The Picture Gallery Composer-in-Residence Scheme is a ground-breaking residency in which successful student composers from the Department of Music will have their musical responses to the Picture Gallery and some of its wonderful paintings performed by an invited ensemble each year.
This residency is a professional development programme for music creators of the Department of Music to receive specialist, industry-standard workshop sessions and tutorials, working collaboratively with invited artists, ensembles and tutors to create new works that are premiered as part of the International Concert Series.
These new compositions are the result of a special collaboration between the College’s Art Curator Dr Laura MacCulloch and Nathan James Dearden, a College Composer, Conductor of the New Music Collective and Performance Manager at the Department of Music.
Project overview for 2018
For its third cohort, the programme opened the opportunity for composers to work with one of two invited ensembles.
Three successful applicants received the rare opportunity to work with acclaimed musician and academic, Simon Cook, and the College's own Gamelan Puloganti through a collaborative and immersive rehearsal process exploring new music for this ensemble; whilst one successful applicant had the opportunity to write a new choral work for Nathan James Dearden and New Voices Consort.
