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Oliver Rudland has built up a reputation for composing accessible modern music. He enjoys writing in many styles, although he currently specialises in vocal music, especially opera. Oliver trained with Joseph Horovitz as a Foundation Scholar at the Royal College of Music, where he also studied the piano with Neil Immelman and conducting with Patrick Bailey. At present he is studying for a Masters in Composition at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, under the supervision of Robin Holloway. Oliver began his musical life as a trumpeter in Leeds Youth Opera and the City of Leeds Youth Orchestra, in which he served as Principal for several years. He continues to play the trumpet regularly, and is also actively involved with organising and conducting concerts of his own music. Oliver's compositions have been widely performed by such diverse ensembles as the Yorkshire Philharmonic Choir, the Alea String Quartet, Meridian, the Sans Souci Trio, the RCM Contemporary Consort and the Britten Sinfonia. He received his first commission in 2004 for a violin sonata, which was performed by Amelia Jones in the Cheltenham International Music Festival. Recently he was commissioned to write incidental music for a production of The White Devil at the ADC theatre, Cambridge, while his new choral works Settings of Innocence and Experience were premiered in April by Gonville and Caius College Chapel Choir. The percussion ensemble Meridian are currently touring his work And when the moon… throughout the UK. His first opera The Nightingale and the Rose is to be staged this July by Leeds Youth Opera at the Carriageworks Theatre, Leeds’. For more details see www.leedsyouthopera.org.uk. Works in progress include a set of guitar pieces commissioned by guitarist Amie Owen, music for a ‘comedy-ballet’ entitled Enfants modèles, commissioned by the playwright and director Olivier Dhenin (Theatre du Châtelet, Paris), and a new two-act opera, The Fisherman and his Soul. |