Alex Paxton, born in Manchester in 1990, is a composer and improvising-trombonist. He studied jazz and composition in London at the Royal Academy of Music and the Royal College of Music. Awards include an Ivor Novello Composer Award, Ernst von Siemens Composer Prize, Paul Hindemith Prize, Claussen-Simon Composition Prize and the Royal Philharmonic Society Composition Prize. Alex has released three critically acclaimed albums: “Music for Bosch People” (Birmingham Record Company/NMC Recordings), “ilolli-pop” (non classical) and “Happy Music for Orchestra” (Delphian). Alex describes his music “like
minimal but loads
more notes like
video-games but with more song like
jazz but much more
gay like old music but more current like
yummy sweet but more
stick like
paint but more scratch like
tapestry but
filthily like
prayer but more
loud like
loud groove and more
rude like
fingers and
faces too but somehow more
smelly like
smelly things cooking with more
chew and change like
louder prayers that
groove with like
stinking-hot-pink in poo-brown but even more
desperate-like than that like
drums and
Dream Musics …”
Upcoming projects include new commissions for Klangforum Wien and Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart, WDR Sinfonieorchester, NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester, Wigmore Hall, Ensemble Modern (Now! Festival, Philharmonie Essen), as well as three new portrait albums with ensembles including the London Sinfonietta and Riot Ensemble.
alexpaxtonmusic.com
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