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{{other people|Larry Crane}}
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'''Laurence Crane''' (born 1961 in [[Oxford]]) is a British composer of contemporary classical music.
== Career ==
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He has written a considerable amount of [[piano]] music. Pianists who have performed his work include [[Michael Finnissy]], [[Thalia Myers]] and [[John Tilbury]].
His piece ''Octet'' was shortlisted for the 2009 [[Royal Philharmonic Society Music Awards]] in the Chamber-Scale Composition category, along with works by [[Harrison Birtwistle]] and [[Karlheinz Stockhausen]]. In 2017, he won the Paul Hamlyn Foundation Awards for Artists 2017.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.gsmd.ac.uk/support_the_school/news/view/article/laurence_crane_receives_paul_hamlyn_foundation_awards_for_artists_2017/|title=Laurence Crane receives Paul Hamlyn Foundation Awards for Artists 2017|website=www.gsmd.ac.uk|language=en|access-date=2017-12-23}}</ref> In the same year, his piece ''Omloop Het Ives'' for bass flute and string quartet was nominated for the [[British Composer Awards]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://whatsnew.composersedition.com/british-composer-award-nomination-for-laurence-crane/|title=British Composer Award Nomination for Laurence Crane|last=Edition|first=Composers|date=2017-11-02|work=Composers Edition News|access-date=2017-12-23|language=en-GB}}</ref>
In 2021, [[Juliet Fraser]], in association with [[Oxford Lieder Festival]] and Musica Sacra Maastricht, commissioned Crane to write a new piece that responds to the work of marine biologist [[Rachel Carson]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.julietfraser.co.uk/repertoire/special-projects/the-carson-commissions-2021-23/ |title=The Carson Commissions (2021-23)|website=Juliet Fraser, soprano |access-date=December 4, 2022}}</ref> The commission, ''Natural World'' for soprano and piano/sampler keyboard, won the Small Chamber Ivor Novello Award in 2022. Commenting on the piece, the jury added that "the composer has carefully chosen every note resulting in a beautifully placed and slowly evolving piece that is contemplative without losing momentum
He is currently Professor of Composition at the [[Guildhall School of Music and Drama]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.gsmd.ac.uk/music/staff/teaching_staff/department/8-department-of-composition/|title=Guildhall School of Music & Drama {{!}} Department of Composition|website=www.gsmd.ac.uk|language=en|access-date=2017-12-23}}</ref>
== Compositional style ==
A 1995 ''Gramophone'' review described Crane's music as "as minimal as you can get, and irresistibly droll".<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.gramophone.co.uk/review/songs-from-the-exotic/ |title=Songs from the Exotic|website=Gramophone |access-date=December 4, 2022}}</ref>
In the program for a concert in Oslo, Norway in April 2013, Crane writes that "I use simple and basic musical objects; common chords and intervals, arpeggios, drones, cadences, fragments of scales and melodies. The materials may seem familiar - perhaps even rather ordinary - but my aim is to find a fresh beauty in these objects by placing them in new structural and formal contexts..."<ref>{{cite news|last=Bidrobon|first=Bidrobon|title=Concert program|url=http://www.bidrobon.no|accessdate=3 April 2013|date=3 April 2013}}</ref>
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His brother is the philosopher [[Tim Crane]].
== Notable
* John White in Berlin
* 20th Century Music
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[[Category:20th-century classical composers]]
[[Category:21st-century classical composers]]
[[Category:Alumni of the University of Nottingham]]
[[Category:English classical composers]]
[[Category:English male classical composers]]
[[Category:Musicians from Oxford]]
[[Category:20th-century English composers]]
[[Category:21st-century English composers]]
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