 2003, and Mumford Theatre, Cambridge in 2003: Cambridge, AMPublishing

Flanagan, K. (2002) RipRap Series' for spoken voice and jazz quartet, with the permission with the American beat poet Gary Snyder. This has been an on-going project since 2002, performed at festivals and venues around the UK, including: The National Poetry Day, RFH, Brighton Festival, Cambridge Festival, Welwyn Jazz Club, Mumford Theatre, Cambridge, Peterborough Jazz Club, Colchester Jazz Club

Flanagan, K. (2002) 7,33, for chamber septet, performed at Sussex University 2003: Cambridge, AMPublishing.

Flanagan, K. (2001) Not Sextets, piece for orchestra performed APU Sinfonia, Cambridge, 2001: Cambridge, AMPublishing.

Flanagan, K. (2001) Like Miles, trumpet concerto for soloist and orchestra, SPMN commission, performed London Claygate Festival 2001 by the London Metropolitan Orchestra with soloist Gerard Prescenser: Cambridge, AMPublishing.

Flanagan, K. (2001) Two Poems by Gary Snyder, a setting for baritone and chamber group: Cambridge, AMPublishing.

Flanagan, K. (2000) Pmoo, digital composition for Csound program

Flanagan, K. (2000) Hootie, digital composition for Csound program

Flanagan, K. (2000) Gashi Dojo, for male chorus, brass wind and percussion; a setting of Shomyo chant

Flanagan, K. (1999) Textile Lunch (CD), settings of Beat poetry with the Flanagan-Ingham Quartet: London, 33 Records


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