2023 Call for Scores
Commissions announced!
Our 2023 Call for Scores is now completed. We are grateful to every composer who shared their music with us, and we had a wonderful time listening to your work over the past month. We are very happy to announce that, once again, we are able to offer not two but three commissions for our concert at the University of Liverpool this Autumn. There, we will perform a centenary concert in memory of Madeleine Dring, including new arrangements of her Night Songs and Betjeman Songs for Soprano, Oboe, Percussion, Harpsichord and Double Bass. Alongside these songs, we will perform Dutilleux’s masterwork Les Citations, and new pieces from the three composers below!
Rachel Beja
Rachel Beja is an Israeli composer currently based in Milan. She graduated with a bachelor’s and a master's degree in composition with Gabriele Manca at "G. Verdi" Music Conservatoire in Milan.
Her music has been performed internationally by ensembles such as Modern Ensemble, Schallfeld Ensemble, Divertimento Ensemble, Ensemble Multilatérale, Tana Quartet, Quartet 121, Zöllner/Roche duo, Unimi Orchestra, The Israel Contemporary Players, Mdi Ensemble and Mise-en Ensemble.
She has participated in festivals such as ManiFeste, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival and Milano musica festival.
S Whiteley
S Whiteley is a San Diego-based composer, multi-instrumentalist, & experimental media artist working primarily with electronics and intermedia. They are interested in cyborg consciousness, embodiment, formations of the self, and Deep Listening in the context of virtually entangled, post-internet life. They have toured Europe, the UK, and North America with various bands, had their music featured on publications like Pitchfork and The Wire and released labels like Not Not Fun, 99Chants, Topshelf Records, and Touchtheplants. S has held residencies at the I-Park Inc. Foundation Artist Residency, Dublin Sound Lab, and the Labo de Musique Contemporaine de Montréal. Their work, creative practice, and Deep Listening practice is heavily informed by the 2 years they spent studying Buddhism and practicing meditation intensively in residential monastic retreat at several different Zen Buddhist Monasteries.
Lawrence Dunn
Lawrence Dunn (*1991) is a composer, improviser and music writer born in Walthamstow, London.
Attending Trinity College of Music as a junior, training as a pianist and percussionist, he later studied at Cambridge and at Huddersfield with Bryn Harrison. In 2018 he was shortlisted for the Gaudeamus Award. His music has been performed by Apartment House, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Ensemble Modern, Quatuor Bozzini, Plus-Minus, Slagwerk Den Haag, Ensemble Mosaik, L’Instant Donné, Philip Thomas and Juliet Fraser. Recent pieces include a new work for Explore Ensemble, premiered at Wigmore Hall in 2022, with a recording to be released soon on Huddersfield Contemporary Records.