Career Highlights
- 1969 - The Whale premièred by the London Sinfonietta and subsequently recorded on The Beatles' Apple label.
- 1971 - Celtic Requiem recorded by Apple.
- 1973 - Thérèse, the story of Saint Thérèse of Lisieux, commissioned by the Royal Opera, London.
- 1989 - première of The Protecting Veil at the Proms in London.
- 2000 - première of Fall and Resurrection in St Paul's Cathedral, London (4 January 2000).
- 2000 - received a knighthood in Millennium Honours List.
- 2001 - composed the soundtrack of Werner Herzog's short documentary Pilgrimage.
- 2003 - première of the all-night vigil The Veil of the Temple by the Holst Singers and the Choir of the Temple Church at the Temple Church, London.
- 2005 - première of Laila (Amu), Tavener’s first dance collaboration, with Random Dance company and Wayne McGregor's choreography.
- 2006 - contributed Fragments of a Prayer to the Alfonso Cuarón film Children of Men.
- 2007 - première of The Beautiful Names by the BBC Symphony Chorus and Orchestra at Westminster Cathedral. The work, sung in Arabic, is a setting of the 99 names of Allah found in the Qur'an. Awarded honorary degree by the University of Winchester.
- 2008 - World premier of "the anthem" sung in St Paul's Cathedral in the presence of HM Queen Elizabeth II and HRH The Duke of Edinburgh.
- March 2009 - The Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia presents the world première of Tu ne sais pas, a work for mezzo-soprano, timpani, and strings. Katherine Pracht will sing the texts, which are drawn from poems by French poet Jean Biès, (one of the work's dedicatees), and from Islamic and Hindu sources.
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