Elliott Park
Elliott Park is a composer of contemporary classical music, specialising in combined acoustic and electroacoustic works.
Hailing from the North East of England, July 2020 saw Elliott Park’s Skysong premiered as part of the Isolation Songbook project with Helen Charlston, Michael Craddock, and Alexander Soares premiering it and fourteen other new works as part of the City Music Foundation’s online concert series at St Pancras Hotel Clock Tower. Extracts feature on the album Isolation Songbook, released on Delphian Records on 26th March 2021.
Other works include a piece for solo bass trombone and live electronics was written for and premiered by Andrew Fawbert in 2019, described as ‘haunting, dreamlike, with passages that are barely breathing and others that are almost comical.’ (The Fine Times Recorder). In 2016, his short operatic work, The Panopticon was premiered in the Old Divinity School of St John’s College, Cambridge under the baton of Stephenie Childress, with tenor Simon Gfeller singing the part of the Prisoner. Sonambulum I (‘Inspiration’). Forthcoming collaborations include a song cycle based on the recent work of visual artist Miroslav Pomichal and a mixed media piece with Daniel Shipley of the University of Reading utilising visualisations of turbulent weather systems.
Elliott studied composition and musicology at Durham University, supervised by Eric Egan, Nick Collins, Trevor Wishart. After graduating from Durham, he pursued further study at Queens’ College, Cambridge with Jeremy Thurlow and John Hopkins, latterly specialising in combined acoustic and electroacoustic composition. After graduating from Cambridge, he worked for four years in the independent sector of secondary education both in and beyond the classroom. In September 2020, he resumed study at the Royal Academy of Music, studying composition with Tansy Davies.
Photo: Josie Sturgess Mills Photography
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