Richard Whalley

Richard Whalley is a composer and a pianist. He was born in 1974, and studied composition with Roger Marsh and Nicola Lefanu at University of York as an undergraduate, and with Mario Davidovsky and Joshua Fineberg at Harvard University for his PhD. In 2004 he was appointed as a lecturer in composition at the University of Manchester, where he was the founder of the university’s new music ensemble, Vaganza. He also teaches composition and performs on the piano at the ARAM-Poitou Summer School in France each August. He was finalist in BBC Young Musician of the Year 1992, Gaudeamus 2001, and ISCM 2012, and many of his works have been commercially recorded. More information can be found at http://www.richardwhalley.com/