Composition
Oliver Vibrans is an Ivor Novello award winning Composer, Producer and Sound Designer based in the UK. Oliver has composed music for the concert hall, theatre, film, art installations and radio.
CONCERT HALL
The Virtuous Circle for BBC Proms 2024, Trip the Light Fantastic for Paraorchestra at Bristol Beacon, and Southbank. Recent commissions include September Sonnets at The Grand Center CUNY New York, Valves, for 25 piece brass band for The Commission for New and Old Art, The Music and Meditation Podcast for BBC Concert orchestra, Monomyth for the Hallé, music for two episodes of Charles Hazlewood’s landmark documentary Reinventing the Orchestra for Sky Arts with Paraorchestra, Hatchet Job for Royal Northern College of Music, Treading Water for the BBC Philharmonic for BBC Radio 3, More Up, a piece for Chamber orchestra and electronics for The Hallé, BBC Philharmonic and The Able Orchestra, winner of an Ivor Novello award, nominated for a Royal Philharmonic Society award 2020, Suspended Dance for BBC Radio 3, part of the Composers Postcard Project, From the Crowd, a commemoration of Peterloo, part of the unveiling of the memorial by Jeremy Deller.
THEATRE
The Acts for CRIPtic Arts at the Barbican, Burnt at the Stake for Shakespeare’s Globe, Romeo and Juliet for Shakespeare North Playhouse, Duet for One, The Solid Life of Sugar Water for The Orange Tree, Richmond, A Leap in The Dark for The New Vic, The Secret Garden for Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds, Oliver Twist for Leeds Playhouse and Ramps on the Moon, The Process for Bunker Theatre London, Rutherford & Sons for Sheffield Theatres, The Merchant of Venice for Stafford Shakespeare Festival, The Pitmen Painters for The New Vic, The Tempest for Royal Exchange, This is Not For You, Hurricane Protest Songs for Graeae, Chateau Ghoul, Strangers On A Train Set, Mr Darcy Loses the Plot, for LipService Theatre, Out of the Dark for Rose Theatre Kingston, Edward II Cambridge Arts Theatre.
FILM/RADIO/DIGITAL
Here and Where? for Stopgap, Beneath Our Feet, a podcast series – collaboration with NYT, Bartholomew Abominations for Naked Productions & BBC Radio 4, Graeae’s Midwich Cuckoos, an adaptation of John Wyndham’s classic sci fi for BBC Radio 4, A Snail of Two Cities, a comic animated short film, Before the Flame Goes Out for Hydrocracker, The Stars Come Out At Night an art installation for Stellar Projects at Leeds Art gallery, many digital projects for Night Train Theatre, LipService and Extraordinary Bodies, The Vostock K Incident for BBC R&D.
TRAINING
Oliver has a Masters in Composition from Royal College of Music in London
REVIEWS
On Duet for One
“Quivering and soaring, this lost and lonely sound” (Music by Oliver Vibrans) The Guardian
“Oliver Vibrans' score is at turns both urgent and heart rendering. It anchors proceedings to music far more than Kempinski's words alone”. What’sOnStage
“Oliver Vibrans' incredibly beautiful composition feels like a vital addition and resonates deeply.” Broadway World
On More Up (Winner of an Ivor Novello award)
“One of the most emotionally moving performances I’ve heard in years” John Summers CE Halle Concerts Society
“The sound palette he created was radiant and really gorgeous to listen to” Lloyd Coleman Paraorchestra
On This Is Not For You - Graeae Theatre
“Original, sweeping composition by Oliver Vibrans”. The Guardian
On Pendle Hill - the Commission for New and Old Art
“From beyond the stage, the now-hidden ensemble mimics the fleeting sounds of distant winds, occasionally veering nearer to a muffled wail or scream. From our side of this divisional wall, while a single and melancholic brass instrument maintains the illusion of our industrial nostalgia, our frayed comfort blanket, the machines continue hammering under the anxious management of their workforce, themselves in aid of a latent horror, a horror our humble workers play a key part in exporting just beyond view.” Stat magazine
SOUND DESIGN
In addition to composing music, Oliver has created sound designs for many theatre productions including A Leap In the Dark at The New Vic, productions for CRIPtic Arts, Romeo and Juliet for Shakespeare North, Frankenstein for RADA, many touring productions for The Guildford Shakespeare Company, LipService, Night Train, plus sound design for independent films, art installations and radio productions.