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The Royal Philharmonic Society has commissioned new works to composers since 1813. Most notable pieces commissioned by the Society are Beethoven's '' Symphony No. 9'',
Felix Mendelssohn Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (3 February 18094 November 1847), born and widely known as Felix Mendelssohn, was a German composer, pianist, organist and conductor of the early Romantic period. Mendelssohn's compositions include sy ...
's '' Symphony No.4'' and
Antonín Dvořák Antonín Leopold Dvořák ( ; ; 8 September 1841 – 1 May 1904) was a Czechs, Czech composer. Dvořák frequently employed rhythms and other aspects of the folk music of Moravian traditional music, Moravia and his native Bohemia, following t ...
's '' Symphony No.8''. This is a list of compositions commissioned by the RPS or dedicated to the Royal Philharmonic Society (London) since 1813. 1814 * L. Berger: ''Overture'' * Cherubini: ''Overture'' 1815 * Cherubini: ''Overture in G'' * Cherubini: ''Symphony in D'' * Ries: ''Symphony'' 1816 * Ries: ''Bardic Overture'' * Klengel: ''Piano Quintet'' * Potter: ''Overture'' * Ries: ''Symphony No.3 in Eb'' *
Müller Müller may refer to: * ''Die schöne Müllerin'' (1823) (sometimes referred to as ''Müllerlieder''; ''Müllerin'' is a female miller) is a song cycle with words by Wilhelm Müller and music by Franz Schubert * Doctor Müller, fictional character ...
: ''Clarinet Quintet'' * J. F. Burrowes: ''Overture'' * Cherubini: ''Cantata La Primavera'' * Clementi: ''Symphony'' * Potter: ''Septet for piano, flute and strings'' * Fémy: ''Symphony in E minor'' 1817 *
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: ''Symphony'' 1819 * Ries: ''Scena Sia Luminosa'' 1821 *
Spohr Louis Spohr (, 5 April 178422 October 1859), baptized Ludewig Spohr, later often in the modern German form of the name Ludwig, was a German composer, violinist and conducting, conductor. Highly regarded during his lifetime, Spohr composed ten Sy ...
: ''Overture in F'' * Bochsa: ''Septet for harp, wind and double bass'' 1825 * Beethoven: '' Symphony No.9'' 1832 * Neukomm: ''Septet (Fantasia Concertante) for wind and double bass'' * Onslow: ''Symphony'' 1833 * Cramer: ''Piano Quintet in Bb'' *
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: ''Grand Septet for piano, strings, clarinet and horn'' *
Mendelssohn Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (3 February 18094 November 1847), born and widely known as Felix Mendelssohn, was a German composer, pianist, organist and conductor of the early Romantic music, Romantic period. Mendelssohn's compositi ...
: '' Symphony No.4 in A (Italian)'' * Hummel: ''Piano Concerto in F'' * Neukomm: ''Fantasia Dramatica on Paradise Lost'' * Potter: ''Symphony in A minor'' *
Mendelssohn Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (3 February 18094 November 1847), born and widely known as Felix Mendelssohn, was a German composer, pianist, organist and conductor of the early Romantic music, Romantic period. Mendelssohn's compositi ...
:'' Trumpet Overture in C'' 1834 * H. R. Bishop: ''Cantata The Seventh Day'' *
Vincent Novello Vincent Novello (6 September 17819 August 1861), was an English musician and music publisher born in London. He was a chorister and organist, but he is best known for bringing to England many works now considered standards, and with his son he cr ...
: ''Dramatic Cantata Rosalba'' * Horsley: ''Motet Exultabo Te'' *
Mendelssohn Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (3 February 18094 November 1847), born and widely known as Felix Mendelssohn, was a German composer, pianist, organist and conductor of the early Romantic music, Romantic period. Mendelssohn's compositi ...
: ''Concert Aria Infelice (op.94)'' 1835 *
Herz Herz is the German word for ''heart''. It may refer to: * Herz (surname) * Herz Bergner (1907–1970), Polish-born Australian novelist * Herz Cerfbeer of Medelsheim (1730–1793), French Jewish philanthropist * Herz., author abbreviation of Germa ...
