Roger
Teichmann
was
born
in
London
in 1963. He is known as a composer of choral, orchestral and chamber
music, culminating in 2007 with the cantata The
Serpent God for soprano, baritone, chorus, orchestra and organ,
premièred in Oxford Town Hall to great acclaim with Harriet Fraser
(soprano) and Jordan
Bell (baritone). Teichmann's chamber opera The Bridge (libretto
by David Edgar) was a prize-winner in the Stephen Oliver Chamber Opera
Composition
Competition while his interest in the music of the Renaissance was
recognised by the Viola da
Gamba Society with performances in Tokyo and Colorado of his
composition Browning.
Recent commissions include And I Saw An Angel and The Human
Form
for vocal group Collutorium, Serenade for wind octet
for
the soloists of the Oxford
Sinfonia, and the lauded Fantasy Sonata for four bass
clarinets
for the Scottish Clarinet Quartet. Both the Fantasy
Sonata and the song cycle Love In Time (for Harriet Fraser
with William
Hancox) were premièred at the Jacqueline du Pré Music Building.
There will be a première of Songs of Narnia on June 18th 2011, at 7.30 p.m., as part of a summer concert celebrating C.S. Lewis. The concert will take place in the church where Lewis is buried: Holy Trinity church, Headington Quarry, Oxford.