Current projects
2026
Upcoming projects include the premiere of a new work for horn trio The mountains are no more fixed than the stars for hornist Ben Goldscheider, pianist Richard Uttley and Callum Smart on violin at Archipel Festival in Geneva. My newest piece for orchestra, I put lines down and wipe them away, which was premiered at the Donaueschinger Musiktage in October 2025, will receive its UK premiere at the Tectonics Festival in Glasgow, with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Ilan Volkov.
To finish the 2025-6 season, a new piece for Ensemble Proton Bern will be premiered in Bern in June, followed by a performance in Zürich.
Photo © Rui Camilo & EvS Musikstiftung
Biography
Naomi Pinnock’s music has been performed internationally by groups such as the SWR Symphony Orchestra, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, WDR Symphony Orchestra, Ensemble Adapter, Quatuor Bozzini, Arditti Quartet, Collegium Novum Zürich, KNM Berlin, EXAUDI, London Sinfonietta, Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart and Schola Heidelberg. Her works have featured at festivals including Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Tectonics Glasgow, Klangspuren Schwaz, ACHT BRÜCKEN, Ultraschall Berlin, Wittener Tage für neue Kammermusik, ECLAT Festival Stuttgart, Rainy Days Festival Luxembourg, Festival Musica Strasbourg, Warsaw Autumn and the Donaueschinger Musiktage.
She studied composition in London with Harrison Birtwistle and Brian Elias and in Karlsruhe with Wolfgang Rihm.
In 2015-16 she received a scholarship from the Berlin Senate Department of Culture for a six-month residency at the Cité internationale des Arts in Paris and in 2017 a PRS Foundation Composers’ Fund Award.
In 2020 her first portrait CD – Lines and Spaces – was released on WERGO. Her work - I am, I am - written for soprano Juliet Fraser and the Sonar Quartett, received the 2020 Royal Philharmonic Society Award for Chamber-Scale Composition.
She is the recipient of the 2022 Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung Composer Prize.
She currently lives in Biel/Bienne in Switzerland.