PREMIERE

Richard Bullen Première at Royal Academy of Music 200 PIECES

Richard Bullen’s new organ piece Farewell is being premiered by Edward Carew at the Royal Academy of Music on Monday 29 November at 6.30pm. Farewell was commissioned by the Royal Academy of Music as part of the 200 PIECES project to celebrate its 200th anniversary in 2022.

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NEW COMMISSION

Richard has been commissioned to write an organ piece to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the Royal Academy of Music in London, UK. See here for more information. 

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The piece uses the hymn tune ‘Erbarm’ dich mein, O Herre Gott’ (1524) and was inspired by Bach’s various harmonisations of this phrygian melody. (BWV 305, BWV 721). It is a farewell to a friend

JUNE 2019: JUPITER @ GREAT EXHIBITION ROAD FESTIVAL

The Ligeti Quartet perform a selection of the Planets II including Richard's contribution Jupiter at the Expression Stage, Great Exhibition Road Festival in South Kensington on Sunday 30 June 2019.

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JUNE 2019: GUNDRY PRIZE JUDGING

Richard was honoured to be invited to adjudicate this year's Gundry Composition Prize at Mill Hill School in North London. The entries were of an impressively high standard and awarding a winner in each category was not an easy decision!

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MAY 2019: A.R.A.M

In 2019 Richard was made an Associate (A.R.A.M.) of the Royal Academy of Music, an honour given to former students who have distinguished themselves in the profession

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NOV 2018:

BRITISH COMPOSER AWARD NOMINATION

Richard has been nominated for a 2018 BASCA British Composer Award for Fiery Tales, commissioned and premiered by Ronald Corp and the New London Children's Choir. The winners will be announced at a ceremony at the British Museum on 4 December 2018, recorded by BBC Radio 3.

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JULY 2018:
NEW COMMISSION 

Richard has been commissioned by Live Music Sculpture to write a new piece about the planet Jupiter in the 100th anniversary of Holst's Planets Suite. The Ligeti Quartet will perform the work along with pieces by Samuel Bordoli, Mira Calix, Yazz Ahmed, Laurence Crane, Ayanna Witter-Johnson and Deborah Pritchard. Premiere at Royal Observatory Greenwich, 29 September then to Planetarium venues at Winchester, Bristol and Birmingham. More info and tickets here. Produced by SoundUK & supported by Arts Council England, National Lottery and RVW Trust.

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RICHARD JOINS COMPOSERS EDITION

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11 works are now available from Composer's Edition. Read full details of the launch here. 

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STERADIAN PREMIERE
IOWA, USA

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Steradian for 12 trombones and torch beams will receive its official world premiere at the 2018 International Trombone Festival, University of Iowa, Iowa City on 14 July 2018. Bullen will attend three days of workshops with the other selected composers and will lead rehearsals with festival attendees.

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NEW COMMISSION:

New London Children's Choir
Fiery Tales (2017)

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Bullen has been commissioned to write a new piece for the New London Children's Choir conducted by Ronald Corp. The premiere will take place at St James's Piccadilly, London on Saturday 17 March 2018. Richard has chosen to set the 17th-century anonymous poem 'I saw a Peacock with a fiery tail'.

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NEW COMMISSION:

'Writing for...French Horn'

PSAPPHA

Carne Levare (2017)

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Bullen has been selected to write a piece for Andrew Budden, french horn player with the Manchester based leading new music ensemble Psappha, for performance and recording in March 2018.