Gary Carpenter

Gary Carpenter studied composition under John Lambert at the Royal College of Music. He has lived in Holland and Germany and has written four operas, five musicals and a radio music-drama – The One Alone – with Iris Murdoch as well as animated and live action film scores, several ballets (mainly for Nederlands Dans Theater) and a large amount of concert music. Recent works include The Listening Project Symphony (Radio 4, BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, 2012), Fred and Ginger (LSO /Harding, 2011), Bassoon Concerto (Alan Pendlebury/ RLPO/Petrenko, 2011), Piano Trio (Fournier Trio, Wigmore Hall 2011, RPS Prize nomination 2012), and Niederau (2011) for the Tempest Flute Trio. SET, his 2014 tenor sax concerto for Iain Ballamy (BBCPO/H.K.Gruber) was premiered in Manchester whilst Dadaville (BBCSO/Sakari Oramo) received its first performance at The First Night of the 2015 Proms. His most recent project is The Food Of Love, a sequence of 12 Shakespeare songs in four books for choirs and piano commissioned by the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust to celebrate the Bard’s birth and death anniversaries. Gary Carpenter is Professor of Composition at the RNCM, Manchester and a professor of composition at the Royal Academy of Music, London. He was elected an Honorary Member of the Royal Academy of Music (HonRAM) in 2013 and is a BASCA director.