"hugely enjoyable, 

        formidable 

         technical 

           agility 

     and subtlety,

        confidence 

        and energy 

         versatile 

    and virtuosic"

 

 Nicholas Williams 

       Independent

Simon Limbrick's involvement in music embraces performance, composing and leading workshops.
He contributed as a member of the cult systems orchestra The Lost Jockey and Man Jumping, recording for EG Editions and creating scores for leading dance companies, Second Stride and London Contemporary Dance. He is always in demand as a percussionist performing all over the world with the Nash Ensemble, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, Endymion Ensemble, Composers' Ensemble and Fibonacci Sequence. He was guest principal with the LSO in Japan.

In 1990 Simon completed his MA in Electroacoustic Composition at City University. He has collaborated on a number of large scale works, including a project at Fort Dunlop, Birmingham, with Rosemary Lee and site-specific work in Holland and Brussels. Simon and the Dutch composer/sound sculptor Harry de Wit for short films and television.

As a composer,Simon has produced several film scores premiered in Amsterdam and shown on MTV. He has also produced a number of scores and created pieces for Mary Wiegold's Songbook, Roger Heaton Group, Ensemble Bash, Network of Sparks, Endymion Ensemble, Richard Durrant, Brighton Youth Orchestra and Hooloo. He was Composer-in-residence at Blackheath Concert Halls in 95/96.

Compositions created for him include works by Javier Alvarez, Brian Elias (Kenneth MacMillans last ballet The Judas Tree), Vic Hoyland and Andrew Poppy. He has performed the world-premieres of solo pieces by James Dillon, Frederic Rzewski and Claude Vivier. He is currently commissioning a series of chamber works for percussion and chamber ensemble from composers Hans Werner Henze, John Woolrich, Philip Cashian, Harry de Wit and Howard Skempton. A solo CD , "Steam", of Simon performing his own compositions was released in Autumn 1998 and is often broadcast on the radio. A new CD, "Debris", will be released in early 2000.

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