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'Dawnings' on anothertimbre
https://anothertimbre.bandcamp.com/album/dawnings

'Ricercari for Rainy Days' on Sawyer editions
https://sawyereditions.bandcamp.com/album/eden-lonsdale-red-panel-ricercari-for-rainy-days

'Clear and Hazy Moons' on anothertimbre
https://anothertimbre.bandcamp.com/album/clear-and-hazy-moons

new album "Delicious" released on 16 May. New Amsterdam records.

Alex (1990),"A riotous overabundance of love and rage..an extraordinary experience” The Wire Magazine, is an award-winning composer & improvising-trombonist based in the UK. His Music is published by Ricordi (Berlin). "highly innovative...of exceptional creative imagination and musical energy, packed with life force unlike anything else” BBC Magazine Ivor Novello British Composer Awards.

Alex has been awarded the Paul Hindemith Prize, and Ivor Novello Composer He was nominated for the Gaudeamus Award for 2022 and was elected to the 9th International Composition Seminar and awarded a commission ILOLLI-POP for Improviser and Ensemble which he played with Ensemble Modern. He has been awarded by the London Sinfonietta’s Writing the Future commission CANDYFOLK- SPACE-DRUM  and has won the RPS Royal Philharmonic Society Composition Prize, DANKWORTH JAZZ prize for composition BYE and was made a London Symphony Orchestra Panufnik Composer. Alex played and recorded his concerto OD ODY PINk’d for Jazz Musician and Royal National Scottish Orchestra (RSNO). He was a Leverhume Art Scholar with the London Philharmonic Orchestra 2016-2017: NOW WE ARE DUH-DUR and has been awarded the Harriet Cohen Memorial Music Award for his compositions. His piece SPAKE represented the UK in the Orchestral section of the International Society of Contemporary Music (ISCM). He is a commissioned contributor to John Zorn’s Arcana X 2021. "Paxton is a system-crasher of genre, who merges jamming video game soundtracks, musical overtures, virtuoso chamber music and jazz improv into an unmistakable style...highly complex, sophisticated and extremely entertaining, virtuoso ad absurdum" Neue Zeitschrift fur Musik

His albums to date as a composer: MUSIC for BOSCH PEOPLE and iLOLLI-POP released to critical acclaim on Birmingham Record Company/ NMC label and nonclassical. Listen Pony Label (TELLSONG), Indigne de nous on Everest Records and leading Spotify playlists. HAPPY MUSIC for ORCHESTRA released on Delphian Label in  April 2023. “This is the most joyous sound I’ve heard in ages!”New York Times

His music has been played/recorded/ commissioned by leading orchestras and ensembles including Ensemble Modern, London Sinfonietta, London Symphony Orchestra (LSO), London Philharmonic Orchestra (LPO), Philharmonia Orchestra, AskSchöenberg, Riot Ensemble, Nouvel Ensemble Contemporain, Wigmore hall, Explore Ensemble, Klammer Klang, Royal Scottish National Orchestra (RSNO), National Youth Orchestra (BBC proms 2021), Making Music (UK), Ensemble x.y, x.y Song, Hyper Duo, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra (BSO), National Youth Jazz Orchestra (UK) NYJO, Listen-Pony, Aldeburgh Festival, Psappha Ensemble, Orion Symphony Orchestra OSO, Helios Collective, Chaos Collective Orchestra, Mirrors of Hall Big Band, Dr. K Sextet, 5KBrass Quintet, RAM Philharmonic and RCM Philharmonic and soloists Zubin Kanger, Tabea Debus, Beibei Wang, Patrick Terry, David Zucchi. “This is what an orchestra can be like in the 21st century: an ensemble that speaks with one voice yet also gives voice to each of its members” The Times

He has written six operas including NOGGIN and the WHALE (Massed forces including 500 young instrumentalists and singes) FOR the LOVE of THORNSTIEN SHIVER hosted by English National Opera and Helios Collective, BEL and the DRAGON as part of the Tête à Tête opera festival, the EQUIVOCAL HARRIET BOWDLER at Second Movement Opera and WOOLF MUSIC at the Forge in Camden and RAVEN’s CHILD for Jacob Colier and Orchestra.
“Operatic Game Boy music played by a virtuosic motley crew that’s inexplicably been hired to provide live jingles for a primetime TV show sometime in the recent past that never quite was” Point of departure

