Composers
Tarik O'Regan
© Denise Ding / NY Bodhi Photography
Born: 1978
Recent recognition: two GRAMMY® nominations (including Best Classical Album) for Threshold of Night, two British Composer Awards, Gramophone Award nomination for Scattered Rhymes, NEA Artistic Excellence Award and South Bank Sky Arts Award nomination for Heart of Darkness.
Current and future commissions: Suite from Heart of Darkness for the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra; a full-length ballet for the Dutch National Ballet; large scale new works for the Hallé Orchestra, American Opera Projects and the University of Michigan.
Recent projects: two North African-influenced compositions (Raï, for the Dutch National Ballet, and Chaâbi, commissioned by the Australian Chamber Orchestra) in 2012; a third solo album on the Harmonia Mundi label, Acallam na Senórach, and the premiere of his first opera, Heart of Darkness, at the Royal Opera House, London in 2011.
Life and work: O’Regan grew up in London, where he was born in 1978, spending some of his childhood in Morocco and Algeria. Since 2007, he has divided his time between New York City and Cambridge, England. His music, recorded on over 25 albums, is published exclusively by Novello & Company/Music Sales Classical. www.tarikoregan.com
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 Motion Settings (2002-3; baritone, piano)
- Sequence for St Wulfstan (2003-5; choir)
- Dorchester Canticles
(2004; tenor, SATB chorus, percussion, harp, organ)
- 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)
- Latent Manifest
(2010; orchestra)
- Acallam na Senórach (2010; chorus a cappella, guitar)
- Heart of Darkness (2011; chamber opera)
- Chaâbi (2012; orchestra)
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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
- 2010 makes BBC Proms debut with Latent Manifest performed by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
- 2010 writes and presents Composing New York, a documentary for BBC Radio 4 produced by Brook Lapping
- 2011 Acallam na Senórach, O'Regan's third disc on the Harmonia Mundi label, is released
- 2011 O'Regan's first opera, Heart of Darkness, opens at the Royal Opera House, Linbury Theatre
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