Angela E. Slater

Dr. Angela Elizabeth Slater is a UK-based composer, whose compositional voice focuses on musically mapping aspects of the natural world into the fabric of music. Nominated for an Ivors Classical Award for her work, Through the Fading Hour, her music has been described as ‘intricate...and often ravishingly scored’ and making ‘deft and vivid use of instrumental colour’.. Slater collaborates with performers, ensembles, and initiatives worldwide to musically explore sounds, colours, and textures.

Her work The Louder the Birds Sing received its Dutch premiere by Residentie Orkest den Haag after being selected as the winner Gaudeamus’s orchestral category. Slater’s recent creative projects include fellowships at the Modern-Music Festival,; Hong Kong Intimacy of Creativity Festival, working with the Viano Quartet on Distorted Light; Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, for a commission of Where skies aflame; and Creative Dialogues Festival, for the world premiere of a tulip, iron. She has previously held Composition Fellowships at Aspen Music Festival, Tanglewood Music Center, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Society to name a few and also been in Mendelssohn Scholarship Award.

In 2024 she had several exciting performances and commissions including performances of Kármán line for symphony orchestra, Orbits edge for chamber ensemble, and This is Jane opera scene for 2 sopranos and piano as part of her compositional fellowship at Aspen Music Festival.

In 2025 her work Mountains become Oceans a concerto for harp and percussion received its world premiered by Amarillo Symphony Orchestra with conductor George Jackson, harpist Rosanna Moore and percussionist Hannah Weaver on 28th February and 1st March 2025.Later in the year she is looking forward to performances if Ways of Looking at a Blackbird at New Music on the Bayou and premiere performances of new orchestral work Zauberwald for the Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and DETECT CLASSICAL MUSIC in Germany.In the latter half of 2025 and into 2026 Slater is looking forward to beginning work on her first full-length opera This is Jane in partnership with librettist Kendra Preston Leonard.