Ray Thompson
Biography
Ray Thompson (b. 12 June 1947, Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, England) is a British composer, arranger, and conductor.
As a child he learnt to play both the piano and French horn. He taught piano and brass instruments for many years in later life. Now retired, Thompson still works [2024] as a musician, arranger, composer and conductor living in Northumberland, United Kingdom. He was the conductor of Alnwick Playhouse Concert Band since its inception in 1994, retiring from the post 25 years later, and currently conducts the Alnwick Symphonic Wind Ensemble. He was also MD for many amateur stage musicals.He was also a founding member of the Ray Thompson Big Band and a member Northumberland wind quintet called "Quintessential."
He arranges mainly classical music (along with some pop music) for wind and string ensembles of different sizes.
Works for Winds
- Banks of Green Willow, The (as arranger) (1913/2017)
- Capriol Suite (as transcriber) (1926/2019)
- Divertimento No. 1 in E-flat Major (2019)
- Don't Stop Me Now (as arranger) (1978/?)
- Ein Musikalischer Spass (A Musical Joke) (as transcriber) (1787/1811/2018)
- Enigma Variations (Thompson) (as transcriber) (1898/2018)
- English Dances Set 2 (trans. Thompson) (as transcriber) (1951/)
- An English Suite (as transcriber) (1921/2019)
- Hungarian Dance No 5 (as transcriber) (1869/2018)
- A Holst Suite (as transcriber) (2018)
- Legends (as transcriber) (1881/2019)
- Reverie (as transcriber) (1890/2011)
- Serenade No 10 in Bb "Gran Partita" (as transcriber) (1781/2019)
- Sextet (as transcriber) (1796/2020)
- Suite Bergamasque Mvt 2 Menuet (as transcriber) (1905/2018)
- Presto from "Symphony No. 7" (as transcriber) (1811/2018)
- Variations on a Theme by Haydn (as transcriber) (1873/2018)