Stuart MacRae, Esq

Career: composer in assoc BBC Scottish Symphony Orch (SSO) 1999-2003; concerts incl: Philharmonia Orch Music of Today 2000, Edinburgh Int Festival 2001, BBC SSO 2003; featured composer Spannungen Kammermusikfest 2003; compositions incl: Boreraig 1994 (revised 1995), The Witch's Kiss 1997, Landscape and the Mind: Distance, Refuge 1997, Piano Sonata 1998, Sinfonia 1998-99, Stirling Choruses 1999, Sleep at the Feet of Daphne 1999, Piano Quintet 1999, One Man In His Time 2000-01, Violin Concerto (premiered BBC Proms) 2000-01, Ancrene Wisse (premiered Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival) 2002, 32 for Piano 2002, String Quartet 2002, Interact 2002-03, Motus 2003, Hamartia 2003-04; recordings incl: The City Inside, Salm 42, Piano Sonata; Awards BBC/Lloyds Bank Young Composer Award (for Boreraig) 1996, BBC Symphony Orch Composer's Forum 1997, citations Royal Philharmonic Soc Award for Large Scale Composition 2002 (Violin Concerto) and 2003 (Ancrene Wisse)