Philip Cashian

Philip Cashian

Philip Cashian DMus BMus (born 1963 in Manchester) is an English composer.

His teachers have included Professor Simon Bainbridge, Lukas Foss and Oliver Knussen. He has won various awards, including the Britten Prize and the PRS Prize. Recent commissions have included a "Chamber Concerto" (1995), "Night Journeys" for timpani and percussion (1998), "Black Venus" for solo guitar (1999), "Tableaux" for orchestra (2003) and "Apollo" for ensemble (2005). He has been head of the Composition department at the Royal Academy of Music since Summer 2007.

He studied at Cardiff University, the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and in 1997 received a DMus from Durham University.


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