“contrasting gestures, driven through by a powerful sense of drama and structure”. The Times “Delicately spun melodies dissolved into bursts of aggression…. gritty, soulful…” The Strad “stylistic impressions created with delicacy and sensitivity” Musical Opinion “Philip Venables’ Fight music, evoking a community beating up an outsider (the poor whimpering cello) was brutally effective” The Times Philip Venables’s music has been performed and broadcast internationally. His Piano Studies won first prize in the International Composition Competition ‘From Romanticism to Contemporary” in Bucharest in June 2009. Arc, for the BBC Philharmonic, received a special mention at the 2006 British Academy Composer Awards and was broadcast on BBC Radio 3. His Wigmore Hall debut was in 2006 with the premiere of his complete String Quartet by the Duke Quartet. This piece has been performed more than a dozen times by four different quartets and has been broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and ABC Australian radio. In 2006 Philip was asked to write Praecentio, a prelude to Mozart’s Requiem for the Canterbury Cathedral celebrations of Mozart’s 250th Anniversary, performed by Southbank Sinfonia and Nicholas Cleobury. Philip was born in Chester in 1979 and went on to study at Jesus College, Cambridge, to read Natural Sciences, but then went to the Royal Academy of Music to study composition with Philip Cashian, where he was awarded the DipRAM diploma and the Manson Fellowship in Composition. He took masterclasses with Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, Simon Bainbridge, Dominic Muldowney, Paul Patterson, amongst others. In the last 2 years Philip’s commissions have included Ensemble 10-10 of the RLPO (ANIMA), Endymion (Fight music), Bregenz Festival in Austria for Ensemble LUX (In America et ego), the BBC Singers for SPNM (Thalidomide), the BBC Symphony Orchestra for SPNM (Ora) and the Black Dyke Brass Band for the Deal Festival (Lullaby, for solo Euphoniumist David Thornton and Brass Band). Other works have been written for and performed by the London Symphony Orchestra, the London Sinfonietta, the BBC Singers, the Canterbury Sounds New Festival, Rambert Dance Company, the Cheltenham International Music Festival, the QuantumLoop Animated Film Festival and the Spitalfields Festival. Philip has also worked on many projects with amateur and young musicians, including the Royal National Theatre’s Street Genius project, several CoMA ensembles, the South London Jazz Orchestra and the 2004 Cage: UnCaged festival at the Barbican Centre, and the Sound Census project with Endymion. In September 2009 he created an installation and performance of Music for Amplified Toy Pianos by John Cage at Kings Place in London. As a conductor, he has studied with Christopher Austin, Denise Ham and Rodolfo Saglembini. He founded and directed Sequenza, and he directed the Hammersmith and Fulham Youth Orchestra for 2 years where he piloted an on-going partnership with the BBC Symphony Orchestra. He is the Artistic Director of the critically acclaimed British chamber ensemble Endymion. EDUCATION Cambridge University, UK, 2001: MA Royal Academy of Music, London, 2004: MMus, LRAM, DipRAM. Teachers: Philip Cashian (main teacher), Simon Bainbridge, Christopher Austin. Masterclasses with Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, Dominic Muldowney, Paul Patterson AWARDS, PRIZES, RESIDENCIES Piano Studies win first prize, International Composition Competition 2009 National University of Music in Bucharest Nominated for Paul Hamlyn Awards for Composers, UK, 2009 Composer in residence with South London Jazz Orchestra, 2006 – 2009 British Composer Awards (a commendation), orchestral category, for Arc British Academy of Composers and Songwriters, 2006 Bliss Trust Bursary, 2006 Manson Fellowship in Composition, Royal Academy of Music, London. 2004 – 2005 SPNM Shortlist, Society for the Promotion of New Music, London. 2004 – 2007 Manson Fellow in Composition, Royal Academy of Music, London, 2004 – 2005 Discretionary Diploma in Composition (DipRAM) in Composition, Royal Academy of Music, London. 2004 Pullen Memorial Prize in Composition. Royal Academy of Music, London. 2004 William Elkin Prize in Composition, Royal Academy of Music, London. 2003 COMA Tate-Liverpool Prize, Contemporary Music for Amateurs, UK Publication prize. 2003 Battison Haynes prize in Composition, Royal Academy of Music, London. 2003. Young Composer of the Year, Performance

