Ric Graebner is a British musician. His compositions are internationally broadcast and performed by ensembles such as Lontano, Arditti Quartet and Quatuor Elysée, and have attracted sponsorship from the Arts Council of Great Britain, IBM, TVS and private patrons. Apart from featuring in his own and other contemporary premières, mainly as pianist or conductor, occasionally other keyboards, percussion, technician and D.S.M., he directs professional ensembles and various orchestras and choirs in works ranging from the Webern Concerto Op.24 to Gluck's Iphigénie en Aulide (complete concert performance -1991). He now composes full time and runs his own electronic studio.

Academic career

Graebner went to school at The Priory Grammar School for Boys, Shrewsbury and went on to study music at the Universities of Cambridge and York. He then lectured at the Southampton University, England and William Paterson University, New Jersey.

Principal Works

• Aspects of 3 tetrachords for tape, realised at Princeton University studio(1973). perf. Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, 1976.
• Thalia for 2 pianos (1975). perf. Southampton, 1975, 1977, Bowman/Graebner; Guildhall, London, 1979, Dawson-Lyell/Lester
• String quartet 1 (1977). perf. 1979, Arditti; 1979, 1980 Guadagnini, Southampton, Hatfield, London. B.B.C. 1979.
• Quintet (fl/cl/vn/va/vcl) (1981) commissioned by Lontano, perf. Southampton 1981, Lontano/Martinez.
• Four movements for piano and baritone (1983). perf. Keele Anglo-American Conference, Keele 1983, Herford/Bowman. 1st perf. of revised work, Southampton, 1992, Herford/Bowman.
• Bérénice multimedia drama for soprano, 3 dancers and tape and projected images (1990-1). perf. Southampton,1993, Nunns, Banks, Knight, Xavier. Choreography - Anna Carlisle, images - Larry Wakefield. Amsterdam Concertzender broadcast "220 volt".
• Venus in Landscape for CD and images (1995); images - Wakefield. perf. Paris, Southampton 1996, Aberdeen, 1997. Amsterdam Concertzender broadcast "220 volt" 1996, B.B.C.,2002. CD - Metier,1998.
• Resurge for tape (1997); images- Roger Pinnington, poetry - Argyros Ioannis. perf. Southampton, 1997. Broadcast Amsterdam Concertzender "220 volt", 1997. CD - Metier 1998.
• Conversation with Clarinet (1999) for clarinet and CD. perf. Chichester 2000, Romano; Brighton 2003, Dummer.
• String quartet 3 (1984). perf. Southampton, London 1987, Auriol; Lewes, 2006, Shellira; Paris. Noisy-le-sec, 2009, Quatuor Elysée.
• Sinfonietta concertante (2010) for viola/violin, flute and chamber orchestra. perf.Lewes 2013, Blackshaw, Hodgson and Musicians of All Saints, cond. Dummer.
• Symphony #3 (2017) keyboard/1perc/strings. perf. Lewes 2019 Musicians of All Saints, cond. Sherwood
• Oboe Concerto No.3 + string orchestra (2019) Dur. 24' perf. Lewes 2023 Worth, Musicians of All Saints, cond. Sherwood.

Distinctions and awards

• Visiting Fellow, Princeton University, New Jersey (1973, 1981, 1983).
• Fulbright-Hayes Fellowship(1973).
• Dio Award (1978 - for the composition Thalia , following its SPNM performance).
• Fellow of the Salzburg Seminar for American Studies (1976).

Publications

Articles

• "An analysis of Schönberg's Klavierstück , Op33a", Perspectives of New Music, 1973-74, 12/1-2, pp.128-140. (ISSN 0031-6016)
• "What's so special about the Relative Major, Papa Haydn?", In Theory Only, 1978, Vol.4 No.5, pp.3-17 (ISSN 0360-4365)
• "Music Psychology", Music Analysis, 1987, 6:1-2, pp.179-192 (ISSN 0263-5245)
• "A Composer's View of Music Technology", Proceedings of the Institute of Acoustics, 11/7 1989, pp.339-343 (ISBN 0 946731 90 X)
• "From Sketch to SCORE", Musicus, 1989, 1/i, pp.39-56 (ISSN 0958-0999)

Reviews

• "Psychology of Performance", Music and Letters, 1989, 70/2 pp.242-245 (ISSN 0027-4224)
• J. Lester "Analytic Approaches to Twentieth century Music", RMA Journal, Vol.115 Pt.2 Autumn 1990, pp.275-8.
• M.V. Mathews and J.R. Pierce "Current Directions in Computer Music Research", Journal of Sound and Vibration, 141(3) 25 September 1990.
• F.J. Smith(ed.) "Understanding the Musical Experience", Music and Letters, 72/4, pp.637-639,
• D. Burrows "Sound, Speech and Music", Music and Letters, 73/1, pp.86-88.

Editions

• "Les francs-juges" and "La nonne sanglante", H. Berlioz. Vol.4, New Berlioz Edition, 1969 -, co-edited with Paul Banks, 2003.

Discography

• Ric Graebner "Venus in Landscape", Metier MSV CD92019. Contents: Venus in Landscape, Fulminar, Resurge and Divertimento of the Statues .