Named as the 'Face to Watch' for classical music in The Times 2020 Calendar of the Arts, Grace-Evangeline Mason has worked with ensembles including the BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Philharmonic, London Symphony Orchestra, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Royal Northern Sinfonia, and the Aurora Orchestra, in venues across the UK and internationally. Her music has been performed at festivals such as the Cheltenham Music Festival, Southbank SoundState Festival, LFCCM, and the 2017 BBC Proms, amongst others. Her orchestral work The Imagined Forest, ‘drawn with pen-and-ink precision and filled with vivid orchestral colour’ (The Times), was co-commissioned to mark the 150th anniversary of the Royal Albert Hall and premiered by the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra at the 2021 BBC Proms.
Mason is the recipient of awards including BBC Young Composer of the Year (2013), the RLPO’s Christopher Brooks Prize (2017), and the prestigious Royal Philharmonic Society Composition Prize (2018). She studied at the RNCM and the University of Oxford and is currently pursuing her doctorate at the Academy.
Grace-Evangeline Mason is published by Boosey & Hawkes.