Roger May

Composer • Orchestrator • Conductor

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Roger's music will feature in two of Lesley Garrett's gala concerts this summer. Flight to the Iolite is to be performed by the National Symphony Orchestra at Arundel Castle on 24th August and by the Orchestra of Opera North in Bridlington on 31st August.

The 12-part series Francesco's Mediterranean Voyage began airing on BBC2 on 8th July. The soundtrack composed by Chris Nicolaides features some of Roger's orchestrations.

Roger has begun work in his capacity as Composer-in-Residence with the National Saxophone Choir of Great Britain, beginning with one movement of a major new composition for the choir, 7 Wonders, currently scheduled for performance in April 2009.

Introduction & Riffs is available to purchase from Saxtet Publications.

The DreamWorks Animations film Bee Movie, which includes some of Roger's orchestrations, has now been released on DVD in the UK.

Elegiac Impressions for Wind Orchestra is now available from Reynard Music.

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Recent comments
‘It's punchy, well-constructed and brilliantly conceived… to be offered a work of this quality is a rare privilege’ (NSC's Musical Director, Nigel Wood, on Introduction & Riffs.) ‘fabulous piece… deserves to be heard and played widely’ (The UK's top soloist, Stephen Mead on the Concerto for Euphonium.)
 
 
Music, I feel, must be emotional first and intellectual second.
Maurice Ravel