The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra recently announced their next season celebrating 100 years of the CBSO including an unprecedented series of new commissions from Thea Musgrave, Thomas Adès, former Composer in Association Julian Anderson, Jörg Widmann, Grace-Evangeline Mason, Gary Carpenter and Unsuk Chin. Mason is really pleased to have been commissioned to write a work for the CBSO’s Centre Stage Concert Series to be premiered in May 2020.

Grace-Evangeline Mason recently wrote an article for the Royal Philharmonic Society revealing her composition process, painting and poetry. She invites you to peer into the globe of her sound-world. She paints. Writes words. Improvises at the piano. Over time, her music emerges from the sights and sounds she receives. Read her story here.

As part of the Southbank Centre’s SoundState Festival in January, the Eblana String Trio premiered Mason’s new work Into The Abyss, I Throw Roses, which was inspired by words from Friedrich Nietzsche’s Posthumous Fragments. The work was commissioned by the Park Lane Group and was described as a ‘beautiful and muscular piece’ in the recent four-star Guardian Review.

Grace is pleased to have been featured on this BBC Bitesize page for Key Stage 1&2 school children (aged 4-11), which was written and compiled by VividEchoUK based on a short interview conducted back in August. A fantastic resource to inspire the next generation exploring a diverse range of exciting careers through the study of both STEM and creative subjects.

Grace is pleased to have been selected for Psappha Ensemble’s ‘Composing For’ Scheme this year. She will work with North-West based harpist, Lauren Scott, to create a piece for solo harp to be filmed in May 2019.

In the year that the RPS Composition Prize for young composers turns 70, the Royal Philharmonic Society has commissioned new works for leading ensembles and festivals across the UK. Grace is honoured to have been awarded a commission to write a new chamber work to be premiered at the Cheltenham Music Festival in 2019.

Grace is very pleased to have been commissioned to write a new work for the London Symphony Orchestra's Community Choir, which consists of 120 mixed-ability singers who make up a diverse cross-section of the local community, to be premiered on Friday 16 November 2018 in a concert themed around remembrance.

In March 2018, the Manchester Renaissance Ensemble recorded their new EP 'Lux Et Tenebræ', which includes Mason's new piece, 'Tenebræ Factæ Sunt', and is now available on Spotify and to download.

Grace is pleased to have been shortlisted for the British Section of the International Society for Contemporary Music (ISCM) World Music Days Festival 2018 in partnership with Sound and Music, for her orchestral work 'KINTSUKUROI: (Golden Repair)'.

Grace is delighted to be announced as the winner of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra's Christopher Brooks Composition Prize.

As part of the New Music North West Festival this year, the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra will perform 'KINTSUKUROI: (Golden Repair)' alongside works by other contemporary composers on November 14th, conducted by Mark Heron.

'RIVER' for chamber orchestra recieved three performances in water-themed BBC Proms concerts  in Hull on saturday by the Royal Northern Sinfonia under Nicholas McGegan alongside Handel's 'Water Music' and others.

On monday evening my new work 'RIVER', which was co-commissioned by BBC Radio 4's 'Front Row' programme and the BBC Proms, received it's premiere performance by London Early Opera and conducted by Bridget Cunningham.

The Guardian: 'My first night of the Proms: meet the young stars making their festival debuts'

Commissioned by award-winning saxophonist, Gillian Blair, 'Amongst The Cinders' for soprano saxophone will be premiered at EurSax 2017 in Porto, Portugal with pianist, David Gibson on the 12th July.

London Festival of Contemporary Church Music (LFCCM) under the direction of Alastair Carey. It was a beautiful concert, which took place in St George's Church, Bloomsbury, and was divided into four parts to reflect the life of Christ.

It has been a rather busy few days! On friday my new piece for big band, '4AM In The Rain', was premiered at the Royal Northern College of Music (RNCM) by their Jazz Collective under the direction of Mike Hall.

Grace is thrilled to have been a selected composer on the LSO Panufnik scheme 2017/18. After the two-day induction, she is excited for the year ahead and to write for the London Symphony Orchestra.

Back in Manchester last week, my new, short piece, 'Blinding, Burning, Lovely,' for soprano voice, piano and string trio was premiered at the Royal Northern College of Music.

It has now been quite a while since my one act chamber opera 'The Yellow Wallpaper', which was commissioned by the Helios Collective, was performed at ENO Lilian Baylis House, London. It was an incredible experience.