Sam Fernando

Composer //
Senior Lecturer in Composition @RHULMusic //
Recent Sounds:

[Sam Fernando @Sam_Fernando_]

Out today! A total joy working with @oliviadeprato on this. Please give it a listen 🎧

Commissioned especially for the album, Balconies is for solo multi-tracked violin (or 5 violins).
@NewFocusLabel

[Olivia De Prato @oliviadeprato]

Panorama is out Today!!
Very excited for this release.

@NewFocusLabel

https://t.co/JmFRy7k9hJ

@missymazzoli , @Sam_Fernando_ , @miyamasaoka , @jenshyu , Angelica Negron !

[Sam Fernando @Sam_Fernando_]

Olivia De Prato performs the USA prem of Balconies at Time:Spans tonight in NYC!

[Sam Fernando @Sam_Fernando_]

🎧If you'd like to hear Sound Inhabitants, which I wrote for the LS Academy last year, it's up on YouTube:

[London Sinfonietta @Ldn_Sinfonietta]

🔊Sound up! You don't want to miss the mesmorising "rooms of sound" that Samantha Fernando created in her piece Sound Inhabitants!
Click here to listen to the full piece 👉https://t.co/EOnUO6PcyW

#LondonSinfonietta #SamanthaFernando

[Sam Fernando @Sam_Fernando_]

@josephmbates Amazing news, congratulations Joe!

[Sam Fernando @Sam_Fernando_]

Sometimes you read an article and it is just SPOT ON
'The rise of amateur orchestras, community choirs and dance groups arguably doesn’t need to be celebrated. It is the celebration.'

https://t.co/ICep1RpVZY

[Music at Royal Holloway @RHULMusic]

We are delighted to announce the 2023-24 @RoyalHolloway Young Composer Competition, for composers in years 10-13 to have your choral piece performed by our world-leading @RoyalHollChoir. #competition #schoolmusic #choral

✍️APPLY NOW: https://t.co/Awra4DpoRD

[Sam Fernando @Sam_Fernando_]

Nice opportunity for composers interested in opera...

[JAM @jamconcert_uk]

JAM is thrilled to announce our second Composers’ Residency, focusing on Writing for Opera. This #free course includes tutoring from acclaimed composers @dovecomposer, @SJThompsonMusic, @PaulMealor, John Frederick Hudson, conductor Nicholas Cleobury & writer Grahame Davies.

[eavesdropping.london @eavesdroppingLN]

Hear Ye! Hear Ye!
eavesdropping returns: 21-24 March 2024 at Cafe OTO. 4 evening double-bills, presenting fresh new work by 8 artists, + 2-day forum exploring experiments in failure. Save the dates! Booking opens 26 January. We look forward to tickling your ears.

[Nico Muhly @nicomuhly]

Also hey everybody. If you’re not an artist, this is for you. @Spotify sends artists these end of year wrap ups which is a criminally sort of animated thing that says things like the attached.

[Sam Fernando @Sam_Fernando_]

@minneymezzo Hans Abrahamsen Winternacht ❄️

[Naomi Klein @NaomiAKlein]

New piece from me, written with love for everyone in grief right now.

It has a simple message:

"Side with the child over the gun every single time, no matter whose gun and no matter whose child."

Moral consistency ≠ Moral equivalency. 💔

https://t.co/7D9B6S3P9j

[Sam Fernando @Sam_Fernando_]

Reading this over my breakfast has been a such a positive start to the day! Every musician will tell you the wide-ranging benefits of a musical education but here's the joyful evidence in a primary school in Bradford.

https://t.co/2LcgJiSWVL

[Sam Fernando @Sam_Fernando_]

@tasminlittle How exciting, Sri Lanka has SO much to offer! Landscape and climate vary a lot. You can have beach, desert, rainforest, ancient Buddhist historical sites and tea plantations all in one holiday. Sigiriya is worth the climb and very manageable. Minneriya for the elephants 😊

[Sam Fernando @Sam_Fernando_]

@zoelpalmer @southbankcentre @Ldn_Sinfonietta Yes will definitely share the recording with you when I have it. The one I used was 'air', I want to get the other tunings, I adore the sound of them!

[Sam Fernando @Sam_Fernando_]

When I recently moved house, my very dear friend Fay gifted me some Koshi bells. They feature at the end of Sound Inhabitants which will be premiered tomorrow evening at the Purcell Room @southbankcentre by the @Ldn_Sinfonietta Academy.

https://t.co/WT2UOHRjmJ

[Sam Fernando @Sam_Fernando_]

@james_joslin @Ldn_Sinfonietta I was sorry not to catch you at the end! This is a nice snap, thank you for capturing the moment!

[Sam Fernando @Sam_Fernando_]

@fhvln @southbankcentre @Ldn_Sinfonietta Thanks so much 😊 Migraine much better today. The pre-concert head massage from @simonmroth did wonders!

[Sam Fernando @Sam_Fernando_]

@CFiedler20 @PRSFoundation @teteateteopera Congratulations Robin, fantastic news! 🎉

[Sam Fernando @Sam_Fernando_]

@jorgefpramos Yes!

[Sam Fernando @Sam_Fernando_]

Composers! There’s a part-time permanent post for Lecturer in Composition at Royal Holloway opening up. Deadline for applications is 25th May. Please spread the word!
https://t.co/nKhNVbFdUs

Feel free to reach out if you want to know more about comp life at RHUL!

[Sam Fernando @Sam_Fernando_]

@tomhydecomposer The Modern House make every house they photograph look amazing but this is quite something...I love everything except the bright green carpet!