3 tips for young composers

3 tips from Rebecca Saunders

March 2, 2026

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The composer Rebecca Saunders studied composition at the Universtiy of Edinburgh with N. Osborne, and then with W. Rihm in Germany. One of her primary compositional preoccupations is the study of the sculptural properties of structured sound. She gives her three tips for young composers.

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