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SARAH RODGERS
has been composing professionally since 1982.
Her output is mainly concert music but she has also worked in the
theatre and occasionally for film.
She has been
commissioned by organisations such as the Eastern Orchestral Board, the Arts
Council of England and Regional Arts Boards; for performers such as the City
of London Sinfonia, the London Handel Orchestra, the Choir of St George’s
Chapel, Windsor, the Coull Quartet, Sounds Positive and Operest and for
festivals such as the Nottingham Now Festival and the Ruskin Centenary
Celebrations.
She was
featured composer for the 30th anniversary concert of the Eastern
Orchestral Board, composing a cross-cultural work for the City of
London Sinfonia, which she also conducted.
Her music has been
performed across the
UK, as well as in
Belgium
,
Holland,
Russia, the
USA
and
Australia
and New Zealand. She is recorded on the SOMM
label and published by OUP, Stainer&Bell, Recital Music and Impulse Edition.
Her work has also been broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and Classic fm.
Recent commissions include
premieres at
St John’s Smith Square
and The Warehouse,
London, a commission for the Jackson’s Lane series: Music Past and Present, a
new piece for Cantamus Girls’ Choir for
their 2006 tour in China, a work for Stars in the North. and a new
commission for the Islington Choral Society premiered in 2008 and performed
a second time in July as part of the Choir's 2009 summer season.
Sarah, who is a
direct descendant of Henry Purcell, has played an
active part in supporting composers over many years: as Chairman of the
Composers Guild of Great Britain, as a Trustee of the British Music
Information Centre, as a founding Director and now Chairman of BASCA
(British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors), as well as being a
Writer Director of the mcps for the past 14 years.
In 2003, she was
responsible for bringing into being the annual British Composer Awards, now
in their 8th consecutive year.
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