Sayyid Shafiee (b.1987) is a Malaysian composer currently based in Birmingham, United Kingdom. His music has been performed throughout the UK, Europe and Asia. His music has also featured in number of festivals including Druskomanija (Lithuania), China-Asean Music Festival, Startford On Avon Music Festival, Malaysian Contemporary Festival, Soundbridge Festival, Frontiers Festival and Risuonanze Festical (Italy). His recent work, Jinsei Kouro was selected to represent Malaysia f!or 33rd Asian Composers League 2015 in Philippines.
Sayyid received his MMus from the University of Manchester, studied with Kevin Malone and Philip Grange and currently working on a PhD in composition at Birmingham Conservatoire, where he studied with Joe Cutler, Howard Skempton and Sean Clancy. He also studied with Tazul Tajuddin and had a chance to work with Dieter Mack when he was completing his BMus at local u!niversity in Malaysia.
He has attended master classes from composers such as Peter Maxwell Davies, Michael Finnissy, Harrison Birtwistle, Carl Bergstrom-Nielsen, Pauline Oliveros, Xenia Pestova, Erollyn Wallen, Chinary Ung, Koji Nakano, Jonas Baes and working with numerous ensemble including Psappha, BCMG, KROCK (Sweden), Quatour Danel, Fidelio Trio, Solem Quartet, Accordion Ensemble ContemporAcco (Lithuania), Group 20/21 Modular Ensemble (Philippines) Malaysian Youth S!ymphony Orchestra and Birmingham Conservatoire Orchestra.
Involved with music since 13 as saxophonist, he started his musical journey as a member of local marching band and competed all around the world including Canada, Holland, Italy and France marching band competition and awarded with numbers of medals from 2000-2009 and later on he involved with Malaysian music industry and performed all across the country including Singapore, Indonesia and Thailand. He had performed with various local and international artists from
2006-2012 before he decided to pursue his music in contemporary composition in the UK.

Edmund Hunt is a British composer. His work has been played in the UK and abroad by ensembles including the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Psappha, The Royal Northern Sinfonia, Birmingham Conservatoire Symphony Orchestra, CHROMA, BCMG, ICARUS Vocal Ensemble, The Curious Chamber Players and CoMA (Contemporary Music for All). 

Edmund has an MA from the University of Cambridge and an MMus from Newcastle University. He completed a PhD in musical composition at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, where he studied with Edwin Roxburgh, Richard Causton and Simon Hall.

Much of Edmund’s music is inspired by the early medieval literature of northern Europe, and his PhD explored this area through the creation of vocal, instrumental and electronic works.

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Joseph Davies is a Cardiff-born composer and collaborative artist based in London. Hailed as “one of the brightest of rising stars” (Bernard Clarke, RTÉ), his music is often characterised by extremes of frenetic activity and serene contemplation which seek to reflect and transcend the wild contradictions of 21st century life. A love of obsessive rhythmic patterning akin to American minimalism and electronic dance music is wedded to an extroverted flair for instrumental colour, resulting in "extraordinarily vivid and exuberant" music of "overwhelming power" where boundaries between the spiritual and the carnal dissolve.

His works, performed and broadcast throughout Europe and the USA, range from virtuosic chamber-size pieces for some of the most gifted musicians of his generation to large-scale pieces for ensembles including several for the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, most recently his violin concerto Parallax (2021) premiered by Daniel Pioro in 2022. Other commissions include Intricate Images (2014) for harpist Catrin Finch and cellist Steffan Morris, the orchestral song cycle The Shortest Day (2016) setting specially written texts by former Archbishop of Canterbury and poet Rowan Williams to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Aberfan disaster, and Hymn to Hermes (2018) for The Hermes Experiment.

As an arranger, conductor and recording artist he has a knack for bringing out the best in his collaborators, with projects including Meilyr Jones’s prize-winning album 2013 (2016, Moshi Moshi) and Baxter Dury’s Prince of Tears (2017, Heavenly Recordings), both regarded as those artists’ finest work to date. In 2017 Joseph’s wind orchestra piece Anemoi was nominated for a BASCA British Composer Award and he was awarded the Sir Geraint Evans Prize by the Welsh Music Guild. Other projects include work for CHROMA Ensemble, EXAUDI Vocal Ensemble and the Esbjerg Ensemble, with performances at the Royal Festival Hall, Konzerthaus Berlin, Musikhuset Aarhus, National Concert Hall (Dublin) and elsewhere.

Joseph has been a lecturer in composition at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama since 2013 where he has taught over a hundred composers to date. From 2019-23 he was the lead composer for Tŷ Cerdd’s CoDI Text scheme, mentoring six composers alongside Irish writer Kaite O’Reilly. His work is published by Birdsong Music, with some works published by Chester Music.

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Born in 1987, David Coonan is an Irish composer currently based in London. His work is driven by a notion of creative recycling, and his all-embracing musical curiosity has led to a body of compositions mindful of many diverse musical influences. From the Horn Trios of Brahms and Ligeti, to the ballads of Edith Piaf, his work plays on, and plays with, the many different musical ideas, works, genres, and styles that excite his imagination.

