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Tom Coult, 23, is a London-born, Manchester-based composer whose work has earned performances by ensembles including the Manchester Camerata, the Hebrides Ensemble, Gemini, the Third Angle Ensemble, Trio Magritte, Trio Atem, Metapraxis Ensemble, Raise Your Voice Collective, the new music ensembles of Manchester and York Universities, and the University of Manchester Chamber Orchestra. He is currently Young Composer-in-Residence with the Lancashire Sinfonietta.
Tom studied at the University of Manchester with Camden Reeves and Philip Grange, where he graduated with a First Class degree, and was awarded numerous University awards, including Hargreaves Fund prizes for Aesthetics and Analysis, the Proctor-Gregg Prize for Composition, the Keith Elcombe award for Best Overall Performance in Music, the Humanities Faculty Award for Distinguished Achievement and the University of Manchester Award for Outstanding Academic Achievement. He was also awarded a University of Manchester scholarship to study for his Masters in Composition, completed with Distinction in September 2011. He will begin a PhD in Composition at King’s College London in September with George Benjamin.
Tom is a co-founder and music director of the collaborative opera company Opera Viscera, and oversaw the composition of their production of ‘Narcissus & Echo’, composing two scenes and conducting performances at the Secret Garden Party festival, the Arcola Theatre‘s Grimeborn Opera Festival and at the Second Movement‘s ‘Rough For Opera‘ showcase.
Tom is the holder of the Christopher Brooks Memorial Prize for Lancashire Sinfonietta, and has also won first prize at the 2011 Philip Bates Prize at Birmingham Conservatoire for ‘Seven Face Pictures‘, the 2012 Third Angle Ensemble New Ideas in Music competition for Piano Trio “The Chronophageâ€, and was a finallist in the Niccolò Castiglioni Prize in Milan. He has had pieces workshopped by Quatuor Danel, The Cardinall’s Musick, Alison Wells, Andrew Wilson-Dickson and by singers for The Opera Group, and wrote a score for a 2009 production of ‘Sinbad’ at the Camden Roundhouse.
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