Mark-Anthony Turnage 

English composer Mark-Anthony Turnage is recognised for his unique contributions to British music over the last three decades. As Composer in Association in Birmingham with Simon Rattle (1989-1993), his works included Three Screaming Popes, Kai, Momentum, Drowned Out and Blood on the Floor, his score written for jazz musicians John Scofield and Peter Erskine, and Martin Robertson. Turnage’s first opera, Greek, established his reputation as an artist forging a path between modernism and tradition, with a blend of jazz and classical styles. His operas since have included The Silver Tassie (English National Opera, 2000, winner of the South Bank Show and Olivier Awards); Anna Nicole (Royal Opera House, 2011) and Coraline (ROH and Barbican Theatre, 2018; tours in Freiburg, Lille, Stockholm and Melbourne). Turnage has been resident composer with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra and London Symphony Orchestra, for whom he wrote two new works: Speranza conducted by Daniel Harding in 2013 and Remembering conducted and recorded by Simon Rattle in 2018, and co-commissioned by Boston, Stockholm and Berlin. He had several new works commissioned in 2020, including three new orchestral scores: Time Flies for Tokyo, Hamburg and the BBC Proms, Last Song for Olly for the LSO and Cleveland Orchestras and Up for It for the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and Adelaide. In 2021, his score accompanying edited footage of the iconic 1989 semi-cup final between Arsenal and Liverpool, Up for Grabs, premiered at the Barbican Hall. Turnage is Research Fellow in Composition at the Royal College of Music, and is published by Boosey & Hawkes, with works before 2003 published by Schott Music. He was awarded a CBE in the 2015 Queen's Birthday honours.