Canadian composer Christopher Mayo was the recipient of the 2005 Royal Philharmonic Society Composition prize, resulting in a commission to write passed the last river for Michael Collins and the Dante String Quartet, premiered at the 2006 Cheltenham Festival and broadcast on BBC Radio 3. His work Nineteen Frames received a Serge Garant Award in the 2005 SOCAN Awards for Young Composers and has been performed in the UK (Composers Ensemble) and USA (Music06 Festival). Christopher has also been awarded the Richard Sadlier Prize, the William Erving Fairclough Scholarship, and the Glenn Gould Composition Award. Christopher is a member of the Camberwell Composers' Collective. Born in Toronto in 1980, Christopher studied at the University of Toronto, earning an Honours Bachelor of Music degree. He relocated to London in 2003, where he obtained a Master of Music in Composition from the Royal College of Music where he studied with Julian Anderson. In 2006 Christopher began doctoral studies at the Royal Academy of Music.
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