Tom Coult
@tomcoult.bsky.social
Composer. 'A Rabbi Solomon Schechter for the NFT generation' (The Telegraph), 'Like Nikolai Ogarkov on acid' (Financial Times)
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Tom Coult
@tomcoult.bsky.social
· Nov 22
OUT NOW: Pieces that Disappear, my new portrait disc, all beautifully performed by BBC Philharmonic Orchestra and various friends!
Available to stream in all the normal places, or get it on CD/FLAC/MP3 from
@nmcrecordings.bsky.social
Links – nmcrecs.lnk.to/PTD
Happy disappearing comrades…
Available to stream in all the normal places, or get it on CD/FLAC/MP3 from
@nmcrecordings.bsky.social
Links – nmcrecs.lnk.to/PTD
Happy disappearing comrades…
My ‘Prelude (after Monsieur de Sainte Colombe)’ for 5 lower strings, aced by 12 Ensemble:
youtu.be/kT9wQak1d5s?...
youtu.be/kT9wQak1d5s?...
Coult - Prelude (after Monsieur de Sainte Colombe)
YouTube video by 12 Ensemble
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May 9, 2025 at 12:51 PM
My ‘Prelude (after Monsieur de Sainte Colombe)’ for 5 lower strings, aced by 12 Ensemble:
youtu.be/kT9wQak1d5s?...
youtu.be/kT9wQak1d5s?...
I wrote a thing for Music Patron, with some insights and sketches of my BBC Proms piece, 'Monologues for the Curious'.
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Monologues for the Curious – sketches and plans - Music Patron
Recently the programme for the BBC Proms were announced, and I have a new piece, Monologues for the Curious, to
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May 8, 2025 at 8:30 AM
I wrote a thing for Music Patron, with some insights and sketches of my BBC Proms piece, 'Monologues for the Curious'.
musicpatron.com/composer_upd...
musicpatron.com/composer_upd...
Pretty excited for this one – new piece for Allan Clayton & BBC Phil – 'Monologues for the Curious' at the BBC Proms this July.
May contain eroticism, grief, surreal dreams, an eccentric Tinder bio, and Allan playing a harmonica.
Tx
May contain eroticism, grief, surreal dreams, an eccentric Tinder bio, and Allan playing a harmonica.
Tx
April 24, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Pretty excited for this one – new piece for Allan Clayton & BBC Phil – 'Monologues for the Curious' at the BBC Proms this July.
May contain eroticism, grief, surreal dreams, an eccentric Tinder bio, and Allan playing a harmonica.
Tx
May contain eroticism, grief, surreal dreams, an eccentric Tinder bio, and Allan playing a harmonica.
Tx
New piece for the ORA Singers premiering this month – 'Souling' – wandering spirits and pagan trick-or-treating. Manchester's Stoller Hall on 29th April! x
www.fabermusic.com/news/ora-sin...
www.fabermusic.com/news/ora-sin...
ORA Singers and Suzi Digby premiere Coult’s Souling | Faber Music
Motet responding to Byrd explores threshold between the living and the dead
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April 3, 2025 at 1:09 PM
New piece for the ORA Singers premiering this month – 'Souling' – wandering spirits and pagan trick-or-treating. Manchester's Stoller Hall on 29th April! x
www.fabermusic.com/news/ora-sin...
www.fabermusic.com/news/ora-sin...
Happy birthday Pierre! I'm talking at the Royal Academy of Music at the 4.45 and 6pm pre-concert talks, ahead of the evening concert where the Manson Ensemble will be tackling the *unbelievably* virtuosic 'Sur Incises' amongst other things.
www.ram.ac.uk/whats-on/bou...
www.ram.ac.uk/whats-on/bou...
March 26, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Happy birthday Pierre! I'm talking at the Royal Academy of Music at the 4.45 and 6pm pre-concert talks, ahead of the evening concert where the Manson Ensemble will be tackling the *unbelievably* virtuosic 'Sur Incises' amongst other things.
www.ram.ac.uk/whats-on/bou...
www.ram.ac.uk/whats-on/bou...
'Gymnopédies' has its Australian premiere this weekend with Adelaide Symphony Orchestra
www.fabermusic.com/news/austral...
www.fabermusic.com/news/austral...
Australian premiere of Coult’s Gymnopédies from Adelaide Symphony and David Sharp | Faber Music
Beguiling orchestral miniatures at the Grainger Studio
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March 4, 2025 at 10:49 AM
'Gymnopédies' has its Australian premiere this weekend with Adelaide Symphony Orchestra
www.fabermusic.com/news/austral...
www.fabermusic.com/news/austral...
12 Ensemble are giving the UK premiere of my Prelude (after Monsieur de Sainte Colombe) on Tuesday – a chocolatey treat for five low strings. Alongside gorgeous stuff!
www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/whats-on/202...
www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/whats-on/202...
