COMPOSER NEWS

BBC Radio 3 recording of Swansea Philharmonic Choir performing 3 Postcards by Nathan James Dearden. https://soundcloud.com/swansea-phil-choir/bbc-radio-3-nathan-james-dearden-swansea-philharmonic-choi

Nathan James Dearden talks about his new work Three Postcards , composed as part his 2018/19 Making Music Adopt a Composer collaboration with Swansea Philharmonic Choir. "When writing for voice or gr

Following the success of the initial year of CoDI composer development initiative, Tŷ Cerdd is delighted to announce the 17 Welsh and Wales-based composers selected to participate in the 19/20 creativ

Sam Buttler has recently been selected as an Associate Composer of The Ripieno Players (@RipienoPlayers on Facebook), an orchestra formally based in Oxford, now relocated to Birmingham. Conducted b

Ashley John Long and Carlijn Metselaar have been selected by the London Philharmonic Orchestra for its Young Composers Programme. The LPO Young Composers Programme offers emerging composers the opport

The BBC National Orchestra of Wales has published its list of selected composers for its 2019 project. Charlie Barber - Deus Ex Machina: for Orchestra Jasper Dommett - Melys: for Large Orchestra Danie

Simon Haram, Yuval Noah Harari & Mark Bowden on the Upcoming Premiere of Saxophonist Simon Haram and London Sinfonietta premiere Sapiens – a brand new commission from Mark Bowden in London, 7th Dece

David John Roche's Six Prayers has been nominated for the Toru Takemitsu Composition Award 2020. David features alongside composers from Spain, Hong Kong and China on a shortlist selected by Thomas

Lucy McPhee has been named as one of five composers chosen from 43 submissions to this year's The Night With... Call for Scores which takes place in Glasgow in November. The workshop will take plac

Daniel Soley is named alongside artists including Gwilym Bowen Rhys and Moletrap on the list of recipients for this year's BBC Horizons and the Launchpad fund. He is to receive a grant for website de

Ceiri Torjussen has signed on to score the upcoming thriller Burn . The film is written and directed by Mike Gan and stars Josh Hutcherson, Tilda Cobham-Hervey, Suki Waterhouse, Harry Shum Jr. and S

Mae carol Richard Elfyn Jones ‘Adam’s Fall’ wedi ei chynnwys yn CD newydd Côr Coleg y Brenin Caergrawnt, '100 Years of Nine Lessons and Carols,' (sydd ar y pryd yn y 6ed rif yn siartiau Classical

from Cardiff University website Gareth Olubunmi Hughes has been selected as the winner of Cardiff University School of Music’s inaugural Alumni Composition Competition. The winning piece, Anial Llwyd

Nathan Dearden has been awarded a place on the 2018/19 Adopt a Composer scheme. The year-long project, produced by Sound and Music in partnership with Making Music, matches vocal and instrumental m

Tŷ Cerdd has announced that composer Mark Bowden has been selected to represent the Welsh Section at the 2020 World New Music Days, to be held in New Zealand, 21-30 April: his Five Memos for violin

Sound and Music launches the essential findings of its National Music Educators' Survey, revealing the significant barriers faced by young people looking to compose and create their own music. The f

Following a workshop at Saffron Hall with Sir James MacMillan and five shortlisted composers, Britten Sinfonia has announced that Robert Singer has been selected as the winner of OPUS2018. Robert’s p

Trwy gynllun Adopt a Composer, mae Côr Crymych wedi mabwysiadu'r cyfansoddwr Max Charles Davies. Darllenwch erthygl BBC Cymru Fyw yma: https://www.bbc.co.uk/cymrufyw/46565717

Richard Elfyn Jones's carol ‘Adam's Fall’ has been included in King's College Choir Cambridge's newly released CD box set, '100 Years of Nine Lessons and Carols' (currently no. 6 in the Classical FM c

Only 24 days until CROSSROADS International Contemporary Music Festival 2018 at the Universität Mozarteum Salzburg, where this year I am the only UK-based composer to be showcased and have the opp