Composers' Workshops

Cevanne Horrocks-Hopayian Please note that this Composers' Workshop has been postponed. Cevanne Horrocks-Hopayian was 'composer-in-residence' with the London Symphony Orchestra at the National Trust's 575 Wandsworth Road. She won a British Composer Award for Jazz, and Ivors Composer Award nominations in Chamber Music and...

Thomas Simaku Please note that this Composers' Workshop has been postponed. Thomas Simaku's music has been reaching audie nces across Europe, the USA and further afield for three decades, and has been awarded a host of accolades for its expressive qualities and its unique blend of intensity and modernism. His CD released...

Deirdre Gribbin Hailed as "a charismatic and intriguing new voice in contemporary music" (The Independent), Deirdre Gribbin's music has been performed at The Lincoln Center in New York as well as garnering awards at the UNESCO International Rostrum of Composers. She also won an Arts Foundation Award for the opera Hey...

Cambridge students Some of Cambridge's finest young composers discuss their recent work from the point of view of both poetic and technical considerations. An insight into some of the most exciting creative work being produced on home turf.

Byron Wallen Renowned jazz composer and bandleader Byron Wallen talks about the Hurricane Bells, a collaborative project with artist Peter Shenai. The bells are modelled on the structure of Hurricane Katrina; hung in a line and struck in order, these cyclonic, irregularly-shaped instruments produce descending tones...

Úna Monaghan Úna Monaghan is a harper, composer, researcher and sound artist from Belfast. She collaborates, improvises and performs with poets, visual artists, computers, writers, musicians, and others. Úna has held artist residencies at the Centre Culturel Irlandais Paris, the Institute for the Public Life of Arts and...

Peter Hill Pianist and writer Peter Hill is one of the leading British pianists of his generation, highly esteemed for his performances and recordings of twentieth-century and contemporary music. His complete cycles of Messiaen and of Berg, Schoenberg and Webern have received superlative acclaim. The Messiaen was described...