Grace-Evangeline Mason

Grace-Evangeline Mason (born October 1994) is a British composer of contemporary classical music. Early life and education Mason studied composition at the Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester, under Professor Emily Howard and Professor Gary Carpenter, where she held a scholarship and was awarded the Rosamond Prize (2016). She began her studies at the college as a member of their Junior Department, during which time she was a member of the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain. She won the 2013 BBC Young Composer Competition, formerly known as the BBC Proms Inspire Young Composer Competition, for her piece Convergence, and subsequently became an ambassador for the competition and its workshops in the following years. Following her studies at the RNCM, where she was made an associate in 2021, she studied at Somerville College, Oxford under Professor Robert Saxton and completed her doctorate at the Royal Academy of Music, London. Career In 2017, whilst still an undergraduate at the RNCM, she was co-commissioned by BBC Radio 4’s Front Row programme and The Proms to compose her work entitled River, which was written to celebrate the 300th anniversary of George Frideric Hande