Peter Seabourne

Peter Seabourne (b.1960) is a contemporary classical composer based in Lincolnshire, United Kingdom.

Seabourne studied at Clare College, Cambridge with Robin Holloway, and York University with David Blake.

In 1984 he was joint winner of the Overseas League Composition Competition, and was second in the Benjamin Britten Prize in 1986. In his student years works were performed in the Camden, York, Huddersfield, Cambridge and Devizes Festivals and three times in the Purcell Room on London's South Bank, by Lontano], Tapestry, Endymion and others.

Around 1989 he abandoned composition, feeling a growing separation with the new music world, and doubting his technique and voice. He remained silent for some 12 years and rejected all his work to date.

In 2001 he resumed composition, rapidly creating a large number of pieces. Since this time he has been awarded several times in international competitions. In 2004 his 1st Piano Concerto won 3rd Prize and joint-orchestra prize in the 1st Uuno Klami Competition in Finland. In the same year he took 3rd prize in the Ivan Spassov competition in Bulgaria with Soaring. In 2005 his song cycle Sappho Songs was highly commended in the IMRO International Competition in Ireland, and the following year his Soaring took 1st prize. Also in 2006 his septet My River was selected by North/South Consonance Ensemble from over two hundred scores and performed in New York City .

Seabourne's work has been commissioned by the Rio International 'Cello Festival (On the blue shore of silence 2007), Rheinische Philharmonie/Daniel Raiskin (Tu Sospiri? 2010), Paul Klee Zentrum/Kaspar Zehnder (Storyteller for solo double bass and ensemble 2011), Moravská Filharmonie/Ondrej Vrabec (Double Concerto for Horn and Orchestra 2011), Coull Quartet (Accept these few roses 2011), Vestfold Festival/Henning Kraggerud, Spalding Flower Festival (Mille Fiori for four trumpets 2011), Norfolk Concerts and Douglas Gowan (String Quintet 2012) and Deutsche Kammerakademie Neuss am Rhein (Give to Me a Song Once More for solo violin and strings 2016).

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