Dr Aidan Teplitzky
Aidan Teplitzky is a composer, educator, and performer based in Birmingham. Aidan has worked with ensembles including the BBC SSO (Them and Us), the Glasgow Barons (A User's Guide to Getting Back Into Your Bit Once It’s Starting To Be Gentrified), the Orkest de Ereprijs (Baguette Baton), Riot Ensemble (Penn and/or Teller), and the Fidelio Trio (Budget Cuts to Faure’s “Piano Trio in D Minor”).
Alongside working with established ensembles, Aidan performs his own work (Seven Working-Class Time Pieces) and has a strong network of regular collaborators with musicians including Andrey Fjeldstad (Theme With Variations Forced by Expectations), Jack Mouradian (It’s Hard to Make an Oboe Sound Working-Class) and Alma Orr Ewing (Skilled Jobs Nobody Thinks About).
Aidan has recently completed a PhD exploring the creative potential of embodying working-classness in a portfolio of new interdisciplinary compositions at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire with Michael Wolters and Joe Cutler.
As an educator, Aidan supports the unique musical backgrounds of his students by focusing on their individual strengths to help them refine their unique musical voice, whether that is in composing music for film and television or for the concert hall.