Jonathan Harvey

Jonathan Harvey (born 3 May 1939 in Sutton Coldfield) is a British composer.

He studied with Erwin Stein and Hans Keller at St John's College, Cambridge, eventually obtaining a PhD. Early musical influences included Schoenberg, Berg, Messiaen and Britten. While undertaking postgraduate study at Glasgow University, Harvey was a 'cellist in the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Around this time, he became interested in the music of Karlheinz Stockhausen. In 1969 he took up a Harkness Fellowship at Princeton University, where he encountered Milton Babbitt, another strong influence on his music. In the 1980s Harvey produced much music at IRCAM after receiving an invitation from Pierre Boulez to work there.

Harvey is a Visiting Professor of Music at University of Oxford, Imperial College London, and an Honorary Professor at Sussex University.

Selected works
Advaya
Bhakti
Cello Concerto
Chant
Come Holy Ghost
Curve with Plateaux
Death of Light/Light of Death
Dialogue and Song
Dum Transisset Sabbatum
Fantasia for organ
Flight-Elegy
Forms of Emptiness
Four Images after Yeats
From Silence
God is our Refuge
Imaginings
Lauds
Lotuses
Madonna of Winter and Spring (Percussion Concerto)
Mortuos Plango, Vivos Voco
Mythic Figures
Nataraja
O Jesu Nomen Dulce
One Evening...
Philia's Dream
Piano Trio
Ricercare una Melodia
Ritual Melodies
Scena
Serenade in Homage to Mozart
Song Offerings
String Quartet No. 1
String Quartet No. 2
Sufi Dance
The Angels
The Riot
Three Sketches
Tombeau de Messiaen
Valley of Aosta
Vers
Wheel of Emptiness