Tom Coult
Tom Coult (born 1988) is an English composer.
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| birth_date = 1988{{Cite web |title=TOM COULT |url=https://www.tomcoult.com/ |access-date=2024-02-04 |website=TOM COULT |language=en-US}}
| birth_place = London, UK
| genre = Classical
| website = {{URL|tomcoult.com}}
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Career
From 2021, he has been Composer-in-Association with BBC Philharmonic Orchestra.{{Cite web |title=BBC - BBC Philharmonic - BBC Philharmonic announce Tom Coult as new Composer in Association |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/44mr7xDnzZkc77zJQ5WH987/bbc-philharmonic-announce-tom-coult-as-new-composer-in-association |access-date=2024-01-24 |website=BBC |language=en-GB}} The post has seen premieres of Pleasure Garden, a concerto for violinist Daniel Pioro,{{Cite web |title=BBC Radio 3 - Radio 3 in Concert, Pleasure Garden |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0010q4d |access-date=2024-01-24 |website=BBC |language=en-GB}} several arrangements of baroque and medieval music,{{Cite web |title=BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, Violinist Daniel Pioro and the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000w578 |access-date=2024-01-24 |website=BBC |language=en-GB}} After Lassus with soprano Anna Dennis,{{Cite web |title=BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, BBC Philharmonic and Tom Coult live |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001l4md |access-date=2024-01-24 |website=BBC |language=en-GB}} and Three Pieces that Disappear for orchestra,{{Cite web |title=BBC Philharmonic and Collon premiere Coult's Three Pieces that Disappear {{!}} Faber Music |url=https://www.fabermusic.com/news/bbc-philharmonic-and-collon-premiere-coults-three-pieces-that-disappear30032023 |access-date=2024-01-24 |website=www.fabermusic.com |language=en}} amongst a number of other repeat performances.
His opera Violet, with text by playwright Alice Birch, was commissioned by Music Theatre Wales and Britten Pears Arts. At its premiere at the Aldeburgh Festival, The Telegraph described it as ‘the best new British opera in years’,{{Cite news |last=Coghlan |first=Alexandra |date=2022-06-04 |title=Violet is the best new British opera in years |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/music/classical-music/violet-aldeburgh-festival-review-best-new-british-opera-years/ |access-date=2024-01-24 |work=The Telegraph |language=en-GB |issn=0307-1235}} and The Stage said it was ‘the finest joint UK operatic debut since Martin Crimp and George Benjamin collaborated on Into the Little Hill in 2006’.{{Cite web |title=Violet review at Britten Pears Arts, Snape Maltings by Tom Coult and Alice Birch |url=https://www.thestage.co.uk/reviews/violet-review-tom-coult-and-alice-birch-britten-pears-arts-snape-malting |access-date=2024-01-24 |website=The Stage |language=En}} It has been staged in further productions by Theater Ulm{{Cite web |title=Violet |url=https://www.theater-ulm.de/spielplan/stuecke/violet |access-date=2024-01-24 |website=www.theater-ulm.de}} and by L'aurore boréale in Paris.{{Cite web |title=Violet {{!}} L'Aurore Boréale |url=http://www.lauroreboreale.fr/portfolio/violet/ |access-date=2024-01-24 |language=fr-FR}} It won or was nominated for: an International Opera Award,{{Cite web |title=Music Theatre Wales production VIOLET nominated for International Opera Awards {{!}} Music Theatre Wales |url=https://musictheatre.wales/news/music-theatre-wales-production-violet-nominated-for-international-opera-awards.html |access-date=2024-01-24 |website=musictheatre.wales}} a South Bank Sky Arts Award,{{Cite web |date=2023-07-02 |title=South Bank Sky Arts Awards 2023 – Full List of Winners {{!}} West End Theatre |url=https://www.westendtheatre.com/178975/news/awards/south-bank-sky-arts-awards-2023-full-list-of-winners/ |access-date=2024-01-24 |website=www.westendtheatre.com |language=en-GB}} a Critics Circle Award,{{Cite web |title=Tom Coult receives Young Talent Award from Critics' Circle {{!}} Faber Music |url=https://www.fabermusic.com/news/tom-coult-receives-young-talent-award-from-critics-circle28062023 |access-date=2024-01-24 |website=www.fabermusic.com |language=en}} IVORS Composer Award{{Cite web |title=Nominees announced for the Ivors Classical Awards 2023 |url=https://www.gramophone.co.uk/opera-now/news/article/nominees-announced-for-the-ivors-classical-awards-2023 |access-date=2024-01-24 |website=Gramophone |language=en}} and a UK Theatre Award.{{Cite web |title=UK Theatre Awards 2022 |url=https://uktheatre.org/previous-winners-and-nominees/uk-theatre-awards-2022/ |access-date=2024-01-24 |website=UK Theatre |language=en-GB}}
Other pieces have been performed at the First Night of the BBC Proms (St John’s Dance for the BBC Symphony Orchestra),{{Cite web |title=BBC Proms 2017 season announced {{!}} Askonas Holt |url=https://askonasholt.com/news/bbc-proms-2017-season-announced |access-date=2024-01-24 |website=askonasholt.com}} Aldeburgh Festival (Beautiful Caged Thing for the Mahler Chamber Orchestra),{{Cite news |last=Allen |first=David |date=2015-06-17 |title=Review: Mahler Chamber Orchestra Careens Across the Centuries at Aldeburgh |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/18/arts/music/review-mahler-chamber-orchestra-careens-across-the-centuries-at-aldeburgh.html |access-date=2024-01-24 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}} and Amsterdam Concertgebouw (Sonnet Machine with Netherlands Radio Philharmonic).{{Cite web |title=Tom Coult at the Holland Festival {{!}} Faber Music |url=https://www.fabermusic.com/news/tom-coult-at-the-holland-festival26032018-1 |access-date=2024-01-24 |website=www.fabermusic.com |language=en}}
He has been Composer-in-Residence at Musikdorf Ernen{{Cite web |last=Ernen |first=Musikdorf |title=Ein britischer Komponistenstar im Musikdorf |url=https://www.musikdorf.ch/de/allgemein/blog-aktuelles/blog/ein-britischer-komponistenstar-im-musikdorf-197 |access-date=2024-01-24 |website=www.musikdorf.ch |language=de}} and Oxford International Song Festival,{{Cite web |title=Tom Coult {{!}} Composers |url=https://oxfordsong.org/composer/tom-coult |access-date=2024-01-24 |website=Oxford Song |language=en}} and was Visiting Fellow Commoner in the Creative Arts at Trinity College Cambridge between 2017 and 2019.{{Cite web |last=fionaholland |date=2017-10-06 |title=New Creative Arts Fellow: Tom Coult |url=https://www.trin.cam.ac.uk/news/new-creative-arts-fellow-tom-coult/ |access-date=2024-01-24 |website=Trinity College Cambridge |language=en-GB}}
Education
He studied at the University of Manchester with Camden Reeves and subsequently with Sir George Benjamin at King’s College London.{{Cite web |last=Beale |first=Robert |date=2014-03-05 |title=Finale of Strauss's Voice at Bridgewater Hall |url=http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/whats-on/its-final-concert-strausss-voice-6776928 |access-date=2024-01-24 |website=Manchester Evening News |language=en}}
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Category:21st-century English classical composers
Category:21st-century English male composers