Patrick Hawes

www.patrickhawes.com Patrick Hawes is a leading English composer who has made his mark as a torchbearer of the English musical tradition. He is best known for writing the Highgrove Suite for HRH King Charles III, for being Composer in Residence at the U.K.’s largest classical music station, Classic FM, and for the Number One albums Angel and The Great War Symphony. Among others, he has written for The King’s Singers, Voces8, the Choir of New College Oxford, Julian Lloyd Webber, and orchestras including the Philharmonia and the Royal Philharmonic. His vast and varied catalogue encompasses everything from small-scale piano and chamber works to full-scale symphonies and epic choral works and has performed and some of the world's most prestigious stages including London’s Royal Albert Hall and New York’s Carnegie Hall. He has just completed a chamber opera and is currently working on an oratorio entitled The Son of Man. His eleventh album - The Nativity - is out now.