Luke Bedford: The Open Fund for Music Creators

Luke Bedford is a British composer who has quietly made a significant name among the composers of his generation with a series of award winning scores that are now being performed internationally. He was the first ever composer in residence at the Wigmore Hall in London. Prizes include the prestigious Paul Hamlyn Artists Award in 2007, the Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung Composer’s Prize in music 2012, and several British Composer Awards. His music has been performed by many orchestras and ensembles, including the BBC Proms.

Tom Service wrote of his song cycle Or Voit Tout En Aventure as being ‘one of the most outstanding pieces by any composer I’ve ever experienced – music of brooding expressive intensity and charged with that indefinable quality that makes a piece sound as if it was written out of sheer necessity.’

He has written two operas, which have received multiple productions at The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, in Germany and the USA. A studio recording of Through His Teeth has been released on the bastille musique label.

This recording project with NMC is a chance to make a series of large scale works available to the public. As well as a new song cycle, written for Mark Padmore and the London Sinfonietta, we will include three major orchestral works. It will be an important portrait of my works written over the last twenty years.