Clare Loveday

Clare Loveday (born 22 March 1967) is a South African contemporary classical music composer.

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. 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.

Orchestral works

• Blink (2007) for two saxophones and chamber orchestra
• Duodectet (2008) for saxophone orchestra
• Concerto for alto saxophone and chamber orchestra (2009)
• Three portraits of intimacy: a concerto for piano and chamber orchestra (2014)

Chamber music

• 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

Solo instrumental

• Red Herring (2006) for alto saxophone
• Arc (2007) for baritone saxophone
• Floating Underwater series (2010) for solo soprano birbynė (also suitable for B-flat clarinet or soprano saxophone)
• It (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)

Vocal

• 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

Dramatic Works

• The Collision Project (2006) Art installation/theatre work/concert piece for car wreck and attached string parts (collaboration with scenographer Gerhard Marx)

External links

• Clare Loveday's webpage
• Daily Maverick interview
• Loboe Project profile of Clare Loveday
• NewMusicSA biography of Clare Loveday
• Profiled in the Juilliard Journal
• Interview about residency at Johannesburg International Mozart Festival