Suckling has been commissioned by the London Symphony Orchestra, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, London Sinfonietta, and Scottish Ensemble. He is currently Senior Lecturer in Composition at the University of York. He has won numerous awards, including a highly sought-after Philip Leverhulme Prize. His teachers include George Benjamin, Robin Holloway, Martin Bresnick, and Simon Bainbridge. He was a Paul Mellon Fellow at Yale University (2003-5), undertook doctoral research at the Royal Academy of Music, and became a Stipendiary Lecturer in Music at Somerville College, Oxford. After spending his teenage years performing in the National Youth Orchestra and in ceilidh bands around Scotland, Suckling studied music at Clare College Cambridge and King’s College London. Martin Suckling was born in Glasgow in 1981. Recent highlights include premieres of MacMillan’s A European Requiem, Stabat Mater for The Sixteen and a Trombone Concerto for Jörgen van Rijen with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra.
His recordings can be found on BMG/RCA Red Seal, BIS, Chandos, Naxos, Hyperion, Coro, Linn and Challenge Classics. His interpreters include soloists Evelyn Glennie, Colin Currie, Jean-Yves Thibaudet and Vadim Repin, conductors Leonard Slatkin, Sir Andrew Davis, Marin Alsop and Donald Runnicles, and choreographer Christopher Wheeldon. He was featured composer at Edinburgh Festival (1993), Southbank Centre (1997), BBC’s Barbican Composer Weekend (2005) and Grafenegg Festival (2012). Other major works include the cantata Seven Last Words from the Cross (1993), Quickening (1998) for soloists, children's choir, mixed choir and orchestra, the operas Inès de Castro (2001) and The Sacrifice (2005-06), St John Passion (2007) and St Luke Passion (2013). His percussion concerto Veni, Veni Emmanuel (1992) has received over 500 performances worldwide by orchestras including London Symphony Orchestra, New York and Los Angeles Philharmonics and Cleveland Orchestra. He first attracted attention with the acclaimed BBC Proms premiere of The Confession of Isobel Gowdie (1990).
James MacMillan is the pre-eminent Scottish composer of his generation. Posted by Tectonics Glasgow on Wednesday, 7 June 2017 In the same year, Usui was awarded a Civitella Ranieri fellowship in conjunction with UNESCO-Aschberg Bursary.As an improvising musician, Usui has performed with artists and groups such as Arve Henriksen, Ilan Volkov, Rie Nakajima, Lee Patterson, Cato, Grey Area, BCMG and Collegium Novum Zurich.As a music animateur, Usui has worked as a fellow in the Scottish Chamber Orchestra's outreach and education department, worked in various projects with school children and has had a training with Musicians Without Borders Edinburgh.Edinburgh-based composer Shiori Usui introduces her work 'From Scratch' In 2018, Usui's composition "from scratch" was awarded the Scottish Awards for New Music for large ensemble and she was shortlisted for the Twenty Fifth Anniversary Awards by the Arts Foundation.In 2017, "from scratch" was performed by BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and Usui as a vocalist with conductor Ilan Volkov at Tectonics Glasgow festival.In 2016, Usui won a publishing deal with Ricordi Berlin.In 2015, Usui's music "Ophiocordyceps unilateralis s.l." was performed at the BBC Proms by BCMG and conductor Franck Ollu.In 2013 – 2014, Usui was awarded the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group/Sound and Music composer-in-residence, and Scottish Chamber Orchestra Connect Fellow funded by BBC Performing Arts Fund, for working with children with additional support needs.In 2012, Usui's composition 'Warai' received the Toru Takemitsu Composition Award. Usui's music has been performed by orchestras and ensembles around the world including BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Cottbus State Theatre Philharmonic Orchestra, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, A Far Cry, Collegium Novum Zurich and Artisan Trio, and with conductors such as Ilan Volkov, Martyn Brabbins, Peter Rundel and Franck Ollu. Shiori Usui is a composer of contemporary classical music, improvising musician and music animateur based in Scotland.
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