Sam Rudd-Jones: Opposites Attract (BBC commission)

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Sam is from Stamford, Lincolnshire. He studies composition at Junior Guildhall and is a composer with the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain. In 2016, Sam was selected from hundreds of entrants as one of the winners in the Upper Junior Category of the annual BBC Proms Inspire Competition. As part of his prize, Sam was commissioned to write a piece inspired by Radio 3’s ‘Fifty Modern Classics’. This is a playlist of 50 key pieces of classical music composed between 1950 and 2000, selected by a range of artists, musicians and composers, and broadcast on BBC Radio 3’s Hear and Now programme. Sam selected Gerald Barry’s Piano Quartet No. 1 as a starting point for his commission. His piece, Opposites Attract, was performed by Aurora Orchestra, conducted by Nicholas Collon, at a Proms Extra event at the BBC’s Radio Theatre on 14 August 2017.