Angela Elizabeth Slater - Composer
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Angela Slater is a freelance composer working in the UK. She completed her PhD in composition at the University of Nottingham. She is the founder and director the Illuminate Women's Music Project. She is also a Professor of Composition at London Performing Academy of Music, having previously taught at Cardiff University.
Do get in touch about commissions and collaborations! |
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LATEST NEWS - 2022
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In 2020 I attended Tanglewood digital Music Festival but I am grateful and excited to be attending and taking up my fellowship as a composer in person this summer. THE COMPOSITION FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM COMBINES INTENSIVE WRITING PROJECTS WITH CLASSES, SEMINARS, AND DISCUSSIONS LED BY DISTINGUISHED COMPOSERS FROM A WIDE RANGE OF AESTHETIC PERSPECTIVES. Each Composition Fellow has at least four works performed during the summer. One will be a pre-existing chamber work designated from pieces submitted with the TMC application |
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LPO Young Composers 2021/22
I am delighted to have been part of the LPO Young Composers 2021/22 cohort. We have each had a workshop for our new works with LPO musicians across the year, mentored by Composer-in-Residence Brett Dean, and now looking forward to performance of our works at the Southbank Centre on 14th July 2022. You can buy tickets here I have been working with violist Richard Waters on the development of my new work Through the Fading Hour, Concerto for viola. 
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More than 200 recordings were submitted to NMC's Big Lockdown Music Surbvey in response to an England-wide open call. Creators of all ages and all levels of experience from across the country submitted music of all genres. Six regional partner organisations selected and curated album-length selections of music representing their region - @bristol_beacon, #BirminghamRecordCompany, @staplefordgranary, @spitsmusic, @octoberhouserecords, and @psapphaensemble - which we have plotted onto the map for you to explore.
My work 'On the winds colour speak' for solo bassoon is featured on this interactive map and digitally released with NMC records. |
2021 News
RMN CLASSICAL new album release in FOCUS 5
I am delighted my piece Enclosing skies for solo accordion performed by Kamilas Olas is being released on RMN Classical new album in Focus in 5 and is set to be released on Friday, October 29, 2021 !! Save the date !! |
JOINING COMPOSER EDITION I am delighted to announce my scores will now be published by Composer edition. Initially my Connected skies solo series of works are published here but over the coming months and years I will expanding my catalogue You can view and purchase my scores here 
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POLYPHONY ARTS ARTIST MANAGEMENT
I am delighted to be gaining representation from Polyphony Arts. Contact Katie Beardsworth for enquiries about commissions or performances of existing works. 
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RPS Composers Programme 2021/22
I am thrilled to announce that I am one of the seven composers newly joining the 2021-22 RPS Composers programme. The RPS Composer programme represents some of the brightest, most exciting voices in the UK!
Introducing RPS 2021-22 cohort:
Lucy Armstrong, Andrew Chen - Composer, Rylan Gleave - composer and vocalist, Alex Ho (Tangram), Zakiya_leeming, Sarah Lianne Lewis - Composer, Angela Elizabeth Slater Composer
Over the course of the coming year, the 2021-22 #RPSComposers will work with and write a new composition for one of RPS's partner organisations: Cheltenham Music Festival (Cheltenham Festivals), Music in the Round, Presteigne Festival, Wigmore Hall, Manchester Camerata, Riot Ensemble and the Chorus of Royal Northern Sinfonia.
I am thrilled to announce that I am one of the seven composers newly joining the 2021-22 RPS Composers programme. The RPS Composer programme represents some of the brightest, most exciting voices in the UK!
Introducing RPS 2021-22 cohort:
Lucy Armstrong, Andrew Chen - Composer, Rylan Gleave - composer and vocalist, Alex Ho (Tangram), Zakiya_leeming, Sarah Lianne Lewis - Composer, Angela Elizabeth Slater Composer
Over the course of the coming year, the 2021-22 #RPSComposers will work with and write a new composition for one of RPS's partner organisations: Cheltenham Music Festival (Cheltenham Festivals), Music in the Round, Presteigne Festival, Wigmore Hall, Manchester Camerata, Riot Ensemble and the Chorus of Royal Northern Sinfonia.
- Angela Slater - writing for Music in the Round. Angela’s music explores dialogues between science, visual arts, dance and politics, and the ways these can be expressed musically. She is particularly passionate about raising the profile of female artists, namely through Illuminate Women’s Music of which she is the Founder and Director.
