Christopher Mayo

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Anser anser, 2012
For violin, viola and reed organs.
Performed by Emma Smith and Vince Sipprell.

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Christopher Mayo (b. 1980 In Toronto in Canada, based in London) is a Candian composer who graduated at Royal College of Music, London. He was the first composer-in-residence at Tatton Park in 2006-2007. After that he was a New Music Associate at Kettle’s Yard in Cambridge for 2008-2010 as a member of the Camberwell Composer’s Collective.

Christopher studied at the University of Toronto before he relocated to London, where he also completed doctoral studies at the Royal Academy of Music supervised by Philip Cashian.

He recently wrote music for the London Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, the Nouvel Ensemble Moderne, the Esprit Orchestra, the Ensemble Conteporain de Montréal +, Tête à Tête, Tatton Park, The St Paul’s Sinfonia, the London Handel festival, Michael Collins and the Dante Quartet, the Buffet Crampon Clarinet Prize and arraymusic.
Recent projects include a new vocal work for the Dawn Upshaw and Donnacha Dennehy Young Artists Concert at Carnegie Hll, a new work for the New York-based TRANSIT and a new work for the combined forces of ACME and L’arsenale for the 2011 MATA Festival.

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