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BIOGRAPHY
Ian Grundy
Twickenham
020 8891 3258
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Ian Grundy studied music at the University of York. He has won prizes and commissions
for composition in Leicestershire. In 2002,
Ian was awarded a Hedy King Robinson
award for excellence in music theory, after sitting the
Associated Board's final theory exam.
Ian has studied the piano with the Ukrainian piano virtuoso
Génia
and jazz with Tim Richards.
Ian used to write a column on composition and creativity
for
Musiclub magazine and has appeared on
Classic FM
reviewing concerts.
Most of Ian’s time is devoted to teaching: he works in
Clapham Manor Primary School and Kingswood Primary School as their piano teacher and sometime musical
director, arranging and writing music for school productions. Ian also
teaches piano, composition and theory privately. For
eight years,
until October 2002, Ian ran a music course
for adults with severe learning difficulties at Richmond College.
Piano performances have
included concerts at St. Pancras Parish Church, St. John's, Waterloo, the
Handel House, Landmark Arts Centre, Charlton House, the Stockwell Festival
and Chelsea Arts Club. Ian works regularly with the mezzo-soprano Lucy
Thomas.
Ian has written the music
for the show Raining Again...
staged at the Pleasance
Theatre; music for Die Palastsirenen,
an orchestral German cabaret group; and, in 2008, he composed the music
for the show Alyona
described as 'the freshest musical Graz has ever seen' (Kleine Zeitung,
Austria). Alyona
is nominated for The Best of Styria Award 2008.
Ian is currently entering his
final year of study for an MA in psychodynamic music therapy at Roehampton
University.
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