Julian Dawes – contemporary neo-romantic composer

Julian Dawes has worked extensively as a composer, accompanist and teacher.  He has written scores for many theatre productions in the United Kingdom including credits at the Royal Court, The Riverside Studios, The Arts Theatre, The West Berkshire Playhouse and The Bristol Old Vic.  His musical The Braddocks Time was a commission from the Everyman Theatre, Liverpool, and  The Sacrifice, a music drama based on a Japanese No play was initially premiered at the Royal Court Theatre, and in a revised version by The Acting Company at the New End Theatre.

In the concert hall he has written large and small scale choral music, a Mandolin Concerto, Chamber Music for a wide variety of combinations of instruments, as well as thirteen song-cycles including ‘Songs of Ashes’, a setting of fifteen poems by the Polish poet, Jerzy Ficowski, about the Holocaust.  This work has been broadcast in Israel.  His four oratorios and a recital at the Wigmore Hall were all first performed to high acclaim.