MEET THE COMPOSERS: TOM COULT
Tom Coult is a composer born in London in 1988. He has been championed by many of the UK’s major orchestras and ensembles, and in 2021 he was made Composer-in-Association with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra.
His first opera, Violet, with text by Alice Birch, was premiered in 2022 at the Aldeburgh Festival and on tour, and was described by The Telegraph as “the best new British opera in years”. It has been staged in second and third productions in Paris and Ulm, Germany, in 2022 and 2023.
His large-scale pieces have bee performed by the BBC Philharmonic and London Philharmonic Orchestras, the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, and St John’s Dance (premiered by Edward Gardner and the BBC Symphony Orchestra to open the First Night of the 2017 BBC Proms).
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