As an improvising and jazz trombonist Alex has played as a soloist with Ensemble Modern, London Sinfonietta,  Riot Ensemble, Philharmonia Orchestra, Royal Scottish National Orchestra (RSNO), & ensemble x.y. He is founder of Dreammusics ensemble and performs regularly with pioneering improvisers (eg: Charlotte Keeffe, Steve Noble). “meticulously scored…seems to change with every bar, enfolding bite-size pieces of classic minimalism, brass brand tradition, electronic noise, & video game plasticity..intensely virtuosic and giddily joyful. electronically slathered trombone…Paxton is a monster improviser …connects his garrulous attack to the most extroverted playing of George Lewis & Roswell Rudd..." Bandcamp Daily Best Contemporary Classical.

Extensively, Alex writes art-music for musicians in community settings including, innovative ways of writing for young instrumentalists & singers in a post-Roald Dahl world of new-music.  eg: NOGGIN and the WHALE (Massed forces including 500 young instrumentalists and singes), Fly Like a Kitchen, Muffin, Pudding Tummy and The Sound of Magic. He is professorial composition staff at Trinity Laban Conservatoire and has worked as lead-composition tutor (and workshop leader) on the National Youth Orchestra GB, he has taught/ lectured at composition and improvisation at conservatories including, RAM, GSMD & RCM (and multiple universities in the UK). “one of the most exceptional voices from a new generation of UK talent” The Philharmonia Orchestra

Alex studied as a scholar at Royal Academy of Music (BMushons1stclass)and LRAM (Distinction) and the Royal College of Music (MComp Distinction).“a Brit who defies every conceivable genre boundary…an extremely modern and future-oriented style.” Paul Hindemith Prize winner 2023

Alex is an endorsee solo artist with Micheal Rath Trombones since 2023 (R12 nickel bell & tuning slide).

mostly archived work- new sounds will be found at:
www.nicholasmorrish.com

Matthew Lomax is a Sunderland-born contemporary classical and electroacoustic composer based in London. His music is noted for balancing fragile, unsettled timbres and melodic lines with sudden, dramatic shifts between densely layered and stark textures. Often inspired by field recordings and images that capture everyday life, his music finds states of disconnect and separation in these moments; exploring the boundaries between noise & silence, density & space, motion & stillness. Many compositions respond and incorporate other artistic mediums such as architecture, sculpture, speech and movement.

Matthew has written for ensembles across the UK including The Cats Cradle Collective and No Dice Collective, as well as collaborated on works with painters, video artists, photographers, dancers and spoken-word poets. In 2020, the audio-visual installation Through Fractured Mirrors was commissioned by the Royal College of Music to feature in the newly-developed RCM Museum building, co-created with Connor D’Netto. The work B|O|R|D|E|R|S for guitars and electronics was selected for performance in the National Portrait Gallery as a response to photography finalists of the Taylor Wessing Portrait Prize 2017. The following year, Drowning in the Din… for Bass Clarinet, Bass Guitar and electronics was performed on a number of occasions in response to the Royal Academy of Arts’ collection of John Constable sketches in their permanent exhibition space. In 2019, Matthew collaborated with dancers and choreographers from the Central School of Ballet to create Non-place Ballet for chamber ensemble and electronics as part of the RCM Great Exhibitionist Series, alongside co-composer Connor D’Netto and the Cats Cradle Collective. Matthew was honoured to be selected to compose How The Great News Was Received for string quartet and harp as part of the RCM’s World War I centenary concert.

Matthew is a recent alumnus of the Royal College of Music, having studied composition with Haris Kittos and electroacoustic composition with Michael Oliva as a Clifton Parker award holder and previously as an RCM award holder supported by a Douglas and Hilda Simmonds scholarship. During his initial studies in composition close to home at the Sage Gateshead’s Centre for Advanced Training, and through the exploration of computer-based composition at the University of Manchester, Matthew developed a musical language that incorporates the physicality and sonic qualities of natural phenomena, visual arts, and architecture to create a tactile musical experience. 

Later in the year, the audio-visual Through Fractured Mirrors will be premiered in the Royal College of Music’s newly-developed museum building.

Composer based in London and Head of Composition at the Royal College of Music. https://www.jonathancolecomposer.com

Composer, Master's Degree in Music for Film,Theater and Performing Arts at Ionian University, Bachelor in Musicology, University of Athens,  Classical Guitar Soloist, Classical Guitar Degree and Diploma With A' Prize. Official Representation by Bome Productions.