{{short description|English composer (1934–2017)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox person | name = Jeremy Dale Roberts | image = | alt = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth date|1934|05|16|df=y}} | birth_place = Minchinhampton,<ref name="Telegraph1">{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s)/no by-line.--> |date=11 October 2017 |title=Jeremy Dale Roberts, composer – obituary |url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2017/10/11/jeremy-dale-roberts-composer-obituary/ |work=The Telegraph |location=London |access-date=2021-08-01}}</ref> Gloucestershire<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.uymp.co.uk/composers/jeremy-dale-roberts/ |title=Biography |author=<!--Not stated--> |date= |publisher=UYMP (University of York Music Press) |access-date=2021-08-01}}</ref> | death_date = {{Death date and age|2017|07|11|1934|05|16|df=y}} | death_place = | other_names = | education = Marlborough College<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.marlburianclub.org/2018/01/jeremy-dale-roberts-c1-1948-52/ |title=Obituary: Jeremy Dale Roberts (C1 1948–52) |last=Anderson |first=James |date=30 January 2018 |website=marlburianclub.org |publisher=The Marlburian Club |access-date=14 February 2023 |quote=}}</ref> | alma_mater = Royal Academy of Music | occupation = Composer, teacher, pianist | years_active = | known_for = | notable_works = ''Croquis'', ''Deathwatch'', ''In the Same Space'', ''Tristia'' }} '''Jeremy Dale Roberts''' (16 May 1934 – 11 July 2017)<ref name="soundslikenow.net">{{Cite web |url=https://www.soundslikenow.net/jeremy-dale-roberts-composer-dies |title="Jeremy Dale Roberts composer dies", Soundslikenow.net, accessed 19 August 2017 |access-date=19 August 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170820011729/https://www.soundslikenow.net/jeremy-dale-roberts-composer-dies/ |archive-date=20 August 2017 |url-status=dead }}</ref> was an English composer and teacher.<ref name="guardian.co.uk" /> After early contact with Ralph Vaughan Williams and Gerald Finzi,<ref name="guardian.co.uk">{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2004/may/28/classicalmusicandopera1|title=The God of small things|first=Richard|last=Causton|date=28 May 2004|accessdate=23 July 2020|website=Theguardian.com}}</ref> Dale Roberts studied with William Alwyn and Priaulx Rainier at the Royal Academy of Music, London.<ref>{{cite book |last=Hall |first=Michael |year=2015 |title=Music Theatre in Britain: 1960–1975 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QFHoCQAAQBAJ |location=United Kingdom |publisher=Boydell Press |page=178 |isbn=9781783270125 |lccn=2015563662 |quote=Jeremy Dale Roberts (b. 1934) studied composition at the Royal Academy of Music with William Alwyn and Priaulx Rainier...}}</ref> He retired as Head of Composition at the Royal College of Music, London in 1999, and was a Visiting Professor of Composition at the University of Iowa for the 1999–2000 academic year.<ref name="Telegraph1" /><ref>{{Cite web |date=3 June 2015 |title=Season 36, Concert 3 {{!}} Center for New Music – The University of Iowa |url=https://cnm.uiowa.edu/concerts/2015/06/season-36-concert-3 |access-date=2023-02-13 |website=cnm.uiowa.edu |language=en |quote=Jeremy Dale Roberts (1934– ), having retired from the Royal College of Music in 1999, was appointed Visiting Professor in Composition at the University of Iowa.}}</ref>
His compositions have been performed at the Edinburgh and Aldeburgh Festivals, the Venice Biennale, the Diorama de Geneve, and the festivals of Avignon and Paris.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Gompper |first=David |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZpEJAQAAMAAJ |title=School of Music Programs 1985–1986 |date=1985 |publisher=University of Michigan School of Music |language=en |lccn=57032059 |quote=Jeremy Dale Roberts (b. 1934)... His compositions are widely performed and broadcast in both England and Europe, and have been featured in several festivals (Edinburgh, Avignon, Paris, Venice Biennale).