Listen to Young Composers 7 now! 💿 Link in bio!
2025 National Youth Choir Young Composers @estherbersweden_music@driftssounds@fraz_ireland and @kornelia_nemcova have written incredible works for both the Fellowship Ensemble and the 18-25 Choir 🎶
You can hear all 8 new commissions from the 2025
Emerging Professional Artists OUT NOW on the Young Composers 7 album, released by @nmcrecordings .
Fellowship Ensemble conducted by @emilyrdickens
18-25 Choir conducted by @conductor_nic
Recorded at @schoolfarmstudios
Audio Producer Ben Parry
Recording Engineer @stefano.civetta
Assistant Engineer Hester James
Editor & Mix Engineer @joshnquinlan
Congratulations to our incredible Emerging Professional Artists on the release of Young Composers 7!
We can't wait for the world to hear these innovative and beautiful new pieces from our young composers, performed beautifully by National Youth Choir (18-25 Years) and the Fellowship Ensemble.
Listen to the whole album via the link in our bio 🔗🎶
Composer Ryan Morgan introduces the two works he wrote for the National Youth Choir’s ‘Young Composer 7’ album, out on NMC Recordings on Friday 30 January! 💿
📸National Youth Choir
#nationalyouthchoir #choir #newmusic #magic #play
What an absolute honor! Thank you to the London Mozart Players for commissioning and premiering 'Tongue Stew', giving me the opportunity to develop my voice for orchestra.
Thank you to Bushra El-Turk for her incredible mentorship both when I first won the SCT prize 2.5 years ago and now during this composition process.
And thank you to everyone who came to the performance: seeing over 1000 people watch and engage in a program of Black British composers was incredible!
150 years on and Samuel Coleridge-Taylor is still inspiring new music 🙌
We’ve loved working with Ryan on his brand new piece, written especially for our anniversary celebrations of Croydon’s very own composer.
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor at 150
📆 Sunday 19 October, 6pm
📍 @croydonfairfield
🎟️ from £5
This event has been commissioned by @culturecroydon
We know how to throw a birthday party round here 🎉
It has been 150 years since Samuel Coleridge-Taylor - Croydon’s very own composer - was born and we think that deserves a celebration. You in the mood?
📍 @croydonfairfield
📆 19 October, 6pm
🎟️ from £5
🌻 Featured composer: RYAN MORGAN 🌻
Ryan Morgan (@driftssounds ) is a composer, performer, and educator currently based in London, renowned for his commitment to pushing musical boundaries. Ryan’s work questions traditional notions of virtuosity and confronting the dichotomy between the “sacrificing” performer and the “gaining” performer. Recent commissions include works for @nationalyouthchoir , @birminghamoperaco , @terra.invisus , and @londonmozartplayers , among others.
Ryan is currently a composer on the National Youth Choir’s 2025 Emerging Professional Artists programme; while composing his first work for the choir, @zdscomposer caught up with Ryan to discuss performer-centric approaches, immediacy, transparency, passive resistance, and leading with compassion - read our interview with Ryan on PRXLUDES, link in bio 🔥
🌻 NEW PRXLUDES - OUT NOW 🌻
📰 We're so excited to share this month's interviews and articles with four of today's most cutting-edge composers - this month, we're thrilled to bring you:
🌻 Turkish/British composer Elif Karlidag (@elifkarlidag_ ), in conversation with @georgiewestcomposer about ancient influences, graphic notation, and operatic explorations
🌻 London-based composer Ryan Morgan (@driftssounds ) discusses his @nationalyouthchoir residency, immediacy, passive resistance, and leading with compassion
🌻 Manchester-based composer and sound artist Joy Ingle (@joy.ingle ) chats with @patrickel94 about field recordings, acousmatic processes, and Hildegard von Bingen
🌻 Indonesian cellist and composer Alfian Emir Adytia (@emir.cello ) writes about his latest album, exploring Dutch colonial history through, cello, folk metal, and keroncong
Interested? Have a read of all of these and more now on PRXLUDES - hit up the link in our bio 🔥
To celebrate Black History Month, I sang Pslam to Windrush by @shirleythompsonmusic (check out her music!!). I first learnt this piece for my undergraduate final recital full of music by living British and Black British composers...although I am no longer a lyric baritone 😅. Excuse my sight-reading 😇
