Gareth Moorcraft is a British composer based in London and South Wales. His music often engages with ‘creative transcription’, recycling and distorting historical musical materials and presenting them in new contexts.
Gareth’s music has been performed and broadcast internationally by leading ensembles including the Philharmonia, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, London Philharmonic Orchestra and Endymion. His solo recorder work Diaries of the Early Worm won an Ivor Novello Award in the solo/duo category of The Ivors Composer Awards (2020). He is also the recipient of the prestigious RPS Composition Prize (2016), the Ty Cerdd Composition Prize (2012), and the inaugural BASCA British Composer Awards Student Prize (2012). Recordings of Gareth’s work have been released by NMC Recordings and Delphian Records.
Gareth studied composition with Robert Saxton at Worcester College, Oxford, and with Gary Carpenter and David Sawer at the Academy, where he is currently a lecturer and researcher. He has also been tutored by Oliver Knussen. In 2019, he established the Academy's Young Composer Club, which provides workshop opportunities for young composers studying in London state schools.
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