Martin Suckling

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Martin Suckling
Born1981
United Kingdom
GenresClassical
Occupation(s)Musician, Composer, Violinist
Years active2005–present
Website http://www.martinsuckling.com/

Martin Suckling (born 23 November 1981) is a British composer. He is also a violinist and teacher.

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Education

Suckling was born in Glasgow and attended Bearsden Academy. He read music at Clare College, Cambridge and went on to study composition with George Benjamin at King's College London. He was a Paul Mellon Fellow at Yale University, where he studied with Ezra Laderman and Martin Bresnick in the Yale School of Music. On returning to the UK he undertook doctoral research at the Royal Academy of Music, supervised by Simon Bainbridge. [1]

Career

While still a student, Suckling received commissions from the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin (Play, 2005) [2] and the London Symphony Orchestra (The Moon, the Moon!, 2007). [3] He won the Royal Philharmonic Society Composition Prize in 2008, [4] leading to a commission from the Wigmore Hall for the Aronowitz Ensemble (To See the Dark Between, 2010). [5] In 2011, the London Sinfonietta commission and premiere of Candlebird, a song cycle to texts by Don Paterson, led to critical acclaim. [6] Subsequent commissions have come from ensembles such as the London Contemporary Orchestra, [7] BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, [8] Scottish Ensemble [9] and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, [10] with whom Suckling was appointed Associate Composer in 2014. [11]

Previously Stipendiary Lecturer in Music at Somerville College, Oxford, since 2012 Suckling has been a lecturer in the Music Department at the University of York, where he teaches courses in Composition, Orchestration, and Spectral Music. [12]

Suckling's music often explores aspects of microtonality, and he has acknowledged his debt in this regard to composers associated with spectral music. [13] Other influences include Scottish folk music – Suckling was a fiddle player in several ceilidh bands in his teens – and literature, especially poetry.

In addition to music for the concert hall, Suckling has also composed music designed to be encountered online: these bones, this flesh, this skin, which received a Classical:NEXT Innovation Award in 2021, [14] and the 'game-for-music' Black Fell, an opera / videogame hybrid. [15]

Key works

Discography

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References

  1. ↑ "Martin Suckling – Biography". www.fabermusic.com.
  2. ↑ "Georg-Friedrich Kühn: Neue Musik". www.gf-kuehn.de.
  3. ↑ "The Moon, the moon! … Enigma Variations … A Child of Our Time @www.classicalsource.com".
  4. ↑ "RPS – Royal Philharmonic Society – Past Recipients – Past Recipients – Young Composers – Young Musicians". 2 April 2015. Archived from the original on 2 April 2015.
  5. ↑ "TLS - Times Literary Supplement".
  6. ↑ "Martin Suckling – Critics unanimous in praise for 'Candlebird' – News – Faber Music". www.fabermusic.com.
  7. ↑ Shirley, Hugo (13 December 2011). "London Contemporary Orchestra, Spitalfields Music Winter Festival, review" – via www.telegraph.co.uk.
  8. ↑ "Ilan Volkov on Glasgow's Tectonics festical[sic]". The Herald. 10 May 2013.
  9. ↑ Maddocks, Fiona (4 November 2012). "Ensemble 10/10; Scottish Ensemble; Edgar, New Sussex Opera – review". the Guardian.
  10. ↑ Molleson, Kate (16 October 2011). "SCO/Ticciati/Suckling – review". the Guardian.
  11. ↑ "SCO – Creative Learning". www.sco.org.uk.
  12. ↑ "Module descriptions 2013–14 – Music, The University of York". www.york.ac.uk.
  13. ↑ "Martin Suckling is calm and composed for SCO 40th anniversary". HeraldScotland. 2 February 2014.
  14. ↑ "Innovation Award Recipients 2021". Classical:NEXT. 2021.
  15. ↑ Allnutt, Chris (30 October 2023). "Black Fell combines gaming and opera to compelling effect". The FT.
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