Erin Thomson : Open Fund for Music Creators
Erin Thomson and Quartet Malamatina
One of the UK’s most exciting young compositional talents has been commissioned to write a new piece for four guitars by Quartet Malamatina. Thanks to the generous support of the PRS Foundation, Quartet Malamatina will have the opportunity to present Erin Thomson’s new work during upcoming tours in the UK and Canada.
Lauded for their “immensely colourful, lyrical and expressive playing” (Laura Snowden), Quartet Malamatina first converged for a performance with film at the 2021 UN Climate Conference. An international ensemble comprising Tim Beattie (Canada), Finlay Hay (Scotland), Ross Morris (England), and Lenny Ranallo (USA), Quartet Malamatina’s socially-conscious approach to programming and presentation builds upon the culturally diverse tradition of guitar ensemble performance through a broad range of cross-disciplinary collaboration, commission, arrangement, education, and community engagement activities.
A recent graduate of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, award-winning composer Erin Thomson is already making her mark on the composition scene in the UK and further afield. Recently, Erin was awarded the 2022 Musicians’ Company Silver Medal, the 2021 Walter and Dinah Wolfe Memorial Composition Award for her work ‘Linger to Sea’ for solo violin & reverb, and the 2022 Kimie Composition Prize for her new work, ‘The Graceful Art of Walking on Stilts’ for the Campus Trio with support from Live Music Now and the Kimie Trust which will be premiered at Edinburgh’s Usher Hall. Erin’s first orchestral piece “Pentimentum” was premiered by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Martyn Brabbins.