Larry Goves is also a composer and artist, with work performed and broadcast around the world. His music has been released on NMC, Dutton, Prima Facie, Slip, Nonclassical, Prah, LSO Live and on the London Sinfonietta’s Label. He is a Paul Hamlyn Award for Composers recipient, has been shortlisted for a Royal Philharmonic Society award and is a former recipient of a Jerwood-Aldeburgh Opera Writing Fellowship.
He was the co-curator of Manchester’s New Music North West, curated experimental concert series Decontamination at the Royal Northern College of Music (RNCM), and is the director of ensemble The House of Bedlam. He was the composition tutor for the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain for ten years, the former composer in residence for Royal Holloway, University of London, and is currently delivering specialist composition course for Britten-Pears Arts and the Dartington Summer Festival. He is the Head of Practice Research and the Deputy Head of Composition at the Royal Northern College of Music.