Jonathan David Little: The Open Fund for Music Creators
Jonathan David Little
Jonathan David Little’s atmospheric and evocative music is notable for its mystical beauty, intensity, richness of material, and intricate craftsmanship.
His compositional style blends art music, folk/Celtic, and other sacred and secular musical influences – with new and innovative textures, orchestration, and novel spatial techniques. As a review in Audiophile Audition (USA) explains: “Little achieves unique and beautiful effects through spacing and arrangement of vocal groups.”<br /><br />In 2016, he won a Royal Philharmonic Society/BBC Radio 3 “ENCORE Choral” Award (UK), and in 2017 Special Distinction for “Best Orchestral Score” in the Rudolf Nissim Prize (USA).
Polychoral Opera-Oratorio [Dramatic work for Soloists, Sub-Choirs & Orchestra]
CREATION of a “POLYCHORAL OPERA-ORATORIO” – a novel “hybrid” musical genre drawing elements from Medieval mystery plays, crossed with dramatic elements from Music Theatre / Opera, to a libretto by Grant Watson. Such a polychoral oratorio will be a world first: in polychoral works, choral sub-groups and soloists occupy different parts of the performance space, creating a highly theatrical, dramatic, “immersive” (i.e., live “surround-sound”-like) environment for the audience – literally putting the auditors at the very heart of the music in highly reverberant spaces, with soloists/choirs surrounding them, and on balconies.