Angela Elizabeth Slater
​Composer


​Angela Slater is a freelance composer working in the UK. She  completed her PhD in composition at the University of Nottingham. She has also recently founded the Illuminate project - illuminatewomensmusic.co.uk
Do get in touch about commissions and collaborations!

LATEST NEWS - 2020

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 2021 in person/
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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.

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
  • Friday, January 25, 20195:00 PM 
    Sunday, February 3, 20196:00 PM
  • THÉÂTRE DE L'ALLIANCE FRANCAISE TORONTO 24 SPADINA ROAD
 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
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!

The trustees of the Mendelssohn Scholarship Foundation have announced the recipients of this year’s scholarships are Nicholas Morrish and Angela Slater.





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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!
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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.

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ANGELA ELIZABETH SLATER
Composer