: ''Piano Concerto in D minor'' 1836 * H. R. Bishop: ''Cantata The Departure from Paradise'' 1848 *
Spohr Louis Spohr (, 5 April 178422 October 1859), baptized Ludewig Spohr, later often in the modern German form of the name Ludwig, was a German composer, violinist and conducting, conductor. Highly regarded during his lifetime, Spohr composed ten Sy ...
: ''Symphony No.8 in G major'' 1862 *
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: ''Overture Paradise and the Peri'' 1864 * Bennett: ''Symphony in G minor'' 1867 *
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: ''Overture Marmion'' 1868 *
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: ''Overture symphonique'' * Benedict: ''Overture La selva incantata'' 1872 * Bennett: ''Prelude Ajax'' 1875 * Macfarren: ''Idyll in Memory of Sterndale Bennett'' 1881 * Cowen: ''Sinfonietta in A minor'' 1883 * King: ''Overture Among the Pines'' 1885 * Ernst Mielck, Mielck: ''Dramatische Ouverture'' * Wingham: ''Serenade for Orchestra'' 1886 * Gadsby: ''Scene The Forest of Arden'' * Saint-Saëns: '' Symphony No.3 in C "Organ"'' *
Moszkowski Moszkowski may refer to: * Alexander Moszkowski ( pl, Aleksander Moszkowski; 1851–1934), Jewish Polish-German writer and satirist * Moritz Moszkowski ( pl, Maurycy Moszkowski; 1854–1925), Romantic-era composer and Alexander's brother ** List of ...
: ''Suite for orchestra'' 1887 *
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: ''Suite Roumanian'' * Randegger: ''Scena Prayer of Nature'' 1895 *
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: ''Symphony No.3 in F'' (revised) 1896 * Dvořák: ''Five Biblical Songs with orchestra'' 1898 *
MacCunn Hamish MacCunn, ''né'' James MacCunn (22 March 18682 August 1916) was a Scottish composer, conductor and teacher. He was one of the first students of the newly-founded Royal College of Music in London, and quickly made a mark. As a composer he ...
: ''Ballet music from Diarmid'' 1910 *
Luigi Mancinelli Luigi Mancinelli (; 5 February 1848 – 2 February 1921) was an Italian conductor, cellist and composer. His early career was in Italy, where he established a reputation in Perugia and then Bologna. After 1886 he worked mostly in other countr ...
: ''Romantic Overture'' 1917 * German: ''Song Have you news of my boy Jack?'' 1950 *
Rawsthorne Rawsthorne or Rawsthorn is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Alan Rawsthorne (1905–1971), English composer * Alice Rawsthorn (b. 1958), English journalist * John Rawsthorne (b. 1936), English Catholic bishop * Isabel Rawsthor ...
: ''Symphony'' 1958 * Vaughan Williams: '' Symphony No.9'' 1963 * Walton: ''Variations on a Theme of Hindemith'' 1966 * Hoddinott: ''Variants for Orchestra'' 1969 * Musgrave: ''Clarinet Concerto'' 1970 * Lutosławski: ''Cello Concerto'' 1971 *
Joubert Joubert is a French surname. It is a regional variant form of Jaubert, originating in the centre west and centre south of France.Albert Dauzat (Foreword by Marie-Thérèse Morlet), ''Noms et prénoms de France'', éditions Larousse 1980. p. 346b. ...
: ''Symphony No.2'' 1975 * Cooke: ''Symphony No.4'' 1982 * Simpson: ''Symphony No.8'' 1985 * Musgrave and
Bennett Bennett may refer to: People *Bennett (name), including a list of people with the surname and given name Places Canada * Bennett, Alberta *Bennett, British Columbia * Bennett Lake, in the British Columbia and Yukon Territory **Bennett Range **Benn ...
: ''Moving into Aquarius'' 1987 * Andrzej Panufnik: ''Symphony No.9'' * Burgon: ''Song cycle Title Divine'' 1989 *
Arnold Arnold may refer to: People * Arnold (given name), a masculine given name * Arnold (surname), a German and English surname Places Australia * Arnold, Victoria, a small town in the Australian state of Victoria Canada * Arnold, Nova Scotia Uni ...
