Barnaby Martin is an award-winning composer of contemporary classical music based in England. His compositions have been performed widely in the UK and internationally by groups including the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, the Orchestra of Opera North, the Berkeley Ensemble, the Ligeti Quartet, the choir of St Paul’s Cathedral, Wells Cathedral Choir and Illuminare choir. In 2018, his work for large orchestra, Quanta, was selected as the winner of the Toru Takemitsu Composition award. The piece, which was one of four to be selected by Unsuk Chin out of 143 entries from 40 countries, was performed by the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra in the final of the competition in May 2018. Barnaby is the only composer from the UK to have received first prize in the history of the competition. Barnaby’s work has achieved acclaim and recognition in several other competitions and prizes including the DARE New Composer’s Forum Competition (Stillness), the Berkeley Ensemble’s New Cobbett Prize (Lazarus) as well as the New Music for St Paul’s Cathedral Competition (Videntes Stellam). Barnaby also received his first nomination for a BASCA British Composer Award in 2017 for his contemporary cantata, The Temptations of Christ.

Barnaby enjoys frequent collaborations with musicians and has been commissioned to write music for a variety of different ensembles and instrumentalists. He has written pieces for the Psappha Ensemble’s Benedict Holand as part of the group’s Composing for Violin scheme (Leda Atomica) as well as new pieces for oboist James Turnbull (Christ of Saint John of the Cross), the clarinettist John Slack (Hypercubus), the pianist Joseph Houston (Submerging) and organist Simon Johnson (O Herre Gott, dein göttlich Wort). The piece for Simon Johnson was commissioned by Choir & Organ Magazine and contributed to William Whitehead’s ongoing Orgelbüchlein Project. Barnaby has worked extensively with singers as well as instrumentalists and enjoys regular work with choirs in the UK. Most recently, he was commissioned by Illuminare choir to write a new 45-minute cantata for two choirs, soloists and percussion (The Temptations of Christ) which was premiered by the group in March 2017, directed by RPS award-winning conductor Christopher Stark.

Barnaby has studied composition with Kenneth Hesketh and from October 2018, he will begin working towards a PhD in composition at the University of Birmingham under the supervision of Michael Zev Gordon.

Andrew Baldwin (b.1986) is a graduate of the Royal College of Music, London under the tutelage of Alison Kay and Kenneth Hesketh, and the New Zealand School of Music, Wellington under the tutelage of Michael Norris, John Psathas and Dugal McKinnon. He was the recipient a Parnassus Award from the RCM for his collaboration with English National Ballet at The Place in Euston, London in May 2013.

His music has been widely commissioned, performed and recorded throughout New Zealand by established ensembles including the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Auckland Philharmonia, New Zealand Youth Choir, Southern Sinfonia and the New Zealand Secondary Students Choir, and by ensembles in Australia, Japan, UK, USA, and Germany. He has been the recipient of numerous awards, including the Trusts Young Composers Award, the NZSSC Choral Award and the Edgecumbe Choral Award, and his music has been heard notably in Westminster Abbey, St Paul's Cathedral London, Brussels Cathedral and Paris’ Cathédrale de Notre-Dame as well as regularly broadcast on radio and TV. Recently his work Dawn: May 11, 1915 was announced one of the winning works in the Gallipoli Songs Competition and was broadcast by ABC Classic FM and Radio NZ Concert on the 100th Anniversary of ANZAC Day, and his combined orchestral & choral work O Te Pouri was commissioned and premiered by the London Mozart Players and Portsmouth Grammar School.

Andrew worked recently with members of the Britten Sinfonia as part of their composers’ scheme, OPUS2016.

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Edwin Hillier is a British composer of acoustic and electroacoustic music. Recent works have been broadcast on BBC Radio 3, France Musique and recorded on the NMC Record Label. He was a recipient of the Scottish Award for New Music in both 2021 (Dorico Award for Small/Medium Scale Work) and 2020 (Electroacoustic/Sound Artwork). A graduate of the University of Cambridge, Edwin was awarded a scholarship to the Royal College of Music to pursue his postgraduate studies, supported by the RVW Trust and the AHRC. In 2021 he attained his doctorate in composition. 

