Neil Tòmas Smith
Creator, Performer (individual), Project management/Production, Promoter
Biography
Neil Tòmas Smith is a composer of chamber, orchestral and choral works based in Edinburgh. He studied in York and Stuttgart, the latter leading to a keen interest in German contemporary music and a forthcoming book on composer Mathias Spahlinger.
Neil won first prize in the Acht Brücken Composition Competition with Gravitation, which was played by Schlagquartett Köln and broadcast on WDR 3. His orchestral work, Habitus, was also broadcast in a performance by the WDR Symphony Orchestra.
In 2018/19 Neil took part in the RSNO Composers’ Hub and the LPO Young Composers’ Programme, resulting in the space-inspired diptych Aphelion / Perihelion. He was also selected to take part in the Making Music’s ‘Adopt a Composer’ scheme, during which he worked with Thame Chamber Choir in South Oxfordshire on a new piece, The Hoard.
Current projects include a collaboration with Esther Kate Swift on a work for speaking harpist, a new piece for Rebecca Hardwick using quotations from the BBC adaptation of Pride and Prejudice, and Stop Motion Music for 3 flutes and vibraphone.
News and New Projects Strange Machines CD Launch
Residence/Main Office Edinburgh
Year of birth 1987
Contact email
Works
Title | Year composed | Instrumentation Genre |
---|---|---|
Perihelion | 2018 | Ensemble (with conductor) |
The Music Lesson | 2020 | Solo instrument |
Strange Machines | 2014 | Solo instrument |
so much altered | 2017 | Vocal |
Scaffold for Simon | 2016 | Solo instrument |
Events
Date | Title | Venue |
28 Mar 2024, 4:05 p.m. | First Among Equals: New Chamber Music with Soloists | University of Edinburgh Reid Concert Hall, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK |
Upcoming events
- 08 May 2024, 14:00
[Composers' Helpline] - 09 May 2024, 18:00
[opensound: composing for text and working with a librettist with Laura Bowler and Sam Redway] - 09 May 2024, 19:30
[Cryptic Nights: I've Always Lived Beside Screens // The Invisible Hand] - 09 May 2024, 19:30
[Cryptic Nights: I've Always Lived Beside Screens // The Invisible Hand] - 09 May 2024, 19:30
[Associate Artist: Colin Currie with RCS Percussion]
Recent updates
Works
- Expanse, by Erin Thomson
- New works by Royal Conservatoire of Scotland students, by None The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland
- new work - world premiere, by Aileen Sweeney
Events
- UN:TITLED 2024
- opensound: writing for harpsichord with Tiffany Vong
- opensound: writing for brass instruments with Gavin Higgins
Projects
- Unusual Music Exchange w/ Ailie Ormston
- Elsewhere, Elsewhen - CD and Digital Album from Nordic Viola
- On a Wing and a Prayer
Opportunities
- phoning it in
- Legato: Call for Early-Career Composers
- Echoes - Connections Crafting Eco-systems through Soundscapes Interactions: a participatory Sound-walk experience and Art conversation