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Stockholm Chamber Brass Academy Composition Fellow 2021
Angela has been selected to be a Composition Fellow at SCBA and will be virtually attending Leksand working with W1 Brass on her new work for brass quintet Light Dispelled. |
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New Music Gathering performance of Dispersions in Watercolour
Angela's solo violin work Dispersions in Watercolour will be receiving a performance by Kyra Davies at the New Music Gathering via Xoom on Tuesday 17th August via zoom. More details to come |
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INMF's Brightwork Fellowship recipient
August 2021 – Angela is a recipient of Brightwork Fellowship (with full scholarship) for Impulse Festival in Los Angeles. Includes performances of Woven half dreams for solo cello and newly written piece To know the dark for mixed ensemble which receive its world premiere later in August. More details to come. |
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INMF's inaugural New Voices Competition 2021
The winners of INMF's inaugural New Voices Competition 2021 have been announced🎊! Their pieces will be premiered by @robertdemainecellist, Principal Cellist of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and broadcasted as the opening concert of our Summer Festival on Sunday, August 1st. Stay tuned for more details!!
Angela's solo cello work Woven half dreams will receive its US premiere by Robert Demaine on 1st August 2021. More details to come.
The winners of INMF's inaugural New Voices Competition 2021 have been announced🎊! Their pieces will be premiered by @robertdemainecellist, Principal Cellist of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and broadcasted as the opening concert of our Summer Festival on Sunday, August 1st. Stay tuned for more details!!
Angela's solo cello work Woven half dreams will receive its US premiere by Robert Demaine on 1st August 2021. More details to come.
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Women are... project with Hats and Heels duo
Part II Hats and Heels were so thrilled by the support of Women Are…, they decided to bring additional minds and creative talents to expand the project even further. Through-out 2021, they have been brainstorming and working with composers Yi-Ning Lo, Angela Slater, Kalia Vandever and Anna Heflin. These works explore English suffragettes, Hawaiian goddesses, dreamscapes, and being driven mad by love. In these works, our composers have fully embraced our mission, developing interdisciplinary repertoire by utilizing music boxes, pre-recorded sounds, speech, dancers, and even morse code. The premiers of these pieces will be performed in summer 2021 in Rochester, NY, with following performances in Ithaca, NY. More details to come. |
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Fresh Squeezed Opera
FRESH SQUEEZED VOCAL LAB 2021Angela has been invited to participate in the virtual Fresh Squeezed Vocal Lab. This lab provides composers with an opportunity to work with the renowned vocalists of Fresh Squeezed Opera to develop a new or workshop an old piece for voice. Masterclasses and demonstrations from FSO members will help composers expand their knowledge of vocal writing.
Angela is working with Baritone Daniel Klein and pianist Felix Jarrar on her new work Tucked Beneath for baritone and piano.
FRESH SQUEEZED VOCAL LAB 2021Angela has been invited to participate in the virtual Fresh Squeezed Vocal Lab. This lab provides composers with an opportunity to work with the renowned vocalists of Fresh Squeezed Opera to develop a new or workshop an old piece for voice. Masterclasses and demonstrations from FSO members will help composers expand their knowledge of vocal writing.
Angela is working with Baritone Daniel Klein and pianist Felix Jarrar on her new work Tucked Beneath for baritone and piano.
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YOUNG COMPOSER MEETING 2021
Young Composers Meeting is an intiative by Orkest De Ereprijs to give young professional composers a chance to compose for an ensemble and develop their talents, knowledge and professional network. During a week, 16 selected participants come together in which they work on their new composed piece for Orkest De Ereprijs and singers. The week is filled with rehearsals, lectures and individual coaching by senior composers. This year Martijn Padding, Richard Ayres, and three more guest composers, are the senior composers. Georgi Sztojanov is the vocal coach for the singers. At the end of the week, all pieces were performed during the final concert. Angela piece Beyond yourself received its premiere on Friday 12th March. Listen here. Rob Vermeulen conducted the orchestra during the Young Composers Meeting. |
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3rd International Composition Competition NEW VISIONS
Angela's solo trumpet work As the Moon Runs Red was winner of the trumpet category of the 3rd International Composition Competition NEW VISIONS. You can vote for her piece to be the overall via this google form. |
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Verdant Vibes Numinous Spaces concert on 17th April 2021
Angela Slater's work Spaces Frozen for viola and call was selected and given its US premiere as part of Verdant Vibes Numinous Spaces concert. The piece here is performed by cellist Zan Berry and viola player Hannah Ross with imagery created by Alexander Dupuis. |
