Composers
Tarik O'Regan
© Marion Ettlinger
Born: 1978
Born in London in 1978, two-time British Composer Award winner Tarik O'Regan was educated at Oxford University, completing his postgraduate studies at Cambridge. His 2008 recording for the Harmonia Mundi label, Threshold of Night, debuted at #10 in the American Billboard® chart and received two GRAMMY® nominations (Best Classical Album and Best Choral Performance). Prior releases include Scattered Rhymes, also on Harmonia Mundi, and his 2006 debut disc, VOICES.
O’Regan divides his time between New York City and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he is Fellow Commoner in the Creative Arts, having previously held the Fulbright Chester Schirmer Fellowship in Music Composition at Columbia University and a Radcliffe Institute Fellowship at Harvard.
His compositions have been performed internationally by the BBC Symphony Orchestra, London Sinfonietta, Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir and Los Angeles Master Chorale. He is currently working on an operatic version of Joseph Conrad’s ‘Heart of Darkness’ in development with American Opera Projects in New York and OperaGenesis at the Royal Opera House, London.
Key Works:- The Tongue of Epigrams
(1998; counter-tenor, percussion) - Clichés
(2000, rev.2004; jazz sextet) - Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis
(2000; cello or soprano saxophone, double choir) - The Pure Good of Theory
(2001, rev.2004; violin, orchestra) - Three Andrew Motion Settings (2002-3; baritone, piano)
- Sequence for St Wulfstan (2003-5; choir)
- Dorchester Canticles
(2004; tenor, SATB chorus, percussion, harp, organ) - The Pure Good of Theory
(2004; violin, orchestra) - Triptych
(2005; SATB chorus, strings) - Raï
(2006; large ensemble) - Scattered Rhymes
(2006; ATTBar soli, SATB chorus) - The Ecstasies Above
(2007; soloists, chorus, string quartet) - Martyr
(2009; soloists, chorus, orchestra)
| Career Highlights:- 2002 London premieres of Clichés with the London Sinfonietta and The Pure Good of Theory with the BBC Symphony Orchestra
- 2003 awarded Chester Schirmer Fulbright Fellowship and a Wingate Scholarship
- 2004 moves to New York City to take up fellowship at Columbia University and affiliation with Harvard University
- 2005 commences association with Yale University’s Institute of Sacred Music as a Research Affiliate
- 2007 appointed fellow Commoner in the Creative Arts at Trinity College, Cambridge
- 2007 Threshold of Night wins British Composer Award
- 2008 Harmonia Mundi releases Scattered Rhymes and all O’Regan disc Threshold of Night
- 2009 Grammy nominations in Best Choral Performance and Best Classical Album for Threshold of Night
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