Ian Vine

Ian Vine (born 3 January 1974 in Portsmouth, England) is a British composer. Vine grew up in Libya and Hong Kong.^[1] He studied composition at the Royal Northern College of Music with Anthony Gilbert and privately with Simon Holt.^[1][2]

There are traces Near and Far Eastern modalities as well as gestural and formal elements in his music.^[1] SIRI (1997), for solo percussion with electronics, uses a rhythmic and structural language found in the highly ritualised percussion music of Japan and Korea.

writing on water (1999-), commissioned by Matthew Herbert and released on the Accidental label, is an expanding collection of short (sometimes only 20 seconds long) works using recorded acoustic instruments; and shadow grounds (1999), commissioned by the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival for the ensemble recherche as part of their In Nomine Broken Consort Book, a three-minute non-miniature of suspended sound.^[1]

His three black moons (1999), commissioned by the London Sinfonietta,^[1] was described by The Guardian, '...the most striking piece takes its title from an Alexander Calder mobile - its magical floating sonorities had a Feldmanesque beauty.'

The Guardian has written of him that "Vine's music, clearly influenced by Morton Feldman, is beautifully imagined and precisely focused".^[1]

Vine is the artistic director of new music ensemble Radius.^[2]

Key works

• white river sand (2002) - large ensemble
• espinas (1999) - large ensemble
• siri (1997) and siri2 (2000) - for solo percussion and percussion quartet respectively

Recordings

• forty works for Richard, self-released, not on label (2011)
• held/always/immer/gehalten, self-released, not on label (2012)
• frieze/static form/division, self-released, not on label (2014)
• forty objects/forty-five objects, self-released, not on label (2015)
• interstices, self-released, not on label (2015)
• copies I-V, self-released, not on label (2016)

works appear on

• writing on water (2000), on You Are Here, Accidental Records (2003)
• shadow grounds (1999), The Witten In Nomine Broken Consort Book, ensemble recherche, Kairos (2004)
• ocre oscuro (2007), on Jerwood Series 5, London Sinfonietta Label (2009)