Philip Dutton is a British-Czech composer whose music is increasingly heard internationally.  For the next two seasons, Philip has been selected as a Britten Pears Young Artist, a London Philharmonic Orchestra Young Artist and a Royal Philharmonic Society Composer.  His music expresses his love for storytelling and curiosity, in music that is often colourful, vivid and direct.  Philip frequently draws upon his rich Czech-British-Jewish cultural heritage for inspiration.

 

Recent and forthcoming performers of Philip's music include such groups as the BBC Singers, the ORA Singers, the Britten Pears Contemporary Ensemble, the Engegård Quartet, EXAUDI, clarinettist Scott Lygate, pianist Tyler Hay, conductors Brett Dean and Jonathan Berman, and the London Philharmonic Orchestra in venues across the UK and Europe including the Aldeburgh International Festival, Barbican Centre, Cadogan Hall, Lofoten International Chamber Music Festival, Milton Court, Wigmore Hall and Queen Elizabeth Hall.

 

Philip studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama with Matthew King, the Purcell School of Music with Simon Speare and at Wells Cathedral School with Joseph Phibbs and Richard Causton.  His other mentors have included Julian Anderson, Brett Dean, Magnus Lindberg, Colin Matthews and Mark-Anthony Turnage.  Philip has attended such prestigious international composition courses as Creative Dialogue (France) and the Britten-Pears Course in Contemporary Composition and Performance (UK).  He is also active internationally as a teacher of composition.