Tarik O’Regan, composer

Born: 1978 in London

Education: undergraduate degree from Oxford University; postgraduate degrees from Cambridge University

Honors: his recording Threshold of Night (Harmonia Mundi) received two 2009 Grammy Award® nominations (including Best Classical Album); two-time British Composer Award winner; NEA Artistic Excellence grant; Fulbright Chester Schirmer Fellowship in Music Composition at Columbia University; Radcliffe Institute Fellowship at Harvard; Fellowship in the Creative Arts at Trinity College, University of Cambridge.

Appointments: positions at Trinity and Corpus Christi College in Cambridge, the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and Yale University

His compositions have been performed by: BBC Symphony Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, London Sinfonietta, Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, BBC Singers.

Recent and upcoming projects: Heart of Darkness, his opera based on Joseph Conrad’s novel, opens at the Royal Opera House Linbury Theatre in November 2011; 2010 marked the premiere of BBC Proms commission, Latent Manifest, by the Royal Philharmonic; broadcast of a self-penned documentary, Composing New York, which he presented for BBC Radio in 2010