Jonathan Harvey Piano Trio • Advaya • Dialogue and Song Vers • Tombeau de Messiaen • Flight-Elegy TRIO FIBONACCI Julie-Anne Derome violon / violin Gabriel Prynn violoncelle / cello André Ristic piano ACD2 2254 Born in Sutton Coldfield, Warwickshire in 1939, Jonathan Harvey was a chorister at St Michael's College, Tenbury (1948-52) and later a major music scholar at St John's College, Cambridge.   He gained doctorates from the universities of Glasgow and Cambridge and also studied privately (on the advice of Benjamin Britten) with Erwin Stein and Hans Kelter, thus gaining an early acquaintance with the school of Schoenberg.   Whilst a Harkness Fellow at Princeton (1969-70) he was brought into contact, albeit briefly, with Milton Babbitt.   He emerged from his Princeton years surer of his musical aims with regard to depth of structure, an immediate result of his work in Schenkerian analysis. An invitation from Boulez to work at IRCAM in the early 1980s has resulted in six realisations at the Institute to date, including the widely praised tape piece Mortuos Plango Vivos Voco, Bhokti for instrumental ensemble and tape, Ritual Melodies for computer-manipulated sounds, and Advoya for cello and live and prerecorded sounds.   Harvey has also composed for most other genres: orchestra (Madonna of Winter and Spring, Cello and Percussion Concertos, Lightness and Weight et Whom Ye Adore), chamber (three String Quartets, Song Offerings and Tendril, for instance) as well as works for solo instruments.   He has produced a large and varied output of choral works, many suited to church performance: the biggest being the church opera Passion and Resurrection (1981) which was the subject of a BBC television film, and has subsequently performed some twelve times in various cathedrals and churches. Harvey's opera Inquest of Love, commissioned by the English National Opera was premiered at the Coliseum in June 1993, and repeated at Theatre de la Monnaie, Brussels in January 1994.   Harvey now attracts commissions from a host of international organisations.   His music has been extensively played and toured by, amongst others, the Ensemble Modern, Ensemble Intercontemporain, Nouvel Ensemble Moderne of Montreal, Ictus Ensemble of Brussels and Sinfonia 21.   He has honorary doctorates from the universities of Southampton and Bristol, is a Member of Academia Europaea, and in 1993 was awarded the prestigious Britten Award for composition. He is currently Visiting Professor of Music at the Imperial College, London, and is Honorary Professor at Sussex University.       Piano Trio * (1, 2, 3)     4:13   1. Song     2:04   2. System     5:06   3. Rite     6.13   4. Advaya ** (2)     19:31       Dialogue and Song * (2, 3)     8:09   5. Dialogue     3:27   6. Song     4:42   7. Vers * (3)     2:57   8. Tombeau de Messiaen (3)     8.37   9. Flight-Elegy * (1, 3)     10:23       * Premiere enregistrement mondial         World premiere recording       ** Patrice Coulombe           Concepteur électro-acoustic           Electro-acoustic designer ATMA Classique is distributed in Australia by Rockian Trading PO Box 44, Briar Hill, Vic, 3088, Australia Telephone +61 (0)3 9432 4149 ~ Facsimile +61 (0)3 9444 6879