Alexander Campkin |
Phil Poppy's The Island (libretto by the composer) is for three voices, chorus, brass band and electric guitar, telling interweaving stories of displacement on an idyllic island. Alexander Campkin's opera Possession! (libretto by the composer) weaves its tale from the letters of Robert and Elizabeth Browning, Helen Hanff and M&S. Whilst Michael Betteridge's Zoe Trope (libretto by Thomas Ellison) is set in dystopian future on a distant world.
Phil Poppy studied saxophone and improvisation at Goldsmiths College, and is co-founder of Tala Quintet. Alexander Campkin is a young British composer and conductor, Michael Betteridge is co-founder and co-director of Collectives and Curiosities, and musical director of New Space Productions.
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