Tom Coult

Tom Coult is a composer born in London in 1988. His music has been championed by many major orchestras and ensembles, resulting in a series of acclaimed large-scale pieces, including Spirit of the Staircase for London Sinfonietta (nominated for a South Bank Sky Arts Award), St John’s Dance for BBC Symphony Orchestra to open the First Night of the 2017 BBC Proms, and Pleasure Garden for the BBC Philharmonic, the first piece of his role as the orchestra’s Composer-in-Association (later given its London premiere by the London Philharmonic Orchestra). His 2022 opera Violet for Aldeburgh Festival and Music Theatre Wales was described as ‘the best new British opera in years’ by The Telegraph, and has already earned further new productions by Theater Ulm in Germany and L’Aurore Boréale in Paris. Other recent works include Two Nocturnes and a Maze, written as Composer-in-Residence at Switzerland’s Musikdorf Ernen Festival, and a string quartet premiered by the Arditti Quartet in 2018, later presented at Radio France’s 2020 Présences Festival by Quatuor Diotima.