Composers' Workshops

Richard Causton, the Music Faculty’s Reader 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, focussing on his recent piece...

Unfortunately this event will no longer take place. This class will be included in the Michaelmas Term 2019 programme.

After her remarkable and captivating presentation last October, recorder virtuoso Tabea Debus returns to the Faculty of Music with duo partner Olwen Foulkes for the second of two workshops, in which she showcases new works written especially by Cambridge University student composers.

A practical workshop in which chamber works by the current generation of undergraduate composers are presented, rehearsed and discussed. A unique chance to hear new pieces taking shape by some of the University’s most talented young composers.

Claudia Molitor is a composer/artist whose work draws on traditions of music and sound art but also extends to video, performance and fine art practices. Exploring the relationships between listening and seeing as well as embracing collaboration as compositional practice is central to her work. Claudia is the co-founder/...

Julian Anderson is among the most esteemed and influential composers of his generation, and has enjoyed residencies with City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, the Cleveland Orchestra, and the London Philharmonic Orchestra. Here he talks about Van Gogh Blue (described by the Royal Philharmonic Society as ‘a work of...

Allan Gravgaard Madsen’s works explore a micro world of sounds, sparse textures and limited materials. The winner of several prestigious international prizes, he is currently working a double concerto for violin, piano and orchestra for Duo Åstrand/Salo and the Danish National Symphony Orchestra. Allan is currently the...

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.

John Hopkins, Fellow in Music at Homerton College and for many years Lecturer at the Cambridge Faculty of Music, discusses his Double Concerto for trumpet, saxophone and orchestra. This fascinating work was originally premiered by John Wallace, John Harle and the City of London Sinfonia, and performed last year by the BBC...

Composer's Workshop: Tim Watts Hot on the heels of the University of Cambridge New Music Ensemble’s performance of his work at Kettle’s Yard, Tim Watts - composer, pianist, lecturer, teacher and Fellow of St John’s College – discusses his recent work SHEER for countertenor, tenor and piano, commissioned by the Wilfrid Owen...