Jonathan Dove

With a style that draws on minimalism as well as established traditions, Jonathan Dove has been one of contemporary Britain's most prolific composers of opera and music in other dramatic forms, as well as orchestral and chamber music. He seeks to make opera more accessible to smaller performing groups and wider audiences. Dove was born to two architect parents in London on July 18, 1959. He studied piano, organ, and viola as a young man but switched to composition at Cambridge, working with Robin Holloway. Another formative experience was a stint as a freelance arranger and a...