Jonathan Dove

Jonathan Dove (born July 18, 1959) is a British composer of opera and choral works and theatre, film, orchestral and chamber music. He has arranged a number of operas for English Touring Opera and the City of Birmingham Touring Opera (now Birmingham Opera Company), including in 1990 a famous 18-player two-evening adaptation of Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen for CBTO. Airport Scenes, an orchestral suite from the airport-comedy opera Flight, was premiered by the University of Warwick Symphony Orchestra on March 7, 2006.

He is currently Artistic Director of the Spitalfields Festival.

[edit] Selected works

Operas

Hastings Spring (community opera) (1990)
Pig (chamber opera) (1992)
Flight (1998)
Tobias and the Angel (church opera), to a libretto by David Lan (1999)
L'altra Euridice (2002)
When She Died... (Death of a Princess) (television opera, commemorating the fifth anniversary of the death of Diana, Princess of Wales) (2002)

Other works

The Passing of the Year (song cycle for double chorus and piano) (2000)20th-century
The Magic Flute Dances (flute concerto) (2000)
Stargazer (a trombone concerto written for Ian Bousfield)
Köthener Messe, for choir and chamber ensemble
Out of Winter (song-cycle)
Seek Him that maketh the Seven Stars
Airport Scenes (orchestral suite from the opera Flight) (2006)