}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Yumpu.com |title=Jeremy Dale Roberts – UYMP |url=https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/read/29018752/jeremy-dale-roberts-uymp |access-date=2023-02-13 |website=yumpu.com |publisher=University of York Music Press |language=en |quote=His compositions have been performed worldwide at the Edinburgh and Aldeburgh Festivals, the Venice Biennale, the Diorama de Geneve, and the festivals of Avignon and Paris.}}</ref> They include * the cello concerto ''Deathwatch'', written for Rohan de Saram; * ''Tombeau'' for Stephen Kovacevich; * ''Croquis'' for string trio, written for members of the Arditti Quartet (BBC commission); * ''In the Same Space'', nine poems of Constantin Cavafy, written for Stephen Varcoe; * ''Lines of Life'', lyric episodes for ensemble, written for Lontano (BBC commission); * ''Casidas y Sonetos — del amor oscuro'', for solo guitar (Arts Council commission) for Charles Ramierez; * ''Hamadryad'' for alto flute, viola and guitar; * ''Stelae'', a work for gamelan; * ''Nightpiece'' for soprano and two bass viols; * ''Tristia'' for violin and piano, written for Peter Sheppard Skaerved and Aaron Shorr. * ''Wieglied'' (1999) for solo viola.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Matthew-Walker |first=Robert |date=September 2006 |title=Jeremy Dale Roberts |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/212367211 |journal=Musical Opinion |location=Melton Mowbray |volume=130 |issue=1454 |pages=46 |id={{ProQuest|212367211}} |quote=The shorter Wieglied for Solo Viola is equally well played by the gifted Dimitri Murrath. }}</ref>
His compositions received attention in the context of a 70th-birthday portrait concert given at the Purcell Room in London by the ensemble Lontano in 2004,<ref name="guardian.co.uk"/> the release of an associated CD by the same group in early 2005,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.lorelt.co.uk/lontano/discography.htm|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090601071738/http://www.lorelt.co.uk/lontano/discography.htm|url-status=dead|title=Discography at Lorelt Recordings|archivedate=1 June 2009|accessdate=23 July 2020}}</ref> and most recently by the long-awaited release of a complete commercial recording of ''Croquis'' by NMC Recordings.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Sammoutis |first=Evis |title=Jeremy Dale Roberts – Croquis |url=http://www.musicalpointers.co.uk/reviews/cddvd09/JeremyDaleRobertsTristiaCroquis.html |accessdate=23 July 2020 |website=Musicalpointers.co.uk |id=NMC D151}}</ref> One writer has described his style as 'a kind of ascetically sumptuous exoticism', and has further characterised Dale Roberts' music in terms of: * the miniature form and associated possibilities of extended structuring; * reference to artists and works in other art-forms (in particular sculpture and painting); * the occasional use of quotation from other composers' music (albeit in the context of a rather 'pure' modernist idiolect); and * a fondness for unusual instrumentations.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.worldisnow.co.uk/daleroberts.html|title=John Fallas – Jeremy Dale Roberts at 70|website=Worldisnow.co.uk|accessdate=23 July 2020}}</ref>
A review of the CD recording of ''Croquis'' noted: "Dale Roberts's miniatures are brilliantly able to condense a familiar image, such as the reel or the fugue, and accumulate into a substantial, 54-minute statement."<ref>{{Cite web |last=Driver |first=Paul |date=30 May 2010 |title=Jeremy Dale Roberts: Tristia, Croquis Peter Sheppard Skærved (Violin), Aaron Shorr (Piano), Kreutzer Quartet |url=http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/cd_reviews/article7137660.ece |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110615110803/http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/cd_reviews/article7137660.ece |archive-date=2011-06-15 |access-date=2010-06-12 |website=The Times |publisher=The Sunday Times}}</ref>
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==External links== * {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190701050114/http://jeremydaleroberts.com/ |date=1 July 2019 |title=Jeremy Dale Roberts' official website }}
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