Charles McCreery

Charles McCreery went to Eton College and New College, Oxford, where he read Philosophy and Psychology.

While at Eton he won the Rowe Cup for junior pianists, and in his final year performed Weber's Konzertstück with a chamber orchestra.

As an undergraduate he studied piano with Hilda Bor, and won a piano class, adjudicated by Herbert Howells, at the Willesden Music Festival.

From 1988 to 1991 he held a Perrott Warrick Studentship from Trinity College, Cambridge, and from 1996 to 2000 he was Lecturer in Experimental Psychology at Magdalen College, Oxford.

He has a doctorate from Oxford University for research on hallucinatory experiences in normal people, and is the author of a number of books, including Lucid Dreaming, the Paradox of Consciousness During Sleep, co-authored with Celia Green.

In 1996 Charles McCreery's 'Elegy for Violin and Piano' was shortlisted for the Match Composition Prize.

A bound and illustrated vocal score (voice parts with piano accompaniment) of the complete set of his ’Fourteen Tolkien Songs for Childrens Voices’ is available from Amazon here: http://www.amazon.com/Fourteen-Tolkien-Songs-Childrens-Voices/dp/1492187534

A CD of twelve of Charles McCreery’s orchestral pieces can be purchased from Amazon here: http://www.amazon.com/Music-King-Eldred-opera-children/dp/B00LWEEMHA/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1407621609&sr=1-1&keywords=charles+mccreery

Individual tracks from the CD can be purchased here: https://stmaurmusic.bandcamp.com/

The scores of the pieces on this CD are all available to print out from Scoreexchange.