Composers' Workshops

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...

Marcos Stuardo is a Chilean-British composer based in the United Kingdom. He obtained his Licenciatura en Composición with the Highest Distinction at Universidad de Chile under the tutelage of Andrés Maupoint. He completed his PhD in Music at King's College London, where he studied with Professor Silvina Milstein. Marcos'...

Each of Frank Denyer ’s brilliantly coloured and imaginatively rich compositions is written for a unique combination of instruments - more often than not a combination that no composer has dreamed of before. His music presents an astonishingly varied array of sound sources – new instruments of his own invention, adapted...

Daniel Kidane 's music has been performed extensively across the UK and abroad as well as being broadcast on BBC Radio 3, described by the Financial Times as ‘quietly impressive’ and by The Times as ‘tautly constructed’ and ’vibrantly imagined’. Highlights include orchestral works Woke, which was premiered by the BBC...