I am a composer and guitarist from Latvia, Riga based in Cologne, Germany, who is specialised in different kinds of music. I draw my main influences from jazz, classical music, jazz fusion and post-rock.

In 2022 I moved to Cologne, Germany to study Jazz Composition MM program at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln

2018-2022 I studied jazz guitar performance in Latvian music academy BA program (Jāzepa Vītola Latvijas Mūzikas akadēmija) 

Also I studied music at the Dynamic Records Music School music production and sound engineering. (2016-2017)

My musical education has thus far consisted of taking private guitar lessons and attending Ventspils Music College’s (Ventspils Mūzikas vidusskola) pop and jazz guitar program (2013-2016).

Classical Guitar, Electric Guitar, Improvisation, Mandolin, Composition

Composer, Saxophonist & Improviser

www.tilenlebar.com

Patrick Ellis (b. 1994, UK) is a composer, performer and curator based in London. His music has been described as being "focused, intense and unrelenting" (Gaudeamus Jury, 2024), with much of his work utilising limited musical materials, small developments and juxtapositions.

He has worked with many acclaimed ensembles including Terra Invisus (UK), Ensemble Klang (NL), collective lovemusic (FR), XTRO Percussion (NL), the Residentie Orkest (NL), Kluster 5 (NL), Orkest de Ereprijs (NL), The Tantrum Saxophone Quartet (NL), The Spaceship Ensemble (NL), Kirkos (IE) and 315 Ensemble (US/UK), and has collaborated with soloists such as Kathryn Williams (flute), Huw Morgan (organ), Alfian Emir Adytia (cello), Dauphine Van der Velphen (saxophone), Chris Cresswell (electric guitar) and Carson Cooman (organ).

Upcoming projects include a new multimedia work exploring burnout within the classical music industry for the ensemble Standard Issue, a new piece featuring accordion, string trio and fixed media for the Toronto-based group Freesound, an audiovisual piece for To Your Ear Collective, as well as a long-form collaboration with the French-Canadian cellists Laurence Gaudreau and Audréanne Filion.

Patrick's music has been presented at numerous festivals and concert series across the European, North American, Asia and Australasia, including, Gaudeamus Festival (NL), Festival Dag in de Branding (NL), November Music (NL), Rainy Days Festival (LU), Mittelfest and Mittelyoung Festival (IT), De Link Tilburg (NL), Lilium SoundArt (IT), Sundays at The Hugh Lane Gallery (IE), AżTak Festival (PL), New Music Now NL's Dag van de Componist (NL), Click Fest (US), Sounding Here (NL), Kirkos Ensemble's Biosphere Festival (IE), Union Musicale (IT), Mainly Slow Organ Music (UK), Kammer Klang (UK), the Frequency Series Chicago (US), Ideas of Noise Festival (UK) and the Harmos Plural Festival (PT).

In 2024, Patrick was nominated for the Gaudeamus Award and in 2022, he was the Artist in Residence for the AMPA Fontys/De Link Residency programme in Tilburg, The Netherlands. He has also been a part of the Psappha Composing For Piano Scheme in 2019-20, the 25th Edition of Orkest de Erepijs’ Young Composers Meeting and Kathryn Williams' innovative Coming Up for Air Project.

His music has been broadcast on Dutch radio stations, including NPO Radio 4, NPO Klassiek, Concertzender,and Stranded FM, as well as on the US station WCNY, and has been featured on releases from Birmingham Record Company and Huddersfield Contemporary Records.

Patrick is also the artistic director of Open Union, an electric guitar and modular synth duo with composer-performer colleague Peter Bell. Described by the treasured composer Howard Skempton as being 'sometimes subtle and unstable; sometimes rich and dense', the duo aims to build up strong collaborative relationships to create new works. Their current collaborators are Christine Cornwell, Wilson Leywantono, May Chi, Paolo Griffin and Seán Clancy. The duo have performed across the UK at events such as SAOM, Ealing Extranormal, AMOK, Don't Mind Control, Birmingham Modular Organisation and CODA Festival. In 2025, they co-hosted a portrait concert with saxophonist David Zucchi featuring music by Paolo Griffin at the Hundred Years Gallery; earlier in the year, they supported Passepartout Duo at Centrala Space, Birmingham as part of their UK Tour, and in 2023, undertook a mini tour of The Netherlands as part of the Sounding Here concert series, where they performed at Splendor in Amsterdam and Batavierhuis in Rotterdam.

Alongside composing and performing, Patrick works as the creative director of PRXLUDES, an online contemporary music magazine, platform, and resource dedicated to the promotion of the work of emerging and early-career composers. Together, with the artistic director Zygmund de Somogyi and a team of contributors, they have written about more than 125 composers, ensembles and music organisations from the UK and abroad. In 2025, they began hosting events, presenting Alex Groves' DANCE SUITE (performed by Zubin Kanga) as part of PRS Foundation New Music Biennial 2025. Recently, PRXLUDES have been awarded a multi-year partnership with The Hinrichsen Foundation in order to help platform emerging and early-career composers through a series of concerts, conversations, and commissions throughout the UK from 2025 to 2028. The first of these events, the PRX.LIVE Launch Party, will be taking place on the 5th of February 2026 at Folklore Hoxton in London, featuring a new commission by Millicent B. James and existing works by Rylan Gleave, Holly Gowland, Blasio Kavuma, Kian Ravaei and Aileen Sweeney, all performed by the London-based ensemble Standard Issue.

He holds a Masters degree in composition from the Koninklijk Conservatorium Den Haag (Royal Conservatoire of The Hague) and a Bachelor's degree from the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire. His principal tutors have included Martijn Padding, Guus Janssen, Andrew Hamilton, Seán Clancy, Ed Bennett, Howard Skempton and Michael Wolters.

The Zorya Guitar Duo was founded in 2014 by Antonio Peršak and Borna Kuća when studying in Croatia. They studied at the prestigious Varazdin School of Music under the tutelage of classical guitarists Moreno Vinceković and Ninoslav Plantak and through playing together, Antonio and Borna quickly cultivated a musical chemistry that has resulted in a dynamic and exciting performance style. After winning first prize at several national and international chamber music competitions, they continued their classical guitar studies with the internationally renowned guitarist Craig Ogden at The Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester. 

The Zorya Guitar Duo perform a wide range of repertoire from early Renaissance to Contemporary music. However, much of the duo's energy has been directed towards performing Baroque and Balkan music, a style of music that is traditional to their country. Their love and appretiation for Balkan traditional music has taken them on numerous adventures and it has given them the opportunity to shape and develop their style as a guitar duo. While continuing to perform classical works by composers such as Bach, Scarlatti, Rodrigo, and Ravel, the Duo's aim is to promote Balkan music which in itself gives the audience a colourful diversty of musical styles and cultures.

I create music and play the piano. Composition graduate from the Royal Academy of Music, London, and Koninklijk Conservatorium Den Haag.

'Endlessly sublime & tender' Max Reinhardt BBC 3 Late Junction 

I am a Composer/Performer from Nottingham, UK. 


My email is: Robn6500@gmail.com

I am composer working in the field of experimental music. In this page I share my songwriting works.
I have a master degree in Music Composition and Specialisation in Sonology by The Royal Conservatory in The Hague.

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