Luke Bedford
*25.04.1978

Future Performances

Wonderful Two-Headed Nightingale
17.02.2012, Inverness (GB)
Wonderful Two-Headed Nightingale
18.02.2012, Aberdeen (GB)
Wonderful Two-Headed Nightingale
19.02.2012, Edinburgh (GB)
Wonderful Two-Headed Nightingale
20.02.2012, Dundee (GB)
Wonderful Two-Headed Nightingale
22.02.2012, Perth (GB)

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Luke Bedford

The Composer

(See below for short biography)

Luke Bedford was born in 1978 and studied composition at the Royal College of Music with Edwin Roxburgh and Simon Bainbridge, following a Foundation Scholarship. He then gained a subsequent scholarship to study for a Masters degree at the Royal Academy of Music, again with Simon Bainbridge, with funds provided by the RVW Trust, the Countess of Munster Musical Trust, and the 2000 Mendelssohn Scholarship.

In 2001, the London Sinfonietta premièred Five Abstracts - a chamber work for 14 players. A BBC commission followed - Rode with Darkness, a work for large orchestra, which was premièred by the Hallé Orchestra under Mark Elder in January 2004. The work [...]

Reviews

His piece for the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, Or Voit Tout en Aventure, which premiered last year, and which I heard at the Aldeburgh festival in June, is one of the most outstanding pieces by any young composer I've ever experienced – music of brooding expressive intensity and charged with that indefinable quality that makes a piece sound as if it was written out of sheer necessity.

(Tom Service, The Guardian 2007).

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10 of 26 Works

5 Abstracts | for 14 players 2001
At Three and Two | for winds, percussion and double basses 2010
By the Screen in the Sun at the Hill on the Gold | for 18 players 2008
Catafalque | for large ensemble 2002
Catafalque | for piano 2002
Chiaroscuro | for violin, violoncello and piano 2005
Give Him His Hat | for piano 2010
Good Dream She Has | for soprano, mezzo-soprano, tenor and 14 players 2008
Great Bass Rackett | for bassoon 2009
Igor, The Bird Who Couldn't Sing | for narrator, clarinet and piano 2011

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