February 20, 2025 at 10:29 AM
12 Ensemble are giving the UK premiere of my Prelude (after Monsieur de Sainte Colombe) on Tuesday – a chocolatey treat for five low strings. Alongside gorgeous stuff!
www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/whats-on/202...
www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/whats-on/202...
Two interviews/blogs about my recent album Pieces that Disappear:
1. With Presto Music: www.prestomusic.com/classical/ar...
2. With NMC Recordings: www.nmcrec.co.uk/discover/tom...
@prestomusic.bsky.social @nmcrecordings.bsky.social
1. With Presto Music: www.prestomusic.com/classical/ar...
2. With NMC Recordings: www.nmcrec.co.uk/discover/tom...
@prestomusic.bsky.social @nmcrecordings.bsky.social
February 20, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Two interviews/blogs about my recent album Pieces that Disappear:
1. With Presto Music: www.prestomusic.com/classical/ar...
2. With NMC Recordings: www.nmcrec.co.uk/discover/tom...
@prestomusic.bsky.social @nmcrecordings.bsky.social
1. With Presto Music: www.prestomusic.com/classical/ar...
2. With NMC Recordings: www.nmcrec.co.uk/discover/tom...
@prestomusic.bsky.social @nmcrecordings.bsky.social
I've written something for Music Patron, in two parts, about my favourite music in the world – Bach's Brandenburg Concertos.
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Bach's Brandenburg Concertos – my favourite music in the world - Music Patron
If anyone asked me what single piece of music I would take to a desert island, I would choose Bach’s
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January 14, 2025 at 1:01 PM
I've written something for Music Patron, in two parts, about my favourite music in the world – Bach's Brandenburg Concertos.
musicpatron.com/composer_upd...
musicpatron.com/composer_upd...
A rare foray for me into tweeting reviews, but I've got an album to promote, so sue me…
I've collated some reviews of my @nmcrecordings.bsky.social album. All pieces performed by BBC Philharmonic Orchestra and friends.
www.tomcoult.com/pieces-that-...
I've collated some reviews of my @nmcrecordings.bsky.social album. All pieces performed by BBC Philharmonic Orchestra and friends.
www.tomcoult.com/pieces-that-...
‘Pieces that Disappear’ Reviews
My album Pieces that Disappear was released in November on NMC Recordings, and it has been featured in a number of reviews. It features four pieces, all performed by the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra …
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January 14, 2025 at 9:52 AM
A rare foray for me into tweeting reviews, but I've got an album to promote, so sue me…
I've collated some reviews of my @nmcrecordings.bsky.social album. All pieces performed by BBC Philharmonic Orchestra and friends.
www.tomcoult.com/pieces-that-...
I've collated some reviews of my @nmcrecordings.bsky.social album. All pieces performed by BBC Philharmonic Orchestra and friends.
www.tomcoult.com/pieces-that-...
Difficult to overstate the impact Boulez's beautiful beautiful beautiful music had on me when I first found it. Can't be at the LSO gig tonight but will be a proper fanboy at the Barbican Immersion day – Anna Dennis performing Pli Selon Pli 😍😍😍
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/j...
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/j...
‘He jolted us out of our comfort zone’: Antonio Pappano, Martyn Brabbins and more on Pierre Boulez
Ahead of his centenary celebrations, composers, conductors and performers explain why the French iconoclast’s music is simply spellbinding
www.theguardian.com
January 9, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Difficult to overstate the impact Boulez's beautiful beautiful beautiful music had on me when I first found it. Can't be at the LSO gig tonight but will be a proper fanboy at the Barbican Immersion day – Anna Dennis performing Pli Selon Pli 😍😍😍
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/j...
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/j...
Aldeburgh Festival announced today: I'm writing a new one for Allan Clayton & @dunedinconsort.bsky.social…premiered June at gorgeous Blythburgh Church.
It's my fridge-poetry take on the Book of Lamentations, maybe with a bit of Sussex folklore mixed in…
Tx
www.brittenpearsarts.org/events/duned...
It's my fridge-poetry take on the Book of Lamentations, maybe with a bit of Sussex folklore mixed in…
Tx
www.brittenpearsarts.org/events/duned...
Dunedin Consort: Lamentations | Britten Pears Arts
Welcome to Britten Pears Arts, the pioneering charity making music useful. Home to Snape Maltings, The Red House and the Aldeburgh Festival.
www.brittenpearsarts.org
December 16, 2024 at 3:23 PM
Aldeburgh Festival announced today: I'm writing a new one for Allan Clayton & @dunedinconsort.bsky.social…premiered June at gorgeous Blythburgh Church.
It's my fridge-poetry take on the Book of Lamentations, maybe with a bit of Sussex folklore mixed in…
Tx
www.brittenpearsarts.org/events/duned...
