Peter Seabourne (b.1960) is a Lincolnshire-based composer. He grew up in a large farmhouse in Wiltshire with his grandmother. Somehow this fostered a childhood passion for composing. He won a place in 1980 to Cambridge to read Music, studying with Robin Holloway. In 1983 he moved to York University, taking a doctorate in composition. During these student years he won two national prizes and was widely performed in the UK. However, he became increasingly dissatisfied with his work, and grew to hate much in the new music world. This led to him to abandon writing completely for some twelve years. In 2001 a chance set of circumstances caused a sudden reawakening; a new voice simply “arrived”, along with a flood of new pieces, including four symphonies, seven concerti, chamber and vocal pieces, and a widely acclaimed series of nine large-scale piano cycles called "Steps". Since 2004 he has won several international prizes and his work has been played, broadcast and commissioned across Europe, the Americas and China. It has drawn repeated plaudits from leading journals such as Gramophone and respected musicians alike. Seabourne's language stands apart from much in contemporary writing, for which he retains a large measure of distrust. It is overtly communicative, emotionally powerful, often lyrical and always rhythmically inventive, yet shuns thin "accessibility". He follows his own path...