Dr Jane Stanley
- Senior Lecturer (Music)
telephone:
0141 330 3938
email:
Jane.Stanley@glasgow.ac.uk
R407 Level 4, Music, 14 University Gardens, Glasgow G12 8QH
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2464-441XBiography
Jane Stanley is a UK-based, Australian-born composer specialising in chamber and orchestral music.
Jane’s music has been performed and broadcast throughout the world and featured at festivals including Tanglewood, ISCM World Music Days, Gaudeamus Music Week, Asian Composers League, Wellesley Composers Conference, and June in Buffalo. She has received commissions from Tanglewood, Musica Viva, Robert Irvine, Bernadette Harvey, Continuum Sax, Ensemble Offpsring, and Halcyon.
Her music has been recorded for release by artists internationally. Her solo ‘cello piece Winter Song features on Robert Irvine’s CD Songs and Lullabies, released by Delphian Records, and the recording of her Piano Sonata by Bernadette Harvey was launched on the Tall Poppies label early in 2018. One of her most often performed pieces Helix Reflectionfor flute and clarinet was recorded by Ensemble Offspring and appears on their Cycles and Circles album.
She received her PhD from the University of Sydney and in 2004-5 she was a Visiting Fellow at Harvard University. Her teachers include Anne Boyd, Peter Sculthorpe, Ross Edwards, and Bernard Rands. Jane was a composition fellow at Tanglewood Music Center in 2008, who commissioned Palimpsest for large brass ensemble. In 2009 she was a Fellow at the Aspen Music Festival and School.
In 2015 her piece Pentimenti for piano duo represented Australia at ISCM World Music Days in Wrocław, performed by the Lutoslawski Piano Duo. A highlight of 2017 was the premiere in Sydney of her Piano Sonata, commissioned by Bernadette Harvey and supported by a grant from the Australia Council for the Arts.
Her most recent pieces feature delicate ornamental textures and agile, virtuosic writing for instruments. She aims to exploit and maximise the colouristic potential of ensembles for which she composes and to construct nuanced and distinctive gestures. This can be heard most clearly in her Suite for clarinet, violin, cello and piano.
Jane is a Senior Lecturer in Music at the University of Glasgow. She is founder of the Scottish Young Composers Mentoring Project, a year-long programme that provides university students with experience in mentoring secondary school-age people in composition. She is a founding member of the Young Academy of Scotland, a represented composer at the Australian Music Centre, and her music is also published by Composers Edition.
Further information about her music can be found on her personal website.
Research interests
- Embodiment
- Reserach on musical encultration
- Music education, with an emphasis on composition, ranging from early years to tertiary level
- contemporary approaches to notation
- Australian Music
Grants
2020: australia council for the arts
2020: ppca/australia council for the arts
2014: grant from australia council for the arts
2013: heriot watt university (with dr. emilie combet aspray)
2012: grant from the carnegie trust for the universities of scotland
2011: scottish crucible small research grant (co-recipient with dr. lorraine kerr, centre for systems biology at edinburgh (csbe), school of biological sciences)
2011: grant from the bliss trust to support recording of new work for flute and marimba
2010: grant from the carnegie trust for the universities of scotland in support of travel to sydney to consult new music practitioners and to compose a new work for flute.
2009: grant from the carnegie trust for the universities of scotland in support of travel to aspen music festival and school.
