Thomas Meadowcroft

Biography

Thomas Meadowcroft composes and arranges music for the concert hall, theater and radio. He has worked with various orchestras and ensembles including SWR Big Band and Symphony Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Solistenensemble Kaleidoskop, Mädchenchor der Sing-Akademie zu Berlin, Speak Percussion (Melbourne), Asamisimasa (Oslo) and the New York ensemble Yarn/Wire. From 1994 to 1998, he studied composition in the USA with George Crumb. 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 the Volksbühne Berlin in 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.

Contact

directly: t dot meadowcroft at web dot de

Philippa Allan: pa at realarts dot eu