Victor Davies
1,162 Followers
Never miss another Victor Davies concert. Get alerts about tour announcements, concert tickets, and shows near you with a free Bandsintown account.
Follow
No upcoming shows
Send a request to Victor Davies to play in your city
Request a Show
About Victor Davies
Victor Davies is a musician who has crossed many musical boundaries, from ragtime pianist, to composer whose music has been recorded by the London Symphony Orchestra.
Born in Winnipeg Canada, he studied at the University of Manitoba, and Indiana University graduating with a Bachelor of Music in Composition, and has studied conducting with Pierre Boulez in Switzerland.
Returning to Winnipeg, Davies began his career as a freelance composer, pianist and conductor, working with Winnipeg's major artistic organizations. His children's musicals, The Magic Trumpet and Reginald The Robot were both premiered at the Manitoba Theatre Centre; Winnipeg's Contemporary Dancers commissioned The Colour Of The Times and Anerca; the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra commissioned Celebrations, A Short Symphony and From Harmony. He composed and performed live and on television with his own "3rd stream" jazz ensemble.
Commissioned to write the first major score for planetarium, The Beginning and End of the World, was recorded by conductor Skitch Henderson. On commission from the Fast Foundation, Davies composed The Mennonite Piano Concerto. Recorded with pianist Irmgard Baerg and the London Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Boris Brott, Barry Edwards (Music Magazine) wrote that the work exhibits "exuberant high spirits...popularity through its easy accessibility, and its wide range of musical styles"; Chester Duncan (Arts Manitoba) wrote: "..there are many moving and delightful things throughout". This work (coupled with Good Times:Suite for Orchestra, also with the London Symphony Orchestra, both available on CD), has become Davies' best known composition, and has been performed live in the US, Canada, Europe and China, broadcast many times on National and American Public Radio, the CBC, and the BBC and was #8 in sales on Classic FM the largest classical music broadcaster in Britain in 1995. Following the success of this CD The Music Of Victor Davies was released in Britain, Europe, North America and Japan on the Campion label. His other recordings feature Festival Players Canada performing Silhouettes (Piano Trio No. 1), Yukon Scenes (for Flute and Piano) and Fun For Four (String Quartet No.1)
In addition to his children's musicals for stage and television, he has written music and lyrics for over 290 episodes of the CTV children's series Let's Go! and The Rockets. For the CBC, The National Film Board and independent producers, he has written dramatic and documentaries scores in a variety of styles, for radio, film and television.
Other major theatre works and film scores include: a rock opera Beowulf recorded and staged in New York; Seize the Fire, based on William Blake's writing; Especially Babe, a musical for Toronto's Young Peoples Theatre in the Toronto Theatre Festival; The Musical Circus, a commission by Sound Stage Canada, toured Eastern Europe including the Zagreb Biennial; The Big Top commissioned by the Royal Winnipeg Ballet, with over 50 performances, was a CBC TV special shown around the world; the theme song A Little Like Magic for the Famous People Player's Broadway show and American tour; scores for the internationally award winning film, The Last Winter (Fox video); The Nutcracker Prince (Warner Bros.) recorded by the London Symphony and seen world wide, and For The Moment (20th Century Fox) recorded in Prague with musicians of the Czech Philharmonic.
In addition to composing, Victor Davies has conducted his and others music and has been the conductor of his own film and television scores. He spent two years as a musical director of CBC-TV's Ninety Minutes Live working with and writing for opera, jazz, pop, rock, folk and country artists.
Davies' music, aimed at a wide audience is melodic and brilliantly orchestrated and though he looks to popular idioms as a source of inspiration, his style is eclectic. The use of these popular idioms in his Pulsations (Concerto for Electric Violin), the string quartet Fun For Four (both on the Campion label with Erich Kunzel conducting the London Symphony Orchestra), Let's Talk (commissioned for the Grammy award winning Boss Brass and the CJRT Orchestra) is often contrasted with more avant guard styles as in his ballet Anerca, the last movement of Celebrations and his film score for The Pit.
