London-based composer Jasper Eaglesfield studied composition at the Royal College Of Music in London under tutelage of Kenneth Hesketh, Jonathan Cole, and Mark-Anthony Turnage as a Big Give Scholar, graduating in 2024. In his time there, he won the RCM Large Ensemble Composition Competition twice; once in 2022 and again in 2023. Prior to this he studied composition for four years with David John Roche, receiving additional guidance from composers including Tom Coult, Edmund Finnis, and David Horne. From 2015 to 2019 Jasper was a member of the Britten Sinfonia Academy and in 2020 he was a composer in the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain. In 2019, Jasper won the SoundWorld Young Composer’s Prize and in 2023 he was winner of the audience prize for the Clements Prize for composers.

 

Jasper’s works have been performed and recorded by ensembles including the Bristol Ensemble, The Brodsky Quartet, Explore Ensemble, Britten Sinfonia and Fidelio Trio, in venues such as St George’s Bristol, the Barbican Centre, the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge University, St Mary Le Strand and Conway Hall. In 2023, Jasper collaborated with the English National Ballet School on his new one-act ballet ‘Three Houses,’ and in 2024 his double percussion concerto ‘Many Hands In High Places’ was premiered by Sirocco percussion duo, alongside the RCM Philharmonic Orchestra. His chamber opera 'The Anthem' with a libretto by Harry Davies was described by Opera Today as 'something of a masterpiece of theatre and opera.'

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Jasper is a Britten Pears Young Artist for the 2024-25 season.