Christopher Mayo Composer
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Christopher Mayo is a Canadian composer living and working in London. He was the recipient of the 2005 Royal Philharmonic Society Composition prize and a Serge Garant Award in the 2005 SOCAN Awards for Young Composers. Christopher was appointed as the first composer-in-residence at Tatton Park in 2006-2007. He is a member of the Camberwell Composers’ Collective who will be New Music Associates at Kettle’s Yard in Cambridge for the 2008-2009 season. Recent projects include commissions from the Esprit Orchestra in Toronto, Tête à Tête, Tatton Park, The St Paul’s Sinfonia, Michael Collins and the Dante Quartet, and the Royal Academy of Music Symphony Orchestra conducted by Susanna Mälkki. Christopher’s music has been performed at Faster Than Sound, the Cheltenham Festival, the Toronto New Wave Festival, Kettle’s Yard, the Bang on a Can Summer Music Festival, the Aldeburgh Festival and at venues as diverse as Wigmore Hall, the Miami Art Museum and The Monkey in New York City. Upcoming projects for 2008 include works for the Faster than Sound Festival at King’s Place, the Ossian Ensemble, the cellist Lionel Handy and The London Handel Festival. Download ...
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