Other recent commissions include: Continents for Chamber Music Victoria for the Commonwealth Games; Art Deco Fantasy for cello and piano premiered by Ofra Harnoy; Dream Variations for the Vancouver Youth Symphony Orchestra; a musical for children, Pirates! for the Charlottetown Festival, and Concerto For Car Horns and Orchestra for the WSO 50th anniversary celebrations. In 1999 he was musical director, composer, and producer of the Opening and Closing Ceremonies Music for the XIII Pan American Games, now available on CD. The premiere of his Jazz Concerto For Organ And Orchestra by Wayne Marshall (1998 BBC Musician of the Year) for The Calgary International Organ Festival in May 2000 was heard on CBC and American Public Radio.
Revelation, a full length oratorio based on the Book of Revelation, premiered on February 1996 to great critical acclaim. Featuring the 300 voice Mennonite Oratorio Choir, Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra and international soloists, James Manishen (Winnipeg Free Press) said.."a masterful oratorio... Davies has always had a gift for the good tune.. genuinely heartfelt .... gospel touches...aptly placed and effective...Revelation is a celebration of life, faith and music". The second performance climaxing the 1997 Ottawa Choral Festival was equally acclaimed, as was the third performance May 2000 with the Hamilton Philharmonic. Hugh Fraser (Hamilton Spectator) said " I have little doubt Davies Revelation is a masterpiece. It is gloriously tuneful and has all the aleatory chaos, harsh brassy dissonances and driving percussive rhythms, used in stunningly effective emotional context...". The premiere was filmed as a CBC TV special Adrienne Clarkson Presents and is now shown extensively on Bravo. His choral commission Lifting The Sky, based on a traditional Salish legend with original poetry by American poet Carolyn Maddux, for the North American Welsh Choir will premiere in the USA May 2001, and in Britain July 2002. Works in progress include commissions for Shades Of Gray for Gary Gray, principle clarinet of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, and a Jazz Piano Concerto for conductor /pianist Bramwell Tovey for his Winnipeg Farewell Gala, May 2001. Davies has also recently finished the score for a musical of A Tale of Two Cities.
Born in Winnipeg Canada, he studied at the University of Manitoba, and Indiana University graduating with a Bachelor of Music in Composition, and has studied conducting with Pierre Boulez in Switzerland.
Returning to Winnipeg, Davies began his career as a freelance composer, pianist and conductor, working with Winnipeg's major artistic organizations. His children's musicals, The Magic Trumpet and Reginald The Robot were both premiered at the Manitoba Theatre Centre; Winnipeg's Contemporary Dancers commissioned The Colour Of The Times and Anerca; the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra commissioned Celebrations, A Short Symphony and From Harmony. He composed and performed live and on television with his own "3rd stream" jazz ensemble.
Commissioned to write the first major score for planetarium, The Beginning and End of the World, was recorded by conductor Skitch Henderson. On commission from the Fast Foundation, Davies composed The Mennonite Piano Concerto. Recorded with pianist Irmgard Baerg and the London Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Boris Brott, Barry Edwards (Music Magazine) wrote that the work exhibits "exuberant high spirits...popularity through its easy accessibility, and its wide range of musical styles"; Chester Duncan (Arts Manitoba) wrote: "..there are many moving and delightful things throughout". This work (coupled with Good Times:Suite for Orchestra, also with the London Symphony Orchestra, both available on CD), has become Davies' best known composition, and has been performed live in the US, Canada, Europe and China, broadcast many times on National and American Public Radio, the CBC, and the BBC and was #8 in sales on Classic FM the largest classical music broadcaster in Britain in 1995. Following the success of this CD The Music Of Victor Davies was released in Britain, Europe, North America and Japan on the Campion label. His other recordings feature Festival Players Canada performing Silhouettes (Piano Trio No. 1), Yukon Scenes (for Flute and Piano) and Fun For Four (String Quartet No.1)
In addition to his children's musicals for stage and television, he has written music and lyrics for over 290 episodes of the CTV children's series Let's Go! and The Rockets. For the CBC, The National Film Board and independent producers, he has written dramatic and documentaries scores in a variety of styles, for radio, film and television.
