Graham Waterhouse
violoncello
www.grahamwaterhouse.com/
Graham Waterhouse, composer and cellist, was born in London in 1962 into a musical family and has lived near Munich since 1992.
He attended Highgate School in London and studied composition with Hugh Wood and Robin Holloway at Cambridge University, cello with Young-Chang Cho at the Folkwang Hochschule in Essen, as well as with Siegfried Palm, to whom he dedicated his 'Three Pieces for Solo Cello'.
He has performed contemporary music with Ensemble Modern under Pierre Boulez, MusikFabrik NRW, Philharmonia Orchestra London and Schleswig-Holstein Festival Orchestra under Sergiu Celibidache. As composer as well as cellist, he feels most drawn to chamber music and has founded several ensembles. Since 2002 he has organized regular chamber concerts at the Gasteig in Munich, in which contemporary music is performed alongside the classical literature.
His main works are a cello concerto, three cantatas, a string sextet, four string quartets, music for solo instruments, and song-cycles. His compositions have won prizes at competitions of the Munich Tonkünstlerverband and the Via Nova in Weimar. In 2011 his string quartet 'Chinese Whispers' was awarded the BCMS Composition Prize of the Birmingham Chamber Music Society.
In 2018 he was awarded a PhD from Birmingham City University. His works have been published by Schott Music since 2019.
He considers composing and instrumental playing to be mutually beneficial and draws inspiration for his works from the creative processes of rehearsing and performing.
He attended Highgate School in London and studied composition with Hugh Wood and Robin Holloway at Cambridge University, cello with Young-Chang Cho at the Folkwang Hochschule in Essen, as well as with Siegfried Palm, to whom he dedicated his 'Three Pieces for Solo Cello'.
He has performed contemporary music with Ensemble Modern under Pierre Boulez, MusikFabrik NRW, Philharmonia Orchestra London and Schleswig-Holstein Festival Orchestra under Sergiu Celibidache. As composer as well as cellist, he feels most drawn to chamber music and has founded several ensembles. Since 2002 he has organized regular chamber concerts at the Gasteig in Munich, in which contemporary music is performed alongside the classical literature.
His main works are a cello concerto, three cantatas, a string sextet, four string quartets, music for solo instruments, and song-cycles. His compositions have won prizes at competitions of the Munich Tonkünstlerverband and the Via Nova in Weimar. In 2011 his string quartet 'Chinese Whispers' was awarded the BCMS Composition Prize of the Birmingham Chamber Music Society.
In 2018 he was awarded a PhD from Birmingham City University. His works have been published by Schott Music since 2019.
He considers composing and instrumental playing to be mutually beneficial and draws inspiration for his works from the creative processes of rehearsing and performing.
