Luke Bedford, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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British composer
Date of Birth: 25-Apr-1978
Place of Birth: Berkshire, England, United Kingdom
Profession: composer
Nationality: United Kingdom
Zodiac Sign: Taurus 
About Luke Bedford
- Luke Bedford (born 25 April 1978) is a British composer. He studied composition with Edwin Roxburgh and Simon Bainbridge at the Royal College of Music, and won the Mendelssohn Scholarship in 2000.
- This was followed by post-graduate study with Simon Bainbridge at the Royal Academy of Music.
- In 2007 Bedford signed to Universal Edition London. Awards include the 2000 Royal Philharmonic Society Composition Prize for composers under 29 and the 2004 BBC Radio 3 Listeners' Award at the British Composer Awards.
- In 2007, Bedford became the first compositional recipient of a Paul Hamlyn Artists' Award since David Sawer in 1993.
- 2007 also saw him receive a nomination for the Royal Philharmonic Society large-scale composition prize, for his song cycle On Voit Tout En Aventure.
- In 2008, Bedford received his second British Composer Award for his 2007 orchestral work Wreathe.
- In 2012, he was awarded the Ernst von Siemens Composers' Prize. Bedford was the Wigmore Hall's first ever Composer-in-Residence, from 2008-2011. In 2015 his work for large orchestra, Instability, was premiered at the Proms, and in October 2017 his Concerto for Saxophone Quartet & Orchestra had its premiere at the Berlin Philharmonie. Bedford has written two operas, Seven Angels with librettist Glyn Maxwell, and Through His Teeth with David Harrower.
- Both have received multiple performances both in the UK and Germany.
- In 2018 Bastille Musique released a studio recording of Through His Teeth, performed by Opera Factory Freiburg. Luke is married, lives in Shrewsbury, and plays cricket.
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