MY COMPOSING LIFE
Clement Jewitt's composing muse was uncovered after a life review following simultaneous crises in his personal and professional lives in his 40s. He formerly designed computer based information systems, but always had some connection with music making, including choral singing, founding and directing early music groups, playing trumpet, recorders, classical guitar, tuba, more recently percussion, and now clarinet. Familiarity with the viola aids composition for strings, but he does not claim playing facility. His principal performing practice now is improvisation, and from time to time he facilitate improvisation workshops for all comers.
A strong interest in how sound and music is received by body, mind and spirit has lead to investigations in acoustics, physiology and transpersonal psychology. His PhD, from Birmingham Conservatoire, investigating the application of a post-Jungian model of the psyche to creative endeavour, included writing the extended song cycle The Night Sea.
He regards music as essentially an act of friendship. An abiding interest in the musics of India and Indonesia has found some expression in his works.
He has four grown and loved children, and supports the Medical Foundation for Victims of Torture, and the Samye Ling Holy Island Project. He is a long time appreciator of trees and the under-valued role they play in helping this planet to be livable in.
An interview by Christian Bodhi of Ability of Love TV in March 2008 appears on Youtube.
THIS SITE
is focussed on my music, and events and news connected with that endeavour. Information on other aspects of my creative life, and amplifications of musical work, will be found on my main site (under construction)
NEWS
My 70th Birthday Concert (somewhat after the date) will now be in the Autumn of 2012, in Oxford. Date and time will be settled shortly, together with performers.
End of 2011: my Little Piano Book, two string quartets, and some guitar and flute pieces, are now up for sale at Tutti sheet music sellers. Search for my name, or by category of music.
Some of my sheet music is now up for sale at Tutti Sheet music sellers. So far Recorder works are there, principally Sonata & Mavrud IV, and also a quantity of arrangements of early music done for recorder groups I used to run. In due course more works will be presented for sale on that site. Watch this space!
Endorsement from Steven Lloyd-Gonzalez, Conductor, Vienna, which can be read on the Reviews page