Rupert Cross collaborated with Lydia Hill to create Mockingbird.
b. 1984 Essex. Studied at the University of Southampton with Michael Finnissy, winning both the Lytell prize and the Edward Wood award for his large chamber work Gently your touch awoke me once and song cycle Goblin Market. His piece In Orbit Around was work-shopped by the Gemini Quartet.
Received a scholarship from the Laurin and Arthur Glaze trust and AHRC for postgraduate study with Julian Anderson at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Achieved distinction for pieces written for the New Music Festival, The City of London Festival, and collaborations with London Contemporary Dance School and poets from the Birkbeck College. His song cycle for soprano and piano was described by the composer Brian Elias as "classy and well written".
His work has been performed at the Festival Internazionale della Musica in Milan by Jarvis Cocker, Badly Drawn Boy, Marianne Faithfull and the London Sinfonietta. In addition, has written for the Silk Street Theatre, the National Theatre Studio, the BAC, the Oval House Theatre, the Albany Theatre and the New Wimbledon Theatre. Writes for the dance company Freefall Theatre, with performances at the Robin Howard Dance Theatre and the Resolution! festival. In 2010 was a resident artist at the BAC, creating the installation Happy Hardcore Techno Music Is my Secret Shame.
Rupert is currently working as an assistant to Patrick Doyle, whilst writing his orchestral piece White Light.
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