2007: grant from the john robertson bequest to record new work for oboe and piano
2007: grant from the australia council for the arts to compose new work for percussionist claire edwardes
2005: grant from the australia council for the arts to compose st. marks inflection for saxophone quartet
2004: grant from the australia council for the arts to compose impulsion for percussion duo
2004: sydney moss scholarship (university of sydney) to travel to harvard university as a visiting fellow
2004: albert travelling scholarship (university of sydney) to travel to harvard university as a visiting fellow
2004: tempe mann travelling scholarship (australian federation of university women) to travel to harvard university as a visiting fellow
2004: grant from ars musica australis to travel to harvard university as a visiting fellow
2004: grant from the ian potter cultural trust to travel to harvard university as a visiting fellow
2003: grant from the australia council for the arts to compose spindrift/interiors for flute/alto flute, mandolin/mandola, and piano
2003: support from the australian music center and the australia council for the arts to compose drifting tracer for orchestra
2001-4: australian postgraduate award (apa) — stipend for phd
2001: commission from symphony australia to compose splintered rose for orchestra
1999-2000: university postgraduate award (upa) — stipend for master of music
Supervision
Jane welcomes applications from prospective PhD and M.Mus students specialising in Composition, including projects involving collaboration with other disciplines and non-academic partners.
- Baird, Alan
The components of spoken language as relates to music: Exploring phonological and linguistic features in language which can be utilised and inform my composition practice - McKay, Aleks
'Polar Harmony' and 'The Polar Method': A New Compositional Approach
Completed PhD and M.Mus Students:
Thomas Arthur (M.Mus Research)
Graeme Brooks (M.Mus Research)
Samuel Clark (M.Mus Research)
David Duncan (PhD)
Euan Fulton (PhD)
Lauren Gerig (M.Phil Research)
Ronald MacNiven (M.Mus Research)
Catriona Thomas (M.Mus Research)
Teaching
Musical Techniques, Foundation (level 1/2)
Composition (all levels)
Dissertation Supervision (honours)
Analysis (honours)
Composition in the Classroom (honours)
Additional information
Administration
- Head of Subject Area
- Member of University of Glasgow Senate
Awards, prizes, recognition
- Member, Young Academy, Royal Society of Edinburgh
- Participant, Scottish Crucible, 2011
- Member, New Voices, Sound and Music 2009
- Fellow, Aspen Music Festival and School, 2009
- Fellow, Tanglewood Music Center, 2008
- Represented composer, Australian Music Center (AMC) since 2001
- Winner Open Age Composition, City of Sydney Performing Arts Challenge (awarded for the composition Firefly for solo flute) 1999-2000
- MBS Young Composer of the Year (awarded for the composition Whistling Kite on Yellow Water for flute, clarinet, violin, and cello) 1997
- Sarah Theresa Makinson Prize for Musical Composition (awarded for the composition Whistling Kite on Yellow Water for flute, clarinet, violin, and cello) 1997
Releases
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2019 On Bright Air, recorded by Laura Chislett-Jones for a compilation of flute solo music, for ABC Classics, Australia (upcoming release)
