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Posted on 14 Jun 2024

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Posted on 29 Apr 2024

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, Schubert, John Luther Adams and Brahms. On 16 May, Beautiful Caged Thing will be performed in...

Posted on 11 Apr 2024

I've written a new piece, to be performed at the launch event of Universally Manchester Festival and Manchester Histories Festival, which celebrate the bicentenary celebrations of the University of Manchester. Ryley's Ramble, for flute, clarinet, violin & cello, will be performed by members of the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra (with whom I'm Composer-in-Association), in a concert at Manchester's Whitworth Art Gallery. Also...

Posted on 18 Dec 2023

The Aldeburgh Festival will see the premieres of two pieces for choir and violin, for violinist Daniel Pioro and the Marian Consort – O Ecclesia, O Euchari (after Hildegard), and Hymns of Kassiana (after Kassia). Daniel and the Marians will perform them in the gorgeous Holy Trinity Church in Blythburgh on 10 June – link here. Alongside my two contributions...

Posted on 27 Oct 2023

My piece Abide is featured on a new recording and publication – Many Voices: Ensemble – from music education charity Music Masters. They commissioned ten composers to work with primary school-age students on a new piece for beginner/intermediate string ensemble. I ran a workshop at Jubilee Primary School near Brixton where I worked with nine- and ten-year olds, gathering material generated by...

Posted on 18 Oct 2023

Violet has been nominated for an Ivors Classical Award for Best Stage Work. With text by Alice Birch and directed by Jude Christian, it opened the 2022 Aldeburgh Festival and toured the UK, before having further lives in productions in Ulm, Germany and in Paris. It was co-commissioned by Music Theatre Wales and Britten Pears Arts. It was also nominated for...

Posted on 16 Jun 2023

L'Aurore Boréale's production of Violet, my opera written with writer Alice Birch, is getting three performances at Paris' Festival Bruit next week (23-25 June) at Theâtre de l’Aquarium. The production was first shown at École Normale Supérieure Paris Saclay, directed by Jacques Osinski with Bianca Chillemi conducting Ensemble Maja. The cast is: Juliette Allen (soprano – Violet), Olivier Gourdy (baritone –...

Posted on 31 May 2023

I have been awarded the Critics' Circle Award for Young Composer for 2022. Their citation read: Tom Coult is a storyteller in sound with an ear that makes good on the promise of his titles: I Find Planets, for example, Beautiful Caged Thing and Inventions (for Heath Robinson). All the same, his 2018 String Quartet shows that he doesn’t need an off-the-wall title or idea to...

Posted on 05 May 2023

Violet, my opera with Alice Birch, was given its French premiere last month by the L'Aurore Boréale company with three dates at ENS Paris-Saclay, in a production by Jacques Osinski. They're doing three dates in June at Paris' Theâtre de l'Aquarium, but before that, here are some photos… The cast was soprano Juliette Allen as Violet, baritone Olivier Gourdy as Felix, mezzo...