Luke Bedford
*25.04.1978

Future Performances

Wonderful No-Headed Nightingale
22.06.2012, München (D)
Or Voit Tout En Aventure
09.08.2012, Lenox, MA (USA)
Outblaze The Sky
13.08.2012, Lenox, MA (USA)
By the Screen in the Sun at the Hill on the Gold
06.12.2012, London (GB)
Or Voit Tout En Aventure
06.12.2012, London (GB)

News

  • Luke Bedford (c) Tom Bedford
    Luke Bedford UK première
    Luke Bedford UK première
    This April, Foyle Future Firsts participants conducted by Thomas Blunt will give the British premiè [...]
  • Ersnt von Siemens Music Prize
    Friedrich Cerha receives the Ernst von Siemens Music Prize
    Friedrich Cerha receives the Ernst von Siemens Music Prize
    Friedrich Cerha is the recipient of the 2012 international Ernst von Siemens Music Prize. We are esp [...]
  • Luke Bedford (photo: Ben Ealovega)
    Bedford: New work for ensemble
    Bedford: New work for ensemble
    On 3 March, the Britten Sinfonia will give the world première of another new work by Bedford: Three [...]
  • Luke Bedford (photo: Tom Bedford)
    Bedford: New ensemble work
    Bedford: New ensemble work
    Luke Bedford's latest work for ensemble Wonderful Two-Headed Nightingale will receive its world prem [...]
  • Luke Bedford
    First chamber opera by Luke Bedford
    First chamber opera by Luke Bedford
    This is the long-awaited first opera from Luke Bedford, one of the UK’s leading young composers. T [...]
  • Seven Angels Video
    Watch composer Luke Bedford, writer Glyn Maxwell and director John Fulljames talk about Bedford’s [...]
    Seven Angels Video

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Luke Bedford - 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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