Composers

We support young composers by commissioning new work and giving regular performances. Composers from the new generation whose music has recently been premiered or performed by Kreisler Ensemble include:

Cheryl Frances-Hoad began composing at the age of eight while studying ’cello and piano at the Yehudi Menuhin School, and completed an MPhil at Cambridge in composition. She has won the Purcell Composition Prize, the Bach Choir Carol Competition, the BBC Young Composers Workshop, the Cambridge Composer's Competition and the Birmingham Conservatoire Composition Competition. She has had ballets choreographed by Lynn Seymour and Geoffrey Cauley. Her commissions include works for the BBC, the Surrey Philharmonic, the Manchester International 'Cello Festival, the Chard Festival of Women in Music, and the Almeida Festival, and her music has been featured on BBC2, ITV, Radio 3 and Classic FM.

Oliver Weeks

Deborah Pritchard
Deborah Pritchard was born in Kent in 1977. She is currently studying for a DPhil in composition and analysis with Dr. Robert Saxton at Worcester College, Oxford. She was awarded her MMus in Composition at the Royal Academy of Music where she studied with Simon Bainbridge and subsequently held the position of Manson Fellow in Composition. Her work has been performed by the Philharmonia Chamber Orchestra, the BBC Singers, the Composer’s Ensemble, for Hoxton New Music Days and the British Information Centre’s Cutting Edge Series; CHROMA, for the Music Past and Present Series, the TACET Ensemble, for the Brighton Festival; the Allegri String Quartet; the Oxford Philomusica. She has been broadcast by BBC Radio Three and recorded by the NMC Label.

Nirmail Fenn Nirmali Fenn graduated with a 1st-class Honours in music composition at the University of New South Wales, scoring one of the highest results of a music Honours student at the University, her results were recognised at a Higher Achievers’ function at the UNSW. With the assistance of an Australian Postgraduate Award she completed a Master of Music in composition at The University of Melbourne under the supervision of Prof. Brenton Broadstock in 2004. In 2005 she was awarded a Clarendon Fund Scholarship and an Overseas Research Scheme Award from the University of Oxford to read a D. Phil with Dr. Robert Saxton at Worcester College. She has composed pieces for the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, the Endymion Ensemble, soprano Judith Dodsworth, TinAlley String Quartet and tuba virtuoso, James Gourlay. Awards include the John Oswald Good Prize for her song cycle Psychotic Episode. Currently she is writing pieces for the Nyx Ensemble and the clarinettist, Ian Mitchell.

Christian Baldini
Christian was born in Mar del Plata, Argentina, in 1978. Since graduating with honours in composition and conducting from the Catholic University of Argentina he has been based in the US. As a Presidential Fellow at the State University of New York at Buffalo he is Music Director of the New Music Ensemble while pursuing his doctorate in Composition. Baldini was recently winner of international composition competitions in Korea and Argentina, as well as finalist in the San Paulo Conducting Competition in Brazil. His music has been performed in Asia, Europe, South and North America. His work for chamber orchestra, Latentes Santos Lugares, was recently performed in London with Southbank Sinfonia.