Jeremy Thurlow

Jeremy Thurlow is a composer. Henri Dutilleux described his music as ‘seductive, innovative, full of freshness.’ He was awarded the George Butterworth Prize (UK). Inspired by the natural world and by the sharp, sensitive gaze of Woolf, Bonnefoy, Keats, Burnside, Miró, he has worked with the Fitzwilliam and Kreutzer Quartets, Schubert Ensemble, Sequitur (New York), Norrbottens Kammarorkester, BBC Philharmonic and BBC Singers. He is a Fellow of Robinson College, University of Cambridge.

Jeremy will be working on a full-length opera, scored for seven solo voices, chorus, an ensemble of Western and Middle-Eastern instruments and electronics. Based on Dina Nayeri's thought-provoking book The Ungrateful Refugee , with a libretto by Poppy Burton-Morgan, it explores the dreams, hopes, and memories of five real-life individuals thrown together as they struggle to build a new future.