Thomas Meadowcroft is a freelance composer. From 1994 to 1998 he studied composition in the USA with George Crumb. He has worked with various orchestras and ensembles including SWR Big Band and Symphony Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Solistenensemble Kaleidoskop and Mädchenchor der Sing-Akademie zu Berlin, Speak Percussion Melbourne, Asamisimasa (Oslo) and the New York ensemble, Yarn/Wire. In 2013, 2016 and 2021 he produced a series of radio pieces on aspects of Australian regional culture for Deutschlandfunk Kultur and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
In 2015 he developed the orchestration and arrangements for the opera, ‘Von einem der auszog, weil er sich die Miete nicht mehr leisten konnte’ by René Pollesch and Dirk von Lowtzow, which premiered at Volksbühne Berlin the same year. Similarly, in 2023, he arranged the music of Herbert Groenemeyer for the Basel Symphony Orchestra, for the Theater Basel production, ‘Pferd frisst Hut’, directed by Herbert Fritsch. His music is released on Mode Records, NYC.
directly: t dot meadowcroft at web dot de
Philippa Allan: pa at realarts dot eu