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Tom Cunningham is a Scot, born in 1946 in
Edinburgh. Having chosen a career in the computing industry, he moved to London
where, as well as studying orchestral conducting and composition at Morley
College, he gained extensive knowledge of the choral repertoire as a member
of the Philharmonia Chorus. He has conducted amateur and professional choirs and orchestras in
repertoire ranging from Monteverdi to premieres of contemporary music. His
compositions and arrangements, mainly published by Hinshaw
Music in the USA and Roberton
Publications in the UK, have been performed by the
Royal Scottish National Orchestra & Chorus,
the Royal
Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir, the National Youth Choir of Scotland,
Cappella Nova, English
Baroque Choir, Brussels Choral Society
and many others. He has also edited music for Oxford
University Press and other publishers.
From 1984 till 2002, he was Musical Director of the Brussels Choral Society.
Since returning to Edinburgh in 2002, he has conducted Laeti Europae Cantores and Con Spirito.
On the composing side, he has recently completed a commission for a 20-minute
work for the National Youth Choir of Scotland National Boys Choir
entitled Seven Planets and a Cosmic Rock which was premiered in April 2008.
For mixed voices, he recently completed Scotland at Night which was premiered by
Cappella Nova in December 2007 in Glasgow and Edinburgh, set to texts
specially written by Alexander McCall Smith. He is currently working on
another set of poems by Alexander McCall Smith to be premiered later in 2008.
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For more information, email Tom Cunningham.
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