Ivor Bonnici completed a music degree at Oxford University (Worcester College) where he studied composition under Dr Robert Saxton. He won an orchestral competition which resulted in his piece Three Movements for Chamber Orchestra being performed by the Oxford Sinfonietta in 2007. He also conducted a performance of Mozart’s Requiem and trained the chorus for a performance of Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas.
Ivor was awarded an Arts and Humanities Research Council Award to study at the Royal Academy of Music where he is in his second year of the Masters programme in composition under Professor Simon Bainbridge. During the first year of the course he was commissioned by the chamber ensemble Azalea to write Flight of the Phoenix, in 2009 Ivor’s Musical Space & Synergy was performed by London Sinfonietta at the Purcell Room, and Eternity for soprano and cello was performed at the Royal Academy of Music.
In summer 2009 he was awarded a Ralph Vaughan Williams Award to attend an advanced composition course at Dartington International School of Music, led by the Japanese composer Somei Satoh.
