Emily Howard
“She has always been a composer who uses the orchestra to great effect” The Daily Post
Emily Howard was born in Liverpool and still retains strong links with the city; her critically acclaimed orchestral work Magnetite being commissioned by the Liverpool European Capital of Culture 2008 for the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic and Vasily Petrenko. With a background in mathematics and computation from Oxford University, she went on to complete a Masters in Composition and has been composing music since.
Howard’s music is performed and broadcast internationally, her style being described as creating “relishing orchestral colour in the way the best contemporary Nordic composers do” (The Daily Telegraph). She has written music for a wide variety of ensembles, including The BBC Philharmonic and the London Symphony Orchestra, and in 2008 received the prestigious Paul Hamlyn award.
Howard’s latest commission for the LSO Solar will be performed alongside the centenary performance of Elgar’s Violin Concerto. She joins the composition department of the RNCM from September 2010.
Contacts
Kieran Morris
+44 (0)20 7372 5048
kieran [at] denovoarts [dot] com
Reviews
“She has always been a composer who uses the orchestra to great effect”
“...a clever idea, boldly realised, and its series of shocks and aftershocks seemed happily auspicious”
“This is music much concerned with the elemental and the crystalline... relishing orchestral colour”
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.jpg "Howard meets Elgar at LSO centenary concert")
