About

‌Emily Howard’s work is regularly commissioned, performed and broadcast internationally by world-leading festivals and ensembles including the BBC Proms, Wien Modern, the London Symphony Orchestra and Bamberger Symphoniker. Her music has received awards including the Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award for Composers (2008) and a British Composer Award (2012). A graduate in Mathematics and Computer Science from Oxford University, her compositions, such as Magnetite and Calculus of the Nervous System, are frequently rooted in scientific and mathematical concepts. Further information is available at www.emilyhoward.com.

The Leverhulme Trust was established by the Will of William Hesketh Lever, the founder of Lever Brothers. Since 1925 the Trust has provided grants and scholarships for research and education; today it is one of the largest all-subject providers of research funding in the UK, distributing over £60 million a year. For more information, visit www.leverhulme.ac.uk