: ''Cello Concerto'' 1992 * Saxton: ''Paraphrase on Mozart's Idomeneo'' 2000 * Jonathan Cole: ''Ouroboros'' 2001 *
Luke Bedford Luke Bedford (born 25 April 1978) is a British composer. He studied composition with Edwin Roxburgh and Simon Bainbridge at the Royal College of Music, and won the Mendelssohn Scholarship in 2000. This was followed by post-graduate study with Sim ...
: ''Five Abstracts'', winner of the RPS Composition Prize *
Judith Bingham Judith Bingham (born 21 June 1952) is an English composer and mezzo-soprano singer. Life Bingham was born on 21 June 1952, in Nottingham. Her parents are Jack Bingham and Peggy Bingham (née McGowan). She was educated at High Storrs Grammar ...
: ''Fifty Shades of GreenZ'' * Burgon: ''Heavenly Things'' * Simon Holt: ''Two Movements for String Quartet'' 2002 * Brett Dean: ''Huntington Eulogy'' *
John Woolrich John Woolrich ( ; born 1954 in Cirencester) is an English composer. Biography Woolrich has founded a group (the Composers Ensemble), a festival (Hoxton New Music Days), and has been composer in association with the Orchestra of St John's and th ...
: ''Darker Still'' *
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: ''Oblique Prayers'', winner of the RPS Composition Prize 2003 * Richard Rodney Bennett: ''Songs before Sleep'' * Elliott Carter: ''Of Rewaking'' *
Jonathan Dove Jonathan Dove (born 18 July 1959) is an English composer of opera, choral works, plays, films, and orchestral and chamber music. He has arranged a number of operas for English Touring Opera and the City of Birmingham Touring Opera (now Birmin ...
: ''Run to the Edge'' * Detlev Glanert: ''Three Pieces'' * David Lang: ''Breathless'' * John Hails: ''Lovesongs'', winner of the RPS Composition Prize * Leon Kirchner: ''Interlude II'' * Simon Mawhinney: ''Darby's Loanin'', winner of the RPS Composition Prize *
Julian Philips Julian Philips is a British composer. Philips' works have been performed at major music festivals, including The Proms, Tanglewood, Three Choirs Festival, at the Wigmore Hall, South Bank Centre and Berlin Philharmonic Chamber Music Hall and by ...
: ''Four Characters'' : ''Quattro Intermezzi'' *
Karin Rehnqvist Karin Rehnqvist (born 21 August 1957) is a Swedish composer and conductor of classical music. She composes chamber music, orchestral works, music for the stage, and particularly vocal music, incorporating elements of folk music such as the vocal te ...
: ''Beginning'' * Augusta Read Thomas: ''Pulsar'' 2004 * : ''Symphonia for the London Sinfonietta'', winner of the RPS Composition Prize * Phillip Neil Martin: ''An Outburst of Time for the Cheltenham Festival'', winner of the RPS Composition Prize * Dai Fujikura: ''Be'' 2005 * Dai Fujikura: ''Another Place for the Cheltenham Festival'', winner of the RPS Composition Prize * Lyell Cresswell: ''Ara Kopikopiko'', winner of the RPS Composition Prize 2006 * Hugh Wood: ''Wild Cyclamen, Op.49'' *
Emily Hall Emily Hall (born 1978) is a composer of classical music, electronica and songs. Her music has been performed by the Duke Quartet, the London Symphony Orchestra, the Brodsky Quartet, the London Sinfonietta, and the Philharmonia; it has been broa ...
: ''My Dirty Little Heart'', winner of the RPS Composition Prize *
Christopher Mayo Christopher Mayo (born 1980) is a Canadian composer of contemporary classical music. Born in Toronto, Mayo studied at the University of Toronto where he was awarded the Glenn Gould Composition Prize and the William Erving Fairclough Scholarship ...
