[1] Philip Cashian was born in Manchester in 1963 and studied at Cardiff University and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama with Oliver Knussen and Simon Bainbridge.
Recent commissions include Firewheel for Dark Inventions, Strix for the Britten Sinfonia Academy, the world's turning for the Esprit Orchestra (Toronto), Nocturnes and Dances for the Wye Valley Chamber Music Festival, The Language of Birds for Tabea Debus and Scenes from the Life of Viscount Medardo for Richard Watkins and the Red Note Ensemble.
His second piano concerto, The Book of Ingenious Devices, premiered by Huw Watkins and the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Oliver Knussen in the 2018 Aldeburgh Festival was described in The Times as '"mesmerising music".
In the 2019 Beijing Modern Music Festival the Guiyang Symphony Orchestra gave the premiere of his most recent orchestral work, Fanfaronades.
Recordings of his music are available on the NMC label including the two portrait discs The House of Night and Dark Inventions.