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Tom Cunningham was born in 1946 in Edinburgh. Having chosen a career in the computing industry, he moved to London where he studied orchestral conducting and composition at Morley College. He has conducted amateur and professional choirs and orchestras in repertoire ranging from Monteverdi to premieres of contemporary music, including radio and television broadcasts and several CDs. His compositions and arrangements, mainly published by Hinshaw Music in the USA and Roberton Publications in the UK, have been performed by the London Symphony Orchestra, Royal Scottish National Orchestra & Chorus, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir, Northern Sinfonia, 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 completed three commissions for the National Youth Choir of Scotland and two sets of poems by Alexander McCall Smith premiered by Cappella Nova. He has just completed an opera to a libretto by Alexander McCall Smith to be premiered in Botswana in October 2009 in the No. 1 Ladies' Opera House. A CD including his compositions performed by Laudibus under Mike Brewer is available on Delphian Records. |
For more information, email Tom Cunningham.
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