Detailed biography: Anthony Green was born in 1946 and studied piano with his father, Tanya Polunin and James Gibb, harmony and counterpoint with Anthony Milner, composition also with Anthony Milner and then with Hugh Wood and Melanie Daiken. From 1979 to 1981 he was on a British Council scholarship to Budapest where he studied composition with Zsolt Durkó, piano with Imre Rohmann and Istvan Lantos at the Liszt Academy, where he also studied Bartók-analysis with Ernö Lendvai. Green was a finalist in the BBC Beethoven Chamber Music Competition (1969) and the British Liszt Piano Competition (1976) and has had compositions performed on the BBC and Hungarian Radio. He taught piano from 1990 at Trinity College of Music until his retirement in 2007. He also lectured on Romantic and Contemporary Music. He started composing at an early age but did not study harmony and counterpoint until the age of 15. Composition was intermittent until his early twenties; Messiaen´s «Vingt regards» inspired him to start composing seriously – other influences were Busoni, particularly the Second Sonatina, and Schönberg, particularly the Op. 33 piano pieces; however, the first piece he acknowledged was not written until 1974-5 («Piano Piece»). He started writing serial music but later used a technique of continuous developing variation of a basic musical idea involving a mathematical permutation of intervals. This is applied in Piano Sonata No. 2 (1985-6), a single movement work lasting 35 minutes, all based on one melodic idea – the work he regards as having found his own voice for the first time. Works include eight piano sonatas (No. 4 entitled «Homage to Sartre»), many shorter piano solos, pieces for piano duet and two pianos, chamber music including 4 works for string quartet, «In Nomine» for string trio, 3 sonatas for violin and piano, a trio for clarinet, cello and piano, pieces for vibraphone and piano, «Pentaptych» and «Little Symphony on the name J. S. Bach» for orchestra, «The Slowworm of Lenty» (J. C. Powys) for soprano, flute, clarinet and cello. Publishers: Modus Music and fonorum.
