Laurence Crane

Laurence Crane was born in Oxford in 1961 and studied composition with Peter Nelson and Nigel Osborne at Nottingham University. His music is mainly written for the concert hall, although his output includes pieces that were initially composed for film, radio, theatre, dance and installation.

He has worked with many ensembles in the UK and abroad, including Apartment House (UK), Plus-Minus Ensemble (UK/Belgium), Ixion (UK), Noszferatu (UK), Lontano (UK), London Sinfonietta (UK), Ives Ensemble (Netherlands), Orkest de Volharding (Netherlands), Cikada Ensemble (Norway), asamisimasa (Norway), Ensemble Kore (Canada), Quatour Bozzini (Canada), Ensemble Offspring (Australia) and 175 East (New Zealand).

In April 2012 the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Ilan Volkov, performed West Sussex Folk Material, a piece for orchestra originally commissioned for the Netherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra in 2006.

In the last few years a number of CDs of his work have been released including Chamber Works 1992-2009, recorded by Apartment House for the label Another Timbre, and Drones, Scales and Objects by the Cikada Ensemble on the Norwegian label Lawo. Further releases are planned, by asamisimasa and the Ives Ensemble.