Meet the composers
Connect with some of today’s most exciting composers, showcasing the richness and diversity of new music in the UK.
Explore the composers below or take our quiz and discover which Music Patron composer is the best match for you.
- Electronic
- Orchestral
- Rock
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).
- Folk
- Orchestral
Amelia is a Northern Irish composer who creates folk-influenced work for dance, stage and concert hall, exploring potent contemporary issues through the lens of nature, mythology and literature to find nuanced perspectives.
Collaboration with choreographers, writers and artists is integral to many of her projects.
- Opera
- Orchestral
- Vocal and choral
Laura is a composer specialising in theatre, multi-disciplinary work and opera. Her work explores socio-political content with a desire to provoke dialogue, action and change.
Recent projects include Houses Slide powered by on-stage bicycles; new political opera The Blue Woman and the immersive multimedia piece Antarctica about the climate crisis.
- Electronic
- Orchestral
- Vocal and choral
Colin’s music crosses many boundaries and draws on a range of elements including new technologies, song-writing and large-scale classical form. He’s at home creating small delicate piano pieces and intimate electronica as well as monumental and epic orchestra works.