2017 Piano Sonata, The Sonata Project, Bernadette Harvey, Tall Poppies, Australia, TP251
2016 Winter Song recorded by Robert Irvine on Songs and Lullabies, Delphian Records DCD34173
2015 Helix Reflection recorded by Ensemble Offspring https://ensembleoffspring.bandcamp.com/album/cycles-and-circles
2015 Round the Bay recorded by Halcyon on Kingfisher: songs for Halcyon, Tall Poppies, TP236
2009 Firefly recorded by Lamorna Nightingale on Eat Chocolate and Cry: Australian Flute Music 1999-2009. Fluteworthy.
2004 Spindrift/Interiors for recorder (soprano, alto, tenor, and bass), mandolin/mandola, and piano on Harmonia: Australian Music featuring Recorders, Sidereal Records: SRCD01
2006 Celestial Dance for marimba and congas on Vertigo One, Duo Vertigo, Karnatic Lab: KLR 00
Selected List of Works
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2019 |
Glow for flute, clarinet and percussion, commissioned by Ensemble Offspring for premiere in Wollongong, Australia on 16 August 2019, and performances in Belfast, Glasgow, Aberdeen, and Edinburgh in September |
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2019 |
Firefly Reflection for solo clarinet, premiered by Alex South, Bell Pettigrew Museum, University of St. Andrews, 23 May 2019 |
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2019 |
The Faery Cup for bass clarinet, commissioned by Sarah Watts for Ten Wee Drams project, Gathering Room, Raasay Distillery, 11 April 2019 |
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2017 |
Lalla Rookh for natural horn, performed by Andy Saunders, Being Human Festival, Alliance Française. Performed by him again at St. Cecilia’s, Edinburgh, 19 February 2019. Arranged for three horns and speaker and performed by the Rookh Quartet at the University of Glasgow, 27 September 2018 and then at Doune Community Hall on 24 February, 2019, Version for horn and speaker performed again by Andy Saunders at St. Cecilia’s in Edinburgh on 24 February 2019. |
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2016 |
Cerulean Orbits for violin and piano, Cerulean Orbits for violin and piano, commissioned by Musica Viva, performed by Benjamin Beilman and Andrew Tyson, Perth 3 October, Adelaide 5 October, Coffs Harbour 7 October, Armidale 8 October, Sydney 10 October, Newcastle 13 October, Sydney 15 October, Hobart 17 October, Brisbane 19 October, Canberra 20 October, Melbourne 22 October, Adelaide 25 October |
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2016 |
Winter Song, Robert Irvine (cello), Loch Shiel Festival, UK, 16 April 2016. Released by Delphian (Songs and Lullabies: New Works for Solo Cello). |
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2015 |
D-re-A-mi-N-gl-Y for mezzo soprano, piano and percussion, Magdalena Kordylasinska, Emilia Sitarz, Barbara Kinga Majewska, Krolikarnia Museum, Warsaw, 31 October 2015. |
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2013 |
Helix Reflection performed by Ensemble Offspring: 18 October 2013, University of Glasgow, UK, 22 November 2013, Australia, Coffs Harbour Jetty Memorial Theatre, 2pm Sunday 16th March, Parramatta Raffertys @ Riverside Theatres, 7.30pm, Tuesday 18th March, Brisbane Judith Wright Centre, 7:30pm Friday 21st March, Gosford Central Coast Con, 2:30pm Sunday 23rd March. Performed by Mark McGregor (flute) and Liam Hockley (clarinet) at ANNEX in Vancouver, Canada. |
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2014 |
Suite for clarinet, violin, cello and piano - recording by Red Note Ensemble in November, conducted by Jessica Cottis. |
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2014 |
Round the Bay for mezzo soprano, flute, cello and percussion, text by Judith Beveridge, performed March 2014, Halcyon, Sydney Conservatorium of Music, Australia. |
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2011 |
Pentimenti for two pianos, premiered by Lauryna Sablevicuite and Nicholas Ashton on 16 January 2012 and performed again by them on 24 March 2013 at the University of Salford Sonic Fusion Festival. Selected to represent Australia at ISCM World Music Days in Wrocław, 2014. Received a further performance on 18 February 2014 at the University of Edinburgh |
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2010 |
Four Desert Flowers, for flute and marimba, commissioned by Ruth Morley and Rhian Macleod, with support from the Scottish Arts Council, marimba, premiered 3 March, 2011, Concert Hall, University of Glasgow; performed again by Svet Stoyanov and Brook Ferguson, 26 March 2013 at Colorado State University, USA |
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2009 |
Palimpsest for brass ensemble, commissioned by Tanglewood Music Center, premiered June 28, 2009, Ozawa Hall, Tanglewood. |
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2005 |
Triptych for percussion duo, commissioned by Duo Vertigo, supported by the Australia Council for the Arts, premiered by Duo Vertigo August 12, 2006, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, Australia; performed by Duo Vertigo August 24, 2006, VCA Federation Hall, Melbourne, Australia; performed by Duo Vertigo September 1, 2006, Recital Hall, Sydney Conservatorium of Music, Sydney, Australia performed by the Asko Ensemble at International Gaudeamus Music Week 2007 (selecte d by the jury to compete for the Gaudeamus Prize). |
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