Martin Suckling

about

Martin Suckling was born in Glasgow in 1981. After spending his teenage years performing in the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain and in ceilidh bands around Scotland, Suckling studied music at Clare College Cambridge and King’s College London. He was a Paul Mellon Fellow at Yale University from 2003-5, undertook doctoral research at the Royal Academy of Music, and subsequently became a Stipendiary Lecturer in Music at Somerville College, Oxford. His teachers include George Benjamin, Robin Holloway, Paul Patterson, Martin Bresnick, Ezra Laderman, and Simon Bainbridge. He has benefited from residencies at the Royal Shakespeare Company, Aldeburgh Festival, Aspen, and IRCAM, and has won numerous awards including the 2008 Royal Philharmonic Society Composition Prize and a Philip Leverhulme Prize. He is Senior Lecturer in Composition at the University of York. Suckling has been championed by many leading orchestras and ensembles including the London Symphony Orchestra, Scottish Ensemble, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, and the London Contemporary Orchestra. His music has been performed at the Cheltenham Festival, Ultraschall (Berlin), and the 2007 ISCM World Music Days in Hong Kong. In 2011 Suckling’s critically acclaimed Candlebird for baritone and ensemble, to poems by Don Paterson, was premiered by Leigh Melrose and the London Sinfonietta. From 2013-18 Suckling was the Scottish Chamber Orchestra’s Associate Composer, a partnership which resulted in Six Speec

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albums

Martin Suckling: The Tuning

Martin Suckling: This Departing Landscape

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The Panufnik Legacies

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Mixed bag of stuff for yer ears - some sufi qawwals, some 50's chopin jazz covers, some californian 60's rock. Now can I be in pseuds corner?

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This Departing Landscape

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UBS Soundscapes: Pioneers

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DAS - Office Chart (02/21/12)

New Music Show

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Mendelssohn, Scukling, Dvořák

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Glasgow Tectonics Festival 2013 - Episode 3 of 3

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Candlebird

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Panufnik Legacies

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