Sohrab Uduman (1962, Sri-Lanka) studied composition at the University of Birmingham with Vic Hoyland and Jonty Harrison. His music has received several awards, including an international prize at the Huddersfield Festival of Contemporary Music, The Bourges International Competition for Electroacoustic Music, the George Butterworth Award and the Oskar Back Foundation Prize for Young European Composers. Sohrab Uduman’s music has featured at many festivals, including the Oxford Festival of Contemporary Music, The Spitalfields Festival, the Cheltenham International Festival of Music, Darmstadt, Britten Festival Brugges and Agora Festival at the Centre Georges Pompidou Paris. Recent works include Tracing metamorphoses for string quartet and live computer transformation commissioned by (IRCAM) for the Arditti Quartet. Current projects include a series of compositions for instruments and real-time computer processing; these include Breath across autumnal ground for harpsichord and live electronics, performed at the Spitz, London and Ausruf for quarter-tone trumpet and live electronics, which received its first performance at St. Paul’s, Huddersfield in October 2007. He currently directs the Music Technology Programme at the University of Keele. 

Upon Convergence
Composed in 2006, this work for solo clarinet takes as it starting point the separation of three different musical ideas based around character (rhythmic and pulsed, flowing and melodic, static ‘dirty’ and irregular), register (high, low, angular) and their own evolution and profile. The form of the piece arises from the shaping and progress of these lines within their own acoustic spaces; the overall change from stasis and angularity to linear and regular material. The idea for the pieces is loosely based on the types of energy and gesture expressed in Stravinsky’s Trois Pièces pour clarinet; in Upon Convergence these types are combined and superposed in a single continuous form, rather than appearing within three discrete utterances.