Brendan G. Carroll

Background

Brendan G. Carroll was born on December 9, 1952, in Southport, United Kingdom. He is a son of Michael Carroll and a great-grandson of the 19th-century composer Alfred Harborough.

Education

Carroll attended Christ’s College at Cambridge, as well as the University of Liverpool from 1973 to 1977. He earned a Bachelor of Music degree and Diploma of Education. He also became a Licentiate of the Royal Academy of Music. Carroll began playing piano very early, and studied both the piano and organ.

Career

As an experienced author, journalist, broadcaster, lecturer, musicologist and marketing consultant to the Arts since 1980, Carroll has also worked as an arts journalist writing for such periodicals as The Musical Times, Opera Now, Classical Music, Gramophone, Opera News and Die Musikforschung.

Carroll's additional third working position is a specialist advisor to the recording industry, he is a consultant to many labels on a variety of projects, such as Decca, Chandos, Nimbus, Delos, CPO, ASV, Carlton, Hyperion, Koch, Harmonia Mundi, Deutsche Grammophon and Calig.

Carroll's book The Last Prodigy was published in 1997. It is a major biography of the Austrian composer Erich Wolfgang Korngold, on whom he is the world authority.

In 2001 Carroll worked with producer and director Barrie Gavin on the production of Between Two Worlds - a major television documentary on Korngold for German Television.

Achievements

• Carroll's documentary Between Two Worlds is shown all over the world and recently issued on DVD with great critical success.
  
  

Works

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• book

  • The Last Prodigy

    (A Biography of Erich Wolfgang Korngold)

    1997

Views

Carroll's primary motivation in writing is to inform and to bring hitherto unknown information before the public. The main influence on his work was his father. The inspiration for the book on the Austrian composer and pianist Erich Wolfgang Korngold was quite simply his music and the fact that it was ignored and unperformed. A subsidiary inspiration was the obvious fact that here was a story that needed to be told.

Membership

Carroll is a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. He is also a President of the International Korngold Society.

Interests

• Music & Bands

  Erich Wolfgang Korngold - composer, pianist

Connections

Father:

Michael Carroll

His father was a gifted writer and the main instigator in Carroll's love for the English language.

great grandfather:

Michael Carroll