Angela Elizabeth Slater
Angela Elizabeth Slater is a UK-based composer and Director of Illuminate Women’s Music. She has an interest in musically mapping different aspects of the natural world into the fabric of her music.
Recent significant achievements include being selected for the Royal Philharmonic Society Composer programme for 2021–22, as a 2020–22 Tanglewood Composition Fellow, and a 2017–18 Britten-Pears Young Artist through which she worked with Oliver Knussen, Colin Matthews and Michael Gandolfi. Angela was the 2019 Mendelssohn Scholar at New England Conservatory (Boston) and has continued to have performances of her works across the US, including the world premiere of Roil in Stillness by the New England Philharmonic.
In 2021 she wrote two new works for Royal Scottish National Orchestra, alongside six solo works for the Connected Skies project, funded by Arts Council England. In Autumn 2022 Angela had the world premiere of her piano concerto, Tautening skies, performed by Laura Farré Rozada with the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire Symphony Orchestra. Her clarinet quintet called The Light Blinds was premiered by Ensemble 360 at Music in the Round as part of the RPS Composers 2021–22 programme. In July 2022 she also had premiere performance of her viola concerto, Through the fading hour, given by the London Philharmonic Orchestra, with the soloist Richard Waters.
2023 sees Angela developing a new accordion concerto for the accordionist Sanja Mlinarič, and writing new works for both the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival and the Mostly Modern Festival’s chamber ensemble and orchestra.
Angela Elizabeth Slater is a UK-based composer and Director of Illuminate Women’s Music. She has an interest in musically mapping different aspects of the natural world into the fabric of her music.
Recent significant achievements include being selected for the Royal Philharmonic Society Composer programme for 2021–22, as a 2020–22 Tanglewood Composition Fellow, and a 2017–18 Britten-Pears Young Artist through which she worked with Oliver Knussen, Colin Matthews and Michael Gandolfi. Angela was the 2019 Mendelssohn Scholar at New England Conservatory (Boston) and has continued to have performances of her works across the US, including the world premiere of Roil in Stillness by the New England Philharmonic.
In 2021 she wrote two new works for Royal Scottish National Orchestra, alongside six solo works for the Connected Skies project, funded by Arts Council England. In Autumn 2022 Angela had the world premiere of her piano concerto, Tautening skies, performed by Laura Farré Rozada with the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire Symphony Orchestra. Her clarinet quintet called The Light Blinds was premiered by Ensemble 360 at Music in the Round as part of the RPS Composers 2021–22 programme. In July 2022 she also had premiere performance of her viola concerto, Through the fading hour, given by the London Philharmonic Orchestra, with the soloist Richard Waters.
2023 sees Angela developing a new accordion concerto for the accordionist Sanja Mlinarič, and writing new works for both the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival and the Mostly Modern Festival’s chamber ensemble and orchestra.
Compilations with this composer
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