Clare Loveday is a South African contemporary classical music composer.
Education
She studied at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, and has worked as a professional pianist, a composer for the South African advertising industry, and coordinator for the National Research Foundation"s Travelling Institute for Music Research.
Career
Loveday has also worked as a lecturer in music theory and composition at the University of the Witwatersrand. She was composer in residence at the 2014 Johannesburg International Mozart Festival. Wind-Play (2000) for soprano saxophone and piano
Palimpsest (2001) for alto saxophone and organ
Three-Piece Suite (2001) for clarinet quintet
Breath (2004) for alto saxophone and piano
Displacement (2005) for alto saxophone and piano
3 Excursions (2005) for saxophone quartet
Untitled (2006) for saxophone quartet
Charlie (2008) for clarinet, violin and cello
Duodectet for Octet (2010) for eight saxophones
Judgement Call (2010) for soprano and tenor saxophones
Just So (2011) for B-flat clarinet and piano
Just a Bite (2011) for alto saxophone and piano
Paso Doble (2011) for saxophone ensemble and trumpet
Hoar Frost (2011) for marimba and vibraphone
Ribbons (2013) for oboe, viola and bass clarinet
Fever Tree (2013) for flute, oboe, clarinet, marimba, piano, violin, viola and cello
Eight Plus One (2014) for flute, B-flat clarinet, trumpet in C, trombone, piano, violin, viola and cello
48 km North-West of Kokstad (2014) for alto saxophone and guitar
Red Herring (2006) for alto saxophone
Arc (2007) for baritone saxophone
Floating Underwater series (2010) for solo soprano birbynÄ— (also suitable for B-flat clarinet or soprano saxophone)
lieutenant (2012), renamed Johannesburg Prelude 1, for solo piano
Star-rise (2013) for solo flute
South View (2013) for loboe (a new oboe with a low A)
Cycles (2014), performance and installation for solo violin and hanging installation (collaboration with artist Nandipha Mntambo)
Dream (2000) for soprano and piano
Pure (2000) for soprano, piano and clarinet
So Vast (2001) for soprano and plucked piano strings
Empty (2001) for soprano and piano
Scattering Ashes (2011) for 7-part vocal group, soprano saxophone and marimba
Noupoort (2011) for choir and marimba.