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l a t e s t n e w s september 2007 David Lloyd-Mostyn's commissioned work from intriplicate , Cheshire Phantasies, for Flute, Oboe and Piano receives its premiere on Friday 26th October 2007. The concert is in Flixton House, West Manchester, and the concert programme is being repeated on Saturday 27th October. For further details of the concerts on intriplicate's website can be found here. Tickets are priced at £11 and £8 can be purchased here. Cheshire Phantasies is also being featured on intriplicate's new CD, which is being released in October 2007 and will be available to buy at the Flixton House concerts.
b i o g r a p h y
David Lloyd-Mostyn is a composer living in Manchester
and working in the north of England. He
studied under Phillip Wilby and
Sam Hayden at the University of Leeds, where he
was twice the winner of the University’s composition prize, and obtained a
BA(Hons) and MMus. In 2004 he was invited to take part in the 9th
International Masterclass for Young Composers in the Czech Republic, lead by
Marek Kopelent and Vladimir
Bokes. A skillful and witty practitioner of music for small chamber
ensembles, David’s compositions are beginning to enjoy international exposure
and critical acclaim. He is being
commissioned by the flute, oboe and piano trio Intriplicate
to write a new work in 2006, and in October
2005 Minesweeper was premiered by the New York Miniaturist Ensemble
at Lincoln Center, New York. In 2005 he was commissioned to write Nyctaphonia
for the Manchester-based trio, Nyx, who were subsequently awarded the
2005 RNCM Granada Prize for the chamber music with their performances of the
work. His work for clarinet, trombone, violin and ‘cello, Tigh-Nan-Uiseagan,
was featured as part of the 2003 Edinburgh International Fringe Festival. Currently the composer-in-residence at Leeds
Cathedral,
David’s choral work has lead to many high profile performances and broadcasts;
he is also providing all of the original music and arrangements for the 2005
Christmas midnight Mass broadcast on BBC Radio 4. As and orchestral composer he was awarded the 2003 Wallace
Ensemble Composition Prize with Phyvasyde, his work Tempus Fugit
was commissioned by the Nottingham Symphony Orchestra in 2004 and Another
Fine Mess was performed by the Leeds University Symphony Orchestra as part
of the St. Tropez music festival in 2003. David is in much demand as a composer for theatre, film and
television and has successfully collaborated with artists in the field of
popular and commercial music. He has arranged music for the Hip-Hop outfit, Nightmares
on Wax, which were subsequently used by BBC Radio 1 and in February 2005 he
provided over 2 hours of backing music for the Royal Academy of Music Session
Orchestra to accompany Jonny Berliner in a fundraising concert for the Elton
John Aids Foundation. |
