Ryan A. Probert

A composer obsessed with memory, different cultures and melody. A regular collaborator with the Vickers-Bovey Guitar Duo and twice winner of the John Mayer Prize.

“The other three pieces lacked the technical polish of these two, but seemed more authentically of the present moment in their lightness and stubborn eccentricity… Ryan Probert’s 36 Views of Mt Fuji (of which we heard 10 or so) were more charmingly Satie-like in their oddity, and played with truly uncanny unanimity by guitarists Julian Vickers and Daniel Bovey. The deliberate modesty of these pieces, and of Luke Deane’s piece for pianist and singing pot-plant (don’t ask, it would take too long to explain), suggested the younger generation is in tune with those far-off days of the Sixties.” Ivan Hewett, Telegraph 3 July 2014