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Composer of the Week

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An informative guide to composers' lives and their music.

An informative and accessible guide to composers' lives and their music.

Composer of the Week: Five under 40

Composer of the Week: Five under 40: Episode 2: Sound Frontiers: Gwilym Simcock

Sound Frontiers: Gwilym Simcock

Episode 2

Episode 2: Sound Frontiers: Gwilym Simcock

Five under 40

BBC Radio 3 - Composer of the Week, Five under 40, Sound Frontiers: Gwilym Simcock

Donald Macleod is in conversation with composer and jazz pianist Gwilym Simcock.

Donald Macleod is in conversation with composer and jazz pianist Gwilym Simcock. Including Those Are the Good Days, It Could Have Been a Simple Goodbye and A Kind of Red.

As part of Radio 3 live at Southbank Centre, London, Donald Macleod speaks to five members of a new generation of British composers about their work. Featuring music by Anoushka Shankar, Gwilym Simcock, Helen Grime, Anna Meredith and Daniel Kidane. 

Donald's joined today by composer and jazz pianist Gwilym Simcock (b 1981). Primarily a jazz artist, his ability to combine the art of improvisation with formalised structure has enabled him to straddle jazz and classical spheres in his compositions. His influences are equally wide ranging, from jazz legends including Keith Jarrett, Chick Corea and Pat Metheny, to classical composers including Maurice Ravel, Béla Bartók and Mark-Anthony Turnage. 
Music includes: 

Gwilym Simcock 
Those Are The Good Days
Gwilym Simcock, piano 

Gwilym Simcock & Mike Walker 
It Could Have Been A Simple Goodbye 
The Impossible Gentlemen 

Gwilym Simcock
A Kind of Red 
Delta Saxophone Quartet.

Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

Donald Macleod meets five members of a new generation of British composers

Donald Macleod meets five members of a new generation of British composers to learn about their work

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