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We welcome Philip Grange as a new house composer at UYMP!

Philip's compositions have been performed and broadcast throughout the world. In the UK this has resulted in performances at many major festivals including Aldeburgh, Huddersfield and Cheltenham. Even while a student his works were receiving performances in Germany and Italy which, by the mid-80s also included Holland and the USA. In the late 90s this extended to Taiwan and, later China. In 2002 he was a featured composer at the Bergen festival in Norway and in 2003 he was featured at a festival in Tainan and had significant performances of his first string quartet in Germany and Denmark. He was the featured composer at the 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016 Festival Composición UANL in Monterrey, Mexico and the 2014 Pan Music Festival in Seoul, South Korea. Phikip has also had international performances in Taipei, Taiwan in 2013, the 2015 Musiciens des Trenchées Festival and the Festival Europeen de Quatuor a Cordes in Tournai, Belgium, and at the A Voice Between Nations events in St Petersburg. Between 1989 and 2000, Philip taught in the Music Department at Exeter University and was then appointed Professor of Composition at Manchester University from where he retired in 2020. He is currently professor emeritus at the University of Manchester.

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Everybody at UYMP are extremely excited to be working with Philip!