Other major theatre works and film scores include: a rock opera Beowulf recorded and staged in New York; Seize the Fire, based on William Blake's writing; Especially Babe, a musical for Toronto's Young Peoples Theatre in the Toronto Theatre Festival; The Musical Circus, a commission by Sound Stage Canada, toured Eastern Europe including the Zagreb Biennial; The Big Top commissioned by the Royal Winnipeg Ballet, with over 50 performances, was a CBC TV special shown around the world; the theme song A Little Like Magic for the Famous People Player's Broadway show and American tour; scores for the internationally award winning film, The Last Winter (Fox video); The Nutcracker Prince (Warner Bros.) recorded by the London Symphony and seen world wide, and For The Moment (20th Century Fox) recorded in Prague with musicians of the Czech Philharmonic.
In addition to composing, Victor Davies has conducted his and others music and has been the conductor of his own film and television scores. He spent two years as a musical director of CBC-TV's Ninety Minutes Live working with and writing for opera, jazz, pop, rock, folk and country artists.
Davies' music, aimed at a wide audience is melodic and brilliantly orchestrated and though he looks to popular idioms as a source of inspiration, his style is eclectic. The use of these popular idioms in his Pulsations (Concerto for Electric Violin), the string quartet Fun For Four (both on the Campion label with Erich Kunzel conducting the London Symphony Orchestra), Let's Talk (commissioned for the Grammy award winning Boss Brass and the CJRT Orchestra) is often contrasted with more avant guard styles as in his ballet Anerca, the last movement of Celebrations and his film score for The Pit.
Other recent commissions include: Continents for Chamber Music Victoria for the Commonwealth Games; Art Deco Fantasy for cello and piano premiered by Ofra Harnoy; Dream Variations for the Vancouver Youth Symphony Orchestra; a musical for children, Pirates! for the Charlottetown Festival, and Concerto For Car Horns and Orchestra for the WSO 50th anniversary celebrations. In 1999 he was musical director, composer, and producer of the Opening and Closing Ceremonies Music for the XIII Pan American Games, now available on CD. The premiere of his Jazz Concerto For Organ And Orchestra by Wayne Marshall (1998 BBC Musician of the Year) for The Calgary International Organ Festival in May 2000 was heard on CBC and American Public Radio.
Revelation, a full length oratorio based on the Book of Revelation, premiered on February 1996 to great critical acclaim. Featuring the 300 voice Mennonite Oratorio Choir, Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra and international soloists, James Manishen (Winnipeg Free Press) said.."a masterful oratorio... Davies has always had a gift for the good tune.. genuinely heartfelt .... gospel touches...aptly placed and effective...Revelation is a celebration of life, faith and music". The second performance climaxing the 1997 Ottawa Choral Festival was equally acclaimed, as was the third performance May 2000 with the Hamilton Philharmonic. Hugh Fraser (Hamilton Spectator) said " I have little doubt Davies Revelation is a masterpiece. It is gloriously tuneful and has all the aleatory chaos, harsh brassy dissonances and driving percussive rhythms, used in stunningly effective emotional context...". The premiere was filmed as a CBC TV special Adrienne Clarkson Presents and is now shown extensively on Bravo. His choral commission Lifting The Sky, based on a traditional Salish legend with original poetry by American poet Carolyn Maddux, for the North American Welsh Choir will premiere in the USA May 2001, and in Britain July 2002. Works in progress include commissions for Shades Of Gray for Gary Gray, principle clarinet of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, and a Jazz Piano Concerto for conductor /pianist Bramwell Tovey for his Winnipeg Farewell Gala, May 2001. Davies has also recently finished the score for a musical of A Tale of Two Cities.
