Composition

Recent highlights

• A collaboration with the National Portrait Gallery, with RCM composers writing new works to accompany photographs on display as part of the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2008
• A unique project with Clive Christian Perfumes, with RCM Composers writing new music inspired by different scents, including the world's most expensive fragrance, No 1
• Visits from some of the world’s leading composers for both concert and film including Pascal Dusapin, Helmut Lachenmann, Hanspeter Kyburz, Howard Shore, Louis Andriessen and Debbie Wiseman
• Prize wins for Composition students including the Ernst von Siemens Award, Tokyo International Competition for Chamber Music, the National Competition Prize of Colombia, Royal Philharmonic Society Composers' Competition, Serocki International Composition Competition (Warsaw), Unheard Film Festival Competition, 2011 Jerry Goldsmith Award, and the International Film Scoring Competition