Luke Styles: The Open Fund for Music Creators
FIRE
FIRE. 60 minutes of deep, low, lyrical and rhythmic solos and duos for bass and piano. The new music of fire will embrace life-sustaining smouldering embers to raging bushfires, the fire at the centre of a dying star to the whips of smoke as a memory of fire’s past. A host of international soloists, festivals, venues, publishers and recording labels will all join together for this project, with chances to hear FIRE live in Europe, the USA and Australia. Then for audiences around the world via all major music streaming services in the form of a new concept album of the complete set of works.
Luke is a composer prolific in opera, the theatre and instrumental music. His operas have been performed at Glyndebourne, the Royal Opera House Covent Garden and the Perth Festival. They have explored diverse worlds including cabaret, war and science fiction, and allowed him to delve into sensual lyricism, humour, chaos and darkness in his music.
Luke Styles is represented by Linda Marks and published worldwide by G.Schirmer/Wise Music. Luke was the first Glyndebourne Young Composer in Residence (2011-2014) and the first composer in residence at the Foundling Museum since Handel (2015-2016).
Collaborations are central to Luke’s work and this has led to new works with conductors and soloists including Vladimir Jurowski, Mark Padmore, Hillary Summers,Nicolas Daniels and David Pyatt and ensembles such as the London Sinfonietta, Le Balcon, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Britten Sinfonia, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Sydney Symphony Orchestra and the Commonwealth Games.