Luke Styles Bmus RAM, LRAM, PGdip UMdK, KA HfM, Mmus KCL

108 Burnt Ash Rd

London SE12 8PU

Ph: 07870230794

lukefri@hotmail.com www.lukestyles.com

Born in 1982, Luke Styles is a UK based composer currently involved in a number of projects, he is the Glyndebourne Young Composer in Residence, part of the London Sinfonietta’s Blue Touch Paper Scheme and the PRSF New Music Incubator Scheme. He moved to the United Kingdom in 2001, to pursue a BMus (composition) degree at the Royal Academy of Music, following which he completed a postgraduate degree with Detlev Müller-Siemens in Vienna and then a second postgraduate degree with Prof. Wolfgang Rihm in Karlsruhe, Germany. Luke returned to the UK to study with George Benjamin at Kings College London on an Association for Cultural Exchange Study Tours Scholarship, completed in 2009. Luke has been the recipient of numerous awards and commissions including, the Wolfgang-Rihm scholarship 2008, DAAD scholarship for 06/07, PRSF New Works commission, RVW Trust commission, Britten-Pears Foundation funding, Sonic Arts Network Expo 2005 commission. Luke’s music has been played throughout the world with radio broadcasts on the ACB, BBC, and SWR2, at festivals such as the, Wien Modern, Deal Festival, Tete a Tete Opera Festival, Darbar Festival, Berio Omaggio and the Karlsruhe Silent Film Festival. Luke has attended courses such as the Darmstadt International Summer Course for New Music, European Choral Composers Course, the 2010/2011 Jerwood Opera Writing Programme and presented work at the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival. Luke is also a freelance lecturer, director of Ensemble Amorpha and currently teaches composition at the Junior Trinity College of Music.

Recent Performances: Hope Dies Hard In His House Britten-Pears Studio, Aldeburgh Aldeburgh Music Divided Circles Queen Elizabeth Hall Tablature String Trio Konzerthaus, Neue Saal, Vienna Wien Modern Festival Slogan 1 The ICA, London Ensemble Amorpha Which obscured familiarity Konzerthaus, Neue Saal, Vienna ISCM/Marathon II Propels Shades of Forward Orangerie, Darmstadt, Germany IMD Sielou SWR Rosbaud-Studio, Germany Gagern/Watanabe Cut and Turn St Martin in the Fields, London Omega Quintet Attempts at Moving Purcell Room, London Timothy Orpen Passacaglia Bunkyo Civic Hall, Tokyo Ensemble KOCHI

Conductor: TANAKA Yoshikazu

Room 101.1 Sound Circus Festival, Leicester Sonic Arts Network Moscow Schnittke Institute Luke Styles

Italy, Russolo Pratella Foundation