: ''Passed the Last River'', winner of the RPS Composition Prize * Anders Nordentoft: ''Parasto'' * Mark-Anthony Turnage: ''Two Baudelaire Songs'' * Django Bates: ''Alison in Space'' * Ian Wilson: ''Red Over Black'' *
Huw Watkins Huw Thomas Watkins (born 13 July 1976) is a British composer and pianist. Born in South Wales, he studied piano and composition at Chetham's School of Music in Manchester, where he received piano lessons from Peter Lawson. He then went on to re ...
: ''Partita'' 2007 *
Eleanor Alberga Eleanor Deanne Therese Alberga (born 1949) is a Jamaican contemporary music composer who lives and works in the United Kingdom. Career Eleanor Alberga was born in Kingston, Jamaica. She decided at the age of five to be a concert pianist and ...
: ''Succubus Moon'' * Dominick Argento: ''Three Sonnets of Petrarch'' * Deirdre Gribbin: ''Calum's Light'' * Philippe Hersant: ''In Black'' * Mark Bowden, winner of the RPS Composition Prize * Charlie Piper, winner of the RPS Composition Prize * Stuart MacRae: ''Unity'' *
Joseph Phibbs Joseph Phibbs (born 25 April 1974) is an English composer of orchestral, choral and chamber music. He has also composed for theatre, both in the UK and Japan. Since 1998 he has written regularly to commissions for Festivals (including for Chelten ...
: ''Flex'' * Julian Philips: ''Four Characters'' 2008 *
Cheryl Frances-Hoad Cheryl Frances-Hoad (born 1980) is a British composer. Early life Frances-Hoad began composing at the age of eight while studying cello and piano at the Yehudi Menuhin School. She graduated from Gonville and Caius College (Cambridge University) ...
: ''My Day in Hell'', winner of the RPS Composition Prize *
Alexander Goehr Peter Alexander Goehr (; born 10 August 1932) is an English composer and academic. Goehr was born in Berlin in 1932, the son of the conductor and composer Walter Goehr, a pupil of Arnold Schoenberg. In his early twenties he emerged as a centra ...
: ''Since Brass, nor Stone...'' * Dominic Muldowney: ''Tsunami'' * Gwilym Simcock: ''Contours'' * Tristan Rhys Williams: "Kapur", winner of the RPS Composition Prize 2009 * Dobrinka Tabakova: ''Suite in Jazz Style'' * Gwilym Simcock: ''Contours'' *
Alexander Goehr Peter Alexander Goehr (; born 10 August 1932) is an English composer and academic. Goehr was born in Berlin in 1932, the son of the conductor and composer Walter Goehr, a pupil of Arnold Schoenberg. In his early twenties he emerged as a centra ...
: ''Since Brass, nor Stone'' *
Claudia Molitor Claudia Molitor (born 1974) is an English-German composer based in Brighton, East Sussex, England. Biography Born in Germany, Claudia Molitor studied Music and Media at University of Sussex. After an MA in Music at City University London, she com ...
: ''Alert'' * Benjamin Cox: ''In Memoriam'' * Evis Sammoutis: ''Night, again'', winner of the RPS Composition Prize *
Sasha Siem Sacha, Sasha, Sascha, or ''variant'' may refer to: People * Sasha (name), includes list of people with the name and the variants Sascha or Sacha Musicians * Sasha (DJ) (born 1969), born Alexander Coe * Sasha (German singer) (born 1972), born Sas ...
: ''From the White Dictionary'', winner of the RPS Composition Prize *
Tom Arthurs Tom or TOM may refer to: * Tom (given name), a diminutive of Thomas or Tomás or an independent Aramaic given name (and a list of people with the name) Characters * Tom Anderson, a character in ''Beavis and Butt-Head'' * Tom Beck, a character ...
: ''And Distant Shore'', winner of the RPS Composition Prize 2010 *
Martin Suckling Martin Suckling (born 23 November 1981) is a British composer. He is also a violinist and teacher. Education Suckling was born in Glasgow and attended Bearsden Academy. He read music at Clare College, Cambridge and went on to study composition w ...
