30 June 2016
Luke Styles named in inaugural class of PRS For Music Foundation Composers’ Fund
© Kira Doherty
AMC's Associate artist Luke Styles has been named in the inaugural class of the UK-based PRS For Music Foundation Composers' Fund. Styles, along with eight other composers, will be supported through this new fund as they develop their work. His grant will be used to cover research and development for a new 'Neo Baroque' opera.
The annual £150,000 fund offers composers direct access to funding. It fund was launched by the PRS for Music Foundation - UK's leading charitable funder of new music - in April 2016 with additional support from the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation.
AMC resources
Luke Styles - AMC profile
'Insight: Macbeth, or how I came to compose operas' - an article by Luke Styles on Resonate (17 July 2015)
Further links
Luke Styles - homepage (www.lukestyles.com)
Press release by IMG Artists (28 June)
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