Composers' Workshops

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...

Freya Waley-Cohen Described as 'at once intimate and visionary' (BBC Music Magazine) Freya Waley-Cohen's music has been commissioned by institutions and ensembles including the LA Philharmonic, BBC Proms, Wigmore Hall, Philharmonia Orchestra, King's Singers, the Aldeburgh , Cheltenham, Presteigne, Santa Fe, and Cheltenham...

The music of the award-winning American composer, pianist and conductor David Gompper has been performed worldwide, including at the Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, the Vienna Konzerthaus. It combines an acute sensitivity to gesture and luminous scoring with a flair for large dramatic forms. He is currently working on the...

Unfortunately, this event has been cancelled. Hailed as "a charismatic and intriguing new voice in contemporary music" (The Independent), Dierdre 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...

Raymond Yiu is a Hong-Kong born, London-based composer, jazz pianist, conductor and writer on music. Raymond originally trained as an engineer, before turning to composition. His ‘hugely impressive’ (The Guardian) Symphony was premiered during the Proms in 2015 by Andrew Watts, BBC Symphony Orchetra and Edward Gardner...

Belfast born Stephen McNeff first made his name with his film noir operatic version of The Wasteland (1994) and his many scores for the Unicorn Theatre. Operatic work continued with Gentle Giant for the Royal Opera, and 2117/Hedd Wyn for Welsh National Opera. Aside from composition, Stephen has also served as Chairman of...

Naomi Belshaw is Composer Relations and PR Executive at WildKat PR, and has expert knowledge in the fields of copyright, music royalties, funding and publishing. Here she discusses how an emerging composer can make their way in today’s rapidly changing music industry. Her presentation will touch on subjects such as...

Laurence Osborn is a British composer based in London, where he is studying for a PhD in Composition at King’s College London, supervised by Sir George Benjamin. Already renowned for his excellent ear and the care with which he crafts each of his works, Laurence has written for the London Symphony Orchestra, London...

One of the most adventurous and creative performers working today, Lore Lixenberg is at the forefront of new music in the UK. A performer of breathtaking versatility, she has sung at the Royal Opera House and English National Opera, and with ensembles such as Klangforum Wien, Ensemble Intercontemporain and the London...