Harrison Birtwistle Children: Meet His Son Adam Birtwistle. Sir Harrison Birtwistle, CH was a British composer of contemporary classical music.
Among his many compositions, he is best known for The Triumph of Time and his operas, particularly The Mask of Orpheus, Gawain, and The Minotaur.
The last was ranked in 2019 by music critics at The Guardian as the third-best piece of the 21st-century.
Born on July 15, 1934, in Accrington, United Kingdom, Birtwistle died on April 18, 2022, at the age of 87.
Harrison Birtwistle Children: Meet His Son Adam Birtwistle
Adam Birtwistle is the son of the late Harrison Birtwistle.
Adam is a British artist whose idiosyncratic portraits of composers and musicians are represented in the National Portrait Gallery, and brother of the artist Silas Birtwistle.
After attending schools in Britain and the US, he studied sculpture for four years at Chelsea School of Art and followed this with two years at the Arch Bronze Foundry, working with Ben Kneale.
In 1985, he took part in designing masks and costumes for one of his father’s music theatre pieces at Dartington Summer School of Music.
In 1986, Adam attended printing classes at the Royal Academy while preparing his first one-man show in London with Piano Nobile Fine Paintings.
Since then, he has regularly held solo shows at Piano Nobile and completed numerous commissions.
Adam was born in 1959, in Eton, United Kingdom, and is currently 63 years in 2022.
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