Composers' Workshops

Stephen Upshaw Title: Contemporary Repertoire for Viola American violist Stephen Upshaw regularly appears in festivals around the world including the BBC Proms , Cheltenham, Aldeburgh, Lucerne, Huddersfield, Aix-en-Provence , Wien Modern and the Salzburg Chamber Music Festival. Much in demand as a chamber musician, he is a...

Title: Stepping Into The Sound: approaches to multichannel composition Bio: Annie Mahtani is an electroacoustic composer, sound artist and performer working and living in Birmingham (UK). Her output encompasses electronic music composition from acousmatic music to free improvisation. As a collaborator, Annie Mahtani has...

Andrew Knight-Hill Title Art of Sound: Creativity in Film Sound and Electroacoustic Music How do sounds communicate, make us feel, and tell stories? Over the past three years, Prof. Andrew Knight-Hill has been researching creative practice in sound, undertaking interviews and dialogues with Composers and Sound Designers...

Paolo Furlani graduated in Clarinet, Choral Music, Wind Band Orchestration and Composition from the Venice Conservatory. Most of his operas have been performed: El roverso mondo (The Upside-down World), published by Sonzogno (Udine 1995); Il teatrino delle maraviglie (The Theatre of Wonders) from Cervantes (Lugo 1995); Le...

Edward Dimsdale / Professor of Art & Contemporary Visual Culture / Head of the Graduate School, Cambridge School of Visual & Performing Arts (CSVPA) After studying Social Sciences at the University of Bristol, Ed assisted photographers and worked in darkrooms as a photographic printer. As a freelance photographer...

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...