Tarik O’Regan, composer

Born: 1978 in London, UK

Education: undergraduate degree from Oxford University; postgraduate degrees from Cambridge University

Current posting: Director’s Visitor: Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton

Honors: his recording Threshold of Night (Harmonia Mundi) received two 2008 Grammy Award® nominations (including Best Classical Album); two-time British Composer Award winner; Fulbright Chester Schirmer Fellowship in Music Composition at Columbia University; Radcliffe Institute Fellowship at Harvard; Visiting Faculty at Yale; Fellowship in the Creative Arts at Trinity College, University of Cambridge.

His compositions have been performed by: BBC Symphony Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, London Sinfonietta, Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, BBC Singers.