Meet the composers

David John Roche’s music is direct, determined, and loud. Strongly influenced by heavy metal, lush orchestral music, and his working-class Welsh background, he has been marked out as a “clear-minded and class-conscious artist” (Culture Matters) and “one of the most energetic, driven, and successful of Wales’s millennial generation of composers” (Tŷ Cerdd).

Mark’s work includes chamber, orchestral, and vocal music, with commissions from BBC Symphony Orchestra, Ulster Orchestra and BBC National Orchestra of Wales among others.

His new opera premieres at Welsh National Opera’s 2024/25 season, giving patrons an insider’s perspective into the formidable process of bringing an opera to life.

Hailing from South-East London, REVEAL is a Composer that focusses in Hip-Hop, R&B and Pop music. Outside of Production, REVEAL also focusses his work as Sound Engineer and Recording Artist.

As an artist, he is known for his skilful lyricism that delves into the realm of reality, all while showcasing an exceptional penmanship, with an overall goal to improve the narrative within Hip-Hop music.

Gus is an award-winning writer and composer based in York. For his first full-length musical Pieces of String in 2018 (which was named for The Stage’s Best Regional Musical of the year) Gus won The Stage Debut Award for Best Composer/Lyricist, and was nominated for a Writer’s Guild of Great Britain award for Best Musical Theatre Bookwriting. His second full-length musical Mayflies premiered at York Theatre Royal in 2023, to great acclaim.