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Christus Francis Pott
Two CD Set
. Francis Pott You can visit Francis Pott's website by clicking here. www.francispott.com Poetic quotations: Thomas Merton (second movement) Charles Causley and Howard Mumford Jones (third movement) Dylan Thomas (fourth movement) Edition Christus is published by United Music Publishers Ltd. www.ump.co.uk Acknowledgements Francis Pott and Signum Records would like to thank the Faculty Research Committee of London College of Music & Media for their most generous support of this recording. Organ Kenneth V. Jones |
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Francis Pott
(b. 1957) held music scholarships at Winchester and
Cambridge, studying composition at the latter with Robin Holloway and Hugh
Wood and the piano privately with Hamish Milne in London. Formerly
Lecturer in Music at St Hilda’s College, Oxford, he is now Head of both
Composition and Research Development at London College of Music
& Media, a faculty of Thames Valley University. In
frequent demand as a pianist, he has received
many national awards as a composer and in 1997 gained First Prize in the
second Prokofiev International Composing Competition in Moscow. In 1999
his
oratorio A Song on the End of the World was the Elgar commission of the
Three Choirs Festival in Worcester. His works have been heard in seventeen
countries worldwide, broadcast on both sides of the Atlantic, issued
extensively on CD and published by four major houses in the UK. He is
currently completing a major critical study of the complete works of
Nikolai Medtner, due for publication by Ashgate in 2007. He lives with his
wife and two children near Winchester.
