Colin Riley

Colin Riley’s work integrates many aspects of contemporary music drawing on elements of improvisation, new technologies, song-writing and large-scale classical form. His work is difficult to categorise and reflects a genuine distillation of stylistic approaches, embracing tensions between complex and simple approaches, as well as an experimental approach around traditional audience-performance environments. As an established figure within the contemporary music scene over the last 20 years he has forged a distinctive, and independent path. He composes for a wide range of performers and ensembles, and also regularly creates work for his two ensembles, the Homemade Orchestra and MooV, where he is composer and performer/director. As an exponent of collaboration he has built up long-term relationships with certain key performers and artists both as a composer and festival director. He is also a committed advocate of the emerging and up and coming in the new music scene and is the Artistic Director of independent network, Music Orbit, established in 2000. He is also senior lecturer in music at Brunel University, London.

Fraser Trainer

Fraser Trainer first studied composition at Huddersfield University where he was awarded the 1989 Composition Prize. He later attended the Guildhall School of Music and Drama as a postgraduate student where he won the 1992 Lutoslawski Prize. His teachers have included Richard Steinitz, Simon Bainbridge, Peter Wiegold and Robert Saxton. Fraser already has five London Sinfonietta commissions to his name and has firmly established himself as a composer keen to communicate with both performers and audiences through a vivid and direct musical language. Other ensembles to have performed his music include the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the Hallé Orchestra, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, The Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra, The London Mozart Players, The City of London Sinfonia, Athens Kamerata, Viva, The Scottish Ensemble, Psappha, Kokoro and London Brass.  Fraser is a founder member of the group Between The Notes and is also on the teaching staff at both the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and the Royal College of Music. He is currently working on a concerto for improvising quintet and orchestra.

David Horne

David Horne has published over 90 works and has received commissions from major soloists, orchestras and ensembles including Evelyn Glennie, Scottish Opera, BBC Symphony Orchestra, London Sinfonetta, Nash Ensemble and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. His music is frequently commissioned and performed abroad, including recently at festivals in Berlin, Paris, Rome, Singapore and Strasbourg. He is active as a pianist and won the piano section of BBC Young Musician of the Year 1988. David is highly sought after as a workshop leader and has recently led projects for the London Sinfonietta, BCMG, SPNM, Aldeburgh Festival and Wigmore Hall. He was composer in association with the RLPO from 2000-2003, led the New Music/New Media course for the Britten-Pears School in 2004 and from 2006/07 was a visiting professor at the Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya. He is a Senior Lecturer at the Royal Northern College of Music. All his compositions are published by Boosey and Hawkes and he has been recorded on BMG and NMC labels among others.