short bio
I am Martin.
I write music.
I also play the violin and sometimes the bagpipes.
There's an interview with me here.
This week, I have been mostly listening to:
longer bio
“Happy, wired, jumpily pulsing…approachable in idiom but unpredictable in movement” Alex Ross: The Rest is Noise.com
"Music to hear again." - The Classical Source
Martin Suckling (b. 1981) was born in Glasgow and spent his youth playing in ceilidh bands around Scotland, as well as violin in the National Youth Orchestra. He studied music at Clare College Cambridge and King's College London, graduating top of his year at both institutions, before holding the Paul Mellon Fellowship at Yale University; he subsequently undertook doctoral research at the Royal Academy of Music. His teachers include George Benjamin, Robin Holloway, Paul Patterson, Martin Bresnick, Ezra Laderman, and Simon Bainbridge. Martin has benefited from residencies at the Royal Shakespeare Company, Aldeburgh, Aspen, and IRCAM, and has won numerous awards including the 2008 Royal Philharmonic Society Composition Prize.
Martin has been commissioned by the London Symphony Orchestra, Deutsches Symphonie Orchester Berlin, Grimethorpe Colliery Band, Hebrides Ensemble, Britten Sinfonia, Royal Shakespeare Company, Scottish Horn Sound, and Le Huray Trio. His music has featured in festivals including Ultraschall, Cheltenham, Deal, ISCM World Music Days 2007 (Hong Kong), and the Southbank Centre's Messiaen festival. Current projects include commissions for the London Sinfonietta and the Aronowitz Ensemble.
Martin is Lecturer in Music at Somerville College Oxford, and teaches musicianship and composition at the Junior Department of the Royal College of Music.
