‘Causton is one of the finest of the new generation of British composers.’
Tim Ashley, The Guardian

‘...a beguilingly gifted young composer.’
Robin Holloway, The Spectator

‘...exceptionally high standards of invention and imagination place [Causton] alongside the most original figures of his generation.’
Julian Anderson

Richard Causton was born in London in 1971 and studied at the University of York, the Royal College of Music and the Scuola Civica in Milan. He has worked with world renowned performers such as the BBC Symphony Orchestra, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Sinfonieorchester Basel, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Saarbrücken, London Sinfonietta, and the Nash Ensemble.

He has been the recipient of several awards, including First Prize in the International 'Nuove Sincronie' competition, the Mendelssohn Scholarship and a 2004 British Composer Award in the Best Instrumental Work category for Seven States of Rain. He was founder of the Royal College of Music Gamelan Programme and held the Fellow Commonership in the Creative Arts at Trinity College, Cambridge.

2006 saw premières of new works for Caius College Choir, Cambridge (Jesu, sweete sone dear), the New London Children’s Choir (Three Riddles), the Aldeburgh Festival (Saraband/The Way the World Ends) and a chamber work, Phoenix, for the London Sinfonietta. Phoenix was the winner of the 2006 Royal Philharmonic Society Award for Chamber-Scale Composition and a recording is available on the London Sinfonietta label, SINF CD2-2007.

2007 saw Causton’s music performed at the London Festival of Contemporary Church Music, the CBSO Centre, and St. John’s, Smith Square. His latest commission by the Britten Sinfonia, Divertimento for septet, was given its UK première at the Wigmore Hall and upcoming concerts in 2008 include the première of new commissions for the Cambridge Gamelan Society, the BCMG, and the BMIC Cutting Edge tour.