Derek Watson

is a composer, pianist, lecturer and writer on music. He studied composition with Alan Bush at the Royal Academy of Music in London and now lives in the Scottish Borders. His books include Richard Wagner: A Biography and the volumes on Bruckner and Liszt in the Master Musicians Series. Derek gives lectures on opera and has broadcast frequently for the BBC, and contributed articles to the New Grove, the new MGG, the Oxford Companion to Music, and several musical and academic periodicals. As an actor, using the stage name Derwent Watson, he has appeared in nearly sixty productions with the Glasgow Citizens Theatre Company; he has also appeared in London’s West End with several of the leading theatre companies, and on BBC TV & Radio.

 

Thursday 13 September 2007 at 5pm

Lecture:

‘Hans von Bülow and Glasgow’

Venue: Alexander Gibson Opera School, RSAMD