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NEW MUSIC ON THE BAYOU FESTIVAL 2021
Angela's solo trumpet work As the Moon Runs Red was selected for performance in the New Music on the Bayou Festival. It received its US live-concert premiere by Steven Cunningham on Thursday 3rd June 2021. |
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Eye o da hurricane as part of 29th International Review of Composers
Angela's work Eye o da hurricane for string quartet was selected for the 29th International Review of Composers, Belgrade, Serbia and subsequently broadcast on Serbian television and radio on 15th June 2021. It is now available on youtube and begins this second concert: https://youtu.be/RGO7qg3oLWw with Dušan Panajotović & Miloš Stevanović – violin/violins Marina Popović – viola, Srđan Sretenović – violončelo/cello performing the work. #newmusic |
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BEYOND 88
With this project the Arc Project are aiming to celebrate the vast compositional capabilities of the piano. The pieces written for this project will not confine players to just the keyboard, rather allowing for the exploration and combination of all of the different techniques available on the piano (some of which are demonstrated in the piano works of Cowell, Cage, Lachemann and Schnebel). Angela was invited to write a work for this project resulting in her new work Murmerations for one piano and six hands. This will receive its digital premiere in August 2021. Updates to follow. |
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Diversify the Stand
Diversify the Stand's commissioning project features 12 composers to create the first-ever solo book that is a collection of progressive pieces for trumpet and piano. The works vary in skill levels for beginner, intermediate, and advanced solo performers. This project will amplify composers’ voices and build the trumpet players’ repertoire. The digital and printed copies of the book will be available for purchase beginning November 2021. Angela was invited to write a short advanced piece for trumpet and piano resulting in her new work Noctilucent. |
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RSNO Composers’ Hub
The Royal Scottish National Orchestra has welcomed six emerging composers for the sixth year of the RSNO Composers’ Hub, which for the first time welcomes an international participant from Poland.The talented group chosen from dozens of applicants will benefit from working closely with Scotland’s national orchestra as they develop compositions, with guidance from award-winning composer and RSNO Composers’ Hub mentor Stuart MacRae. For the first time this year, the Composers' Hub welcomes support from the Adam Mickiewicz Institute which funds the involvement of a Polish participant. The move is part of the RSNO Digital Season’s Polska Scotland programme celebrating musical links between Scotland and Poland. The group of chosen composers are: Angela Elizabeth Slater, Ben Lunn, Conrad Asman, Jasper Dommett, George Stevenson, and Karol Nepelski from Poland. Each participant is given the opportunity to write orchestral compositions of different lengths and work with the RSNO to develop their ideas, skills, and forge new creative relationships |
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2020 News
Illuminate Women's Music is delighted to announce that in Season I 2020 saxophonist Naomi Sullivan and pianist Yshani Perinpanayagam will be Illuminate's performers in residence. They will be working with our composers in residence Angela Elizabeth Slater and Blair Boyd as well as our 2020 Season I composers Lara Poe, Nina Danon and Ray Gibson! These new works will be programmed alongside historical works and existing repertoire including Hilary Tann's In The First, Spinning Place and Sarah Westwood cable veins for solo piano!
Illuminate Women's Music 2020 concerts are sponsored by ISM. |
CONNECTED SKIES
A series of new solo pieces by composer Angela Slater to connect with musicians and audiences around the globe in these challenging times. Supported by Art Council England,the pieces will receive their premiere performance in a monthly virtual event from 21 January 2021. With Connected Skies I challenged myself to compose six new solo works of about 10 minutes each between October 2020 to May 2021 for instruments ranging from double bass to flute with glissando head joint. There will be works for cello, percussion, mezzo soprano and accordion. From January 2021, we will premiere the works in monthly digital events which will also give me the opportunity to interact with you – the audience! Delighted to announce my scores will now be published by Babel scores. You can view and purchase my scores from solo to orchestral works here:
https://www.babelscores.com/composer?userid=8431&view=vendorprofile I will be attended Tanglewood digital Music Festival this year as a 2020 Composition Fellow and will attend in summer 2022 in person
THE COMPOSITION FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM COMBINES INTENSIVE WRITING PROJECTS WITH CLASSES, SEMINARS, AND DISCUSSIONS LED BY DISTINGUISHED COMPOSERS FROM A WIDE RANGE OF AESTHETIC PERSPECTIVES. Each Composition Fellow has at least four works performed during the summer. One will be a pre-existing chamber work designated from pieces submitted with the TMC application. 