: To see the dark between (Aronowitz Ensemble, Wigmore Hall) - RPS Composition Prize * Dimitris Economou: Metamorphosis (members of the Philharmonia, Patrick Bailey - conductor) - RPS Composition Prize *
Shiva Feshareki Shiva Feshareki is a British-Iranian experimental composer, Turntablism, turntable artist and radio presenter. As a turntablist, she plays her compositions solo or alongside classical orchestras. She was born in London in 1987. She obtained a Docto ...
: out of sorts (members of the Philharmonia, Patrick Bailey - conductor) - RPS Composition Prize * Michael Langemann: Epode for string quartet (Solstice Quartet, Cheltenham Music Festival) - RPS Composition Prize, supported by the Susan Bradshaw Composers' Fund *
Christian Mason Christians () are people who follow or adhere to Christianity, a monotheistic Abrahamic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ. The words '' Christ'' and ''Christian'' derive from the Koine Greek title ''Christós'' (Χρ ...
: Looking for the Land that is Nowhere (Lydia Kavina, theramin, members of the Philharmonia, Patrick Bailey - conductor) - RPS Composition Prize 2011 * Dario Palermo: The Difference Engine (score for dance work, 12 October 2011) - RPS Drummond Fund * Darren Bloom:: Three (Manus Noble - guitar) - RPS Composition Prize, supported by the Susan Bradshaw Composers' Fund * Charlotte Bray: Replay (Festival Academy Soloists: Alexandra Wood - violin, Cian O’Duill - viola, Robin Michael - cello, Huw Watkins - piano, Cheltenham Festival) - RPS Composition Prize, supported by the Susan Bradshaw Composers' Fund *
Steven Daverson Stephen or Steven is a common English first name. It is particularly significant to Christians, as it belonged to Saint Stephen ( grc-gre, Στέφανος ), an early disciple and deacon who, according to the Book of Acts, was stoned to death; h ...
: Schattenwanderer (Mark van der Wiel - clarinet, members of the Philharmonia, Clark Rundell - conductor) - RPS Composition Prize * Edward Nesbit: Concerto for violin and ensemble (Maya Iwabuchi - violin, members of the Philharmonia, Clark Rundell - conductor) - RPS Composition Prize * Mark Simpson: Lethe (Byron Fulcher - trombone, members of the Philharmonia, Clark Rundell - conductor) - RPS Composition Prize 2012 * Stef Conner: Arranging Old Silks (Philharmonia MOT 2012) - RPS Composition Prize * David Curington: Nine Accumulations (Philharmonia MOT 2012) - RPS Composition Prize * Philip Dawson: Heath’s Contraption (Philharmonia MOT 2012) - RPS Composition Prize * Lauri Supponen: The Dordrecht Humaphone (BBC Singers, Cheltenham Festival 2012) - RPS Composition Prize, supported by the Susan Bradshaw Composers' Fund Tom Harrold Locked Horns (Total Brass, 17 May 2012) 2013 *
Poul Ruders Poul Ruders (born 27 March 1949) is a Danish composer. Life Born in Ringsted, Ruders trained as an organist, and studied orchestration with Karl Aage Rasmussen. Ruders's first compositions date from the mid-1960s. Ruders regards his own compos ...
: String Quartet No 4 (Premiered at the Barbican centre by the Vertavo Quartet 9 March 2013) * Jonathan Lloyd: Old Racket (for strings) (Premiered on Friday 12 April 2013 at the Barbican Centre by the BBC Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Sir Andrew Davis) * Jonathan Lloyd: New Balls (for winds) (Premiered on Friday 17 May 2013 at the Barbican Centre by the BBC Symphony Orchestra, conducted by James Gaffigan) * Judith Weir: I give you the end of a golden string (premiered on 8 June at the Aldeburgh Festival by Britten Sinfonia, conducted by Ryan Wigglesworth) * Sally Beamish, Charlotte Bray,
Anna Meredith Anna Howard Meredith (born 12 January 1978) is a Scottish composer and performer of electronic and acoustic music. She is a former composer-in-residence with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and former PRS/RPS Composer in the House with Si ...
