Neil Tòmas Smith: The Open Fund for Music Creators
Neil Tòmas Smith: The Open Fund for Music Creators
Based in Edinburgh, Neil works with chamber, orchestral, choral, and – most recently – electronic forces. He took part Royal Scottish National Orchestra’s Composers’ Hub and the London Philharmonic Orchestra’s Young Composers’ Programme in 2018, resulting in the orchestral diptych ‘Perihelion’ and ‘Aphelion’. The latter was selected to be part of the Scottish submission to the ISCM World New Music Days 2021. He also wrote a piece for children, Cyched, while working with the RSNO, which was toured throughout Scotland in 2018 and 2019. A premiere recording of his Strange Machines, a tour de force for solo clarinet played by Jonathan Sage, has just been released on an eponymous CD from Dark Inventions, while his first electronic album, MIDI Times & Spaces, is about to be released on Xylem records.
Stop Motion Music: Neil Tòmas Smith Portrait CD
Stop Motion Music is a debut chamber music CD from composer Neil Tòmas Smith. It includes his most significant chamber works of the last five years, with performances from some the finest contemporary musicians working in the UK today. Internationally acclaimed flautist Carla Rees will perform the title track for flutes and vibraphone, alongside the powerhouse percussionist, Delia Stevens. Jazz drummer Simon Roth will perform the piece originally written for him, ‘Scaffold for Simon’, and there will be further performances from Esther Swift on harp and Duncan Strachan on cello. The pieces are a diverse collection, with complex rhythmic dynamism sitting alongside more placid reflection. This award will support recording in Nottingham and Glasgow with Simon Paterson and Tim Cooper.