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.
• New works for Nicolas Altstaedt and Fenella Humphreys, performances by Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Marian Consort, Rakhi Singh & Festival Voices, UK premiere of Horn Trio, new work for La Nuova Musica
My Black Shuck Lament will be performed by tenor Guy Cutting and the strings of the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra directed by Zoë Beyers, at the Royal Northern College of Music on 16 October, at a concer...
My horn trio, Two Nocturnes and a Maze, is being given its UK premiere this Thursday 20th August at the North York Moors Chamber Music Festival, with horn player Benjamin Goldscheider, violinist Benja...
Two performances of my choral works on the same day on 23 May: Firstly O Euchari for voices & solo violin is being performed at London’s Kings Place by Festival Voices and violinist Rakhi Si...
Craftsmen & Clowns for solo cello will be premiered by Nicolas Altstaedt at L’Auditori in Barcelona on 19 April. In 13 minutes and in three movements, it takes its name from a theory of the ...