Classical and Jazz Executive

Issie Barratt (co-opted)
Alan Bullard
Tim Garland (co-opted)
Anthony Gilbert
Adam Gorb
Ian McQueen
George Nicholson
Paul Patterson
David Penri-Evans
Sarah Rodgers (Director)
Sinan Carter Savaskan
David Stoll (Director)
Shirley Thompson

Issie Barratt
http://www.issiebarratt.com/

Alan Bullard
http://www.alan.bullard.tripod.com/index.htm

Alan Bullard's music is widely performed worldwide and the variety of commissions that he has undertaken - including music for professional soloists, ensembles, amateur choral societies, choirs, a semi-professional chamber orchestra, a professional chamber choir, various festivals, music for examination syllabuses, educational albums, and for a television programme about the Suffolk landscape - are some indication of the wide appeal of the music of this versatile composer. Alan now works primarily as a free-lance composer - up until Summer 2005 he was Head of Composition at the Centre for Music and Performing Arts, Colchester Institute. He has twice been the Composer in Residence for the Convention of the Association of British Choral Directors, in 1999 and again in 2007, and is currently an examiner for the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music.

Tim Garland
http://www.timgarland.com/

Anthony Gilbert
http://www.anthonygilbert.net/index.html
Anthony Gilbert studyied first with Mátyás Seiber, then with Anthony Milner and Alexander Goehr at Morley College, London, and later with Gunther Schuller at Tanglewood. He first attracted public attention in the 1960s with a series of virtuoso works for small ensembles, performed in international festivals. He worked his way up from warehouseman to Chief Editor of contemporary music and Head of Production at Schotts Publishers. He was Granada Arts Fellow at Lancaster University and then taught Composition at the Royal Northern College of Music. He spent the next 10 years composing larger, widely-acclaimed works. During the 1980s, he headed the Composition Department at the New South Wales State Conservatorium. In the late 80s he wrote date Dream Carousels for wind, Gilbert’s most-performed work. BBC Philharmonic, Northern Chamber Orchestra, English Chamber Orchestra, Goldberg Ensemble have all performed his works. Throughout his professional life, Gilbert has been closely involved in the promotion of performances of new music, with several long periods on the committees of the Society for the Promotion of New Music, the ICA Music Section, the British and Sydney Sections of the ISCM and the New Music Panel of North West Arts. He was Founder Member, Chairman and Artistic Director of New Music Forum, Manchester, and Founder and Artistic Director of AKANTHOS, the new music ensemble of the RNCM. Until his retirement at the end of 1999 Anthony Gilbert was Head of Composition and Contemporary Music at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester.

Adam Gorb
http://www.adamgorb.co.uk/

Adam Gorb started composing at the age of ten and at fifteen he wrote a set of piano pieces, of which a selection were performed on BBC Radio 3. He studied music at Cambridge University and at the Royal Academy of Music, where he gained a MMus degree and graduated with the highest honours, including the Principal’s Prize in 1993. “Prelude, Interlude and Postlude” for piano, won the Purcell Composition Prize in 1995, “Awayday” for Wind Band has had over a thousand performances since its premiere in 1996 and has been commercially recorded several times. Adam has won several British Composer Awards in the Wind and Brass category for his compositions. Adam is Head of School of Composition and Contemporary Music at the Royal Northern College of Music (RNCM) in Manchester.

Ian McQueen
http://www.ian-mcqueen.co.uk/

Ian McQueen is one of the UK's leading theatre composers. He has worked as a professional composer and educator over nearly three decades in the field of opera, orchestral, chamber and vocal music. Although he has been based in London since the 70s, Ian maintains strong links with Scottish musical life and its institutions. Ian has always been active as an artist in the community.

George Nicholson

George is a composer of mostly chamber and vocal works that have been performed throughout Europe and elsewhere; he is also active as a conductor and pianist. Dr. Nicholson studied composition with David Blake and Bernard Rands at York University, where he received his DMus in 1979. As a pianist, he is a member of the chamber groups Nomos and Triple Echo and regularly gives recitals with his wife, soprano Jane Ginsborg, for whom he has written many works. As a conductor, he has conducted numerous new music ensembles in the UK. He taught as a lecturer in music and served as director of the composition department at Keele University from 1988-95. He has been Senior Lecturer in Composition at Sheffield University since 1996, where he has also served as chair of its music department since 2003.

Paul Patterson
http://www.paulpatterson.co.uk/

David Penri-Evans
www.penrievans.free-online.co.uk/DPE_Web_01/Homex

David Penri-Evans’ Welsh Heritage plays an important part in his music. American composer Ned Rorem has described David’s work as “New Orleans Jazz through a Celtic mist”. He established the Portsmouth District Composers Alliance (PDCA) and is the organiser of “Tempo”, the contemporary music festival. He has appeared as a guest composer at the LSU Festival of Contemporary Music in 1990 and 1995 and also at the Conservatoire National de Region de Rouen in 2000 and returned to Louisiana as a guest composer in 2006.

Sinan Carter Savaskan
http://www.savaskan.co.uk/

Sinan C Savaskan is a composer of orchestral, chamber and performance-art related contemporary music. His music has been commissioned and performed in over twenty countries by some of the foremost performers of contemporary music, including the BBC Symphony Orchestra, John Harle and Myrha Saxophone Quartet, the Lontano Ensemble, the SEM Orchestra - New York/Petr Kotik, the Balanescu String Quartet, the Gemini Ensemble, the Smith Quartet, Tim Brady, Sydney Alpha Ensemble, Trio Basso - Cologne, Yvar Mikhashoff, MusICA series of the Institute of Contemporary Arts/London, Martin Ball, Contemporary Arts Ensemble/London, Cambridge New Music Players, Tokyo Alpha Ensemble, and a selection of prominent theatre companies and directors. Sinan is Head of Department for Academic Music at Westminster School.

Shirley Thompson

The innovative London composer is widely celebrated for her eclectic and original writing style, having composed numerous scores for opera, orchestra, contemporary dance, TV and Film. Her largest orchestral work, ‘New Nation Rising, A 21st Century Symphony’ (2004) has been recorded by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. She is the first woman in Europe to have composed and conducted a symphony in the last 30 years. After studying Music at the University of Liverpool and then specialising in Composition at Goldsmiths’ College with Professor Stanley Glasser, Thompson set up her own chamber orchestra, The Shirley Thompson Ensemble. Shirley co-scored the multi-award-winning Sadler’s Wells contemporary ballet production, PUSH, which toured worldwide. Her latest orchestral work, Spirit of the Middle Passage for Solo Singers, Speaker and Orchestra, premiered with the Philharmonia Orchestra at the QEH. Music for the theatrical stage includes her score for the play, The Lodger (Theatre Royal, Stratford East) and her 2-Act opera, A Child of the Jago (Purcell Room).