Charlie Piper (b. 1982) is a London based composer. He completed his master's degree with distinction at the Royal College of Music, studying with David Sawer and Michael Zev Gordon. He is currently doing doctoral research at the Royal Academy of Music under the supervision of Philip Cashian, with funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council. He has been performed at the Cheltenham, Huddersfield, Gaudeamus, Bang-­‐On-­‐A-­‐Can and Aix-­‐en-­‐ Provence Festivals, the Barbican Hall, the South Bank Centre, the Roundhouse, King's Place and Le Grand Théâtre de Provence. Performers have included the London Symphony Orchestra, Britten Sinfonia, the London Sinfonietta, Sentieri Selvaggi, The Esbjerg Ensemble, the Orkest 'de ereprijs', CHROMA, the English National Ballet and individuals such as Rolf Hind, Brindley Sherratt, Xian Zhang, Laurence Cummings, François-­‐Xavier Roth, Martyn Brabbins, Yan Pascal Tortelier and Pierre-­‐André Valade. Awards include the 2006 Royal Philharmonic Society Composition Prize and the 2007 prize at the 13th International Young Composers Meeting in Apeldoorn. Charlie was a 2008-­‐2010 New Music Associate at Kettle's Yard, Cambridge. Recent work has included premieres in New York and Milan; a short residency in Gotland, Sweden; performances of The Twittering Machine by L’orchestre des jeunes de la Méditerranée in collaboration with the London Symphony Orchestra at the Aix-­‐en-­‐Provence Festival, Marseille and Monaco; and the premieres of Insomniac, commissioned by the London Sinfonietta, and Borderland commissioned by Britten Sinfonia taken on tour around England. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.