Tom Harrold

Scottish composer Tom Harrold (b.1991) is a Masters student at the Royal Northern College of Music, where he is a Radcliffe Trust Scholar under the tutelage of Professors Gary Carpenter and Adam Gorb.

Tom's music has been played worldwide by ensembles which include the BBC Scottish Symphony, Scottish Chamber, Aurora, and Birmingham Festival Orchestras, SuperBrass, WorldBrass, the Lancashire Sinfonietta, the Endymion Ensemble, and Trinity Boys Choir. Tom's music has been workshopped by ensembles from the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Singers and Exaudi. His music has received BBC Proms performances, a multi- date tour throughout Germany by WorldBrass (including a performance at the Berlin Philharmonie), and several broadcasts on BBC Radio 3 and Bayerischer Rundfunk.

Tom was winner of the BBC Proms / Guardian Young Composers’ Competition (2007), twice winner of the SCO’s National iCompose Competition (2010&11), twice shortlisted in the NCEM / BBC Radio 3 Young Composers' Award (2009&10), and Highly Commended in the International Composition Competition for Choirs (2011). Tom was recently awarded the RNCM Edward Hecht and Patricia Cunliffe Prizes for Composition. As winner of the Christopher Brooks Memorial Prize, Tom is currently Composer-in-Residence with the Lancashire Sinfonietta.

Tom's current projects include a piano concerto for Scottish pianist Philip Sharp, performances of Locked Horns at the Barbican and Southbank Centres, two Royal Philharmonic Society bicentenary commissions, and a Creative Scotland- funded commission for the Edinburgh Quartet's 2014/15 season.

Tom is grateful for sponsorship from Dewar Arts Awards, the Scottish International Education Trust, the RVW Trust, Caird Travelling Scholarships and the Cross Trust.