Kemal’s unique ear and non-rigid approach to genre has seen him work successfully in musical theatre, jazz, film scores, large-scale orchestral works, Instagram live improvisations, an album of chamber music, and a series of piano improvisations titled 'The Key Crack Chronicles'.His varied and unpredictable approach has resulted in an output of over 100 works, the most recent of which is a commission for the Ora Singers, set to premiere in early 2021 in collaboration with the Tate Modern. Initially self-taught, he progressed to the Royal Academy of Music where he studied with Simon Bainbridge. He gravitated towards the natural drama and theatre within music.He was then closely mentored by the late Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, who became one of his biggest sonic inspirations.

Gabriel Jackson is one of Britain’s foremost and most celebrated composers. His music is regularly performed, recorded and broadcast throughout Europe and North America and has recently been heard as far afield as Taipei, Moscow, Skálholt, Ho Chi Minh City, Hobart, Kyiv and Kuwait. Particularly acclaimed for his choral works, he is a frequent collaborator with the leading professional groups of the world, including The Sixteen, the DR VokalEnsemblet, the State Choir “Latvija”, the Nederlands Kamerkoor, the Tallis Scholars, Ars Nova Copenhagen, the Swedish and Bavarian Radio Choirs and Philadelphia’s The Crossing, for whom he has composed four works. From 2010 to 2013 he was Associate Composer to the BBC Singers, producing a series of substantial pieces for the group including a virtuoso four-movement Choral Symphony.

photo Reinis Hofmanis

Described by BBC Music Magazine as “one of the most successful composers of his generation”, Phibbs’s works have been championed by some of the world’s leading conductors, including Edward Gardner, Sakari Oramo, Vassily Petrenko and Esa-Pekka Salonen. His most recent large-scale work, a Clarinet Concerto with soloist Mark van de Wiel was released on Signum, attracting critical acclaim and was selected by The Sunday Times as one of the 100 Best Albums of 2019

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The London Oriana Choir launched Five15 in April 2016. A five-year programme promoting women composers through commissioning fifteen new works, concert programming, workshops, recordings and other activities. The next steps for the programme will see the appointing of a final year composer and the commissioning of three works in the next year. Then, the culmination of the programme will be the curation of a festival celebrating the key commissions from all five resident composers, workshops and masterclass sessions to inspire a new generation, the launching of an anthology of the 15 commissioned works and a specially recorded album.

Composer-curator-producer Colin Riley invited 25 musicians who he knew and trusted to record sympathetic responses to 17 small musical seeds; short haiku-like improvisations.  They were all responding to what we have all felt many times in the last 18 months that the world is strange. Things have seemed out of kilter. We have perhaps noticed things more: birds, sunsets, small everyday details, our own ageing, inequality, and the kindness of others. We have all had to deal with isolation, and restriction in our own particular ways. From September a series of singles will be released from Isolated Places ahead on the full album in February 2022. The proceeds of the album will all go to Youth Music. A charity that provides opportunities for young people to engage with music, something sadly all-to-often unavailable for anyone on a low income.

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