Christopher Cook

Christopher Cook is an award winning composer based in the UK. He is the 2022 recipient of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic's annual Rushworth Prize and is currently working on a new piece for Ensemble 10:10. In January 2023, his orchestral piece 'Flow State' was performed by the BBC Philharmonic, conducted by internationally renowned conductor Elena Schwarz as part of the RNCM's 50th anniversary celebrations. He is also the 2022 Winner of the Brookwright international Brass Band composition competition for his piece 'Excursion' and in 2023, this was performed in the RNCM Brass Band festival as well as being published by Brookwright music. In 2020 he received a scholarship to the Royal Northern College of Music thanks to the Richard Newitt Fund, studying composition under Adam Gorb and Emily Howard. In 2021, he was a finalist in the John Armitage Memorial Prize, working alongside Paul Mealor and Onyx Brass and in 2022, he was awarded the Rosamond prize for his collaboration with the poet Katherine Collins and was a Gold Medal finalist. He has also written the soundtrack to several feature films including "Krays: Code of Silence" (2021) starring Stephen Moyer, dir. Ben Mole and "Wolves of War" (2022) dir. Giles Alderson starring Rupert Graves, Ed Westwick and Matt Willis.