Education
He studied composition at the Royal Northern College of Music with Anthony Gilbert (b 1934, United Kingdom) and privately with Simon Holt (b 1958, United Kingdom).
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Ian Vine
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Vine spent his formative years in Libya and Hong Kong. One can detect traces of Near and Far Eastern modalities as well as gestural and formal elements in his music SIRI (1997), a frequently performed tour-de-force for solo percussion with electronics, uses a rhythmic and structural language found in the highly ritualised percussion music of Japan and of Korea.
Although much of his work tends toward longer time frames, some of his pieces are very short indeed.
Conversely, the pieces sound as if they are longer. writing on water (since 1999), commissioned by Matthew Herbert and released on the Accidental label, is an expanding collection of short (sometimes only 20 seconds long) works using recorded acoustic instruments. And shadow grounds (1999), commissioned by the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival for the ensemble recherche as part of their In Nomine Broken Consort Book, a 3 minute non-miniature of suspended sound.
His three black moons (1999), commissioned by the London Sinfonietta, was described by The Guardian, "..the most striking piece takes its title from an Alexander Calder mobile - its magical floating sonorities had a Feldmanesque beauty." Ian Vine is described as "one of the most striking new voices to have come to light" (The Guardian), his music is performed across Europe and has been broadcast worldwide. Ian Vine is the artistic director of new music ensemble Radius. white river sand (2002) - large ensemble.
