Current Supervisors
Julian Anderson
Composer in Residence and Professor of Composition, GSMD
Malcolm Singer
Composition Professorial Staff, GSMD
Raymond Yiu
External supervisor, GSMD
Former Supervisors
Adam Gorb
Head of Composition, Royal northern college of music
Email: adam.gorb@rncm.ac.uk
Gary Carpenter
Professor of Composition, Royal northern college of music
Email: gary.carpenter@rncm.ac.uk
Emily Howard
PROFESSOR OF COMPOSITION, ROYAL NORTHERN COLLEGE OF MUSIC
EMAIL: EMILY.HOWARD@RNCM.AC.UK
Steven Daverson
TUTOR IN COMPOSITION, ROYAL NORTHERN COLLEGE OF MUSIC
EMAIL: steven.daverson@rncm.ac.uk
Silvina Milstein
Professor of Music, king’s college london
Email: silvina.milstein@kcl.ac.uk
Hing-Yan CHAN
James Chen & Yuen-han chan professor in Music, hku
Email: tlychan@hku.hk
Masterclasses & Private Lessons
Sally Beamish; Oscar Bianchi; Philip Cashian; Chen Yi; Richard Danielpour; Anthony R. Green; Kenneth Hesketh; Klaus Lang; George Lewis; Sarah Nemtsov; Bozhidar Spasov; Jukka Tiensuu; Oliver Weber.
It started…
Po Hang Yuen (b. 1996) is a composer, guitarist and arranger. Born and raised in Guangzhou, Po Hang is a composer who draws inspiration from Eastern cultures, philosophies and writes music that portray Chinese and East Asian imageries.
Yuen earned his B.A. in Music from the University of Hong Kong, M.Mus in Composition (Distinction) from King’s College London, and he just graduated with his second M.Mus in Composition at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, UK. From September 2023, he will begin pursuing a doctorate at the Guildhall School of Music and Dance.
Yuen’s music has been performed and read in Austria, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Columbia, Finland, Russia, United Kingdom and United States by artists and musicians from Avanti Chamber Orchestra, BBC Philharmonic, Britten Sinfonia, Cénit Ensamble, Juilliard String Quartet, Lontano, Offspring, Phace, Psappha, Quatuor Diotima, Sofia Philharmonic, Trio Immersio, among others. Festivals and schemes that have featured his work include Britten Sinfonia: Opus 1, East Chamber Music, Impulse New Music Festival, Sofia Symphonic Summit, Time, Space and the Body Residency, Vienna Summer Music Festival and Zero Distance Exhibition.