Sir George William John Benjamin,CBE is an English composer of contemporary classical music. He is also a conductor,pianist and teacher. He is well known for operas Into the Little Hill (2006),Written on Skin (2009–2012) and Lessons in Love and Violence (2015–2017)—all with librettos by Martin Crimp. In 2019,critics at The Guardian ranked Written on Skin as the second best work of the 21st-century.
Thomas Joseph Edmund Adès is a British composer,pianist and conductor. Five compositions by Adès received votes in the 2017 Classic Voice poll of the greatest works of art music since 2000:The Tempest (2004),Violin Concerto (2005),Tevot (2007),In Seven Days (2008),and Polaris (2010).
Sir James Loy MacMillan,TOSD is a Scottish classical composer and conductor.
Dame Judith Weir is a British composer. She served as Master of the King's Music from 2014 to 2024. Appointed by Queen Elizabeth II,Weir was the first woman to hold this office.
Luke Bedford is a British composer.
Edward Gregson is an English composer of instrumental and choral music,particularly for brass and wind bands and ensembles,as well as music for the theatre,film,and television. He was also principal of the Royal Northern College of Music.
Jonathan Dove is an English composer of opera,choral works,plays,films,and orchestral and chamber music. He has arranged a number of operas for English Touring Opera and the City of Birmingham Touring Opera,including in 1990 an 18-player two-evening adaptation of Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen for CBTO. He was Artistic Director of the Spitalfields Festival from 2001 to 2006.
John McCabe was a British composer and pianist. He created works in many different forms,including symphonies,ballets,and solo works for the piano. He served as director of the London College of Music from 1983 to 1990. Guy Rickards praised him as "one of Britain's finest composers in the past half-century" and "a pianist of formidable gifts and wide-ranging sympathies".
Madeleine Louise Mitchell MMus,ARCM,GRSM,FRSA is a British violinist who has performed as a soloist and chamber musician in over forty countries. She has a wide repertoire and is particularly known for commissioning and premiering new works and for promoting British music in concert and on disc.
Dobrinka Tabakova is a Bulgarian-British composer.
Penelope Mary Thwaites is a concert pianist and composer,recording artist and editor. Born in the United Kingdom of Australian parents,she is a citizen of both countries. Thwaites is best-known for her interpretations of the music of Australian composers,particularly Percy Grainger.
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Hannah Kendall is a British composer currently based in New York.
Chineke! Orchestra is a British orchestra,the first professional orchestra in Europe to be made up of majority Black ðnically diverse musicians. The word Chineke derives from the Igbo language meaning "God". The orchestra was founded by musician Chi-chi Nwanoku CBE and their debut concert was in 2015 at Queen Elizabeth Hall in London.
Cassandra Miller is a Canadian experimental composer currently based in London,UK. Her work is known for frequently utilising the process of transcription of a variety of pre-existing pieces of music.
Byron Wallen is a British jazz trumpeter,composer and educator. He was described by Jazzwise as "one of the most innovative,exciting and original trumpet players alive". As characterised by All About Jazz,"He does not fit into any pigeonhole,however,and is also something of a renaissance man:he has long been involved in cognitive psychology and also travels widely,spending extended periods in South Africa,Uganda,Zimbabwe,Nigeria,Morocco,Indonesia and Belize ."
Josephine Stephenson is a French-British composer,arranger,singer and instrumentalist who works across a variety of musical genres.
Gavin Higgins is a British composer who resides in London.
Daniel Fardon is a British composer of contemporary classical music.
Bushra El-Turk is a British composer and contemporary music educator of Lebanese parents. Named by the BBC as "one of the most inspiring 100 Women of today",she has written numerous compositions for live concerts,dance,theatre and multi-media performances,performed and broadcast on radio and television by prestigious musicians in various countries of Europe and the Middle East.
