William Cole




William Cole was born in London in 1990, and read Music at Clare College, Cambridge where he graduated in 2013 with double First Class Honours. In September 2015 William will begin an MMus in Composition and Conducting at the Royal Academy of Music.

Recent performances of William’s work have been given by the Britten Sinfonia, Ian Pace, The Hermes Experiment, Peter Sheppard Skaerved, the choirs of Clare College, Cambridge and Gloucester Cathedral, the Cambridge University New Music Ensemble, and the Hampshire County Youth Orchestra. Festival appearances include the Ludlow Festival of English Song, L’Aura des Arts, Nonclassical, and the Three Choirs Festival. Winner of the 2015 Lord Major’s Composition Prize, 2014 Philip Bates Prize and 2013 John Sanders Memorial Competition, his works have been heard at venues across the UK and in America and broadcast on BBC Radio 3. William is one of today’s youngest published composers, with his choral music published by Encore Publications.

William holds conducting positions with young opera company Opera Lyrica and multi-genre club night Filthy Lucre, and is Trainee Conductor of the Goldsmiths Choral Union. He has also worked with the Melos Sinfonia, Gestalt Arts Collective, Hampshire Sinfonia, and all the Cambridge University ensembles in a broad range of orchestral, operatic and choral repertoire, and has also worked as assistant to Sir Roger Norrington, Stephen Cleobury, and Martin Yates. He has a particular interest in contemporary music, and has given performances of music by composers including Tansy Davies, Vivier, Scelsi, and Romitelli (UK premiere of ‘Lost’) and many new works by young composers.

William is also active as a pianist, with recital partners including Stephen Varcoe, and was a Choral Scholar at Clare College. He currently holds the positions of Choral Director at London’s Youth Music Centre and is Graduate Musician in Residence at North London Collegiate School. Community work has involved workshops with young children in the south of England as part of the Elastic Band and with children in Soweto, Johannesburg, and projects with English Touring Opera. He writes for Interlude HK and TEMPO.

William’s work has been supported by the Bliss Trust, the Hampshire Fund for Young Musicians and Mrs Dorothy Grundy.

www.williamcole.co.uk


Composers

Shruthi Rajasekar
Abel Selaocoe
Nwando Ebizie
Elaine Mitchener
Shiva Feshareki
Sylvia Lim
Laura Moody
Philip Venables
Ayanna Witter-Johnson
Raymond Yiu
Eleanor Alberga
Jacob Fitzgerald
Anna Disley-Simpson
Ruari Paterson-Achenbach
Tom Coult
Matthew Grouse
Errollyn Wallen
Oliver Leith
Benjamin Graves
Robin Haigh
Kevin Leomo
Joseph Davies
Элина Вагина
Svetlana Lavrova
Elena Igotti
Mira Calix
Alex Mills
Darren Bloom
Dominic Wills
Alexia Sloane
Anna Appleby
Jia Chai
Andrew Thomas
Emily Hall
Joel Rust
Timothy Salter
Eloise Gynn
Deborah Pritchard
Andy Ingamells
William Marsey
Elis Czerniak
Soosan Lolavar
Kate Whitley
Stevie Wishart
Ewan Campbell
Jethro Cooke
Edwin Hillier
James Joslin
Timothy Cape
Edward Henderson
Stephen Williams
Gareth Wood
Sasha Millwood
Graham Ross
Jeremy Thurlow
James Brady
Kate Honey
Aleksandr Brusentsev
Kim Ashton
Misha Mullov-Abbado
Freya Waley-Cohen
Josephine Stephenson
Ed Scolding
Giles Swayne
Lloyd Coleman
Jonathan Woolgar
William Cole