Aaron Parker: Adopt a Composer

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Harmonie Concert Band

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Aaron Parker (b.1991) currently studies composition with Gary Carpenter at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, where he has just entered his second year. His works have been broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and BBC 1, and in venues across Britain, France, Italy and the Netherlands, by ensembles such as the BBC Symphony, the London Philharmonic, the National Youth Orchestra, and the Aurora Orchestra. He has taken part in collaborations with the Royal Ballet School (London), the Northern Ballet School (Manchester) and The Place (London Contemporary Dance School), and in July 2010 he took part in the Lake District Summer Music Festival’s 4×4 Composer Residency led by Robert Saxton and Garth Bardsley, during which the first scene of a new chamber opera Rhodopis (a work-in-progress) was premièred in Keswick. Recent projects include Klee Paintings, which was premièred by the Catz Quintet, directed by Mark Simpson, at the Magdalene College Auditorium in June 2010.

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