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Alice Birch (Photo-Georgina Ower)

Tom Coult composes playful and seductive music and has been championed
by many of the UK’s major orchestras and ensembles, resulting in a series of
acclaimed large-scale pieces including Beautiful Caged Thing for soprano
Claire Booth and the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Sonnet Machine for the BBC
Philharmonic Orchestra, and St John’s Dance (premiered by Edward Gardner
and the BBC Symphony Orchestra to open the First Night of the 2017 BBC
Proms).

Last year he was made Composer-in-Association with the BBC Philharmonic
Orchestra, who have played his music on a number of occasions – the first
major piece of his residency was Pleasure Garden, a concerto for violinist
Daniel Pioro, also broadcast on BBC Radio 3.

Tom’s music has been described as……

‘Funny and surreal and delicately poetic, all at once, and ‘full of
bewitching sounds…fresh and precisely imagined. Coult is a
composer who spins glittering, teasingly ambiguous patterns out of
simple-seeming material…a very individual voice’