TOM COULT | Beautiful Caged Thing

St Colombe in Australia, Caged Thing in London, String Quartet in Berkhamsted

Some performances in the next few weeks: The Australian Chamber Orchestra, directed by Richard Tognetti, will give the Australian premiere of Prelude (after Monsieur de Sainte Colombe) on 4 May at their annual festival at TarraWarra Museum of Art. They're also playing pieces by Ida Moberg,...

After Lassus, Beautiful Caged Thing, Studies in Canonic Form / 21.04.2023

Curated programme with Anna Dennis & BBC Philharmonic

Having given the world premiere of Three Pieces that Disappear, the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra are in the studio next week with soprano Anna Dennis to record a programme I've devised, for a live Radio 3 broadcast on 28 April. The pieces are all about mirrors and...

Beautiful Caged Thing, Four Perpetual Motions / 15.06.2015

Four Perpetual Motions score on sale

The score for my Four Perpetual Motions for ten players is now on sale from Faber Music. I'm very grateful to the estate of László Moholy-Nagy for allowing me to use his wonderful painting Komposition A XXI on the cover. The piece was commissioned by the...

Beautiful Caged Thing / 31.05.2015

Beautiful Caged Thing – 13 June

The Aldeburgh Festival is happening this month, and my new orchestral song cycle will be premiered on the 13 June by soprano Claire Booth with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra conducted by George Benjamin. For Beautiful Caged Thing, commissioned by the festival, I have extracted lines and...

Beautiful Caged Thing, Sonnet Machine / 11.05.2015

Aldeburgh Residency

From today, I am starting a residency hosted by the Britten-Pears Foundation at the former home of Imogen Holst (pictured here with Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears) in Aldeburgh, Suffolk. I will be staying in the property, located at Church Walk in the centre of...

Beautiful Caged Thing / 10.12.2014

New work for Claire Booth & Mahler Chamber Orchestra – 13 June

I'm delighted to have been commissioned by Aldeburgh Music to write an orchestral song cycle for the 2015 Aldeburgh Festival, to be premiered by soprano Claire Booth with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra conducted by George Benjamin. The programme will also feature Wagner's Siegried Idyll, Benjamin's...