Vivienne Olive
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Vivienne Olive
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Vivienne Olive was born in London in 1950. At an early age, she received tuition in piano and music theory, going on to study harpsichord and organ at the Trinity College of Music in London. In 1968, she went to the University of York, where she received her B.A. in Music. She then specialised in composition, studying with Bernard Rands (York), Franco Donatoni (Milan), Roman Haubenstock-Ramati (Vienna) and Klaus Huber (Freiburg). In 1975, she was awarded a D.Phil. in Composition from the University of York. While in Freiburg, she also continued her harpsichord studies with Stansislav Heller.
She has received various prizes and awards, including the GEDOK Prize for Women Composers (Leni-Neuenschwander-Preis), Stuttgart Composition Prize ("Tomba di Bruno"), City of Hamlyn Prize for works for youth orchestra ("An English Suite"), Bach Academy Stuttgart (Stabat Mater), and, most recently, an honourable mention from Furore Verlag's Competition, "Emotion", for her wind quintet, "Les oiseaux fous".
Vivienne has lived in Germany since 1975. In 1979, she was appointed Lecturer in Music Theory and Composition at the Meistersingerkonservatorium (subsequently Hochschule für Musik) in Nuremberg. From 1993 to 1995, she spent two years in Australia, where she not only lectured at the James Cook University, North Queensland, but also initiated and and ran the the Contempofest Townsville 94. In 2004 she was Composer in Residence in Bundanon, New South Wales. In 2014, she received an Honorary Professorship from the Hochschule für Musik in Nuremberg, and in the same year, she founded and was joint artistic director of the Brixworth Music Festival in England.
Prometheus meets Purcell