Liam Taylor-West
Liam is a Composer and Creator of Immersive Artworks.
Liam is a Composer and Creator of Audiovisual Artworks.
He was the recipient of the 2018 Ivors Composer Award in the Community or Educational Project category for The Umbrella, and has had his music performed by ensembles such as the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, BBC Concert Orchestra, National Open Youth Orchestra and Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra.
Liam’s two-volume composition Backdrops is used to underscore the BBC Radio 3 show Night Tracks, presented by Sara Mohr-Pietsch and Hannah Peel, and his orchestral piece A Slow Breath appears as part of the BBC Sounds podcast The Music and Meditation Podcast.
Liam holds a Doctoral Degree in Composition from the Royal College of Music in London, where he studied with William Mival, Mark-Anthony Turnage, Nico Muhly, Catherine Kontz and Gilbert Nouno, amongst others. He is an advocate of the use of creative technology in composition and performance, and is a Resident at Watershed’s Pervasive Media Studio, in Bristol.