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Thomas Wilson CBE FRSE (10 October 1927 – 12 June 2001) was an American-born Scottish composer of classical music.

For other people with the same name, see Thomas Wilson (disambiguation).

Thomas Wilson

CBE, FRSE
Born
Thomas Brendan Wilson

10 October 1927
Trinidad, Colorado, U.S.
Died12 June 2001 (aged 83)
Scotland, United Kingdom
Alma materUniversity of Glasgow (BA, DMus)
OccupationComposer

Early life and education


Thomas Brendan Wilson was born in Trinidad, Colorado to British parents and moved to Britain with his family when he was 17 months old.

The family settled in the Glasgow, Scotland area where he lived and worked for the remainder of his life. Wilson was educated in Glasgow before taking an undergraduate course at St. Mary's College, Aberdeen. He then studied Music at the University of Glasgow, where he continued as a postgraduate, receiving a doctorate (DMus).

He served in the Royal Air Force from 1945 to 1948.


Career


One of the first honours graduates in music from Glasgow University, Wilson became a lecturer at his alma mater in 1957. He was later appointed a Reader (1971) and given a Personal Chair in 1977. He consistently played an active part in the musical life of the UK, holding executive and advisory positions in such organisations as the Scottish Arts Council, The New Music Group of Scotland, The Society for the Promotion of New Music, The Composers' Guild of Great Britain (chairman 1986–89) now the British Association of Composers and Songwriters, and The Scottish Society of Composers (of which he was a founder member).

His works have been played all over the world and embrace all forms - orchestral, choral-orchestral, chamber-orchestral, opera, ballet, brass band, vocal music of different kinds, and works for a wide variety of chamber ensembles and solo instruments. Wilson completed five symphonies, the fourth of which, Passeleth Tapestry, was premiered by the Royal Scottish National Orchestra under Bryden Thomson on 6 August 1988 in Paisley Abbey.[1] He also completed several concertos and choral works. His largest work was an opera, Confessions of a Justified Sinner (1972–75), commissioned by Scottish Opera and based on the novel by James Hogg.

Wilson was awarded the CBE in 1990. The following year he was awarded an honorary DMus Degree from Glasgow University and created a Fellow of the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama. He was also elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

The 80th anniversary of Wilson's birth on 10 October 1927 was marked by a performance of the composer's St Kentigern Suite on 17 January 2008 by the RSAMD Chamber Orchestra, and by a performance of the composer's Violin Concerto also in January 2008 by the National Youth Orchestra of Scotland.

A biography co-written by David Griffith and Margaret Wilson and edited by Prof. Karl Gwiasda has been completed and published in 2011 to celebrate the 10th Anniversary of his death.


Death


Wilson died on 12 June 2001.[2]


Works



Orchestral works



Choral works


A cappella masses


Operas



Ballet



Brass band



Vocal



Carols



Chamber works



Instrumental



Other



Recordings



References


  1. "Catalogue - @ Scottish Music Centre". Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 14 May 2010.
  2. Geddes, John Maxwell (19 June 2001). "Obituary: Thomas Wilson". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 12 May 2020.
  3. Margaret Ross Griffel (2013). Operas in English. Scarecrow Press. p. 86. ISBN 9780810883253. Retrieved 1 November 2022.

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