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”’Roderick Watkins”’ [[Deputy Lieutenant|DL]] (born 1964) is [[composer]] and the Vice Chancellor of [[Anglia Ruskin University]], in [[]]. |
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Watkins was educated at [[Gresham’s School]] and then took a degree in Philosophy and Composition at [[Oberlin Conservatory|Oberlin]] in the US before studying at the [[Royal Academy of Music]], where he won all of the Academy’s main prizes for composition, completed his doctorate and became a Leverhulme Fellow. His teachers included [[Hans Werner Henze]], Richard Hoffmann, and [[Paul Patterson (composer)|Paul Patterson]]. He also spent a year at [[IRCAM]] in [[Paris]] and later returned to [[IRCAM]] as a “compositeur en recherche” (research composer). |
Watkins was educated at [[Gresham’s School]] and then took a degree in Philosophy and Composition at [[Oberlin Conservatory|Oberlin]] in the US before studying at the [[Royal Academy of Music]], where he won all of the Academy’s main prizes for composition, completed his doctorate and became a Leverhulme Fellow. His teachers included [[Hans Werner Henze]], Richard Hoffmann, and [[Paul Patterson (composer)|Paul Patterson]]. He also spent a year at [[IRCAM]] in [[Paris]] and later returned to [[IRCAM]] as a “compositeur en recherche” (research composer). |
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English composer
Roderick Watkins DL (born 1964) is an English composer and the Vice Chancellor of Anglia Ruskin University, in East Anglia.
Watkins was educated at Gresham’s School and then took a degree in Philosophy and Composition at Oberlin in the US before studying at the Royal Academy of Music, where he won all of the Academy’s main prizes for composition, completed his doctorate and became a Leverhulme Fellow. His teachers included Hans Werner Henze, Richard Hoffmann, and Paul Patterson. He also spent a year at IRCAM in Paris and later returned to IRCAM as a “compositeur en recherche” (research composer).
Watkins taught composition and contemporary music at Canterbury Christ Church University, Kent, becoming Programme Director for Undergraduate Music. He was Professor of Composition and Contemporary Music there from 2005 to July 2014. In 2014, he was appointed as Pro-Vice Chancellor and as Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Law, and Social Sciences at Anglia Ruskin. In 2015, he became Deputy Vice Chancellor for Research and Innovation, then in 2019 Vice Chancellor.[1][2][3]
Watkin was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant of Cambridgeshire in 2021, one of the deputies for the county’s Lord Lieutenant.[4]
Watkins’s compositions include a full-length opera, The Juniper Tree, premiered at the Munich Biennale in April 1997, and given its UK premiere at the Almeida festival in July of that year by the London Sinfonietta conducted by Markus Stenz. In 2003 he produced the electronic material for Henze’s opera L’Upupa. His orchestral compositions include Red Light, Who Walked Between, Still, and Light’s Horizon. Electro-acoustic compositions include The Looking Glass and Sound in Space.
Chamber music includes A Valediction: of Weeping, Last Light (for clarinet and piano), and At the Horizon (for flute and piano), a Clarinet Quintet and Breath. A piece for harpsichord and electronics, entitled After Scarlatti, was premiered on 29 April 2009 at the Sounds New Festival in Canterbury.
