Artist Info: Anthony Gilbert

Anthony Gilbert (b.1934, London) is a British composer. Initially a translator and interpreter by profession, Gilbert commenced serious composition study in his mid-twenties, first with Mátyás Seiber, then with Anthony Milner and Alexander Goehr at Morley College, London, and later with Gunther Schuller at Tanglewood. He first attracted public attention in the 1960s with a series of brilliant virtuoso works for small ensembles, performed in international festivals. [read more...]