Kevin Volans
Kevin Volans (1949- ). South African-born composer.
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Biography
He was born in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, and studied at the University of the Witwatersrand with later with Karlheinz Stockhausen and Mauricio Kagel in Cologne. In 1981 he returned to South Africa to lecture in composition at the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN), Durban and in 1985 he obtained his DMus in composition from UKZN. In 1986 he moved to Paris for a short period and then to Cork where he worked as a freelance composer and teacher. For a period of 3 years from 1986 he took up residency as a composer at the Queen’s University, Belfast and in 1992 he was composer-in-residence at Princeton University. He has been an Irish citizen since 1994. He lives in Co. Cork.
Contribution to South African Theatre, Film, Media and Performance
As composer, his stage works include:
- The Man with Footsoles of Wind (1993), with a libretto by Roger Clarke
- the dance opera Correspondences (1990)
- Confessions of Zeno (2001) with a libretto by Jane Taylor.
Sources
Hilde Roos. 2012. 'Indigenisation and history: how opera in South Africa became South African opera'. Acta Academica Supplementum. 2012(1).
https://www.wisemusicclassical.com/composer/1651/Kevin-Volans/
Avril Kinsey. 2009. 'Music for classical guitar by South African composers'. Unpublished Masters thesis. University of Cape Town.
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