Rain Patterns

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• Description +

  • Preface

    Rain Patterns begins calmly, with repeated patterns looping over each other. It suggested raindrops falling to me, so I took this idea further and developed the piece so that the patterns become faster and more complicated rhythmically – the rain becomes heavier. All rainstorms pass however and the music relaxes and ultimately returns to the opening mood in the final section.
    
    Edmund Jolliffe

• Instrumentation +

  • Marimba and Vibraphone

• About the composer +

  • Edmund’s music draws on a huge range of styles and influences. He writes music for film and television and is also an award-winning concert composer.
    
    Recent commissions include pieces for the ABRSM, the Pink Singers, the Royal Academy of Music, the London Chinese Children’s Ensemble, and Oxford University Press Collections. His choral music is available from OUP, Stainer and Bell, and Banks Music. Many of his pieces are set works on the ABRSM syllabus (initial grade piano and clarinet).
    
    First Prizes include: Orpheus Academy Chamber Music Competition, Austin, Texas, USA (first and second prize); Eastern Michigan University Choral Competition, USA; Kantos Chamber Choir Carol Competition; Freudig Singers Choral Composition Competition, USA; Ithaca College Choral Composition Competition, USA; Amadeus Choir Songwriting Competition, Canada; Ely Consort Advent Composing Competition; Hendrix Candlelight Carol Competition, USA; Renée B. Fisher Composer Award, USA.
    
    He has been writing music to picture for over twenty years. Major series he has composed music for include The Traitors, Who Do You Think You Are? (BBC1), Homestead Rescue (Discovery), Sort Your Life Out (BBC1), Grand Designs: The Street (C4), Crazy Delicious (C4/Netflix), Long Lost Family (ITV1), and Unreported World (C4). He was nominated for an RTS Craft and Design Award for his score for the BBC film Elizabeth at 90.
    
    He taught composition for many years at the Royal Academy of Music and Trinity College of Music (Junior Departments) and also lectured in Composing for the Moving Image at City University.
    
    In 2021, Odense Percussion, led by Søren Monrad, commissioned a new ensemble piece by Edmund called The Game, which was world-premiered at the Danish National Academy of Music, Denmark on November 15, 2021.
    
    More information about him can be found at: www.edmundjolliffe.com

    Information current to August 2025 

• Credits +

  • Front Cover graphics and layout: Nicola Lee
    Engraving: Edmund Jolliffe
    Printed in Copenhagen, Denmark
    Copyright © Edition SVITZER
    www.editionsvitzer.com

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