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2019 news
Angela is delighted to be going to Finland June 2019 to partake in Composers’ workshop: Visual music
She has written a new chamber orchestra piece Pattern of Shadows for the workshop that she will continue to work on throughout the course. Time: Friday 28.6.2019 at 16.00 (free entrance) Place: Factory Hall, Art Factory József Hárs, conductor Chamber Orchestra Avanti! As a part of the Summer Sounds festival, a young composers’ workshop will be organised at the Factory Hall. The students have created compositions to old avant-garde short films under the direction of masters Jukka Tiensuu and Tomi Räisänen Soundstreams' Emerging Composer Workshop Showcase
Slater completed her PhD in Composition at the University of Nottingham, and has previously taken part in the St Magnus Composition Festival and the Britten-Pears composition course. She plans to use the funds to further her studies with Michael Gandolfi at the New England Conservatory.
2018 news
As the Moon Runs Red premiere 22nd March 2018
My trumpet piece As The Moon Runs Red has been selected out of 130 anonymous submissions for John Armitage Memorial Trust 'Music of Our Time' concert. It will be performed by Alan Thomas, part of Onyx Brass 
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Angela is delighted to be participating in Phoenix Dance Choreographers and Composers Lab 2019.
Phoenix Dance Theatre will be hosting its second Choreographers and Composers Lab in summer 2019 at its studios in Leeds. Led by our Artistic Director Sharon Watson and Composer Shirley J. Thompson, the Lab is an opportunity to work collaboratively, innovate, and develop new ways of working in music and dance. 
Mendelssohn Scholarship Award 2018!
Soaring in Stasis premiere on 22nd June Jonathan Berman conductor Instrumentalists from the Britten-Pears Young Artists Programme Harrison Birtwistle Carmen Arcadiae Mechanicae Perpetuum Dallapiccola Piccola Musica Notturna Patrick Friel A Line Alive (world premiere) Joseph Howard Painkiller (world premiere) Patrick John Jones Betelgeuse Astral Funicular (world premiere) Hans Abrahamsen Winternacht Berio Berceuse for György Kurtág Joel Järventausta Tumma (world premiere) Ryan Latimer tbc (world premiere) Lara Poe Mirror Rim (world premiere) Angela Slater Soaring in Stasis (world premiere) (ends approx. 1pm) A celebration of Oliver Knussen and Colin Matthews’ flagship Contemporary Composition and Performance course at Snape Maltings is a fitting and potent blend of new music by emerging new generation of composers alongside works by musical figureheads. Seven world premieres are prefaced by Harrison Birtwistle’s playful perpetual motion and enveloped in the velvety stillness and ghostly apparitions conjured by Abrahamsen and Dallapiccola in their night music. I am pleased and excited to announce that I am one of the Future Blend Project's winners this year - thank you so much to Rosy for performing my piece The Sky Burst so well! Well done to the other winners! The winners of this year's Future Blend Project are: Love in Idleness by Alison Willis Composer, performed by Fran Barsby Harpist Dreamers’ Circus by Ailie Robertson - Composer Harpist, performed by Rosanna Moore Waiting by Paolo Geminiani, performed by Sophie Rocks - Harpist The Sky Burst by Angela Elizabeth Slater Compositions performed by Rosanna Moore |
The International Society for Contemporary Music's World Music Days Festival kicks off in Beijing this 2018! The shortlist for the British Section's composer candidates has now been announced...
I am delighted to have made the British shortlist for the ISCM World Music Day for Beijing in 2018!
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Illuminate 2018 Concert Series launch!
Illuminate is a new project to promote the work of emerging women composers and performers as well as giving a platform to historical repertoire by women composers to sit alongside new works. The project has been set up by myself – Dr Angela Elizabeth Slater, a freelance composer who is a strong advocate of the promotion of women’s music both past and present. Six composers – Angela Elizabeth Slater, Blair Boyd, Gemma Mcgregor, Carol J Jones, and Sarah Westwood will be writing exciting new works for performers Késia Decoté (piano), Cassie Matthews (guitar), Sabina Virtosu (violin) and composer-performer Gemma Mcgregor (flute/shakuhachi). These new works will be performed alongside a number of historical women composers such as Morfydd Owen, Lily Boulanger, and Amy Beach. . |
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Selected as finalist for Symphony Number One Call for Scores!
Symphony Number One announcement:
FINALISTS ANNOUNCED:
Symphony Number One is pleased to announce the 14 Finalists of Call for Scores 4! We’ve included links, so please make sure to check out the phenomenal music of these 14 talented composers.
Symphony Number One announcement:
FINALISTS ANNOUNCED:
Symphony Number One is pleased to announce the 14 Finalists of Call for Scores 4! We’ve included links, so please make sure to check out the phenomenal music of these 14 talented composers.
ANGELA ELIZABETH SLATER
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