Composers' Workshops

Darragh and Mary return to Cambridge to workshop and showcase brand new works composed by Cambridge University students during the term.

***TO BE RESCHEDULED*** Dobrinka Tabakova ’s ‘exciting, deeply moving’ music (Washington Times) has been featured in festivals including the BBC Proms, UK; Schleswig-Holstein, Germany; Moscow Homecoming, Russia; World Sun Songs, Latvia and Dark Music Days, Iceland. Tabakova’s debut profile album ‘String Paths’, on ECM...

***TO BE RESCHEDULED*** Dani Howard is a British composer and orchestrator who is quickly gaining international recognition for her orchestral writing, with regular performances across the UK, US, Europe and Asia. In June 2021 she received the premiere of her Trombone Concerto with acclaimed reviews “an instant classicâ€...

***TO BE RESCHEDULED*** Francesca Verunelli studied composition and piano at the Conservatorio Luigi Cherubini in Florence where she earned both diplomas summa cum laude. She went on to attend IRCAM’s cursus 1 & 2 in Composition and Computer Music specializing in electronic music. In 2010 she was awarded the Silver...

Chaya Czernowin (Dec 1957) is a composer of operas, orchestral and chamber works with and without electronics, which have been performed worldwide. She was composer in residence in Salzburg festival 2005/6, and Lucerne Festival 2013. She is Walter Bigelow Rosen Professor of Music at Harvard University and was a Professor...

Two of the UK's finest and most experienced performers of new music join us for this Workshop, in which they will demonstrate contemporary techniques and discuss how to write effectively for their instruments, as well as performing excerpts from their extensive repertoire. They will also look at ideas for new pieces by...

Effy Efthymiou is a composer of new music, and creator and producer of multimedia stage works that harness music, movement, the spoken word and the body. Her work has been described as ‘Brilliantly realized’ by Tamara Guasi in Time Out, and as ‘a powerful statement for 21st century innovation’ (Timmy Fisher, Bachtrack...

Rosie Johnson MBE has worked with composers for 40 years. She is currently Secretary of the Ralph Vaughan Williams Trust, in support of British composers. In previous incarnations she has been Director of SPNM (the Society for the Promotion of New Music - now part of Sound and Music), a composer manager for Chester Music...

Stephane Crayton is a composer based in Cambridge. His compositions reassess various social dynamics of performance; he wrote a piece for the Ligeti Quartet in which every note of Beethoven’s Heiliger Dankgesang was reordered, and recently completed a short piece for the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Stephane is...

Composer Carola Bauckholt was born in Krefeld in 1959 and studied with Mauricio Kagel at the Cologne University of Music, having worked for several years at the Theater am Marienplatz (TAM) in Krefeld. Since 2015 she has been teaching composition at the Anton Bruckner Private University in Linz, Austria. She is a member of...