Lecturer of Music and Education at Sunderland University, composer, cunductor and researcher.  

This selection of work spans my undergraduate and postgraduate degrees and now my professional endeavors.

My work tends to draw upon literature, history, myth etc. with strong programmatic elements.  These are just examples of instrumental works.

Not on soundcloud as much, music on youtube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vD4XdfvJDno

David Lancaster is a composer based in York (UK).  Originally from Wigan, David studied music at the University of York, and was for three years RVW Composer in Residence at Charterhouse.  During that time he won several awards for composition and enjoyed a number of high profile performances.  Following a long period of silence he returned to composition in 2007 and his music has been subject to a dramatic simplification of style in a search for greater clarity of form and expression.  

In November 2013 his Strata was given its first performance by the Orchestra of Opera North; it was recorded for CD by the Brno Philharmonic Orchestra (under Mikel Toms) in June 2015.
In 2014 David’s Vertigo string quartet was performed in Hong Kong and at the Aspen Festival, Colorado and his large-scale choral work Apocalypse - which tells the story of the end of the world as depicted in York’s medieval stained glass - was given its premiere by The 24 conducted by Robert Hollingworth during York’s Festival of Ideas.  (Earlier this year Apocalypse was revived by the Danish Radio Vocal Ensemble at three concerts in Copenhagen and was broadcast by Danish Radio).

In 2015 the quintet Strike was performed in Hong Kong and York and the saxophone quartet Swan was revived in London by the Lunar Sax Quartet.  Premieres included Batubulan for solo piano, Art of War for soprano, oboe and bass trombone, and Public Order for concert band and tape.

His violin solo Rough Cut has been published by UYMP and received its first London performance in February 2016 given by Peter Sheppard-Skaerved; in July Late Music will present the premiere of Breathless, composed for the Orichalcum Brass Quintet. 

In 2016 he completed PhD in Composition at the University of York with Roger Marsh.

Dr David Lancaster is Associate Professor of Composition at York St John University, and is Artistic Director of York's Late Music concert series.

www.davidcomposer.com

Chris Gallant is an authority on visual journalism and multimedia production. In 2007 he graduated from the University at Buffalo’s Department of Media Study where he received a Master of Fine Arts degree in media arts production. 

Now he serves as an Associate Professor in the Digital Media and Communication Department of Hilbert College. Previous to this appointment, he served at the University at Buffalo as an adjunct professor for three years. Gallant is also involved in the media arts community and served on the Board of Directors at Squeaky Wheel, Buffalo’s Media Arts Center. He regularly serves as a judging chair for the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences and the Society of Professional Journalists.

Chris Gallant's full-time professional career spans over 20 years of Industry work. He has worked at stations WRDW-TV/ Augusta, GA, WTOL-TV/Toledo, OH, WKBW-TV/Buffalo, NY and now at WGRZ-TV/Buffalo, NY. He received two NYS Emmys for his work in broadcast journalism, one in 2008 for "They Made a Mistake: the Anthony Capozzi Story" and one in 2010 for "Niagara Falls: A Tale of Two Cities". Gallant is a native Western New Yorker, and was born in Buffalo, NY. He has also received seven Emmy nominations and numerous awards from the Associated Press, National Press Photographers Association and Gannett News. Gallant continues to freelance as a multimedia producer.

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