Tom Coult

YouTube video by 12 Ensemble Coult - Prelude (after Monsieur de Sainte Colombe)

My ‘Prelude (after Monsieur de Sainte Colombe)’ for 5 lower strings, aced by 12 Ensemble:

youtu.be/kT9wQak1d5s?...

Monologues for the Curious – sketches and plans - Music Patron Recently the programme for the BBC Proms were announced, and I have a new piece, Monologues for the Curious, to

I wrote a thing for Music Patron, with some insights and sketches of my BBC Proms piece, 'Monologues for the Curious'.

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Pretty excited for this one – new piece for Allan Clayton & BBC Phil – 'Monologues for the Curious' at the BBC Proms this July.

May contain eroticism, grief, surreal dreams, an eccentric Tinder bio, and Allan playing a harmonica.

Tx

ORA Singers and Suzi Digby premiere Coult’s Souling | Faber Music Motet responding to Byrd explores threshold between the living and the dead

New piece for the ORA Singers premiering this month – 'Souling' – wandering spirits and pagan trick-or-treating. Manchester's Stoller Hall on 29th April! x

www.fabermusic.com/news/ora-sin...

Happy birthday Pierre! I'm talking at the Royal Academy of Music at the 4.45 and 6pm pre-concert talks, ahead of the evening concert where the Manson Ensemble will be tackling the *unbelievably* virtuosic 'Sur Incises' amongst other things.

www.ram.ac.uk/whats-on/bou...

Australian premiere of Coult’s Gymnopédies from Adelaide Symphony and David Sharp | Faber Music Beguiling orchestral miniatures at the Grainger Studio

'Gymnopédies' has its Australian premiere this weekend with Adelaide Symphony Orchestra

www.fabermusic.com/news/austral...

12 Ensemble are giving the UK premiere of my Prelude (after Monsieur de Sainte Colombe) on Tuesday – a chocolatey treat for five low strings. Alongside gorgeous stuff!

www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/whats-on/202...

album cover for 'Pieces that Disappear'

Two interviews/blogs about my recent album Pieces that Disappear:

1. With Presto Music: www.prestomusic.com/classical/ar...

2. With NMC Recordings: www.nmcrec.co.uk/discover/tom...

@prestomusic.bsky.social @nmcrecordings.bsky.social

Bach's Brandenburg Concertos – my favourite music in the world - Music Patron If anyone asked me what single piece of music I would take to a desert island, I would choose Bach’s

I've written something for Music Patron, in two parts, about my favourite music in the world – Bach's Brandenburg Concertos.

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‘Pieces that Disappear’ Reviews My album Pieces that Disappear was released in November on NMC Recordings, and it has been featured in a number of reviews. It features four pieces, all performed by the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra …

A rare foray for me into tweeting reviews, but I've got an album to promote, so sue me…

I've collated some reviews of my @nmcrecordings.bsky.social album. All pieces performed by BBC Philharmonic Orchestra and friends.

www.tomcoult.com/pieces-that-...

‘He jolted us out of our comfort zone’: Antonio Pappano, Martyn Brabbins and more on Pierre Boulez Ahead of his centenary celebrations, composers, conductors and performers explain why the French iconoclast’s music is simply spellbinding

Difficult to overstate the impact Boulez's beautiful beautiful beautiful music had on me when I first found it. Can't be at the LSO gig tonight but will be a proper fanboy at the Barbican Immersion day – Anna Dennis performing Pli Selon Pli 😍😍😍

www.theguardian.com/music/2025/j...

Dunedin Consort: Lamentations | Britten Pears Arts Welcome to Britten Pears Arts, the pioneering charity making music useful. Home to Snape Maltings, The Red House and the Aldeburgh Festival.

Aldeburgh Festival announced today: I'm writing a new one for Allan Clayton & @dunedinconsort.bsky.social…premiered June at gorgeous Blythburgh Church.

It's my fridge-poetry take on the Book of Lamentations, maybe with a bit of Sussex folklore mixed in…

Tx

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Honoured. When I was a kid I lost my tamagotchi on holiday in France, and was so distraught that my parents had to put up 'missing' posters around the campsite.

