Composers' Workshops

The …'virtuosic Fidelio Trio'… (Sunday Times) are Darragh Morgan (violin), Tim Gill (cello) and Mary Dullea (piano). Shortlisted for the 2016 Royal Philharmonic Society Music Awards, The Fidelio Trio broadcast regularly on BBC Radio 3, RTÉ Lyric FM, WQXR, and have been featured on a Sky Arts documentary. After their...

Liam Noble : Pianist/Composer One of the most sought after musicians on the European scene, Liam has played with countless musicians at home and abroad. From Elgar to electric Miles, his recent solo CD “ A Room Somewhere ” reflects both a wide range of interests and an attention to nuance and detail. As well as his...

Josh Levine (b. 1959) is an American composer of acoustic and electroacoustic music. His work explores the unity of memory and imagination through inter laced processes that lead recurring musical materials into ever-new relationships. Characterized by visceral gestures and subtly nuanced textures, his pieces are inspired...

Born in the Netherlands and based in Italy, Erik Bertsch is a pianist who focuses his attention on contemporary repertoire with curiosity and spirit of research. His commitment to the music of our time gave him the opportunity to collaborate intensively with established composers like George Benjamin, Marco Stroppa, Ivan...

Dani Howard is a British composer and orchestrator, known in particular for her orchestral writing, she has had her compositions performed by orchestras including the LSO, RLPO RPO, BBCSO, Ulster Orchestra among others, and most recently received her BBC Proms debut. In 2021 she received the premiere of her Trombone...

Dr Edmund Hunt is a composer who creates instrumental, vocal and electroacoustic music. He is currently a postdoctoral research fellow in the Integra Lab (music and technology) department at Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, Birmingham City University. As an undergraduate, Edmund studied Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic at the...

Georgia Denham draws on a love of visual arts, anecdotal story and reimagined transcription to create her work. Thinking of music as a physical form, notation is at the core of how she sculpts and nurtures sounds. Georgia’s music is ever adjusting in its foundations and source material, ever open to new influence and...

Annie Mahtani is an electroacoustic composer, sound artist and performer working and living in Birmingham (UK). She studied with Jonty Harrison at master’s and doctoral level at the University of Birmingham, completing her PhD in 2008. Her output encompasses electronic music composition from acousmatic music to free...

Simon Emmerson presents examples of his live electronic music and discusses how changing technology has created new possibilities for the composer. Simon Emmerson studied at Cambridge and at City University, London where he founded the electroacoustic music studio in 1975. He joined De Montfort University, Leicester in...