Simon Bainbridge

This work displays a passion for intricate and sensuous textures that remained the hallmark of Bainbridge's style.

He was educated at Highgate School[citation needed] and the Royal College of Music.

After graduating from the Royal College of Music, he studied with Gunther Schuller at Tanglewood; his fondness for American culture was occasionally portrayed in works such as Concerto in Moto Perpetuo (1983), which contains echoes of American minimalism, and the be-bop inspired For Miles (1994).

In the 1990s, his work took on a new expressive dimension such as in Ad Ora Incerta (1994) which earned him the Grawemeyer Award in 1997.

Bainbridge died on 2 April 2021, aged 68, after four years of pain following unsuccessful back surgery.