John Turner (born 1943) is an English recorder player and a former lawyer. He has done much to encourage the development of contemporary music for the recorder, particularly from British composers.[1]
Turner was born in Stockport and attended Stockport Grammar School, where the music master was Geoffrey Verney (previously a colleague of Ralph Vaughan Williams) and the assistant music master Douglas Steele (1910-1999, a composer and previously an assistant to Thomas Beecham at Covent Garden).[2] Here Turner began to play recorder and was first introduced to a wide range of repertoire.[3]
He went on to study law at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, where he also continued to pursue his musical interests with contemporaries such as Christopher Hogwood and David Munrow. He then took up a legal career, often acting for musicians and musical institutions. In later life he retired from legal work and became a full time musician.[4]
Turner has issued many recordings, including (with pianist Peter Lawson) John and Peter's Whistling Book,[7]English Recorder Concertos,[8]Jigs, Airs and Reels,[9] and titles issued by Divine Art Recordings.[10]
Referencesedit
^J.M Thomson, A. Rowland-Jones. The Cambridge Companion to the Recorder (1995), p. 164
^'The Most Memorable Music Masters', in Old Stops' Review, Issue 4 (2014). p. 8
^Peter Dickinson. 'John Turner, master recorder player', in Musical Opinion, Spring 2019
^Carson Cooman. John Turner at 70: an Interview, in American Recorder, Winter 2013, pp. 13-21
^John Turner: list of first performances, at recorderist.co.uk
^Notes in the score of Four Diversions, Forsyth Brothers
'John Turner at 70: an Interview', American Recorder, Winter 2013
April 16, 2024
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