Luke Bedford is a young British composer who has quietly made a significant name among the composers of his generation with a series of awards winning scores that are now being performed internationally.

Luke was born in 1978 and studied composition at the Royal College of Music and the Royal Academy of Music with Edwin Roxburgh and Simon Bainbridge. In 2001, the London Sinfonietta premièred Five Abstracts - a chamber work for 14 players. A BBC commission followed - Rode with Darkness, a work for large orchestra, which was premièred by the Hallé Orchestra under Mark Elder in January 2004 and which won the Radio 3 Listener’s Award that year.  The German première was in January 2005 with the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester conducted by George Benjamin ...[read full biography]