Jonathan David Little

Contemporary Classical Concert & Media Composer Haslemere UK Melbourne AUS United Kingdom

About Jonathan David Little

The evocative music of award-winning composer, JONATHAN DAVID LITTLE, is notable for its mystical beauty, intensity, richness and intricacy. ...

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Australian Composers (Wirripang) - Music Publisher Edwin Mellen Press Books Website (Book 1 of 2) Edwin Mellen Press Books Website (Book 2 of 2) Mellen Books on Amazon.com - on Orchestration 1 Mellen Books on Amazon.com - on Orchestration 2

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  • JONATHAN DAVID LITTLE - COMPOSER-CONDUCTOR + Orchestrator, Project Manager

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YOUTUBE Channel - Jonathan David Little RECORDINGS [CD's] on Navona Records +COMPOSER BIO / RESUME & REVIEW HIGHLIGHTS "CONVERSATIONS WITH COMPOSERS": Jonathan David Lit BBC "ENCORE CHORAL" AWARD ANNOUNCEMENT

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JONATHAN DAVID LITTLE TERPSICHORE - CD Reviews received December 2008 “a major new, original and quite brilliant classical voice” - Lynn René Bayley, in Fanfare magazine, Vol.32, No.2 (Nov-Dec 2008, USA), p.77 *** A FANFARE MAGAZINE RECOMMENDED RECORDING FOR 2008 *** CRITICS’ CHOICE: “THE WANT LIST 2008” Of TERPSICHORE [for large orchestra]: • “[a] ground-breaking tour de force … incandescent … [unleashes] a positively dynamic musical palette,portraying the wild behaviour and dancing of Terpsichore in an astonishingly hypnotic range of musical sketches … moving the listener irrevocably onward to a brightly illuminated plain of poetic splendour, rhythm and ecstasy. Could this perhaps be a 21st-century version of Maurice Ravel’s choreographic symphony, Daphnis et Chloe?” - John Wheatley, in Tempo (January 2008), Vol. 62, Issue 243, Cambridge University Press (UK) [“Tempo is the premier English-language journal devoted to 20th-century and contemporary concert music.”] • “Particularly here and in the next piece, Little’s music sounds like no one else’s. Not anyone’s. ... Too much to say and too little space to say it; but why bother anyway? This is an aural experience, and to put it into words degrades the astonishing range of colors and moods he creates. … Trust me, once you’re about halfway through the title work, you won’t be able to take it off. … Mr. Little is quite a talent indeed.” - Lynn Rene Bayley, in Fanfare (May-June 2008), 31:5 (USA) • “This is music that brings to mind so much else but at the same time isn't quite like anything you've heard before. … [a] whirling kaleidoscope of sounds … ending on something of the succulent grandeur of a Respighi tone poem. An extraordinary range of sensations. ... This is certainly novel stuff and I suspect time will prove it to be a good deal more than that.” 4 STARS**** - Simon Thomas, Music OMH (November 2008) (UK) • “Forceful, elegant & dramatic. Full of touches of wry wit … Orchestral tour-de-force.” - Maestro Robert Ian Winstin, Executive Director of the Foundation for New Music (USA) • “Here, Little demonstrates his command of orchestration ... lush and at ease with the tropes of modernist tonal music … the crafting of orchestration is finely honed” – Helen O’Brien, Music Forum (May-July 2009) (AUSTRALIA) Of DUO SONATA ON ELIZABETHAN THEMES [for percussion duo]: • “astonishing delicacy and melodic continuity” - Lynn René Bayley, in Fanfare (May-June 2008), 31:5 (USA) Of FANFARE [for brass & percussion]: • “music of tremendous power” - Lynn René Bayley, in Fanfare (May-June 2008), 31:5 (USA) • “aggressive and impressive” - Simon Thomas, Music OMH (November 2008) (UK) Of SACRED PRELUDE [for string quintet]: • “yearningly lovely” - Simon Thomas, Music OMH (November 2008) (UK) • “developing a distinctly English pastoral flavour, with strong reflections of the harmony and soothing dignity of E. J. Moeran and Vaughan Williams … intensely ethereal” - John Wheatley, in Tempo (January 2008), Vol. 62, Issue 243, Cambridge University Press (UK) Of KYRIE: • “a haunting Tallis-like quality” - Simon Thomas, Music OMH (November 2008) (UK) • “magnificent” - Richard Cameron-Wolfe, Broadcaster and Director, Friends of American Music (USA)

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"Mysticism" - "Ecstatic Minimalism" - "Archaic Futurism" - "Picturesque Archaism" [Worldwide critical definitions of musical style]