Composers' Workshops

Composers' Workshop: Ligeti Quartet and MPhil Composers The inaugural holder of Cambridge’s new Chamber Music Residency, the Ligeti Quartet is one of the most exciting and dynamic ensembles working today. Dedicated exclusively to 20th- and 21st- century music, the quartet plays with extraordinary energy and intensity. In...

Composers' Workshop: Colin Riley Colin Riley’s music draws on a range of elements including new technologies, improvisation, song- writing and large-scale classical form. His recently- released portrait disc Shenanigans (NMC) was described as ‘Wry, fond, understated and slightly bonkers’ ( The Guardian ). He is currently...

Composers' Workshop: Erika Fox Erika Fox was born in Vienna of Hungarian/ Romanian parents and arrived in London as a refugee from Nazi Austria in July 1939. She is a highly distinguished and proli c composer whose works have been featured at the South Bank Centre, the Almeida Theatre, the Hudders eld Festival and other...

Composer's Workshop: Márton Illés The Hungarian Márton Illés, winner of many international awards including the highly prestigious Siemens Foundation Prize, is one of the most dynamic composers of his generation. In his music, exact calculation and risk are held in a precise balance so that ‘rationality is confronted...

Composers' Workshop: PhD Composers Some of Cambridge’s nest 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.

Composers' Workshop: Tabea Debus Described by The Times as a ‘charismatic virtuoso’, Tabea Debus is constantly exploring the horizons of music for recorder and has performed widely in Europe, Singapore, Japan, Malaysia and the USA as well as being featured on BBC Radio 3’s In Tune and Early Music Show . In this, the rst of...

Composers' Workshop: Richard Causton Richard Causton, the Music Faculty’s Reader in Composition, has been described as ‘one of the most courageous and uncompromising artists working today’. Here, he outlines the programme of this term’s Composers’ Workshops and welcomes to the Faculty those interested in new music before...

Tuesday, 13 March 2018 2.00pm, Recital Room at the Faculty of Music Gillian Moore MBE Gillian Moore MBE is Head of Music at London’s South Bank Centre. She has collaborated with many of the great musical and artistic figures of our age, from Luciano Berio to Radiohead, from Harrison Birtwistle to Squarepusher, from Steve...

Tuesday, 6 March 2018 2.00pm, Recital Room at the Faculty of Music Cambridge University Undergraduate Composers This session offers a chance to hear workshop rehearsal/performances of new works by Undergraduate composers. A rare opportunity to hear the raw material of music take shape as a collaborative process between...