Julian Grant
By Jo Phillips
Julian Grant is an English composer of opera, chamber music, songs for orchestra, piano, writer, educator, music journalist and broadcaster. He has been nominated by Grace Andreacchi to join .Cent’s Breaking Boundaries Directory.
Julian contributed to ‘Intimate Insight’ published in The Heartbeat Issue guest-edited by Jo Malone.
He names Bill Bankes-Jones, founder and director of Tête-à-Tête, the most original pocket-opera company, to be an innovator working within his field.
Image on left: Scene from HOT HOUSE, a cultural Olympiad commission, Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, July 2012. Music by Julian Grant, libretto by Stephen Plaice. Designs by Rhys Jarman (sets) and Lesley Ford (costumes), Choreography by Sarah Dowling. Photo © Harriet Lighte 2012.
