ArtistInfo

Roger Redgate

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Musician / Composer / Conductor of Classical and Electronic

Roger Redgate is a composer, conductor and improviser. He graduated at the Royal College of Music, where he won prizes for composition, violin performance, harmony and counterpoint, studying composition with Edwin Roxburgh. He continued his studies in Freiberg with Brian Ferneyhough. He was invited as guest composer and conductor at the Darmstädter Ferienkurse für Neue Musik from 1984-1994 where he received the Kranichsteiner Musikpreis for composition. His compositions have been performed extensively throughout Europe, Australia and the USA and he has received commissions from the BBC, the French Ministry of Culture, the Darmstädter Ferienkurse für Neue Musik, The Huddersfield Festival, the Venice Biennale and Ensemble 21 New York. His compositions are published by Editions Henry Lemoine, Paris, United Music Publishers, London and Composers Edition. He is professor of Composition at Goldsmiths, University of London.

Instruments

• Violin
• Keyboards

Genres

• Classical
• Electronic