Omar Zatriqi
Events
Performance
Hard Rain SoloistEnsemble
This International open call for works for the Hard Rain SoloistEnsemble was initiated as part of Sonorities Festival plans for April 2020. It was not possible to perform the works at that time due to the Covid pandemic. After another...
Biog
Omar Zatriqi (1987 – ) is a composer from Northern Ireland. He studied composition under Piers Hellawell and Simon Mawhinney at Queen’s University Belfast, achieving a BMus (with First Class Honours), MA, and PhD. His opera Science won a Director’s Choice Award as part of Boston Metro Opera’s 2013 International Composers’ Competition, his instrumental quintet Fata Morgana won the 2018 Peter Rosser Composition Award, and his string quartet Key Chain won West Cork Music’s 2018 Composition Competition. Most recently, Omar was awarded a commission by Hard Rain SoloistEnsemble (with funds from the PRS Foundation) to compose his string duo Blood Dances.
