Suckling has been commissioned by the London Symphony Orchestra, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, London Sinfonietta, and Scottish Ensemble. He is currently Senior Lecturer in Composition at the University of York. He has won numerous awards, including a highly sought-after Philip Leverhulme Prize.
His teachers include George Benjamin, Robin Holloway, Martin Bresnick, and Simon Bainbridge. He was a Paul Mellon Fellow at Yale University (2003-5), undertook doctoral research at the Royal Academy of Music, and became a Stipendiary Lecturer in Music at Somerville College, Oxford. After spending his teenage years performing in the National Youth Orchestra and in ceilidh bands around Scotland, Suckling studied music at Clare College Cambridge and King’s College London. Martin Suckling was born in Glasgow in 1981. Recent highlights include premieres of MacMillan’s A European Requiem, Stabat Mater for The Sixteen and a Trombone Concerto for Jörgen van Rijen with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. His recordings can be found on BMG/RCA Red Seal, BIS, Chandos, Naxos, Hyperion, Coro, Linn and Challenge Classics. His interpreters include soloists Evelyn Glennie, Colin Currie, Jean-Yves Thibaudet and Vadim Repin, conductors Leonard Slatkin, Sir Andrew Davis, Marin Alsop and Donald Runnicles, and choreographer Christopher Wheeldon. He was featured composer at Edinburgh Festival (1993), Southbank Centre (1997), BBC’s Barbican Composer Weekend (2005) and Grafenegg Festival (2012). Other major works include the cantata Seven Last Words from the Cross (1993), Quickening (1998) for soloists, children's choir, mixed choir and orchestra, the operas Inès de Castro (2001) and The Sacrifice (2005-06), St John Passion (2007) and St Luke Passion (2013). His percussion concerto Veni, Veni Emmanuel (1992) has received over 500 performances worldwide by orchestras including London Symphony Orchestra, New York and Los Angeles Philharmonics and Cleveland Orchestra. He first attracted attention with the acclaimed BBC Proms premiere of The Confession of Isobel Gowdie (1990).
James MacMillan is the pre-eminent Scottish composer of his generation. Posted by Tectonics Glasgow on Wednesday, 7 June 2017 Shiori has been a recipient of numerous awards and fellowships, including Toru Takemitsu Composition Award 2012, Civitella Ranieri Music Fellowship in conjunction with the UNESCO-Aschberg Bursary (2010), BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra/Cove Park composer’s residency (2012), Birmingham Contemporary Music Group/Sound and Music composer-in-residence (2013-2014), Scottish Chamber Orchestra Connect Fellow funded by BBC Performing Arts Fund (2013-2014) for working with children with additional support needs, Ricordi Lab publishing deal from Ricordi Berlin (2016) and Scottish Awards for New Music for large ensemble (2018).Īs an improvising musician, Shiori has performed with artists and groups such as Arve Henriksen, Ilan Volkov, Rie Nakajima, Lee Patterson, Cato, Grey Area, BCMG and Collegium Novum Zurich.Edinburgh-based composer Shiori Usui introduces her work 'From Scratch' Many of her compositions are inspired by the sounds of the human body, the deep sea, and many other weird and wonderful organisms living on Earth. Shiori has produced works in radical instrumental music, and has worked with motion capturing sensors and biophysical technology. The Times newspaper described her as a composer with “entirely individual ears” after the successful premiere of the piece “Liya-pyuwa” for piano quintet at Wigmore Hall, London in 2006. Originally from Japan, Shiori Usui is a BBC Proms commissioned composer and improviser based in Scotland. In this seminar, she will talk about her approach into composition and the most recent collaboration that she was involved as a co-composer and musician/performer for making a critically-acclaimed sensory theatre show for autistic young adults and their families. Originally from Japan, Shiori is a composer, improvising musician and performer based in Scotland.
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