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Christopher Mayo is a Canadian composer living and working in London. He was the recipient of the 2005 Royal Philharmonic Society Composition prize and a Serge Garant Award in the 2005 SOCAN Awards for Young Composers. Christopher was appointed as the first composer-in-residence at Tatton Park in 2006-2007. He is a member of the Camberwell Composers’ Collective who are New Music Associates at Kettle’s Yard in Cambridge for 2008-2010.
Born in Toronto in 1980, Christopher studied at the University of Toronto where he was awarded the Glenn Gould Composition Prize and the William Erving Fairclough Scholarship on the way to earning an Honours Bachelor of Music degree. He relocated to London in 2003, where he obtained a Master of Music in Composition from the Royal College of Music studying with Julian Anderson. In 2006 Christopher began doctoral studies at the Royal Academy of Music studying with Philip Cashian.
Recent projects include works for the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the Esprit Orchestra, Tête à Tête, Tatton Park, The St Paul’s Sinfonia, the London Handel Festival, Michael Collins and the Dante Quartet, the Buffet Crampon Clarinet Prize, arraymusic and a work for the NMC Songbook. Christopher’s music has been performed at Faster Than Sound, the Cheltenham Festival, the Toronto New Wave Festival, Kettle’s Yard, the Bang on a Can Summer Music Festival, the Aldeburgh Festival and at venues as diverse as Wigmore Hall, the Miami Art Museum and The Monkey in New York City.
Upcoming projects include a new work for the Ensemble contemporain de Montréal to be performed on their cross-Canada tour in November 2010, a new educational work for String Orchestra commissioned by the Norman Burgess Commissioning Fund, a multimedia work incorporating film and electronics for the Motion Ensemble and a new orchestral work for the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra as part of their Olympic Commissioning Project. Christopher also appeared in the BBC 2 documentary Classic Goldie, assisting English drum and bass star Goldie with his commission for the 2009 BBC Proms.
