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Jul 06, 1949 Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa 74 years old
South African/Irish composer
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About Kevin Volans
- Kevin Volans (born 26 July 1949) is a South African born Irish composer and pianist.
- He studied with Karlheinz Stockhausen and Mauricio Kagel in Cologne in the 1970s and later became associated with the Neue Einfacheit (New Simplicity) movement in the city (Smith 2013, 1033-35).
- In the late 1970s he became interested in the indigenous music of his homeland and began a series of pieces which attempted to combine aspects of African and contemporary European music (Lucia 2009, 5).
- Although Volans later moved away from any direct engagement with African music, certain residual elements such as interlocking rhythms, repetition and open forms are still detectable in his music since the early 1990s which takes a new direction more redolent of certain schools of abstract art.
- He settled in Ireland permanently in 1986 and was granted Irish citizenship in 1995.
