Composers
Tarik O'Regan
© Marion Ettlinger
Born: 1978
Born in London in 1978, Tarik O'Regan was educated at Oxford University and completed his postgraduate studies at Cambridge. A two-time British Composer Award winner, his recent recording for the Harmonia Mundi label, Threshold of Night, debuted at #10 in the Billboard® chart and received two GRAMMY® nominations (including Best Classical Album). Prior releases include Scattered Rhymes and his 2006 debut disc, VOICES.
He has held the Fulbright Chester Schirmer Fellowship at Columbia University and a Radcliffe Institute Fellowship at Harvard. Other appointments include positions at Trinity and Corpus Christi Colleges in Cambridge, the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and Yale University.
Currently O’Regan is working on material for new recordings with Harmonia Mundi, a documentary for BBC Radio 4 and a BBC commission, Latent Manifest, which will be premiered by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra as part of the 2010 BBC Proms. Heart of Darkness, his opera based on Joseph Conrad’s novel of the same name, opens at the Royal Opera House Linbury Theatre in late 2011.
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
- 2010 Appointed Director's Visitor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton
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