Clare Loveday


Clare Loveday is a South African contemporary classical music composer.
She studied at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, and has worked as a professional pianist, a composer for the South African advertising industry, and co-ordinator for the National Research Foundation's Travelling Institute for Music Research. Loveday has also worked as a lecturer in music theory and composition at the University of the Witwatersrand. She was composer in residence at the 2014 Johannesburg International Mozart Festival.

Biography

After having graduated from University of the Witwatersrand with a bachelor's degree in Music, Loveday landed a career for a few advertising companies, two of which are Standard Bank and South African Broadcasting Corporation. She returned to school in the late 1990s, and became a part-time lecturer. Once she achieved her master's degree in Music Composition, she started to collaborate with other artists and compose her own music and is most known for her saxophone pieces.
Clare Loveday then became a full-time lecturer at Wits University, while working towards her doctorate in Music Composition. She has been commissioned by several organisations like "The South African Music Rights Organization" and many more. Although Loveday has worked her talents towards music composition, she has turned her career into a broader spectrum of music, including collaborations, research and teaching.

Orchestral works

  • Blink for two saxophones and chamber orchestra
  • Duodectet for saxophone orchestra
  • Concerto for alto saxophone and chamber orchestra
  • Three portraits of intimacy: a concerto for piano and chamber orchestra

    Chamber music

  • Wind-Play for soprano saxophone and piano
  • Palimpsest for alto saxophone and organ
  • Three-Piece Suite for clarinet quintet
  • Breath for alto saxophone and piano
  • Displacement for alto saxophone and piano
  • 3 Excursions for saxophone quartet
  • Untitled for saxophone quartet
  • Charlie for clarinet, violin and cello
  • Duodectet for Octet for eight saxophones
  • Judgement Call for soprano and tenor saxophones
  • Just So for B-flat clarinet and piano
  • Just a Bite for alto saxophone and piano
  • Paso Doble for saxophone ensemble and trumpet
  • Hoar Frost for marimba and vibraphone
  • Ribbons for oboe, viola and bass clarinet
  • Fever Tree for flute, oboe, clarinet, marimba, piano, violin, viola and cello
  • Eight Plus One for flute, B-flat clarinet, trumpet in C, trombone, piano, violin, viola and cello
  • 48 km North-West of Kokstad for alto saxophone and guitar

    Solo instrumental

  • Red Herring for alto saxophone
  • Arc for baritone saxophone
  • Floating Underwater series for solo soprano birbynė
  • It, renamed Johannesburg Prelude 1, for solo piano
  • Star-rise for solo flute
  • South View for loboe
  • Cycles, performance and installation for solo violin and hanging installation

    Vocal

  • Dream for soprano and piano
  • Pure for soprano, piano and clarinet
  • So Vast for soprano and plucked piano strings
  • Empty for soprano and piano
  • Scattering Ashes for 7-part vocal group, soprano saxophone and marimba
  • Noupoort for choir and marimba

    Dramatic works

  • The Collision Project Art installation/theatre work/concert piece for car wreck and attached string parts