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Assistant Course Leader MMus and PGDip, Tutor in Composition

David Horne is regularly commissioned and performed by major orchestras and ensembles in the UK and abroad. Recent performances have included those by the BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Hallé Orchestra, London Sinfonietta, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Ensembles who have performed his music include Ensemble 10/10, The Nash Ensemble, Scottish Ensemble and, abroad, Boston Musica Viva, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Centre, Ensemble Moderne, the Nieuw Ensemble (Netherlands), Orchestra 2001 (Philadelphia) and Remix Ensemble (Portugal.) His solo commissions include those from Boris Berezovsky, Nicholas Cox, Evelyn Glennie, Nobuko Imai and Fred Sherry.

Recent chamber music includes Flight from the Labyrinth (2004) commissioned by the Caramoor Festival (NY) for the Daedalus Quartet, and his String Quartet no. 4 (2006) by Carnegie Hall for the Brentano. His concerto works include a Piano Concerto, a percussion concerto (Ignition) for Evelyn Glennie and a Double Violin Concerto for Clio Gould and Jonathan Morton. In addition to shorter theatrical works, his full-length opera Friend of the People, was commissioned and premiered by Scottish Opera. In addition to frequent broadcasts, his music has featured at the BBC Proms, Cheltenham, Huddersfield and St. Magnus Festivals as well as at international festivals in Berlin, Paris, Rome, Singapore and Strasbourg. Active as a pianist, and winner of the piano section, BBC Young Musician of the Year 1988, he has recently performed both his Piano Concerto and Flex with the BBC Symphony Orchestra.David is highly sought after as a workshop leader and has led projects and courses for the Aldeburgh Festival, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, London Sinfonietta, SPNM, and Wigmore Hall. He is a mentor on Sound and Music’s Adopt a Composer programme and led the first New Music/New Media course for the Britten-Pears School in 2004. He was composer in association with the RLPO from 2000-2003 and in 2006/07 was a visiting professor at the Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya. His compositions (approaching 90) are published exclusively by Boosey and Hawkes and his music has been recorded on several labels, including BMG and NMC.

A Tutor in Composition at the RNCM since 2001, many of his students have gained inclusion on the SPNM shortlist, won a wide range of awards and scholarships, including two Theodore Holland Intercollegiate Prizes, commissions and performances by prestigious orchestras and ensembles. A Lecturer in Music since 2008, his teaching at both undergraduate and postgraduate level reflects the wide range of his compositional research, his interests in performance studies and various twentieth century topics including analysis, orchestral and chamber music, and the study of instrumentation.

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