Royal Birmingham Conservatoire's
YOUNG COMPOSERS PROJECT
Commissioned Composer 2020
I was thoroughly pleased to be Royal Birmingham Conservatoire's Young Composers Project 2019-2020 Commissioned Composer. Commissioned to write a hybrid acousmatic work with the instrumentation of string trio, sax improvising trumpet and saxophone, soprano singer and live electronics, the premier was scheduled for March 2020*.

During my time as Commissioned Composer I gave presentations about my work, spoken on a panel about Conservatoires and workshopped my new work in front of the students. I also had the pleasure of rehearsing her commissioned piece in front of Master of the Queen's Music, Judith Weir where she gave me positive feedback about my work.

The Young Composers Project is an eight month course bringing young composers (aged 14-18) together one Sunday a month to compose in a conservatoire environment for professional tuition and 1:1 student mentors.

​​*On hold due to COVID-19

YCP and Judith Weir Blogs

Introducing our commissioned composer, Natalie Roe

I am a second-year composition student at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama writing both notational and acousmatic music. In the past year, I have written contemporary classical music for musicians such as the Berkeley Ensemble, members of the London Sinfonietta as well as an arrangement performed in the National Museum Cardiff as...

Lost in Birmingham | Judith Weir

Birmingham is changing by the week. With all the rebuilding going on at present, it's unrecognisable to a longtime but irregular visitor like myself. My method of navigating via landmarks I could remember from the old days (such as St Martin in the Bullring , pictured) wasn't much help while I searched for the new Conservatoire building, somewhere amidst a heap of new architecture, and arrived at Young Composers' Project at least half an hour late.

YCP's participated in as a student:


​2016 Creative Weekend for New Voices - 'Dementia'.

​2017 LEAP Ensemble - 'MLM'.

​2018 Tap Dancer and Ensemble - 'Rhythmic Growth'.
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