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Basil Athanasiadis (b.1970) completed his piano and advanced theory studies (harmony, counterpoint, fugue) at the National Conservatoire of Athens, after which he moved to London....
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Simon Bainbridge (1952-2021) studied composition at the Royal College of Music with John Lambert and later at Tanglewood with Gunther Schuller. The success of Bainbridge’s Spirogyra...
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Richard Barrett (born in Swansea in 1959) is internationally active as composer and performer, and also teaches at the Institute of Sonology at the Royal...
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Keith Bartlett graduated with honours from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in 1984. Since that time he has pursued a highly successful career,...
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Hugh Benham was born at Westbury, Wiltshire in 1943, but has lived in Hampshire for most of his life. He read Music and English at...
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William Havergal Brian was born on 29 January 1876 into a working-class Potteries family in Dresden, Staffordshire. He gained his first musical experience in church...
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Burrell’s first major orchestral piece, simply entitled Landscape (1988) has been described as depicting both a wild windswept countryside and a tough urban vista. The...
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Nicolas Chevereau was born in Paris in 1989. He studied piano with Aldo Ciccolini before entering the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique in Paris where...
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Edward Cowie’s first BBC Proms commission was Leviathan, a large scale orchestral work premiered by the BBC Symphony Orchestra in 1975. It marked the first...
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Petr Eben was born in 1929 in Zamberk, Czechoslovakia, and spent his childhood in Český Krumlov in Southern Bohemia, where he first studied both the...
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Darren Fellows is one of Britain’s latest generation of composers whose output reveals a broad spectrum from music theatre through orchestral, ensemble and solo pieces...
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Michael Finnissy was born in Tulse Hill, London in 1946. He was a Foundation Scholar at the Royal College of Music, London, where he studied...
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Karl Fiorini (b. 1 December 1979) has been described as “a successor to such figures as Bartók and Shostakovich” (The Classical Reviewer) and “a composer...
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Naji Hakim was born in Beirut, Lebanon, in 1955. From 1975, he studied organ with J. Langlais in Paris, and continued his musical studies at...
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Nicholas Hopton was born in Preston, Lancashire in 1979. After attending Kirkham Grammar School, he studied degrees in English and Education at The University of...
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Richard Lambert combines a career as composer, examiner, organist and conductor. His recent works include a second string quartet, a bassoon sonata (premiered in Cyprus),...
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Philippe Mazé (b.1954) began his musical education studying with Daniel Roth and Gabriel Looren, and later moved to the Ecole Normale de Musique in Paris...
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Andrew McBirnie was born and brought up in Portsmouth. He studied at the University of Bristol, graduating with a first class BA degree in music, and...
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Stephen Montague (b. 10 March, 1943 Syracuse, New York) grew up in Idaho, West Virginia and Florida. He studied piano, conducting and composition at Florida...
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Clive Osgood was born and raised in Portsmouth. He completed his undergraduate and postgraduate studies in Music at the University of Wales and was then...
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Geoffrey Poole’s public career was launched with The King’s Singers’ Wigmore Hall premiere of his neo-medieval vocal sextet, Wymondham Chants, in 1971. This remains an...
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Roger Redgate is a composer, conductor and improviser. He graduated at the Royal College of Music, where he won prizes for composition, violin performance, harmony...
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Born in England in 1963, of Scottish and Gabonese descent, Matthew Rooke's work spans musical composition and performance, as well as producing and directing theatre...
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Edwin Roxburgh has pursued his professional life in several areas as composer, oboist, conductor and teacher. As a composer he has won many awards and...
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Matt Smith (b.1984) studied flute with Ian Clarke, Phillipa Davis and Sarah Newbold, piccolo with Sharon Williams and composition with Adam Melvin at the Guildhall...
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Sebastian Themessl was born in 1975 in Innsbruck, Austria into a Viennese family of musicians. In 1996 he began studying composition at the University of...
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Macedonian-born composer, violinist and educator Mihailo Trandafilovski’s latest album for Métier (2018) follows portrait CDs on Innova Recordings (2015) and LORELT (2011), featuring close collaborators...
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Alexander Vella Gregory was born in Malta in 1984. He studied piano with Paul Borg and Joanne Camilleri, and obtained a Fellowship of the London...
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