, Thea Musgrave: Innocence and Experience (premiered on 9 June at the Aldeburgh Festival by the New London Children's Choir, conducted by Ronald Corp) * Harrison Birtwistle: Songs from the Same Earth (premiered on 13 June by tenor Mark Padmore and pianist Andrew West) *
Julian Philips Julian Philips is a British composer. Philips' works have been performed at major music festivals, including The Proms, Tanglewood, Three Choirs Festival, at the Wigmore Hall, South Bank Centre and Berlin Philharmonic Chamber Music Hall and by ...
: Maxamorphosis (score for dance, May 2013) - RPS Drummond Fund * Magnus Lindberg: Red House (premiered on 22 June at the Aldeburgh Festival by Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, conducted by Oliver Knussen) * Wolfgang Rihm: A Tribute (Über die Linie VIII) (Halle Orchestra, conducted by Mark Elder) * Kenneth Hesketh: Forms Entangled, Shapes Collided (score for dance work, Repetition of Change, February 2013) - RPS Drummond Fund *
Huw Watkins Huw Thomas Watkins (born 13 July 1976) is a British composer and pianist. Born in South Wales, he studied piano and composition at Chetham's School of Music in Manchester, where he received piano lessons from Peter Lawson. He then went on to re ...
: Little Symphony (David Curtis, conductor; Orchestra of the Swan, 21 June 2013) - Composer in the House. * Mark-Anthony Turnage: Frieze (RPS, BBC Radio 3 and New York Philharmonic co-commission - premiere: BBC Proms, 11 August 2013) * Tom Coult: (Philharmonia MOT June 2013) - RPS Composition Prize * Arne Gieshoff: Ad Bestias (Philharmonia MOT June 2013) - RPS Composition Prize * Christopher McAteer: Casement (Philharmonia MOT June 2013) - RPS Composition Prize * David Onac: String Quartet No.6 (Carducci Quartet, Cheltenham Music Festival) - RPS Composition Prize, supported by the Susan Bradshaw Composers' Fund * Robert Peate: Pearl (Clare Hammond piano, Presteigne Festival 2013) - RPS Composition Prize, Presteigne Festival Alan Horne Memorial commission *
Bertie Baigent Robert Edward Series "Bertie" Baigent (born 26 March 1995) is a British conductor, composer, and organist. Biography Baigent's aunt is the mathematician Caroline Series. His grandfather was the physicist George Series. Baigent read music at ...
: Joie de Vivre (RPS Fanfare Commissions; brass players of the NYO, Mathew Coorey - conductor, 11 August 2013) * Tom Harrold: Fanfaronade (RPS/IAMA Fanfare Commission; Buzz Brass, 7 November 2013) * Benjamin Graves: Le Science de Monsieur Berlioz (Players from GSMD, 1 November 2013) * Joshue Kaye: Le Science de Monsieur Berlioz (Players from GSMD, 1 November 2013) * Ella Jarman-Pinto: Le Science de Monsieur Berlioz (Players from GSMD, 1 November 2013) * Aled Smith: Uncertain Light (Alexandra Dariescu, piano, November 2013) 2014 *
Matthew Kaner Matthew Kaner (born 1986) is a British composer. His work has been performed by various orchestras and ensembles including the BBC Singers, the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, the London Symphony Orchestra and the London Sinfonietta at mu ...
: Mosaic (Philharmonia MOT June 2014) - RPS Composition Prize * Michael Cutting: I am a strange loop II (Philharmonia MOT June 2014) - RPS Composition Prize *
Samantha Fernando Samantha Fernando (born Lankaaluge Samantha Fernando on 25 March 1985) is a Sri Lankan cricketer. He is a left-handed batsman and right-arm medium-pace bowler who played for Chilaw Marians Cricket Club. He was born in Chilaw Chilaw ( si, හ ...
: Sense of Place (Philharmonia MOT June 2014) - RPS Composition Prize * Daniel Kidane: Spear (Kate Romanom clarinet & Richard Uttley, piano, Presteigne Festival 2014) - RPS Composition Prize, Presteigne Festival Alan Horne Memorial commission *
Tom Stewart Thomas Stewart may refer to: Politicians and nobility * Thomas A. Stewart (politician) (1849–1920), member of the Wisconsin State Assembly * Thomas E. Stewart (1824–1904), U.S. Representative from New York *Thomas Joseph Stewart (1848–1926), ...
