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Kevin Volans (06 Jul 1949 - )

Male Person - South Africa composer

Releases (2)

Official

Album

  1. Cicada

Single

  1. Lenguas de Fuego 02 Jun 2021

Relationships (2)

Students

  1. Andrew Francis Hamilton
  2. Matteo Fargion

Recordings by (14)

  1. White Man Sleeps for String Quartet - 1st Movement 4:40 (1994)
  2. White Man Sleeps for String Quartet - 2nd Movement 5:33 (1994)
  3. White Man Sleeps for String Quartet - 3rd Movement 3:50 (1994)
  4. White Man Sleeps for String Quartet - 4th Movement 7:00 (1994)
  5. White Man Sleeps for String Quartet - 5th Movement 2:42 (1994)
  6. Mbira 10:47 (1994)
  7. She Who Sleeps With A Small Blanket 14:54 (1994)
  8. White Man Sleeps - First Dance 4:07 (1994)
  9. White Man Sleeps - Second Dance 3:22 (1994)
  10. White Man Sleeps - Third Dance 6:01 (1994)
  11. White Man Sleeps - Fourth Dance 3:50 (1994)
  12. White Man Sleeps - Fifth Dance 4:47 (1994)
  13. Things That Gain 5:40 (15 Aug 2000)
  14. Lenguas de Fuego 26:46 (02 Jun 2021)

On Recordings (23)

Instruments

  1. Mbira 10:46 Deborah James, Robyn Schulkowsky, Kevin Volans, Kevin Volans Ensemble (1991) harpsichord
  2. Untitled (In memoriam G.H.V.) 13:45 Nederlands Blazers Ensemble, Wim Steinmann, Kevin Volans (21 Oct 1997) piano
  3. Five Chorales: I 4:10 Gerald Barry, Kevin Volans (15 Aug 2000) piano
  4. Five Chorales: IV 3:32 Gerald Barry, Kevin Volans (15 Aug 2000) piano
  5. Ø for Two Pianos 6:46 Gerald Barry, Kevin Volans (15 Aug 2000) piano
  6. Five Chorales: II 2:39 Gerald Barry, Kevin Volans (15 Aug 2000) piano
  7. Five Chorales: III 2:32 Gerald Barry, Kevin Volans (15 Aug 2000) piano
  8. Things That Gain 5:40 Kevin Volans (15 Aug 2000) piano
  9. Five Chorales: V 0:57 Gerald Barry, Kevin Volans (15 Aug 2000) piano
  10. Duets: B4 2:26 Matteo Fargion, Kevin Volans () piano
  11. Duets: C1 3:10 Matteo Fargion, Kevin Volans () piano
  12. Duets: B3 3:16 Matteo Fargion, Kevin Volans () piano
  13. Duets: B6 2:30 Matteo Fargion, Kevin Volans () piano
  14. Duets: B2 1:48 Matteo Fargion, Kevin Volans () piano
  15. Duets: B8 1:01 Matteo Fargion, Kevin Volans () piano
  16. Duets: C3 2:12 Matteo Fargion, Kevin Volans () piano
  17. Duets: B5 1:14 Matteo Fargion, Kevin Volans () piano
  18. Duets: A 9:43 Matteo Fargion, Kevin Volans () piano
  19. Duets: D 9:19 Matteo Fargion, Kevin Volans () piano
  20. Duets: C4 1:25 Matteo Fargion, Kevin Volans () piano
  21. Duets: B7 1:14 Matteo Fargion, Kevin Volans () piano
  22. Duets: B1 1:48 Matteo Fargion, Kevin Volans () piano
  23. Duets: C2 3:45 Matteo Fargion, Kevin Volans () piano

Credited as (12)

  1. Kevin Volans
  2. Kevin Volans; The Duke Quartet
  3. Nederlands Blazers Ensemble, Wim Steinmann, Kevin Volans
  4. Gerald Barry, Kevin Volans
  5. Kevin Volans; Kronos Quartet
  6. Kevin Volans; Bălănescu Quartet
  7. Matteo Fargion, Kevin Volans
  8. Deborah James, Robyn Schulkowsky, Kevin Volans, Kevin Volans Ensemble
  9. Kevin Volans, David Lang, Steve Reich, Robert Moran; Piano Circus
  10. Volans; Netherlands Wind Ensemble, Peter Donohoe, Kevin Volans, Daniel Harding, Wim Steinmann
  11. Kevin Volans & The Smith Quartet

Works (41)

Revised

  1. String Quartet no. 3 "The Songlines" (1993)
  2. String Quartet no. 3 "The Songlines": I. Striding Dance (1993)
  3. String Quartet no. 3 "The Songlines": II. Songline (1993)
  4. String Quartet no. 3 "The Songlines": III. Standing Dance (1993)
  5. Strip-Weave (2003)

Composed

  1. String Quartet no. 1 "White Man Sleeps": I (1982)
  2. String Quartet no. 1 "White Man Sleeps": II (1982)
  3. String Quartet no. 1 "White Man Sleeps": III (1982)
  4. String Quartet no. 1 "White Man Sleeps": IV (1982)
  5. String Quartet no. 1 "White Man Sleeps": V (1982)
  6. String Quartet no. 1 "White Man Sleeps" (1982)
  7. String Quartet no. 2 "Hunting: Gathering" (1987)
  8. String Quartet no. 2 "Hunting: Gathering": II (1987)
  9. String Quartet no. 2 "Hunting: Gathering": III (1987)
  10. String Quartet no. 2 "Hunting: Gathering": I (1987)
  11. String Quartet no. 3 "The Songlines" (1988)
  12. String Quartet no. 3 "The Songlines": I. Striding Dance (1988)
  13. String Quartet no. 3 "The Songlines": II. Songline (1988)
  14. String Quartet no. 3 "The Songlines": III. Standing Dance (1988)
  15. Cicada (1994)
  16. Duets (1995)
  17. String Quartet no. 6 (2000)
  18. Strip-Weave (2002)
  19. Four Guitars (2003)
  20. Piano Concerto no. 3 (2011)
  21. The Mountain That Left (2014)
  22. First Dance from "White Man Sleeps"
  23. String Quartet no. 4 "The Ramanujan Notebooks": II.
  24. String Quartet no. 4 "The Ramanujan Notebooks": I.
  25. String Quartet no. 4 "The Ramanujan Notebooks"
  26. String Quartet no. 5 "Dancers on a Plane"
  27. Movement for String Quartet "Notes d’un peintre"
  28. Mbira
  29. Kneeling Dance
  30. Concerto for Piano and Wind Instruments
  31. Canciones del Alma
  32. Lenguas de Fuego
  33. This Is How It Is
  34. Walking Song
  35. Leaping Dance
  36. Untitled (In memoriam G.H.V.)

Links (9)

Official Homepages

  1. http://www.kevinvolans.com/

Other Databases

  1. https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb13950387w
  2. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n89622761
  3. https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n89622761

Songkick

  1. https://www.songkick.com/artists/188051

Discogs

  1. https://www.discogs.com/artist/585365

Allmusic

  1. https://www.allmusic.com/artist/mn0001207381

VIAF ID

  1. http://viaf.org/viaf/12497088

Wikidata

  1. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2379963