Bethan Morgan-Williams was born in 1992 and studied with Gary Carpenter at the Royal Northern College of Music and Diderik Wagenaar at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague. Her quirky, rhythmically intricate music, described as 'marvellously oblique and obscure' (5against4) while being 'rooted in something ancient and folky' (The Telegraph), finds motivation in the apogee of musical performance.
With composer-performer collaborations a key part of Morgan-Williams’s practice, each piece is written in accordance with the person or people involved. Her music has been commissioned and/or performed by internationally acclaimed ensembles including Ensemble Musikfabrik, New European Ensemble, Psappha, Uproar, Ligeti Quartet, Ensemble 10/10, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and London Symphony Orchestra, as well as established and emerging soloists such as Carl Rosman (clarinet), Antoine Tamestit (viola), Colin Currie (percussion) and Jennifer Johnston (mezzo-soprano). Morgan-Williams has already accrued a significant number of prestigious awards, including a Leverhulme Scholarship (2018-19), the Susan Bradshaw Composer Prize (RPS, 2017-18), Christopher Brooks Composition Prize (Young Composer in Residence with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, 2015 to 2017), and the LSO Panufnik Scheme (2015-16).