“Styles’s On Bunyah is magnificent and just like the poem is raw, not polite.”
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“Styles embroiders the verse like an illuminated tapestry in sound”
Luke Styles
Luke is a composer prolific in opera, the theatre and instrumental music. His operas including Macbeth and Ned Kelly have been performed at Glyndebourne, the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, the Perth Festival and Carriageworks. His operas have explored diverse worlds including cabaret, war and science fiction, and allowed him to delve into sensual lyricism, humour, chaos and darkness in his music.
Luke Styles is represented by Blom Music Management and published worldwide by G.Schirmer/Wise Music, Belle Symphonie and 13oder14. Luke was the first Glyndebourne Young Composer in Residence (2011-2014) and the first composer in residence at the Foundling Museum since Handel (2015-2016) and the British Council Musician in Residence for Brazil (2022).
Collaborations are central to Luke’s work and this has led to new works with conductors and soloists including Vladimir Jurowski, Fiona Monbet, Mark Padmore, Hillary Summers, Iain Ballamy and David Pyatt and ensembles such as Le Balcon, London Sinfonietta, Philharmonia Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Britten Sinfonia, Sydney Symphony Orchestra and the Commonwealth Games.
Luke is the artistic director of the Deal Festival and Deal Music and Arts.
Custodians of the Sky - Le Balcon
“the orchestral writing is crisp and incisive, conjuring up with imagination the successive atmospheres required for the tragedy’s trajectory.”
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