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The first of Bainbridge's works to be published by UYMP are Psalm 23, for SATB soli, SATB chorus and marimba, and "Counterpoints" for jazz bass and ensemble."Counterpoints" was commissioned by the Britten Sinfonia and will receive its world premiere this November by iconic jazz bassist Eddie Gomez and the Britten Sinfonia, at the 2015 London Jazz Festival. A second performance of the work follows at Saffron Hall on 21st November.

Bainbridge's music has received much recognition from the BBC; Chant, an adaptation of Hildegard of Bingen for 12 amplified voices and orchestra, was premiered in York Minister by the BBC Singers and BBC Philharmonic Orchestra in 1999. In 2000, the BBC Symphony Orchestra commissioned Scherzi as part of their seventieth birthday celebrations. The piece has also been performed at the Last Night of the BBC Proms in 2005. In 2007, Diptych was first performed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra and, in 2012, The Garden of Earthly Delights was commissioned for performance at the BBC Proms.

Voiles (2002), for solo bassoon and 12 strings, was commissioned by Radio France for soloist Pascal Gallois, and performed by him in France and the UK. Orpheus, a short song setting the poetry of WH Auden, was premiered at the 2006 Aldeburgh Festival.

In 2007 Bainbridge completed Music Space Reflection, a work for 28 players inspired by and written to be performed inside buildings designed by architect Daniel Libeskind. Following its premiere at the Imperial War Museum in Manchester, the piece has been performed in Copenhagen, London and Toronto.

As well as enjoying extensive success for his compositions, Bainbridge was Head of Composition at the Royal Academy of Music from 1999 - 2007 and was awarded a Professorship from the University of London in 2001. Bainbridge remains a Senior Professor in Composition at the Royal Academy.
Bainbridge has also taught at the Julliard School in New York, the Boston Conservatory of Music, Yale University and the New England Conservatory of Music, as well as taking up a residency at Yonsei University in Seoul, South Korea, in 2009.

PRESS QUOTES

"He has one of the subtlest musical minds and ears of any living composer."
Ivan Hewitt, The Telegraph, on Music Space Reflection

"Music that fascinates by its quietly mutating colours and almost heroic restraint."
Robert Maycock, The Independent, on Diptych.