Yang Liu

Yang Liu is a Chinese composer who came to England to study composition at the Birmingham Conservatoire in 2006, under the tuition of Joe Cutler, Richard Causton and Andrew Glover. From 2010, He studied his Master and DMus course of composition in Royal College of Music, under the supervision of Jonathan Cole, Michael Oliva, and Haris Kittos. During his study in UK, he received many commissions such as BCMG, National Gallery, Variable Geometry Ensemble, Lemberg Sinfonietta and Guiyang Symphony Orchestra etc. He has also won many composition prizes, especially his string orchestra work Invisible Valley won the 2nd price of ALFRED SCHNITTKE International Composers’ Competition 2017 (first price was not assigned), and the score was published by Aldebaran Editions. Between 2016 to 2018, he was hired as a teaching assistant in RCM.