‘O Ecclesia’ for Aidan O’Rourke & Sean Shibe
I’ve made a new version of O Ecclesia, my reworking of a chant by Hildegard of Bingen, for Scottish folk fiddler Aidan O’Rourke and guitarist Sean Shibe. They’ll be performing it at ...
Tom Coult is a composer born in London in 1988. His work has been championed by many of the UK’s major orchestras and ensembles, resulting in a series of acclaimed large-scale pieces, including Spirit of the Staircase for the London Sinfonietta (nominated for a South Bank Sky Arts Award), St John’s Dance for the BBC Symphony Orchestra to open the First Night of the 2017 BBC Proms, and Pleasure Garden for the BBC Philharmonic, with whom he is currently Composer-in-Assocation. His 2022 opera Violet was described as ‘the best new British opera in years’ by The Telegraph and has already earned further new productions in Germany and France.
• New version of O Ecclesia for Aidan O'Rourke & Sean Shibe, Australian premiere of Gymnopédies for orchestra, ORA Singers premiere Souling, two new pieces for voice & orchestra.
I’ve made a new version of O Ecclesia, my reworking of a chant by Hildegard of Bingen, for Scottish folk fiddler Aidan O’Rourke and guitarist Sean Shibe. They’ll be performing it at ...
I’m joining the Royal Northern College of Music as a Professor of Composition. I’ll be giving tutorials with Undergraduate and Postgraduate composers. I join a number of brilliant composer...
The Adelphi Quartet are giving the world premiere of my String Quartet No. 2, at Switzerland’s Lucerne Festival on 10 September. Here’s the programme note: Friedrich Fröbel’s ‘Gifts’ were ...
L’Aurore Boréale’s production of Violet, my opera written with writer Alice Birch, is getting another performance at Paris’ Théâtre de l’Atelier on 25 June. The director is Jac...