
Royal Academy of Music Manson Ensemble
Oliver Knussen Songs without Voices
Chris Mayo New work (world premiere)
Elliott Carter Mosaic
A short pre-concert performance to whet the appetite. Carter and Knussen’s meticulous miniatures set alongside a new work from Aldeburgh Alumnus Chris Mayo, a colleague and contemporary of the Royal Academy of Music’s prolific young contemporary music group.
Snape Maltings Concert Hall
6.30pm (ends approx 7.10pm)
Tickets £5 (free for ticket-holders of On Conversing with Paradise, but please book)
Born in 1980, Chris Mayo is a Canadian composer living and working in London. He is a member of the Camberwell Composers’ Collective who are New Music Associates at Kettle’s Yard in Cambridge for the 2008-2009 season.
Chris studied at the University of Toronto where he was awarded the Glenn Gould Composition Prize and the William Erving Fairclough Scholarship. He relocated to London in 2003, where he studied Composition at the Royal College of Music with Julian Anderson. In 2006 Christopher began doctoral studies with Philip Cashian at the Royal Academy of Music.