Larry Goves

Larry Goves is a British composer and artist based in Manchester (UK). His music has been performed and broadcast around the world by groups and musicians including The London Sinfonietta, The Nash Ensemble, The BBC Philharmonic, The London Symphony Orchestra, The National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain, The Britten Sinfonia, Psappha, Ixion, The Hallé, EXAUDI, 175 East (New Zealand), L’Instant Donné (France), 175 East (Norway), the Divertimento Ensemble (Italy), Sarah Nicolls and Oliver Coates. His music has been released on NMC, Dutton, Prima Facie, Slip, Nonclassical, Prah, LSO Live and on The London Sinfonietta’s Label.

He has also worked on a variety of installation projects including: an installation for the Aldeburgh Festival Technology Residency (building new instruments and writing new music in collaboration with Sound Intermedia’s David Sheppard); music for video installation with artist Aura Satz (for the Tatton Park Biennial 2012); and music for Dr Beau Lotto’s wall for 88 speakers with corresponding visuals (for the Brain Unravelled, an installation at the Wellcome Institute in 2009 and subsequently at the Science Museum London). 

He directs ensemble The House of Bedlam, curates the Decontamination concert series at the Royal Northern College of Music and has co-curated their New Music North West Festival. He is a Paul Hamlyn Award for Composers recipient, has been shortlisted for an RPS Award and is a former recipient of a Jerwood-Aldeburgh Opera Writing Fellowship. He is a Senior Lecturer in Composition at the Royal Northern College of Music; a composition tutor for the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain; devises and delivers the Britten-Pears Young Artists Programme Composition, Alternative Performance and Performance Art course and; is the former composer in residence for Royal Holloway, University of London.