Tom Coult is a composer born in London in 1988. Since 2021, he has been Composer-in-Association with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, who have premiered a number of pieces and recorded an album of his music with NMC. 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.
Pieces have been commissioned by BBC Proms (including St John’s Dance for the First Night of the 2017 Proms), Aldeburgh Festival (including pieces for Mahler Chamber Orchestra and for Marian Consort), and Lucerne Festival, and he has been Composer-in-Residence at Aldeburgh Festival, Switzerland’s Musikdorf Ernen, and Oxford Lieder Festival.
• Australian premiere of Gymnopédies for orchestra, ORA Singers premiere Souling, New piece for Allan Clayton & Dunedin Consort, new piece for voice & orchestra.
My Gymnopediés are being given their Australian premiere by the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra conducted by David Sharp. They’ll perform it twice – on the 7th and 8th March, at their Grainger Studi...
12 Ensemble are giving the UK premiere of my Prelude (after Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe) for 2 violas, 2 celli and double bass, at London’s Wigmore Hall on 25 February. They’re performing i...
My album Pieces that Disappear was released in November on NMC Recordings, and it has been featured in a number of reviews. It features four pieces, all performed by the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra – B...
I’m writing a new work for tenor Allan Clayton and a string quintet from the Dunedin Consort, to be premiered at the Aldeburgh Festival on 21 June. I’ll be taking phrases from the Book of ...