About Me
About Me
Biography
Born in 1973, Dominic studied violin and singing from a very early age and attended Westminster Cathedral Choir School and subsequently the Oratory School in Reading. He read music at Oxford University and was taught by Susan Wollenberg, John Warwack and Bojan Bouic. After graduating in 1994 he gradually established himself as a composer and copyist/orchestrator working on programmes such as BBC1’s Walking with Beasts series with the composer Ben Bartlett, as well as albums for Sarah Brightman, music for the film A Christmas Carol and a number of TV and radio commercials.
He composes music for the theatre as well as the concert hall and his work is performed regularly throughout the country and in Europe. Past projects have included a Piano Trio (Guildford Festival), a theatre score for a new play - Dark Woods Beyond for Bedlam Theatre Company written by Christopher William Hill, and a number of other concert hall works including Esoteria for clarinet and string trio (review in Tempo here). Dominic’s song works are performed regularly throughout the country in competitions, conservatoire classes and recitals. Dominic has worked with three other composers by English National Ballet to a write a short piece in a project called Synergy and he worked with the choreographer and principal dancer Yat-Sen Chang.
Dominic’s current interests lie in film reconstruction screen music and pedagogy. In 2007 he was commissioned by the Brighton Festival to aurally transcribe, arrange and orchestrate Walton’s missing score for a full live performance of a new digitally re-mastered version of Henry V (dir. Lawrence Olivier). The first performance was given by the RPO and was conducted by Carl Davis in May of that year. The event was favourably previewed in the Independent and the BBC’s Digital Planet programme and was also reviewed in The Telegraph.
Dominic has also had a varied teaching career which encompasses composition, musicianship and A level music. He formally worked at Trinity Laban Junior Department and was Head of Music at Godalming College in Surrey from 2008-2012. He has run workshops and seminars at Pro Corda Summer School in Suffolk as well as for South West Music. He has also lectured at Trinity Laban. and was also an examiner for the Edexcel A level specialising in harmony and counterpoint. Dominic completed his Masters degree (in composition) as a scholar with Joe Horovitz in 2006 at the Royal College of Music. His musical works are published by Broadbent & Dunn Ltd and Spartan Press., and he continues to write articles as a reviewer for Classic FM, Classroom Music and Music Teacher magazines.
Other work includes a co-written dance piece for the Philip Lawrence Awards, Gershwin arrangements for ENB’s Summertime Project at the Royal Albert Hall, some works for Godalming College, a salsa dance project and a piece for the clarinetist Sarah Williamson for the 2008 Brighton Festival. His most recent classical piece has been a new work for piccolo trumpet which was premiered at the ITG conference in Sydney 2010 called Sketches.
Current work also includes developing a music theatre piece as well as a song writing collaboration with Cherrelle Jefferson. Also, Dominic has just completed a short film documentary about a snowboarder called The Whiteline.
Philip Lawrence Awards 2007 dance piece co-write
Henry V editing
Henry V Editing
Henry V Editing;
ENB Dance Project: Synergy
Pro Corda Intermediates; The Philip Lawrence Awards 2007 / Lecture RCM music&ideas ‘Reconstructing Henry V’
New work Godalming College Performing Arts Centre Opening
Pro Corda Adult Composers Course / Godalming College: ‘Ghetto’
Brighton Festival new work for clarinet (Sarah Williamson)
RAH: ENB Dance Project ‘Summertime’
Pro Corda Summer Intermediate Course
International Trumpet Guild Conference Sydney - new work
New work for Godalming Town Centre in association with Class Action Theatre
Channel 4 Startup Commercial; Short film; Blossom Hill Radio Commercial
Piano Trio Performance, Farnham Castle
Songs and Incidental Music for Pornography (Simon Stephens) Godalming College
Henry V Leipzig Gewandhaus, Germany
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February 2012
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