Tom Davoren: Composer Bursary
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Welsh composer Tom Davoren has quickly developed a reputation as an exciting brass-wind composer; his music being commissioned, premiered and recorded by artists and organisations from all over the world. His music is published by Studio Music Co.
Tom is the Reviews Editor of the popular Brass Band World magazine and Production Editor at the journal of the British Association of Symphonic Bands and Wind Ensembles, ‘Winds’. He is also a brass band conductor with a successful pedigree in the UK championship, first and youth sections; founding the Flowers Youth Band (2007 – 2010), holding the position of Professional Musical Director with the BTM Band (2008 – 2012) and conducting the Bristol based Filton Band from 2012. You can view Tom’s contesting history at www.brassbandresults.co.uk.
Tom has studied tuba with Nigel Seaman at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama, and holds Bachelors and Masters degrees in Composition having studied with Anthony Powers and Arlene Sierra at Cardiff University School of Music and John Pickard at the University of Bristol. In 2009/10 he was awarded a full research scholarship from the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the Welsh Livery Guild Composition Award. He was also a BASCA British Composer Award nominee in 2011 and a prizewinner at the EBBA European Composers Competition 2012.
This award will support a project with Argentinian trombonist Lito Fontana. In January 2014 he will travel to Innsbruck, Austria, where he and Fontana will rehearse and premiere a new work for trombone and brass band, For a Love Lost. The performance will take place with renowned champion band Brass Band Fröschl Hall directed by Hannes Buchegger, whose prolific career has seen the Austrian brass band movement equal the reputation of its orchestral counterpart. Tom is extremely grateful to the Bliss Trust and PRS Foundation for Music for their support, without which attending this project in person would be impossible.