Show More
No upcoming shows
Send a request to Victor Davies to play in your city
Request a Show
Similar Artists On Tour
About Victor Davies
Victor Davies is a musician who has crossed many musical boundaries, from ragtime pianist, to composer whose music has been recorded by the London Symphony Orchestra.
Born in Winnipeg Canada, he studied at the University of Manitoba, and Indiana University graduating with a Bachelor of Music in Composition, and has studied conducting with Pierre Boulez in Switzerland.
Returning to Winnipeg, Davies began his career as a freelance composer, pianist and conductor, working with Winnipeg's major artistic organizations. His children's musicals, The Magic Trumpet and Reginald The Robot were both premiered at the Manitoba Theatre Centre; Winnipeg's Contemporary Dancers commissioned The Colour Of The Times and Anerca; the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra commissioned Celebrations, A Short Symphony and From Harmony. He composed and performed live and on television with his own "3rd stream" jazz ensemble.
Commissioned to write the first major score for planetarium, The Beginning and End of the World, was recorded by conductor Skitch Henderson. On commission from the Fast Foundation, Davies composed The Mennonite Piano Concerto. Recorded with pianist Irmgard Baerg and the London Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Boris Brott, Barry Edwards (Music Magazine) wrote that the work exhibits "exuberant high spirits...popularity through its easy accessibility, and its wide range of musical styles"; Chester Duncan (Arts Manitoba) wrote: "..there are many moving and delightful things throughout". This work (coupled with Good Times:Suite for Orchestra, also with the London Symphony Orchestra, both available on CD), has become Davies' best known composition, and has been performed live in the US, Canada, Europe and China, broadcast many times on National and American Public Radio, the CBC, and the BBC and was #8 in sales on Classic FM the largest classical music broadcaster in Britain in 1995. Following the success of this CD The Music Of Victor Davies was released in Britain, Europe, North America and Japan on the Campion label. His other recordings feature Festival Players Canada performing Silhouettes (Piano Trio No. 1), Yukon Scenes (for Flute and Piano) and Fun For Four (String Quartet No.1)
In addition to his children's musicals for stage and television, he has written music and lyrics for over 290 episodes of the CTV children's series Let's Go! and The Rockets. For the CBC, The National Film Board and independent producers, he has written dramatic and documentaries scores in a variety of styles, for radio, film and television.
Other major theatre works and film scores include: a rock opera Beowulf recorded and staged in New York; Seize the Fire, based on William Blake's writing; Especially Babe, a musical for Toronto's Young Peoples Theatre in the Toronto Theatre Festival; The Musical Circus, a commission by Sound Stage Canada, toured Eastern Europe including the Zagreb Biennial; The Big Top commissioned by the Royal Winnipeg Ballet, with over 50 performances, was a CBC TV special shown around the world; the theme song A Little Like Magic for the Famous People Player's Broadway show and American tour; scores for the internationally award winning film, The Last Winter (Fox video); The Nutcracker Prince (Warner Bros.) recorded by the London Symphony and seen world wide, and For The Moment (20th Century Fox) recorded in Prague with musicians of the Czech Philharmonic.
In addition to composing, Victor Davies has conducted his and others music and has been the conductor of his own film and television scores. He spent two years as a musical director of CBC-TV's Ninety Minutes Live working with and writing for opera, jazz, pop, rock, folk and country artists.
Davies' music, aimed at a wide audience is melodic and brilliantly orchestrated and though he looks to popular idioms as a source of inspiration, his style is eclectic. The use of these popular idioms in his Pulsations (Concerto for Electric Violin), the string quartet Fun For Four (both on the Campion label with Erich Kunzel conducting the London Symphony Orchestra), Let's Talk (commissioned for the Grammy award winning Boss Brass and the CJRT Orchestra) is often contrasted with more avant guard styles as in his ballet Anerca, the last movement of Celebrations and his film score for The Pit.
