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Oliver Searle

Creator, Educator
Biography

Oliver is a Glasgow-based composer and educator and is currently Interim Head of Composition at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. He has written a wide variety of works for many professional, amateur, youth and theatre organisations, which have been broadcast and performed around the world, and is interested in developing new environments for new music, collaborating with other artists and organisations to find ways to communicate to new audiences. He won a British Composer Award in 2018 for 'Microscopic Dances', a large-scale, inclusive work for digital orchestra created in collaboration with Drake Music Scotland and the National Youth Orchestra of Scotland, and has also been nominated for a Royal Philhamornic Society Award. 

My music is published by Composers Edition and Tetractys

www.oliveriredalesearle.co.uk


Residence/Main Office Glasgow
Year of birth 1977

Works

Title Year composed Instrumentation Genre
Sauchiehall 2016 Ensemble (with conductor)
From the Coast 2021 Solo instrument
See the full list of works by Oliver Searle

Events

Date Title Venue
14 Nov 2020, 9 p.m. The Illicit Still BBC, Online, Scotland, UK
28 Sep 2021, 7:30 p.m. New Music for Winds Craxton Studios, London, England, UK
8 Apr 2022, 6:30 p.m. Ùrachadh Scottish Arts Club, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
5 Sep 2025, 7 p.m. Urpremiär: Tredje Örat! Västerås Konserthus, Västerås, Sweden, SE
11 Oct 2025, 3:30 p.m. NESMS 50th Anniversary Concert Cowdray Hall, Aberdeen Art Gallery, Scotland, UK

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