Hall of Composers
Kenneth Hesketh (1968- )
Kenneth Hesketh was born in Liverpool, England in 1968. While participating in the choir at Liverpool Anglican Cathedral, he started composing his first orchestral work at age 13. He went on to study at the Royal College of Music in London and while there completed his first formal commission for the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra under Sir Charles Groves.
After receiving bachelor and postgraduate degrees, Hesketh worked in commercial music and completed several other commissions. He attended the Tanglewood Music Center in Lenox, Mass., in 1995 as the Leonard Bernstein Fellow and studied with the French composer Henri Dutilleux. In 1996 Hesketh began a master’s degree in composition at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, and was awarded the Shakespeare Prize. He returned to London in 1999 and became the Kit and Constant Lambert Fellow at the Royal College of Music.
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