At the RCM, Edwin is now a Composition professor, Academic professor, and Module Leader in Musical Analysis.

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Composer, performer and conductor. Mainly interested in music as a physical manifestation of space and vibration. Fascinated by the scientific discoveries of the last century. Composition mentors (who shaped my music thinking during years of continuous mentoring): Stefano Gervasoni, Azio Corghi, Dai Fujikura, Simon Bainbridge, Oliver Knussen and Pierluigi Billone.

Mateus Alves (1982)

Natural de Recife, Pernambuco, iniciou sua carreira musical aos 17 anos tocando baixo elétrico em bandas de música pop, rock e música instrumental/experimental: Profiterolis, Ahlev de Bossa, Embuás, Chambaril e Catarina dee Jah são alguns exemplos de grupos e artistas locais com os quais trabalhou. Em 2006, ingressou no curso de Licenciatura em Música da Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE), o qual concluiu em 2010.

Em 2008, foi admitido na Orquestra Sinfônica Jovem do Conservatório Pernambucano de Música (OSJCPM) como contrabaixista acústico. Desde então, participou de diversos festivais e temporadas de concerto da OSJCPM - incluindo óperas e concertos com músicos populares como Antônio Carlos Nóbrega, Calixto e Antúlio Madureira. Em 2009, foi convidado a participar da Orquestra Jovem de Pernambuco (de câmara), com a qual se apresentou em festivais internacionais como o Virtuosi, onde acompanhou diversos músicos brasileiros e estrangeiros, entre eles João Carlos Martins (regente), Antonio Meneses (violoncelo) e Catalin Rotaru (contrabaixo). Como contrabaixista acústico, ainda acompanhou músicos como Egberto Gismonti e Wagner Tiso, sendo integrante da orquestra dos festivais MIMO 2008 e 2010, e o percussionista Naná Vasconcelos, como membro da Orquestra Jovem de Pernambuco.

Em 2010, produziu seu primeiro álbum de composições autorais, “Mateus Alves, Música de Câmara e Orquestral”, com apoio do Governo do Estado de Pernambuco através do programa de incentivo à cultura Funcultura. No mesmo ano, teve sua primeira peça orquestral, a suíte “As Duas Estações Nordestinas”, executada e gravada para o álbum pela OSJCPM.

Em 2011, foi admitido no curso de Mestrado em Composição no Royal College of Music (RCM), Londres, Reino Unido, o qual concluiu em 2013 – onde também estudou Música para Cinema. Em Londres, participou de festivais como o London Jazz Festival 2011, sendo contrabaixista da Royal College of Music Big Band – com a qual também se apresentou com o músico Stewart Copland (baterista do The Police) –, e teve peças executadas em recitais do RCM e festivais como o London Festival of Contemporary Church Music 2012.

Em 2013, de volta à sua cidade natal, concluiu as trilhas sonoras dos curta-metragens locais “Em trânsito”, de Marcelo Pedroso (Símio Filmes), e “Rodolfo Mesquita e as Monstruosas Máscaras de Alegria e Felicidade”, de Pedro Severien (Orquestra Cinema Estúdios), com os quais ganhou o prêmio de melhor trilha sonora de curta-metragem no 6o Festival de Cinema de Triunfo, com “Rodolfo Mesquita (...)”, e uma menção honrosa pelas trilhas de ambos os curtas no 15o Festcine (Festival de Curtas de Pernambuco).

Em 2014, continuou seus trabalhos em cinema e ganhou dois Candangos de melhor trilha-sonora no 47o Festival de Brasília do Cinema Brasileiro: um pelo longa “Brasil S/A”, de Marcelo Pedroso, e outro pelo curta-metragem “Loja de Reptéis”, de Pedro Severien. Além disso, participou de sessões de gravação com o lendário músico americano Bernie Worrell (Funkadelic), autor da trilha do longa “Prometo um dia deixar essa cidade”, de Daniel Aragão. Atualmente está em fase de produção do seu primeiro curta-metragem (uma animação) intitulado “Bolha”, com o apoio do Funcultura, assim como produzindo trilha-sonoras de outros filmes locais. Paralelamente, continua seus trabalhos de composição e produção musical em diversos projetos.

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