: Flying Kites Concentric Ceilings (Fidelio Trio, Cheltenham Festival 2014) - RPS Composition Prize, supported by the Susan Bradshaw Composers' Fund * Dobrinka Tabakova PULSE (score for film in collaboration with film-maker Ruth Paxton, February 2014) *
Huw Watkins Huw Thomas Watkins (born 13 July 1976) is a British composer and pianist. Born in South Wales, he studied piano and composition at Chetham's School of Music in Manchester, where he received piano lessons from Peter Lawson. He then went on to re ...
: Remember (Ruby Hughes, soprano; David Curtis, conductor and Orchestra of the Swan, 30 May 2014 Stratford-upon-Avon, Civic Hall) As part of Composer in the House. 2015 * Ed Scolding: Brut (in collaboration with Peter Groom; BFI Southbank, for SOUND:VISION) *
Dani Howard Dani Howard (born 1993) is a British composer originally from Hong Kong, where she attended the South Island School. She attended the Royal College of Music between 2011 and 2015, where she studied composition with Jonathan Cole as a Rose Wil ...
: Visions (in collaboration with Victoria Fiore; BFI Southbank, for SOUND:VISION) * Joe Jackson: At First Sight (in collaboration with Chloe Wicks; BFI Southbank, for SOUND:VISION) * Theo Vidgen: Swan Song for Four Cellos (in collaboration with Sophie Barrott; BFI Southbank, for SOUND:VISION) *
Sarah Lianne Lewis Sarah Lianne Lewis (born 1988) is a Welsh composer. She was commissioned by Heidelberg Music Festival in 2016 and her piece, "I Dared Say It To The Sky", was premiered by soprano, Sarah Maria Sun, and percussionist, Johannes Fischer. Her piece ...
: Palimpsest (in collaboration with Christopher Lutterodt-Quarcoo; BFI Southbank, for SOUND:VISION) *
Huw Watkins Huw Thomas Watkins (born 13 July 1976) is a British composer and pianist. Born in South Wales, he studied piano and composition at Chetham's School of Music in Manchester, where he received piano lessons from Peter Lawson. He then went on to re ...
: Envoi (Orchestra of the Swan, David Curtis - conductor, for Composer in the House) * Nicholas Morrish: Abandonment and Ruin (Kokoro, for Cheltenham Music Festival) - RPS Composition Prize, supported by the Susan Bradshaw Composers' Fund * Samuel Bordoli: As I Lay Dying (Philharmonia players, Royal Festival Hall) - RPS Composition Prize * Oliver Leith: Craquelure (Philharmonia players, Royal Festival Hall) - RPS Composition Prize *
Nicholas Stuart Nicholas Stuart is an Australian journalist who is currently a columnist with ''The Canberra Times'' and editor-in-chief of ability.news'. He is the author of three books about Australian politics. Early life Stuart is the child of Ron Stuart, a ...
: Very Small Symphony (Philharmonia players, Royal Festival Hall) - RPS Composition Prize *
Elizabeth Ogonek Elizabeth Ogonek (born May 26, 1989) is an American composer of contemporary classical music. Biography Ogonek was born in Anoka, Minnesota, and raised in New York City. There she began her studies in the Preparatory Division at the Manhattan Sch ...
: Falling Up (Ensemble 360, Music in the Round) - RPS Composition Prize * Michael Small: White Space(Fenella Humphreys - violin, for Presteigne Festival) - RPS Composition Prize *
Jonathan Dove Jonathan Dove (born 18 July 1959) is an English composer of opera, choral works, plays, films, and orchestral and chamber music. He has arranged a number of operas for English Touring Opera and the City of Birmingham Touring Opera (now Birmin ...