Other recent commissions include: Continents for Chamber Music Victoria for the Commonwealth Games; Art Deco Fantasy for cello and piano premiered by Ofra Harnoy; Dream Variations for the Vancouver Youth Symphony Orchestra; a musical for children, Pirates! for the Charlottetown Festival, and Concerto For Car Horns and Orchestra for the WSO 50th anniversary celebrations. In 1999 he was musical director, composer, and producer of the Opening and Closing Ceremonies Music for the XIII Pan American Games, now available on CD. The premiere of his Jazz Concerto For Organ And Orchestra by Wayne Marshall (1998 BBC Musician of the Year) for The Calgary International Organ Festival in May 2000 was heard on CBC and American Public Radio.
Revelation, a full length oratorio based on the Book of Revelation, premiered on February 1996 to great critical acclaim. Featuring the 300 voice Mennonite Oratorio Choir, Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra and international soloists, James Manishen (Winnipeg Free Press) said.."a masterful oratorio... Davies has always had a gift for the good tune.. genuinely heartfelt .... gospel touches...aptly placed and effective...Revelation is a celebration of life, faith and music". The second performance climaxing the 1997 Ottawa Choral Festival was equally acclaimed, as was the third performance May 2000 with the Hamilton Philharmonic. Hugh Fraser (Hamilton Spectator) said " I have little doubt Davies Revelation is a masterpiece. It is gloriously tuneful and has all the aleatory chaos, harsh brassy dissonances and driving percussive rhythms, used in stunningly effective emotional context...". The premiere was filmed as a CBC TV special Adrienne Clarkson Presents and is now shown extensively on Bravo. His choral commission Lifting The Sky, based on a traditional Salish legend with original poetry by American poet Carolyn Maddux, for the North American Welsh Choir will premiere in the USA May 2001, and in Britain July 2002. Works in progress include commissions for Shades Of Gray for Gary Gray, principle clarinet of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, and a Jazz Piano Concerto for conductor /pianist Bramwell Tovey for his Winnipeg Farewell Gala, May 2001. Davies has also recently finished the score for a musical of A Tale of Two Cities.
Born in Winnipeg Canada, he studied at the University of Manitoba, and Indiana University graduating with a Bachelor of Music in Composition, and has studied conducting with Pierre Boulez in Switzerland.
Returning to Winnipeg, Davies began his career as a freelance composer, pianist and conductor, working with Winnipeg's major artistic organizations. His children's musicals, The Magic Trumpet and Reginald The Robot were both premiered at the Manitoba Theatre Centre; Winnipeg's Contemporary Dancers commissioned The Colour Of The Times and Anerca; the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra commissioned Celebrations, A Short Symphony and From Harmony. He composed and performed live and on television with his own "3rd stream" jazz ensemble.
Commissioned to write the first major score for planetarium, The Beginning and End of the World, was recorded by conductor Skitch Henderson. On commission from the Fast Foundation, Davies composed The Mennonite Piano Concerto. Recorded with pianist Irmgard Baerg and the London Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Boris Brott, Barry Edwards (Music Magazine) wrote that the work exhibits "exuberant high spirits...popularity through its easy accessibility, and its wide range of musical styles"; Chester Duncan (Arts Manitoba) wrote: "..there are many moving and delightful things throughout". This work (coupled with Good Times:Suite for Orchestra, also with the London Symphony Orchestra, both available on CD), has become Davies' best known composition, and has been performed live in the US, Canada, Europe and China, broadcast many times on National and American Public Radio, the CBC, and the BBC and was #8 in sales on Classic FM the largest classical music broadcaster in Britain in 1995. Following the success of this CD The Music Of Victor Davies was released in Britain, Europe, North America and Japan on the Campion label. His other recordings feature Festival Players Canada performing Silhouettes (Piano Trio No. 1), Yukon Scenes (for Flute and Piano) and Fun For Four (String Quartet No.1)
In addition to his children's musicals for stage and television, he has written music and lyrics for over 290 episodes of the CTV children's series Let's Go! and The Rockets. For the CBC, The National Film Board and independent producers, he has written dramatic and documentaries scores in a variety of styles, for radio, film and television.
