Sohrab Uduman
Sohrab Uduman was born in Sri-Lanka in 1962. He began his musical life as a clarinettist, going on to read Music at the University of Surrey, where, in addition to performance, he subsequently completed his MMus in composition, conducting and research into Berg’s compositional techniques. He went on to study composition at the University of Birmingham with Vic Hoyland and Jonty Harrison. His music has received several awards, including an international prize at the Huddersfield Festival of Contemporary Music, The Bourges International Competition for Electro-acoustic Music, the George Butterworth Award, the Oskar Back Foundation Prize for Young European Composers, and first prize in the Prix Annelie de Man 2012 Composer’s Competition. His music has featured at many festivals, including the Oxford Festival of Contemporary Music, The Spitalfields Festival, the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, the Cheltenham International Festival of Music, Darmstadt, Britten Festival Brugges, and Agora Festival at the Centre Georges Pompidou Paris.
Works include Tracing metamorphoses for string quartet and live computer transformation commissioned by IRCAM for the Arditti Quartet, “Dann klingt es auf…" for piano trio commissioned by the Britten Sinfonia and Sound me Closely, commissioned by Rarescale Ensemble. In 2018 he received a Performing Rights Composers' Award for a number of projects, including a series of compositions for instruments with real-time computer processing, exploring the use of sensor augmented instruments. Uduman is also interested in collaborating with artists working in other media; a project making use of film and live drawing in collaboration with the artist Jon Barraclough, Derrière le miroir for harpsichord, live electronics with live drawing was performed at the King’s Place, London in June 2012. He was a lecturer in composition at the University of Durham from 1991-1996 and currently works as Reader in the Department of Music & Music Technology at Keele.
Sohrab Uduman was born in Sri-Lanka in 1962. He began his musical life as a clarinettist, going on to read Music at the University of Surrey, where, in addition to performance, he subsequently completed his MMus in composition, conducting and research into Berg’s compositional techniques. He went on to study composition at the University of Birmingham with Vic Hoyland and Jonty Harrison. His music has received several awards, including an international prize at the Huddersfield Festival of Contemporary Music, The Bourges International Competition for Electro-acoustic Music, the George Butterworth Award, the Oskar Back Foundation Prize for Young European Composers, and first prize in the Prix Annelie de Man 2012 Composer’s Competition. His music has featured at many festivals, including the Oxford Festival of Contemporary Music, The Spitalfields Festival, the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, the Cheltenham International Festival of Music, Darmstadt, Britten Festival Brugges, and Agora Festival at the Centre Georges Pompidou Paris.
Works include Tracing metamorphoses for string quartet and live computer transformation commissioned by IRCAM for the Arditti Quartet, “Dann klingt es auf…" for piano trio commissioned by the Britten Sinfonia and Sound me Closely, commissioned by Rarescale Ensemble. In 2018 he received a Performing Rights Composers' Award for a number of projects, including a series of compositions for instruments with real-time computer processing, exploring the use of sensor augmented instruments. Uduman is also interested in collaborating with artists working in other media; a project making use of film and live drawing in collaboration with the artist Jon Barraclough, Derrière le miroir for harpsichord, live electronics with live drawing was performed at the King’s Place, London in June 2012. He was a lecturer in composition at the University of Durham from 1991-1996 and currently works as Reader in the Department of Music & Music Technology at Keele.
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