It's my fridge-poetry take on the Book of Lamentations, maybe with a bit of Sussex folklore mixed in…
Tx
www.brittenpearsarts.org/events/duned...
My new disc of orchestral music featured on Record Review on Saturday – a little taster from 54:19.
Begins with the phrase "Do you remember the British composer Tom Coult?", as if I'm Subbuteo or Tamagotchis or something:
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Begins with the phrase "Do you remember the British composer Tom Coult?", as if I'm Subbuteo or Tamagotchis or something:
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Record Review - Poulenc's Stabat Mater, in Building a Library with Jeremy Sams & Andrew McGregor - BBC Sounds
Jeremy Sams selects his favourite version of Poulenc's Stabat Mater.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 4, 2024 at 2:34 PM
My new disc of orchestral music featured on Record Review on Saturday – a little taster from 54:19.
Begins with the phrase "Do you remember the British composer Tom Coult?", as if I'm Subbuteo or Tamagotchis or something:
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Begins with the phrase "Do you remember the British composer Tom Coult?", as if I'm Subbuteo or Tamagotchis or something:
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
I've made a new version of my 'O Ecclesia' for
Aidan O'Rourke & Sean Shibe – premiere is at Kings Place on Friday, also performances in York and Perth. Will be lovely gigs x www.kingsplace.co.uk/whats-on/fol...
Aidan O'Rourke & Sean Shibe – premiere is at Kings Place on Friday, also performances in York and Perth. Will be lovely gigs x www.kingsplace.co.uk/whats-on/fol...
December 2, 2024 at 11:46 AM
I've made a new version of my 'O Ecclesia' for
Aidan O'Rourke & Sean Shibe – premiere is at Kings Place on Friday, also performances in York and Perth. Will be lovely gigs x www.kingsplace.co.uk/whats-on/fol...
Aidan O'Rourke & Sean Shibe – premiere is at Kings Place on Friday, also performances in York and Perth. Will be lovely gigs x www.kingsplace.co.uk/whats-on/fol...
A Faber writeup on my new album with a few details of the pieces, in case you are looking for a Christmas gift for a loved one, a friend, or an enemy (to heal the wounds) www.fabermusic.com/news/coult-p...
Coult portrait album Pieces That Disappear released by NMC | Faber Music
Tenure as BBC Philharmonic Composer-in-Association captured on disc featuring Anna Dennis and Daniel Pioro
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November 27, 2024 at 12:26 PM
A Faber writeup on my new album with a few details of the pieces, in case you are looking for a Christmas gift for a loved one, a friend, or an enemy (to heal the wounds) www.fabermusic.com/news/coult-p...
Reposted by Tom Coult
Happy #NewReleaseFriday! From stone cold repertoire classics, to new music and new discoveries, my playlist of the week's symphony and orchestral #NewReleases has something for you! It's updated every Friday, and these are just four of the delights in store this week ▶️ spoti.fi/400asdn
November 22, 2024 at 7:22 AM
Happy #NewReleaseFriday! From stone cold repertoire classics, to new music and new discoveries, my playlist of the week's symphony and orchestral #NewReleases has something for you! It's updated every Friday, and these are just four of the delights in store this week ▶️ spoti.fi/400asdn
This is absurdly bad writing from Giles Coren.
The first sentence: mercifully short. The remainder: 99 words in two enormous, un-parsable sentences dizzyingly full of subordinate clauses. Is the Pride rally *itself* dressed as Boney M? Is it the Ivan Drago flat-top that is wielding a sledgehammer?
The first sentence: mercifully short. The remainder: 99 words in two enormous, un-parsable sentences dizzyingly full of subordinate clauses. Is the Pride rally *itself* dressed as Boney M? Is it the Ivan Drago flat-top that is wielding a sledgehammer?
November 23, 2024 at 9:42 PM
This is absurdly bad writing from Giles Coren.
The first sentence: mercifully short. The remainder: 99 words in two enormous, un-parsable sentences dizzyingly full of subordinate clauses. Is the Pride rally *itself* dressed as Boney M? Is it the Ivan Drago flat-top that is wielding a sledgehammer?
The first sentence: mercifully short. The remainder: 99 words in two enormous, un-parsable sentences dizzyingly full of subordinate clauses. Is the Pride rally *itself* dressed as Boney M? Is it the Ivan Drago flat-top that is wielding a sledgehammer?
