WILLIAM LOVELADY WROTE A SECOND BEAUTIFUL TRIBUTE to his Friend ROLAND DYENS,
On the day of his death forth anniversary. Back in 2016, we sadly lost ROLAND DYENS, the most amazing guitarist, musician, arranger and composer of the past 50 years. Roland Dyens music always had a speciel and unique sound that made him stand out from many other guitarists and composers. His music and arrangements are just sheer magic and have constantly been inspirational to me.
The score of this piece can be found on the Author's website WWW.WILLIAMLOVELADY.CO.UK
Celebrated guitarist and composer, William Lovelady, has written for some of the world’s leading guitarists including Slava and Leonard Grigoryan, Xuefei Yang, Craig Ogden and Amanda Cook. His guitar and choral music have been performed worldwide, as well as being frequently played on Radio 3 and Classic FM. He has written and worked with musicians as diverse as Julian Lloyd Webber, Art Garfunkel, Shankar, and Hugh Masekela. He has had two top-ten hits in the commercial industry. He has done several David Attenborough programmes and was nominated for an Emmy for the National Geographic Film, “Flying Devils”. His film music includes the Disney film, “African Lovestory” and the film “Here Lies” which won Best European Independent Film in 2015. Among other commissions he has written a piece for solo guitar for the memorial of the Omagh bomb and a Cantata for the Duke of Edinburgh’s 75th birthday which is regularly performed at St George’s Chapel, Windsor. He has also written a Mass first performed at Westminster Cathedral as well as many chamber pieces. His "Concerto for Guitar, Violin and String Orchestra" was premièred in 2015 by Stratford-upon-Avon’s Orchestra of the Swan with soloists Craig Ogdon and Tamsin Waley-Cohen.
