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User: Alex McGery
Biography
Hi my name's Alex McGery. You might remember me from such websites as www.myspace.com/almacg and www.alexmcgery.com. I'm a 20 year old music composer, who has been writing music suitable for media for about 3 years.
Having already written songs for the band I used to play in, I started experimenting with electronic/orchestral music. Soon I realised that orchestral composition was my true calling and I cannot see my life heading in any non-musical direction. Composition has become my raison-d'etre, I simply cannot exist without it.
My music has become increasingly classical/orchestral as I have improved my skills; However, if needed I can write in any style. My website www.alexmcgery.com has more examples of my work, and I will be shortly uploading some music to youtube.
I am always on the look out for people to work with, so if you need music I am the man you should get in touch with.
To date I have written music for: Rome Total Realism (www.romtotalrealism.com), The Awakening (http://awakening.hl2files.com /), 2 10 minute short films made by members of Buckinghamshire University, 2 training video/documentaries for Southwark council, and a premier of one of the videos.
Of course I have also written lots of other stuff simply for my own personal enjoyment.
At the moment I am working on a Mozart pastiche (suitably titled Eine Kleine Nacthmusik) to submit to a local youth orchestra. Should they decide to perform it, it will be my first piece played by actual musicians, rather than my computer!
This year I studied Music at Sussex University. To my dissapointment, the course was not what I had hoped for. With luck I will be attending the Royal Academy of Music/Guildhall/Royal College of Music starting in 2009!
Having already written songs for the band I used to play in, I started experimenting with electronic/orchestral music. Soon I realised that orchestral composition was my true calling and I cannot see my life heading in any non-musical direction. Composition has become my raison-d'etre, I simply cannot exist without it.
My music has become increasingly classical/orchestral as I have improved my skills; However, if needed I can write in any style. My website www.alexmcgery.com has more examples of my work, and I will be shortly uploading some music to youtube.
I am always on the look out for people to work with, so if you need music I am the man you should get in touch with.
To date I have written music for: Rome Total Realism (www.romtotalrealism.com), The Awakening (http://awakening.hl2files.com /), 2 10 minute short films made by members of Buckinghamshire University, 2 training video/documentaries for Southwark council, and a premier of one of the videos.
Of course I have also written lots of other stuff simply for my own personal enjoyment.
At the moment I am working on a Mozart pastiche (suitably titled Eine Kleine Nacthmusik) to submit to a local youth orchestra. Should they decide to perform it, it will be my first piece played by actual musicians, rather than my computer!
This year I studied Music at Sussex University. To my dissapointment, the course was not what I had hoped for. With luck I will be attending the Royal Academy of Music/Guildhall/Royal College of Music starting in 2009!
Profile
Instrument / Profession
Drum Kit (10 years) Piano (3 years) Guitar (4 years - but I don't play much any more!) Vocals (20 years!)Education
A-level, 1 year of university (about to switch courses to a 4 year course in composition) Self-taught at composition, but the advice and guidance of some of my teachers has been invaluable.Orchestras / Ensembles
The Alex McGery Bedroom Ensemble - Soon to be awarded. Appraisals: John Williams - "Simply the best sounding bedroom I have ever been in" Phillip Glass - "In honesty his bedroom is simply much more musical then my own" MusoLife - "This changes everything! From henceforth, bedrooms will never sound the same again! If only my bedroom were half as innovative!"Influences
Albinoni, Bach, Barber, Beethoven, Brahms, Chopin, Debussy, De Falla, Dvorak, Elgar, Holst, Mahler, Mozart, Mussorgsky, Prokofiev, Rachmaninov, Rodrigo, Scriabin, Shostakovich, Stravinsky, Tschaikovsky, Wagner, Williams,Interests
Composing, Gym and the usual!Favourite Music
Holst's The Planets suite, particularly Mars and Jupiter.Wall
Gear4music
Stay tuned to hear some music.