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. He studied composition at Trinity College of Music, the Royal Academy of Music and finally at Canterbury Christ Church University...
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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 at the 1971 Aldeburgh Festival led to a string quartet being written for the legendary Yale Quartet, commissioned by André...
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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 Conservatoire of The Hague and at the Academy for Creative and Performing Arts at the University of Leiden. His work...
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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, performing and touring internationally with many of the country’s leading orchestras and ensembles. He is particularly well known in the...
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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 the University of Southampton, where he was awarded a PhD for his study of the music of John Taverner. This...
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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 choirs and, after leaving school at the age of 12, he was in some demand as a church organist. He...
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Diana Burrell was born in Norwich in 1948. She studied at Cambridge University, afterwards moving to London for 30 years, and now lives in Harwich, Essex. After spending several years as a teacher, she became a free-lance viola player, but gradually concentrated her energies on...
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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 he obtained three masters' in vocal accompaniment (in the class of Anne Le Bozec), instrumental accompaniment (Jean-Frédéric Neuburger) and vocal...
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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 major event in a career that was to gain him national and international recognition for a new kind of ‘voice’...
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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 organ and piano. On the outbreak of the Second World War he was expelled from school due to his father’s...
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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 to film music. Born in North Yorkshire in 1975 Darren’s music career developed rapidly, with his works having been broadcast...
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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 composition with Bernard Stevens and Humphrey Searle, and piano with Edwin Benboe and Ian Lake. Afterwards, he studied in Italy...
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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 with big ideas” (Ates Orga, The Classical Source). Fiorini’s prolific career started at the age of 10, and to date...
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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 the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris, in the classes of R. Boutry, J.-C. Henry, M. Bitsch, R. Falcinelli,...
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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 St. Andrews, Hughes Hall College, Cambridge and Clare College, Cambridge. Nicholas’ wide-ranging choral works have been performed by amateur and...
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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), a euphonium sonata (premiered in Florida), 'Gloria, laus et honor' - a toccata for organ (premiered in LA), and an...
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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 where he studied harmony, counterpoint, fugue, history of music, analysis and aesthetics, winning prizes and diplomas in each of these...
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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 at the Royal Academy of Music, where he studied with Justin Connolly and gained a PhD in composition from the...
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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 State University (1963-67), received a doctorate in composition from Ohio State University (1972) and won a Fulbright Fellowship to work...
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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 awarded an organ scholarship at Salisbury Cathedral. He completed a second Master's degree in composition at the University of Surrey,...
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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 international repertoire work. A series of commissions and broadcasts followed, with Visions for Orchestra (broadcast 1976) greeted by Paul Griffiths...
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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 and counterpoint, studying composition and conducting with Edwin Roxburgh and electronic music with Lawrence Casserley. A DAAD scholarship enabled him...
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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 Fellowships, from the Royal Philharmonic Society as a student to the Elgar Trust Award (a BBC Symphony Orchestra commission) 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 School of Music and Drama where he graduated in 2007. Before starting at the Guildhall he attended Queen Elizabeth’s School,...
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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 Music and Performing Arts in Vienna and graduated with distinction in 2003 from the class of Erich Urbanner. During this...
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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 Peter Sheppard Skærved, Neil Heyde, Roger Heaton, Roderick Chadwick, Odaline de la Martinez, Lontano, Kreutzer Quartet and the New London...
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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 College of Music (FLCM) diploma in 2013. In 2002, he won the Ian Tomlin Napier/Malta Music Scholarship which enabled him...
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