Michael Small • Composer
 

MICHAEL SMALL

COMPOSER 

 

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Michael Small is an English-born composer.

Michael’s solo violin work Prism appears as the title track of Fenella Humphreys’ 4th album of unaccompanied violin music, which is out and available on streaming as well as physical copies. The disc has sold spectacularly well, entering the Official Specialist Classical Charts at #17. From May 3rd to May 10th, it was also featured on ASCAP’s New Music Friday Playlist on Spotify, along with two other tracks from Prism.

Michael’s new commission For Years Now for the London Sinfonietta was recently premiered and conducted by Geoff Paterson. You can watch the performance here. He received this commission as the result of winning the 2020 Royal Over Seas League Composition Award, of which he is the inaugural winner.

In 2022, Michael worked as a conductor with the Wirral Symphony Orchestra, taking several rehearsals and co-conducting two concerts including their summer concert, Song and Dance. The repertoire included the Barber Adagio for Strings, Copland’s Hoe Down, Saint-Saëns’ Danse Macabre, and the very successful and warmly received premiere of Dulce et Decorum Est by Isabelle Ryder.

Recent composing projects include a short new solo oboe work called ritual for Olivier Stanckiewicz, a solo Fortepiano work for Michael Pecak, and is currently writing a set of three solo viola pieces collectively entitled Narrations for Georgina Rossi to be premiered in 2025.

Michael has also been the recipient of commissions from the Royal Philharmonic Society, Ensemble 10/10, and his works are regularly performed by international caliber musicians such as Emmy and Grammy winner Gloria Cheng, and BBC Music Magazine laureate Fenella Humphreys. He was tutored at RNCM by David Horne, and at Cornell by Steven Stucky. 

Michael recently released a long-form interview with the esteemed British composer Julian Anderson, which you can now watch here on Michael’s YouTube Channel.

 
 

 NEWS

 

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 LISTEN

 

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WORKS 

 
 

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 COMPOSERS' NOTES

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EVENTS 

 

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 CONTACT

 
 

You can find Michael on Twitter, Soundcloud, Instagram, (where he mostly posts photographs and very little to do with music) or contact him via the form below.

 

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