David Horne

Professor David Horne holds a Personal Chair in Composition and is Head of the Graduate School at the Royal Northern College of Music. He has been commissioned and performed by major organisations internationally, including Carnegie Hall, London Sinfonietta, Nash Ensemble, Ensemble Moderne, the BBC Symphony, BBC Scottish Symphony, BBC Philharmonic, Hallé, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic and the Scottish Chamber Orchestras. Recent performances have included by the WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestra of the Opéra national de Lorraine and Ensemble 10:10.

Active as a pianist, and winner of the piano section, BBC Young Musician of the Year 1988, he has performed both his Piano Concerto and Flex with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and performed Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto no 3 at the BBC Proms. Career highlights include a full evening concert of his works given by the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Clark Rundell, and he has had portrait concerts as part of the BBC Proms and the Philharmonia Orchestra’s Music of Today series. His music is published by Boosey and Hawkes.

A respected teacher and mentor, David is in demand as an educator at all levels. He has mentored emerging composers on Making Music’s Adopt a Composer programme and frequently advises and mentors composers on Sound and Music projects. He has a keen interest in working with younger musicians and is a key tutor on the Sound and Music Summer School and leads education projects throughout the UK. He directs HARP, the RNCM’s Hub for Artistic Research into Performance and regularly presents on his research in the UK and abroad.