Alasdair Nicolson

Alasdair Nicolson is an award-winning composer, conductor and festival director, educationalist and occasional broadcaster. Regarded as one of Scotland’s finest musicians of his generation, he was brought up on the Isle of Skye and the Black Isle and studied at Edinburgh University. In the early 90s he came to widespread public attention winning the IBM Composers’ Prize for The Tree of Strings. He has since written music for many of the world’s leading performers, ensembles and orchestras and his music has been broadcast regularly. He also has a strong reputation as a programmer and educator and has written books on Composition and created a UK wide project Sound Inventors. Currently Festival Director for St Magnus International Festival and previously Bath International Festival, Northlands Festival, Platform Festival, he is also Artistic Director of his own ensemble The Assembly Project.