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Suckling was born in Glasgow and attended Bearsden Academy.
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Martin Suckling
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Suckling was born in Glasgow and attended Bearsden Academy. He read music at Clare College, Cambridge and went on to study composition with George Benjamin at. He was Paul Mellon Fellow at Yale University where he studied with Ezra Laderman and Martin Bresnick in the Yale School of Music.
On returning to the United Kingdom he undertook doctoral research at the Royal Academy of Music, supervised by Simon Bainbridge.
Career
He is also a violinist and teacher. While still a student, Suckling received commissions from the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin (Play, 2005) and the London Symphony Orchestra (The Moon, the Moon!, 2007). In 2011, the London Sinfonietta commission and premiere of Candlebird, a song cycle to texts by Don Paterson, led to critical acclaim.
Subsequent commissions have come from ensembles such as the London Contemporary Orchestra, British Broadcasting Corporation Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Scottish Ensemble and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, with whom Suckling was appointed Associate Composer in 2014.
Previously Stipendiary Lecturer in Music at Somerville College, Oxford, since 2012 Suckling has been a Lecturer in the Music Department at the University of York, where he teaches courses in Composition, Orchestration, and Spectral Music. Suckling"s music often explores aspects of microtonality, and he has acknowledged his debt in this regard to composers associated with spectral music
Other influences include Scottish folk music – Suckling was a fiddle player in several ceilidh bands in his teens – and literature, especially poetry. The Moon, the Moon!.
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British