ULTRALIGHT PRAYER

Recorded by The Octandre Ensemble on the 26th January, 2017 at the Victoria Rooms.

Composed November, 2016

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Born in 1993, Liam Grogan is a composer from Bristol. Having graduated in 2016 with a First-class Bachelors in Music, Liam Grogan was awarded the Raymond Warren Prize for Composition and the University of Bristol Undergraduate Prize for Composition. In the same year, his piece Miniature #4 won a competition to be performed and recorded by the founder of the Phasma-Music Ensemble and international flautist Iwona Glinka in Athens. In 2017 Liam was a finalist at the KLK New Music Shostakovich Competition, having his work #2 (for String Quartet) performed at Lviv Philharmonic in Lviv, Ukraine. In this year Liam also received the Raymond Warren Prize for Composition for a second time in record of his achievement during his post-graduate studies at the University of Bristol. In February 2018, he was awarded a Distinction for the completition of his MA in Music under the tutelage of Prof. John Pickard. Currently he is undertaking a Ph.D. at the University of Manchester with Dr. Kevin Malone. His research is into how combinations of Music and Theatre can be used to convey political messages in concert music. He is also one of the founding members of The Manchester Forum (www.themanchesterforum.co.uk)

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Liam David Grogan

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