David’s works have been performed by, amongst others, the London Symphony Orchestra, the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland, the RAM Manson Ensemble, EXAUDI vocal ensemble, the Choir of the Chapels Royal HM Tower of London, and Belfast city organist Colm Carey, and with conductors including Gavin Maloney, Maxime Tortelier, François-Xavier Roth, and Elgar Howarth. Current projects include works for the Pythagoras Ensemble (UK), and a song cycle based on the poetry of Federico García Lorca for Baltimore-based chamber music collective Vivre Musicale.

David was a featured composer in the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra’s ‘Horizons’ Series in January 2015; this saw the premiere of his Sarcasms for orchestra, an RTÉ commission, and his violin concerto Träumerei, with soloist Kristine Balanas, in a portrait concert at the National Concert Hall in Dublin, and was subsequently broadcast on RTÉ Lyric fm. He is a member of the Association of Irish Composers, the Irish Composers Collective, and the London Symphony Orchestra Soundhub community. He has held residencies at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Annaghmakerrig, in Ireland, and is currently composer-in-residence to Vivre Musicale. 

David studied at Trinity College Dublin with Donnacha Dennehy, and pursued further composition studies with Christopher Austin and Sir Peter Maxwell Davies at the Royal Academy of Music in London, with funds provided by the Irish Arts Council and the Arts & Humanities Research Council UK. He graduated with Distinction and the DipRAM award for outstanding final portfolio in 2011. 


American viola and viola d’amore player Clifton Harrison has performed as a chamber musician, recitalist, and in orchestras throughout Europe, the United States, Central America, and Asia. He is the viola player in the acclaimed Kreutzer Quartet with whom he has recorded extensively. As a member of the quartet Clifton has been artist-in-residence at Goldsmiths, Southampton, and Bath Spa University with close ties to the Royal Northern College of Music and the University of Oxford.

Parallel to his quartet duties, Clifton regularly gives masterclasses, workshops, and lectures worldwide.  An avid freelance viola player, Clifton has worked with many UK ensembles including the London Symphony Orchestra, London Contemporary Orchestra, Aurora Orchestra, Chineke! Orchestra, London Chamber Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Rambert Orchestra, the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, London Sinfonietta, and most of London’s period performance ensembles. Clifton also records regularly for film and television. He has toured worldwide with countless classical ensembles as well as performed with popular artists as wide ranging as Björk, Jeff Lynne’s ELO, David Rodigan & the Outlook Orchestra, and Mumford & Sons.  Clifton has been heard in festivals throughout the world, from the muddy fields of Glastonbury to the EFG London Jazz Festival, Ghent Festival, Lincoln Center Festival, Edinburgh International Festival, and London’s BBC Proms.

As a researcher, Clifton focuses on two distinct areas:  Seventeenth and eighteenth century viola d’amore music from the Germanic region, and Black and Minority Ethnic classical and contemporary composers/sound artists.

Clifton is a graduate of Interlochen Arts Academy, America'‘s top boarding school for the arts. This was followed by studies at the Juilliard School with Dorothy Delay (violin) and Karen Tuttle (viola) and at the Royal Academy of Music with Yuko Inoue (modern viola) and Jane Rogers (baroque viola).

Recent releases are on the Hyperion, Universal Music, Sony, NAXOS, Warner Music, Navona Records, NMC Records, Métier, and Signum Classics labels. 

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Gary Carpenter studied composition at the Royal College of Music with John Lambert. He has lived in Holland and Germany and has written operas, musicals, ballets (mostly for Nederlands Dans Theater) and a radio music-drama - The One Alone with Iris Murdoch - as well as a substantial amount of concert music. Musical director and/or arranger-orchestrator on many stage shows and films (including The Wicker Man), he won the British Clavichord Society Composition Competition in 2004 (Van Assendelft’s Vermeer) and a 2006 British Composer Award with his harp trio Azaleas. A portrait CD - Die Flimmerkiste is available on NMC.
Recent works include The Listening Project Symphony (Radio 4, BBC Philharmonic Orchestra,– nominated for Prix Europa 2013), Fred and Ginger (LSO, Daniel Harding) Bassoon Concerto (Alan Pendlebury, RLPO, Vasily Petrenko, Piano Trio [Fournier Trio, Wigmore Hall, RPS Prize Nomination 2012)], SET – Concerto for Tenor Saxophone and Orchestra [Iain Ballamy (tenor sax)/BBC Philharmonic Orchestra/HK Gruber, Bridgewater Hall, Manchester], The Food Of Love – a sequence of 12 Shakespeare songs in four books for choirs and piano commissioned by the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust to celebrate the anniversaries of the Shakespeare’s birth (1564/2014) and death (1616/2016) and Dadaville for The First Night of the 2015 Proms. 
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