Michael Cryne

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Award-winning

UK-based composer

Michael is a British composer based in Liverpool. He writes music for the Concert Hall, Game, Film and TV. Recent projects include ‘The Hanged’, his first feature film, and ‘Star Wars: Shrouded Destiny’ (co-composer with Peter Due). He is currently working on ‘Dewborne Dawn’ a metroidvania-style platformer.

He did Doctoral study in composition under the supervision of Mark Bowden and Helen Grime at Royal Holloway, University of London. His work includes acoustic and electro-acoustic compositions. He is a graduate of both London Symphony Orchestra Panufnik (2014/5) and London Philharmonic Orchestra Leverhulme (2015/16) young composer schemes, and was selected for the 2017/8 PRS Accelerate scheme, writing As Kingfishers Catch Fire for the Berkeley ensemble. He was the winner of the Royal Scottish National Orchestra’s 2017/18 Composers Hub scheme, and the orchestra gave the premier of Open the Eastern Windows in November 2018.