“contrasting gestures, driven through by a powerful sense of drama and structure”. The Times

“Delicately spun melodies dissolved into bursts of aggression…. gritty, soulful…” The Strad

“stylistic impressions created with delicacy and sensitivity”

Musical Opinion

“Philip Venables’ Fight music, evoking a community beating up an outsider (the poor whimpering cello) was brutally effective”

The Times

Philip Venables’s music has been performed and broadcast internationally. His Piano Studies won first prize in the International Composition Competition ‘From Romanticism to Contemporary” in Bucharest in June 2009. Arc, for the BBC Philharmonic, received a special mention at the 2006 British Academy Composer Awards and was broadcast on BBC Radio 3. His Wigmore Hall debut was in 2006 with the premiere of his complete String Quartet by the Duke Quartet. This piece has been performed more than a dozen times by four different quartets and has been broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and ABC Australian radio. In 2006 Philip was asked to write Praecentio, a prelude to Mozart’s Requiem for the Canterbury Cathedral celebrations of Mozart’s 250th Anniversary, performed by Southbank Sinfonia and Nicholas Cleobury.

Philip was born in Chester in 1979 and went on to study at Jesus College, Cambridge, to read Natural Sciences, but then went to the Royal Academy of Music to study composition with Philip Cashian, where he was awarded the DipRAM diploma and the Manson Fellowship in Composition. He took masterclasses with Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, Simon Bainbridge, Dominic Muldowney, Paul Patterson, amongst others.

In the last 2 years Philip’s commissions have included Ensemble 10-10 of the RLPO (ANIMA), Endymion (Fight music), Bregenz Festival in Austria for Ensemble LUX (In America et ego), the BBC Singers for SPNM (Thalidomide), the BBC Symphony Orchestra for SPNM (Ora) and the Black Dyke Brass Band for the Deal Festival (Lullaby, for solo Euphoniumist David Thornton and Brass Band). Other works have been written for and performed by the London Symphony Orchestra, the London Sinfonietta, the BBC Singers, the Canterbury Sounds New Festival, Rambert Dance Company, the Cheltenham International Music Festival, the QuantumLoop Animated Film Festival and the Spitalfields Festival.

Philip has also worked on many projects with amateur and young musicians, including the Royal National Theatre’s Street Genius project, several CoMA ensembles, the South London Jazz Orchestra and the 2004 Cage: UnCaged festival at the Barbican Centre, and the Sound Census project with Endymion. In September 2009 he created an installation and performance of Music for Amplified Toy Pianos by John Cage at Kings Place in London.

As a conductor, he has studied with Christopher Austin, Denise Ham and Rodolfo Saglembini. He founded and directed Sequenza, and he directed the Hammersmith and Fulham Youth Orchestra for 2 years where he piloted an on-going partnership with the BBC Symphony Orchestra. He is the Artistic Director of the critically acclaimed British chamber ensemble Endymion.

EDUCATION

Cambridge University, UK, 2001: MA

Royal Academy of Music, London, 2004: MMus, LRAM, DipRAM.

Teachers: Philip Cashian (main teacher), Simon Bainbridge, Christopher Austin. Masterclasses with Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, Dominic Muldowney, Paul Patterson

AWARDS, PRIZES, RESIDENCIES

Piano Studies win first prize, International Composition Competition 2009

National University of Music in Bucharest

Nominated for Paul Hamlyn Awards for Composers, UK, 2009

Composer in residence with South London Jazz Orchestra, 2006 – 2009

British Composer Awards (a commendation), orchestral category, for Arc

British Academy of Composers and Songwriters, 2006

Bliss Trust Bursary, 2006

Manson Fellowship in Composition, Royal Academy of Music, London.

2004 – 2005

SPNM Shortlist, Society for the Promotion of New Music, London.

2004 – 2007