Composers' Workshops

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...

Richard Causton, the Music Faculty’s Professor in Composition , has been described as “one of the most courageous and uncompromising artists working today”. He introduces this term’s Composers’ Workshops and welcomes to the Faculty those interested in new music before speaking about his own work.

As one of the final events as holder of the Wort Residency 2021-22, Errollyn Wallen CBE will be speaking in the concluding Composers Workshop of the year. Described by The Observer as “the renaissance woman of contemporary British music” , she is a leading figure in today’s musical world, as respected as a singer/...