Tom Coult
Tom Coult is a composer born in London in 1988. His playful and seductive music has been championed by many of the UK’s major orchestras and ensembles, and in 2021 he was made Composer-in-Association with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra.
His first opera, Violet, with text by Alice Birch, was premiered in 2022 at the Aldeburgh Festival and on tour, and was described by The Telegraph as ‘the best new British opera in years’. It has already been staged in second and third productions in Paris and Ulm, Germany, in 2022 and 2023. It has won or been nominated for: an International Opera Award, a South Bank Sky Arts Award, a Critics Circle Award, an IVORS Composer Award and a UK Theatre Award.
Pieces have been commissioned by BBC Proms (including St John’s Dance for the First Night of the 2017 Proms), Aldeburgh Festival (including pieces for Mahler Chamber Orchestra and for Marian Consort), and Lucerne Festival, and he has been Composer-in-Residence at Aldeburgh, Switzerland’s Musikdorf Ernen Festival, and Oxford Lieder Festival.
His music has been described as ‘funny and surreal and delicately poetic, all at once’ (The Telegraph), ‘methodically crafted yet bewitchingly original’ (The Guardian) — ‘Coult is a composer who spins glittering, teasingly ambiguous patterns out of simple-seeming material ... a very individual voice’ (The Telegraph).
Further performances have come from London Philharmonic, Netherlands RadioPhilharmonic and Royal Philharmonic Orchestras, London Sinfonietta and Britten Sinfonia, Los Angeles and Australian Chamber Orchestras, Scottish Ensemble, and Manchester Camerata, while chamber works have earned performances by Arditti Quartet, Quatuor Diotima, Psappha, Fidelio Trio, Riot Ensemble and 12 Ensemble.
Tom studied at the University of Manchester with Camden Reeves and Philip Grange, and at King’s College London with George Benjamin, and is a Professor in Composition at the Royal Northern College of Music.
Tom Coult is a composer born in London in 1988. His playful and seductive music has been championed by many of the UK’s major orchestras and ensembles, and in 2021 he was made Composer-in-Association with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra.
His first opera, Violet, with text by Alice Birch, was premiered in 2022 at the Aldeburgh Festival and on tour, and was described by The Telegraph as ‘the best new British opera in years’. It has already been staged in second and third productions in Paris and Ulm, Germany, in 2022 and 2023. It has won or been nominated for: an International Opera Award, a South Bank Sky Arts Award, a Critics Circle Award, an IVORS Composer Award and a UK Theatre Award.
Pieces have been commissioned by BBC Proms (including St John’s Dance for the First Night of the 2017 Proms), Aldeburgh Festival (including pieces for Mahler Chamber Orchestra and for Marian Consort), and Lucerne Festival, and he has been Composer-in-Residence at Aldeburgh, Switzerland’s Musikdorf Ernen Festival, and Oxford Lieder Festival.
His music has been described as ‘funny and surreal and delicately poetic, all at once’ (The Telegraph), ‘methodically crafted yet bewitchingly original’ (The Guardian) — ‘Coult is a composer who spins glittering, teasingly ambiguous patterns out of simple-seeming material ... a very individual voice’ (The Telegraph).
Further performances have come from London Philharmonic, Netherlands RadioPhilharmonic and Royal Philharmonic Orchestras, London Sinfonietta and Britten Sinfonia, Los Angeles and Australian Chamber Orchestras, Scottish Ensemble, and Manchester Camerata, while chamber works have earned performances by Arditti Quartet, Quatuor Diotima, Psappha, Fidelio Trio, Riot Ensemble and 12 Ensemble.
Tom studied at the University of Manchester with Camden Reeves and Philip Grange, and at King’s College London with George Benjamin, and is a Professor in Composition at the Royal Northern College of Music.
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