Dr Christian Mason, Lecturer in Music Composition, has a series of high-profile premieres and featured events coming up across the UK and Europe, highlighting his ongoing international impact as a composer.

Christian Mason

In February, Dr Mason is Composer in Residence at the Royal Academy of Music, London, with a trio of free public events exploring his work and creative practice. These include a lunchtime concert, an in-conversation event, and an evening performance with the Academy Manson Ensemble (19–20 February).

Later this month, his large-scale theatrical work Part IV: in unknown elements… in endless transmutation… opens at Tonality Theatre, Munich, where it will run as an immersive installation from 20 February to 1 March 2026, following its opening on 19 February. The project culminates in a live workshop event on 1 March.

Looking ahead to summer, Dr Mason’s work will be featured by London Sinfonietta at the Queen Elizabeth Hall on 11 June, in In Time Entwined. The concert includes a participatory element, inviting audience members to perform alongside the ensemble in one of his pieces.

For more information about these events, please visit this website: Christian Mason - Composer - Events

Who is Christian Mason?

Christian Mason’s music is characterised by interweaving and subtle metamorphoses of sounds that often create dreamlike atmospheres. The current winner of the Grawemeyer Music Composition Award 2025 creates finely crafted textures that demand attentive listening, while the expressive content of his works is conveyed with strong directness. Born in London in 1984, he was already attracting attention with first orchestral works in his early 20s, and when he won the Composers’ prize of the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation in 2015, the press described his music as “delicate, initially nearly tender, self-aware, shimmering, yet never boastful. (…) Rarely has the music of a young composer managed to radiate such magic” (Fono Forum). Read more.