Other major theatre works and film scores include: a rock opera Beowulf recorded and staged in New York; Seize the Fire, based on William Blake's writing; Especially Babe, a musical for Toronto's Young Peoples Theatre in the Toronto Theatre Festival; The Musical Circus, a commission by Sound Stage Canada, toured Eastern Europe including the Zagreb Biennial; The Big Top commissioned by the Royal Winnipeg Ballet, with over 50 performances, was a CBC TV special shown around the world; the theme song A Little Like Magic for the Famous People Player's Broadway show and American tour; scores for the internationally award winning film, The Last Winter (Fox video); The Nutcracker Prince (Warner Bros.) recorded by the London Symphony and seen world wide, and For The Moment (20th Century Fox) recorded in Prague with musicians of the Czech Philharmonic.
In addition to composing, Victor Davies has conducted his and others music and has been the conductor of his own film and television scores. He spent two years as a musical director of CBC-TV's Ninety Minutes Live working with and writing for opera, jazz, pop, rock, folk and country artists.
Davies' music, aimed at a wide audience is melodic and brilliantly orchestrated and though he looks to popular idioms as a source of inspiration, his style is eclectic. The use of these popular idioms in his Pulsations (Concerto for Electric Violin), the string quartet Fun For Four (both on the Campion label with Erich Kunzel conducting the London Symphony Orchestra), Let's Talk (commissioned for the Grammy award winning Boss Brass and the CJRT Orchestra) is often contrasted with more avant guard styles as in his ballet Anerca, the last movement of Celebrations and his film score for The Pit.
Other recent commissions include: Continents for Chamber Music Victoria for the Commonwealth Games; Art Deco Fantasy for cello and piano premiered by Ofra Harnoy; Dream Variations for the Vancouver Youth Symphony Orchestra; a musical for children, Pirates! for the Charlottetown Festival, and Concerto For Car Horns and Orchestra for the WSO 50th anniversary celebrations. In 1999 he was musical director, composer, and producer of the Opening and Closing Ceremonies Music for the XIII Pan American Games, now available on CD. The premiere of his Jazz Concerto For Organ And Orchestra by Wayne Marshall (1998 BBC Musician of the Year) for The Calgary International Organ Festival in May 2000 was heard on CBC and American Public Radio.
Revelation, a full length oratorio based on the Book of Revelation, premiered on February 1996 to great critical acclaim. Featuring the 300 voice Mennonite Oratorio Choir, Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra and international soloists, James Manishen (Winnipeg Free Press) said.."a masterful oratorio... Davies has always had a gift for the good tune.. genuinely heartfelt .... gospel touches...aptly placed and effective...Revelation is a celebration of life, faith and music". The second performance climaxing the 1997 Ottawa Choral Festival was equally acclaimed, as was the third performance May 2000 with the Hamilton Philharmonic. Hugh Fraser (Hamilton Spectator) said " I have little doubt Davies Revelation is a masterpiece. It is gloriously tuneful and has all the aleatory chaos, harsh brassy dissonances and driving percussive rhythms, used in stunningly effective emotional context...". The premiere was filmed as a CBC TV special Adrienne Clarkson Presents and is now shown extensively on Bravo. His choral commission Lifting The Sky, based on a traditional Salish legend with original poetry by American poet Carolyn Maddux, for the North American Welsh Choir will premiere in the USA May 2001, and in Britain July 2002. Works in progress include commissions for Shades Of Gray for Gary Gray, principle clarinet of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, and a Jazz Piano Concerto for conductor /pianist Bramwell Tovey for his Winnipeg Farewell Gala, May 2001. Davies has also recently finished the score for a musical of A Tale of Two Cities.
Show More
Get the full experience with the Bandsintown app.
