Robert Laidlow is a composer and researcher based in the UK. Robert's music has been commissioned and performed across the globe and broadcast on television and radio.
2024-25 projects include TECHNO-UTOPIA, a concerto for piano and intelligent instrument soloist and orchestra, Tui for International Contemporary Ensemble, Content for saxophonist David Zucchi and music for video game controllers. 2022-23 saw the premiere of Silicon for symphony orchestra and artificial intelligence, a 40-minute work written for the BBC Philharmonic, and Post-Singularity Songs for Stephanie Lamprea.
Robert holds a Career Development Fellowship in Composition at Jesus College, Oxford University. From 2018-2022 he was the PRiSM Researcher in Artificial Intelligence in association with the BBC Philharmonic - a relationship that resulted in several new works exploring intelligent technology.
Photograph by Jonathan Slater
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Silicon - BBC Philharmonic cond. Vimbayi Kaziboni
Post-Singularity Songs - Stephanie Lamprea (soprano), Alistair MacDonald (electronics)
Gravity - Echea Quartet