I'd rather write a piece called 'Subito Subbuteo'

Record Review - Poulenc's Stabat Mater, in Building a Library with Jeremy Sams & Andrew McGregor - BBC Sounds Jeremy Sams selects his favourite version of Poulenc's Stabat Mater.

My new disc of orchestral music featured on Record Review on Saturday – a little taster from 54:19.

Begins with the phrase "Do you remember the British composer Tom Coult?", as if I'm Subbuteo or Tamagotchis or something:

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

I've made a new version of my 'O Ecclesia' for
Aidan O'Rourke & Sean Shibe – premiere is at Kings Place on Friday, also performances in York and Perth. Will be lovely gigs x www.kingsplace.co.uk/whats-on/fol...

Coult portrait album Pieces That Disappear released by NMC | Faber Music Tenure as BBC Philharmonic Composer-in-Association captured on disc featuring Anna Dennis and Daniel Pioro

A Faber writeup on my new album with a few details of the pieces, in case you are looking for a Christmas gift for a loved one, a friend, or an enemy (to heal the wounds) www.fabermusic.com/news/coult-p...

Happy #NewReleaseFriday! From stone cold repertoire classics, to new music and new discoveries, my playlist of the week's symphony and orchestral #NewReleases has something for you! It's updated every Friday, and these are just four of the delights in store this week ▶️ spoti.fi/400asdn

Is it the wrinkled old crackhead's *hair* that is waving a paintbrush around? Is the hair doing so in the unwearable couture? Is it the passenger lift that they start redecorating?

This is absurdly bad writing from Giles Coren. 

The first sentence: mercifully short. The remainder: 99 words in two enormous, un-parsable sentences dizzyingly full of subordinate clauses. Is the Pride rally *itself* dressed as Boney M? Is it the Ivan Drago flat-top that is wielding a sledgehammer?

This kind of thinking is always bullshit, except when it prompts imagination that wouldn’t happen otherwise - a potential prompt, not a divine intervention

OUT TODAY: Tom Coult - Pieces that Disappear @tomcoult.bsky.social
🎻 BBC Philharmonic, Anna Dennis, Daniel Pioro, Elena Swartz, Martyn Brabbins
Listen now: nmcrecs.lnk.to/PTD

OUT NOW: Pieces that Disappear, my new portrait disc, all beautifully performed by BBC Philharmonic Orchestra and various friends!

Available to stream in all the normal places, or get it on CD/FLAC/MP3 from
@nmcrecordings.bsky.social

Links – nmcrecs.lnk.to/PTD

Happy disappearing comrades…

Why yes, nascent and therefore quiet Bluesky! It is indeed Vivaldi’s ‘Spring’ from Four Seasons! Those seasons are masterpieces of form as well as obviously of melody.

clue: it's an enormously famous violin concerto, beloved of me and Classical FM alike…

Quiz question: Which composer, in their violin concerto, makes the bold and hugely original decision to first introduce the soloist as one of three equally active solo violins, so you can't really tell who is actually is the soloist?

Used Monica from Friends's erogenous zones advice in a composition lesson today, as a model for an unpredictable but still goal-directed form. Then made a graph on the train home. www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpQJ...

YouTube video by Tom Coult - Topic Three Pieces that Disappear: No. 2, Boisterous Then Placid

Greetings, comrades of the new place – may your blue skies never darken!

Here's an advance appetite-whetter from my upcoming NMC album, out 22 November: the second of my 'Three Pieces that Disappear', performed by BBC Philharmonic & Martyn Brabbins:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTo4...

(c) many are funny, and sometimes they can define a year somehow (‘do you remember that year where the Cameron/pig flag was everywhere?’ etc)

P.S loved your book

Attempt at human (warm-ish?) explanations:
(a) incredibly useful for finding friends (phones pretty unreliable, even w/battery)
(b) anywhere near front at a big gig, flags are too high to bother you…further out you have more room, so simply move a step to the left & it’s not really a problem either