Composers' Workshops

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...

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. Since their debut...

Úna Monaghan is a harper, composer, researcher and sound artist from Belfast. Her recent work has combined Irish traditional music with bronze sculpture, sound art and movement sensors. She performs with harp and electronics, and released an album of her compositions, named “For” in 2018. She collaborates, improvises and...

Marta Gentilucci is a composer of instrumental, vocal and electronic music. Her formal training as an opera singer influenced and formed her being a composer, as well as her attraction to the inner structure of sound, its way of resonating in space and oscillating within a timespan, its metamorphosis in color and 'shape'...

Michael Zev Gordon ’s music has been described as ‘a clockmaker’s craftmanship [which] somehow coincides with romantic phantasmagoria’ (Paul Driver, Sunday Times). A broad range of influences – including his teachers Holloway, Goehr, Knussen, Donatoni, Andriessen and Woolrich – have coalesced into an eclectic, individual...