Alastair Putt was born in London in 1983. He studied at New College, Oxford and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, where his principal teachers were Malcolm Singer and Julian Anderson. In 2011, he was accepted on to the London Symphony Orchestra’s Panufnik Composers Scheme, and his subsequent commission for the orchestra, Spiral, was premiered in June 2014 in the Barbican Hall. In 2012, he was a Composition Fellow at Tanglewood Music Center, and returned the following year for the premiere of his commission for brass ensemble, Blaze. In 2013, he was commissioned by the London Contemporary Orchestra through the Britten-Pears Foundation, and named as one of English National Opera’s House Composers. Recent commissions have included works for EXAUDI, the Brinkburn Festival and the Choir of New College, Oxford.

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