Kevin G. Lamb
Quick Facts
Biography
Kevin G. Lamb is a British composer, music educator, conductor, and arranger.
Career
After completing his music education, Lamb became military bandmaster for the Band of the Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers and the Band of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (Princess Louise's). Later, he became an instructor and head of the Royal Military School of Music "Kneller Hall" in Twickenham, a suburban district in London, England. He retired in 1999 but became a conductor of various civil wind bands and music associations such as the Capital Concert Band in Edinburgh, Scotland. He also works as a teacher at various Scottish and British universities. Currently, he resides in Perth, Scotland.
Lamb edited many classical works for concert bands, for example, Nibelungen March, from Gottfried Sonntag (German composer) to the motif "Siegfried-Ruf" from the opera Siegfried by German composer Richard Wagner, the overture to Le roi d'Ys by French musician Édouard Lalo, a "Carmen Suite" from the opera Carmenby Georges Bizet, the "Bekroningscène" by the opera Boris Godunov Modest Mussorgsky and the overture to the opera L'impresario in angustie from Domenico Cimarosa. He also worked with Britsh conductor Gilbert Vinter.
In 2007 he composed and conducted the music for the State Opening and Closing of the Scottish Parliament in the presence of Her Majesty the Queen.
In addition, Lamb wrote his own works—around 90 pieces—for concert bands, brass bands, and chamber music.
Compositions
Concert bands and brass bandsFortune Favours the Bold (1993)
- Pipe Dreams
- Skye Boat Song & Highland Cradle Song
- Tarantula Tarantella
- The Glendaruel Highlanders
- The Hills of Korea
- The Knights of St John
Chamber music
- Holyrood fanfare (2007)
- Spirit of Scotland fanfare (2007)
- My Bonny Boy
- Skye Boat Song
- St. Clement - The Day Thou Gavest
- The drunken Sailor
- The Glendaruel Highlanders