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Hear the performance of new works by the LPO Young Composers on 14 May 2010. More info >
Tristan Brookes
Tristan graduated with 1st Class Honours from King’s College. His composition tutors included Robert Keeley and Silvina Milstein. From 2007 to 2008 Tristan studied for a MMus in Composition at the Royal College of Music under the tutelage of Jonathan Cole. He has had pieces workshopped by Lontano, the Composers Ensembleand the London Contemporary Orchestra.
Future performances and current projects include Ur, for ensemble and live-relayed sounds, to be performed by the London Contemporary Orchestra in the spring of 2010; SERRA: Pessoa, for large ensemble, composed as part of the London Philharmonic Orchestra’s 2010 Young Composers Project; and Ann, which has been commissioned by, and will receive its first performance as part of, the impuls composition course in Graz, 2011.
Isa Khan
Aged eight, Isa Khan was awarded a full scholarship to study at the Purcell School. During his ten years there he studied composition with Dr Jonathan Cole, and briefly with Dai Fujikura. He has had numerous works performed at venues across the UK including four at Wigmore hall with the Nash Ensemble, two at the Queen Elizabeth Hall and Purcell Room as part of the London Sinfonietta’s ‘State of the Nation’ festival, another at the Purcell Room as part of the ‘Rising Generation’ festival and at Sadler’s Wells. In 2004 Isa won the Purcell School Orchestral Composition prize for his work Blocco Liniere which was conducted by Diego Masson at the Royal Academy of Music’s Duke’s Hall. More recently, he had a work performed at the National Portrait gallery in collaboration with the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize. Isa is currently in his second year at the Royal College of Music and future projects include work with the Ossian Ensemble.
Aaron Parker
Aaron is currently studying with Gary Carpenter at the Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester. From 2002-2009, he attended the junior department of the Royal College of Music, studying composition with Jonathan Pitkin and Avril Anderson. In 2007, he joined the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain’s Composers’ Course, tutored by Paul Patterson and Gary Carpenter, and remained on the course until summer 2009. Ensembles that have performed Aaron’s works include the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the Aurora Orchestra, the National Youth Orchestra, the RNCM Brand New Orchestra, and has been broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and BBC 1. His music has been performed across the U.K. in venues such as the Royal Albert Hall, The Sage Gateshead, Symphony Hall Birmingham, the Royal Festival Hall, The Barbican, Leeds Town Hall, and Snape Maltings, as well as in abroad.
Awards include the RCM JD’s “Joan Weller Composition Prize” (2008), a BBC Proms/Guardian Young Composer of the Year Award (2009), and an ABRSM Hedy King Robinson Award (2009).
Sasha Siem
Sasha Siem has recently composed music for the London Sinfonietta, Le Nouvel Ensemble Moderne, Opera North, the London Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Opera House, as well as the Aldeburgh and Cheltenham festivals.
Born in London, she was educated at Cambridge University where she graduated with a double starred first and completed an MPhil in Composition for which she was awarded the Arthur Bliss Prize. She is currently finishing a PhD in Composition at Harvard and has also been an exchange scholar at Columbia University.
Sasha is an spnm shortlisted composer. She was recently awarded the RPS composition prize. |