Reposted by Tom Coult
OUT TODAY: Tom Coult - Pieces that Disappear @tomcoult.bsky.social
🎻 BBC Philharmonic, Anna Dennis, Daniel Pioro, Elena Swartz, Martyn Brabbins
Listen now: nmcrecs.lnk.to/PTD
🎻 BBC Philharmonic, Anna Dennis, Daniel Pioro, Elena Swartz, Martyn Brabbins
Listen now: nmcrecs.lnk.to/PTD
November 22, 2024 at 3:38 PM
OUT TODAY: Tom Coult - Pieces that Disappear @tomcoult.bsky.social
🎻 BBC Philharmonic, Anna Dennis, Daniel Pioro, Elena Swartz, Martyn Brabbins
Listen now: nmcrecs.lnk.to/PTD
🎻 BBC Philharmonic, Anna Dennis, Daniel Pioro, Elena Swartz, Martyn Brabbins
Listen now: nmcrecs.lnk.to/PTD
OUT NOW: Pieces that Disappear, my new portrait disc, all beautifully performed by BBC Philharmonic Orchestra and various friends!
Available to stream in all the normal places, or get it on CD/FLAC/MP3 from
@nmcrecordings.bsky.social
Links – nmcrecs.lnk.to/PTD
Happy disappearing comrades…
Available to stream in all the normal places, or get it on CD/FLAC/MP3 from
@nmcrecordings.bsky.social
Links – nmcrecs.lnk.to/PTD
Happy disappearing comrades…
November 22, 2024 at 8:12 AM
OUT NOW: Pieces that Disappear, my new portrait disc, all beautifully performed by BBC Philharmonic Orchestra and various friends!
Available to stream in all the normal places, or get it on CD/FLAC/MP3 from
@nmcrecordings.bsky.social
Links – nmcrecs.lnk.to/PTD
Happy disappearing comrades…
Available to stream in all the normal places, or get it on CD/FLAC/MP3 from
@nmcrecordings.bsky.social
Links – nmcrecs.lnk.to/PTD
Happy disappearing comrades…
Why yes, nascent and therefore quiet Bluesky! It is indeed Vivaldi’s ‘Spring’ from Four Seasons! Those seasons are masterpieces of form as well as obviously of melody.
Quiz question: Which composer, in their violin concerto, makes the bold and hugely original decision to first introduce the soloist as one of three equally active solo violins, so you can't really tell who is actually is the soloist?
November 19, 2024 at 7:02 PM
Why yes, nascent and therefore quiet Bluesky! It is indeed Vivaldi’s ‘Spring’ from Four Seasons! Those seasons are masterpieces of form as well as obviously of melody.
Quiz question: Which composer, in their violin concerto, makes the bold and hugely original decision to first introduce the soloist as one of three equally active solo violins, so you can't really tell who is actually is the soloist?
November 19, 2024 at 3:27 PM
Quiz question: Which composer, in their violin concerto, makes the bold and hugely original decision to first introduce the soloist as one of three equally active solo violins, so you can't really tell who is actually is the soloist?
Used Monica from Friends's erogenous zones advice in a composition lesson today, as a model for an unpredictable but still goal-directed form. Then made a graph on the train home. www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpQJ...
November 15, 2024 at 7:33 PM
Used Monica from Friends's erogenous zones advice in a composition lesson today, as a model for an unpredictable but still goal-directed form. Then made a graph on the train home. www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpQJ...
Greetings, comrades of the new place – may your blue skies never darken!
Here's an advance appetite-whetter from my upcoming NMC album, out 22 November: the second of my 'Three Pieces that Disappear', performed by BBC Philharmonic & Martyn Brabbins:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTo4...
Here's an advance appetite-whetter from my upcoming NMC album, out 22 November: the second of my 'Three Pieces that Disappear', performed by BBC Philharmonic & Martyn Brabbins:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTo4...
Three Pieces that Disappear: No. 2, Boisterous Then Placid
YouTube video by Tom Coult - Topic
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November 14, 2024 at 7:43 AM
Greetings, comrades of the new place – may your blue skies never darken!
Here's an advance appetite-whetter from my upcoming NMC album, out 22 November: the second of my 'Three Pieces that Disappear', performed by BBC Philharmonic & Martyn Brabbins:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTo4...
Here's an advance appetite-whetter from my upcoming NMC album, out 22 November: the second of my 'Three Pieces that Disappear', performed by BBC Philharmonic & Martyn Brabbins:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTo4...
It’s rare to combine pathos with cynicism, intense beauty with wry distance…but those few who do always hit my absolute musical sweet-spot. Happy 80th birthday Randy Newman, one of the absolute top drawer songwriters
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November 28, 2023 at 3:24 PM
It’s rare to combine pathos with cynicism, intense beauty with wry distance…but those few who do always hit my absolute musical sweet-spot. Happy 80th birthday Randy Newman, one of the absolute top drawer songwriters
cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/XgBH...
cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/XgBH...
The Lords Cameron of Chipping Norton, Foreign Sectaries (b. 1966)
November 23, 2023 at 6:50 PM
The Lords Cameron of Chipping Norton, Foreign Sectaries (b. 1966)