Ilan is a British film composer who has established himself as an exciting young talent in the world of film music. Born in London into a musical family, Ilan grew up playing violin and later took up playing guitar in bands. He studied Music and English literature at Leeds University, during which time he also worked with film composer Ed Shearmur learning first-hand the technique of film composition. After graduating, he went on to work with other film composers such as Michael Kamen and Hans Zimmer. At this time Ilan began scoring his own projects, and his talent for creating cinematic music on a limited budget soon gained him recognition within the film industry.
New composer, new compositions, New York premiere
Martin Iddon, who joined the department in January, has seen a number of performances of his work this year – and several more still to come It has been a busy 2010 for composer Dr. Martin Iddon, who joined the Leeds School of Music at the start of the year after a spell at Lancaster University.
Iddon’s new piece, tu as navré, was premiered in Freiburg by Ensemble SurPlus on 28 February.
His string trio, Danaë, was premiered in New York by the group either/or on 27 March. The work has also been selected by Ensemble Recherche for their reading session at the Darmstadt New Music Courses in July 2010.
Machine Project has commissioned a new piece, almagestes, which will receive several performances as part of the Little William Theater Festival of New Music at UCLA between August and November 2010.
He is also working on a new piece, 'Aμαδρυάδες (Hamadryads), to be premiered by the vocal ensemble, ekmeles, at The Tank in New York in January 2011.
The one-minute miniature, closed vessel: Ausstrahlung, written with Antti Sakari Saario has been released on the CD, Soundtrack to a Catastrophic World (cantaudio032).
His critical edition of Mauricio Kagel's correspondence with the Darmstadt New Music Courses (edited with Björn Heile) was recently published by Wolke.
Date Published: 8 June 2010
Keywords: Martin Iddon
Keywords: Martin Iddon
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