After early advice from Benjamin Britten, Robert Saxton (b.1953) studied with Elisabeth Lutyens, Robin Holloway and Luciano Berio. He read Music at Cambridge and was then a postgraduate at Oxford. He won First Prize in 1975 at the Gaudeamus Composition Competition in Holland and was a Visiting Fellow at Princeton USA as recipient of the Fulbright/Schirmer Award (1985-86).
He was Head of Composition at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and then the Royal Academy of Music (London). He is Emeritus Professor at Oxford University, Hon Fellow of St Catharine’s College, Cambridge, Hon Research Fellow of the Royal Academy of Music and Composer-in-Association at The Purcell School.
Selected commissions include works for the BBC (Proms, TV and radio), the ECO, ESO and Kenneth Woods, LSO, LPO, London Sinfonietta, Nash Ensemble, Opera North, St Paul’s Sinfonia and Andrew Morley, Aldeburgh, Cheltenham, Leeds, Lichfield and Presteigne festivals and for the Arditti, Chilingirian and Kreutzer string quartets, Richard Rodney Bennett and Susan Bradshaw, Teresa Cahill, Fidelio Piano Trio, Leon Fleisher, Clare Hammond, Steven Isserlis, Mstislav Rostropovich, Clerks Group, Christ Church Cathedral Oxford, Peter Sheppard-Skaeverd, James Turnbull, John Wallace, Raphael Wallfisch and Roderick Williams.
Works are recorded on Sony Classical, EMI, Hyperion, NMC, Divine Art/Metier andpublished by Wise Music, Ricordi (Berlin), UYMP and Viola Viva (Switzerland).
Robert is married to the soprano, Teresa Cahill.
Management: Liz Webb Management
