COLIN BAYLISS was born in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire in 1948.
His life- long love of music led him to compose from an early age and he now has a catalogue of over a hundred and sixty works including two operas, seven symphonies, six string quartets, three piano sonatas and many other pieces for most instrumental and chamber groupings.
Many of his works will appear over the next few years here on musicaneo.
Details of his other works will be found in
The Music of Colin Bayliss: an annotated catalogue,
to be published in the near future.
His website is at Colin Bayliss Composer
As well as writing music himself, he has also compiled
catalogues of the earlier works of Anthony Hedges
and Sir Peter Maxwell Davies.
His concern for the state of music publishing led him
to found his own company in 1992 - Da Capo Music Ltd,
Which, in the course of its 20 year life published over 760 pieces,
mainly of today's composers, and also some recently
discovered pieces and arrangements of works by
composers of the past.
It has also recorded some of these works
on compact disc under the New Century Classics label.
Rayna L Harris has created the paintings featured on the CDs.