Rowland Sutherland 

Rowland has composed and arranged music for groups, ensembles and for the BBC.  

Composition commissions include those written for the percussion quartet “Ensemble Bash” and the contemporary music group “The New Music Players”.

The New Music Players have released a special recording of commissions by British composers called Crying Bird, Echoing Star on the London Independent Records label, which includes Rowland’s composition Timeless Odyssey.

Rowland was commissioned by the worldly, contemporary classical ensemble “Lontano” for his work Espiritu Libre, which received its first performance at La Linea, the London Festival of Latin Music. The All About Samba night took place at the Purcell Room, South Bank Centre.

Rowland’s composition, One for Hermeto, dedicated to the Fidelio Trio, was premiered by this trio during a BMIC Cutting Edge series.

He was commissioned by the jazz trumpeter Chris Hodgkins to write for his trio's album Future Continuous. 

Creative Force, Mistura, In Kimbe, The jazz orchestra Jazz Warriors, raga + beats group Shiva Nova, Trinity College of Music Contemporary Jazz Ensemble, the BBC, world jazz saxophonists Ray Carless and David Jean Baptiste among many others have performed music composed/arranged by Rowland Sutherland.

As a flautist, Rowland Sutherland enjoys an international career in many different fields of music. He regularly performs in new music ensembles, jazz groups, symphony orchestras, various non-Western groups, pop outfits and as a soloist. Many of Rowland's solo contemporary flute performances have been broadcast on BBC Radio 3. 

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