About this artist
Angela Elizabeth Slater is a UK-based composer. She is also the founder and artistic director of the Illuminate concert series, celebrating the works of women composers from the past and present. In her AHRC-funded PhD in composition at the University of Nottingham, Angela developed an interest in incorporating different aspects of the natural world into her compositions. She has been working on a series of works that engage with the natural world, musically mapping certain aspects into the fabric of her music.
Angela has worked with many professional and amateur musicians, and enjoys working with both groups with equal passion and enthusiasm. Recently she has worked with the BSO, Bozzini Quartet, Assembly project, Aurea Quartet, BBC Singers, and Psappha, amongst others. Angela is passionate about the promotion of new music for amateur and professionals and particularly about raising the profile of female musicians and composers.
Angela has recently participated in the St Magnus Composition Course 2017, working with Alasdair Nicholson and Sally Beamish and the Britten-Pears Young Artists Composers’ Course 2017, where she has worked with Oliver Knussen, Colin Matthews and Michael Gandolfi. Her work Soaring in Stasis will be premiered at the 2018 Aldeburgh Festival. Angela will also be participating in the 2018 Cheltenham Composers Academy working with the Juice vocal ensemble and composer Michael Zev Gordon. She has recently become London Firebird Orchestra’s Young Composer of the year 2018 and is beginning work on a new piece for them. She is also delighted to be the winner New England Philharmonic’s 2018 call for scores, they will premiere her piece Roil in Stillness in April 2019. Angela has recently become a 2018 Mendelssohn Scholar and will continue her studies with Michael Gandolfi in Boston later this year or next.
For more information please visit: https://angelaslatercomposer.co.uk
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