Will Frampton

Will Frampton is a composer whose work has been performed by ensembles such as the Orchestra of Opera North, Psappha Ensemble, Berkeley Ensemble and Allegri Quartet. Will’s music has featured at a number of festivals and has been broadcast on BBC Radio 3.

From 2014-2016 Will ran Wild Street Ensemble, a chamber ensemble based in London. In 2016 the ensemble premiered Will’s song cycle Enûma Eliš, a setting of ancient Babylonian creation myths in the original language. The cycle was recorded in 2017 by Rachel Duckett and the Marsyas Trio and was released in 2018. The recording was supported by a Bliss Trust Composer Bursary.

Will has regularly collaborated with multimedia artist Nastassja Simensky including on 2014’s The London. Written in commemoration of HMS The London, the work was premiered aboard a fishing boat, at the site of the wreck, by the Ligeti String Quartet and Rachel Duckett. The Ligeti Quartet have subsequently premiered Will’s second string quartet at the 2017 Cheltenham Festival.

In 2018 Will was commissioned to compose a work for solo violin for Psappha ensemble: Music Alone was premiered at the Whitworth Gallery in Manchester. Other recent commissions include Nordhaus Litany by No Dice Collective, which was subsequently performed at the New Music Manchester festival, Watermark by the Eskandari String Quartet, and O Music by Ad Solem; who performed the work as part of their 2019 tour of Hungary.

Will has previously studied at Goldsmith’s College and privately with Robert Saxton and David Matthews. In 2016 Will was awarded the AHRC North West Consortium Partnership full award for PhD research which is currently being undertaken with the supervision of Professor Camden Reeves at the University of Manchester where Will also tutors in composition.