: Nights Not Spent Alone (Kitty Whately - mezzo-soprano, Simon Lepper - piano, for Cheltenham Festival) - co-commission with BBC for New Generation Artists * Elena Kats-Chernin: Material Men (Smith Quartet, Queen Elizabeth Hall) - RPS Drummond Fund commission * Kerry Andrew: writing on the NHS (London Sinfonietta players, part of Southbank Centre's Notes to the New Government) *
Jordan Hunt Jordan Hunt (born 12 September 1997) is a New Zealand professional basketball player for the Hawke's Bay Hawks of the New Zealand National Basketball League (NZNBL). He debuted in the NZNBL in 2015 with the Wellington Saints and won a champi ...
: writing on the power of optimism (London Sinfonietta players, part of Southbank Centre's Notes to the New Government) *
Gavin Higgins Gavin Higgins (born in 1983) is a British composer who resides in London. Early life and education Higgins was born in Gloucestershire and grew up in the Forest Of Dean. There, he started his education in music, due to his family's membership ...
: writing on the impact of the bedroom tax (London Sinfonietta players, part of Southbank Centre's Notes to the New Government) * Benjamin Oliver and poet Luke Wright writing on loneliness and isolation (London Sinfonietta players, part of Southbank Centre's Notes to the New Government) * Emma-Ruth Richards writing on sex trafficking (London Sinfonietta players, part of Southbank Centre's Notes to the New Government) * Naomi Pinnock: Lines and Spaces (Richard Uttley - piano, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival) 2016 * John Casken: Serpents of Wisdom (Alec Frank-Gemmill - horn, Alasdair Beatson, piano, Wigmore Hall) - co-commission with BBC for New Generation Artists * Julian Anderson: Incantesimi (Berlin Philharmoniker, Sir Simon Rattle - conductor) * Patrick John Jones Locks of the Approaching Storm (Philharmonia players, Diego Masson - conductor, Royal Festival Hall) - RPS Composition Prize * Desmond Clarke: Xyla (Philharmonia players, Diego Masson - conductor, Royal Festival Hall) - RPS Composition Prize * Michael Taplin: Lambent Fires (Philharmonia players, Diego Masson - conductor, Royal Festival Hall) - RPS Composition Prize * Kurt Schwertsik: Eine Windrose für Mauricio (Narek Hakhnazaryan - cello, Cheltenham Music Festival) - co-commission with BBC for New Generation Artists * Hunter Coblentz: Trio (Fidelio Trio, Cheltenham Music Festival) - RPS Composition Prize, supported by the Susan Bradshaw Composers' Fund * David Sawer: April \ March (London Sinfonietta, Andrew Gourlay - conductor, BBC Proms) - RPS Drummond Fund commission * Rolf Wallin: (Danish String Quartet, Edinburgh International Festival) - co-commission with BBC for New Generation Artists * Ninfea Cruttwell-Reade: Ravens' Cage (Emily Pailthorpe - clarinet, Clare Hammond, piano, for Presteigne Festival) - RPS Composition Prize * Sally Beamish: Merula Perpetua (Lise Berthaud - viola, David Saudubray - piano, BBC Proms) - co-commission with BBC for New Generation Artists * Dani Howard Ostara: (Ensemble 360, for Music in the Round) - RPS Composition Prize * Francisco Coll: Chanson et Bagatelle (Peter Moore - trombone, Richard Uttley - piano) - co-commission with BBC for New Generation Artists *
Manfred Trojahn Manfred Trojahn (born 22 October 1949) is a German composer, flautist, conductor and writer. Career Trojahn was born Cremlingen in Lower Saxony and began his musical studies in 1966 in orchestra music at the music school of Braunschweig. After g ...
: Sonata V (Annelien Van Wauwe - clarinet, Nino Gvetadze - piano) - co-commission with BBC for New Generation Artists * Johannes Fischer: Canons and Sparrows (Armida Quartet) - co-commission with BBC for New Generation Artists *
Michael Nyman Michael Laurence Nyman, Order of the British Empire, CBE (born 23 March 1944) is an English composer, pianist, libretto, librettist, musicologist, and filmmaker. He is known for numerous film soundtrack, scores (many written during his length ...
: Two Sonnets for Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (Kathryn Rudge - mezzo-soprano, James Baillieu - piano) - co-commission with BBC for New Generation Artists


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