TOBY ANDERSON | Composer


About


Toby Anderson is a composer and cellist working across experimental instrumental and electronic music. His work explores queer poetics in sound, drawing on affect theory and transplanting subcultural musics into contemporary concert practice. 

Toby studied at Oxford University with Martyn Harry and the Royal Academy of Music with Helen Grime and Hans Abrahamsen, supported in his studies by the Countess of Munster Musical Trust and Vaughan Williams Foundation. Toby’s music has been performed by the Riot Ensemble, the London Sinfonietta, CHROMA Ensemble, the Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra, the Nash Ensemble, and Duo Intesa in venues such as the Tate Modern, Wigmore Hall, Sheldonian Theatre, and Duke's Hall. Recent residencies include Creative Dialogue in Helsinki, Britten Sinfonia Magnum Opus, and JAM on the Marsh Opera Writing Residency. 









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Upcoming


Paradiso 1: Angels on Mars PremiereFriday 11 September 2026, 10am
Milton Court, Guildhall School of Music and Drama
Free and unticketed 

Magnum Opus Skills LabWednesday 7 October 2026, PM
Location tbc
Free and unticketed

Britten Sinfonia Magnum Opus ShowcaseSaturday 14 November 2026, 1pm
King’s Place
[ticket link forthcoming]

Premiere with Violetta Suvini and Dominic StokesDate/time tbc




Selected Works


LoveMaxxing

Performed by Britten Sinfonia and conducted by Yshani Perinpanayagam




Fantasies and Fallacies (Excerpt)

Performed by Biz_ko and KOMUNA 
Film by Oliver Bradley-Baker
Recorded and Filmed with support from Cambridge University Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH)





Honey-Sweet 

Performed by Declan Hickey (guitar) and Lizzie Knatt (recorder)