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Sally Beamish was born on 26 August, 1956 in London, England, is a British composer and violist. Discover Sally Beamish's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 67 years old?

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Occupation Composer
Age 67 years old
Zodiac Sign Virgo
Born 26 August 1956
Birthday 26 August
Birthplace London, England
Nationality United Kingdom

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1956

Sarah Frances Beamish (born 26 August 1956) is a British composer and violist.

Her works include chamber, vocal, choral and orchestral music.

She has also worked in the field of music, theatre, film and television, as well as composing for children and for her local community.

Sarah Frances Beamish was born on 26 August 1956 in London, to William Anthony Alten Beamish and Ursula Mary Beamish (née Snow).

She attended the Camden School for Girls and the National Youth Orchestra.

She studied viola at the Royal Northern College of Music, where she received composition lessons from Anthony Gilbert and Lennox Berkeley.

She later studied in Germany at the Hochschule für Musik Detmold, with the Italian violist Bruno Giuranna.

As a violist in the Raphael Ensemble, she recorded four discs of string sextets.

However, it was as a composer that she made her mark, particularly after moving from London to Scotland.

She has written a large amount of music for orchestra, including two symphonies and several concertos (for violin, viola, cello, oboe, saxophone, saxophone quartet, trumpet, percussion, flute and accordion).

She has also written chamber and instrumental music, film scores, theatre music, and music for amateurs.

1988

In 1988, she married Robert Irvine and they had two sons and a daughter.

1993

In September 1993, Beamish received the Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award for outstanding achievement in composition.

1994

In 1994 and 1995 she co-hosted the Scottish Chamber Orchestra (SCO) composers' course in Hoy with Sir Peter Maxwell Davies.

1998

From 1998 to 2002, she was composer in residence with the Swedish Chamber Orchestra and the SCO, for whom she wrote four major works.

2001

Beamish won a 'Creative Scotland' Award from the Scottish Arts Council which enabled her to write her oratorio for the 2001 BBC Proms – the Knotgrass Elegy premiered by the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus with Sir Andrew Davis.

2008

They separated in 2008.

2010

In December 2010, it was announced that Beamish had been selected as one of twenty composers to participate in the New Music 20x12 project as part of the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad.

2012

Other works include three viola concerti, five string quartets, two percussion concerti (the second of which was written for Colin Currie with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Stanford Lively Arts and the Bergen Symphony Orchestra and premiered in 2012), and works for traditional instruments, including a concerto for clàrsach and fiddle concerto premiered by Catriona Mackay and Chris Stout in 2012.

Beamish will compose a new work for the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment to be premiered in 2012.

She has a series of recordings on the BIS label.

In 2012, and again in 2015, she was featured as BBC Radio 3's Composer of the Week. In March 2016, Beamish was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Scotland's National Academy for science and the arts.

2017

In December 2017, Northern Ballet premiered The Little Mermaid, a full-length ballet with her orchestral score.

2018

Beamish was presented with the 'Award for Inspiration' at the 2018 British Composer Awards.

She has lived in Brighton, UK since 2018.

She is a Quaker.

2019

In 2019, she married Peter Thomson.

2020

Beamish was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2020 Birthday Honours for services to music.

In 2020, Beamish composed April for Sound World’s Coronavirus Fund for Freelance Musicians, a project supporting struggling musicians during the UK's COVID-19 lockdown.

Written in memory of Ellis Marsalis Jr.

who had died from Covid near the beginning of the pandemic, it was included on the album Reflections alongside specially written pieces by other composers such as Gavin Bryars, Mark-Anthony Turnage, Evelyn Glennie and Nico Muhly.

Her Nine Fragments – String Quartet No. 4 is the set repertoire for the Wigmore Hall International String Quartet Competition 2022.