Angela Elizabeth Slater

Angela Elizabeth Slater is a UK-based composer. In her AHRC-funded PhD at University of Nottingham, Angela developed an interest in musically mapping different aspects of the natural world into the fabric of her music. She frequently associates these concepts and phenomena from the natural world with ideas of movement, forging close links between her gestural language and techniques found in dance.

Recent significant achievements include being a Britten-Pears Young Artist through which Angela worked with Oliver Knussen, Colin Matthews and Michael Gandolfi, developing Soaring in Stasis which received its premiere at 2018 Aldeburgh Festival.

Her work Eye o da hurricane (for string quartet), was shortlisted in the British category ISCM world music days in 2017. She is also London Firebird Orchestra’s 2018 Young Composer of the Year resulting in the commission of Twilight Inversions. New England Philharmonic also recently named her as their 2018 call-for-scores winner resulting in the world premiere of Roil in Stillness in April 2019. 

Angela has recently become a 2018 Mendelssohn Scholar and will receive specialist mentorship from Michael Gandolfi, in Boston in Spring 2019.