FRANCIS FAUX
FRANCIS FAUX
Composer - Choral Director
Francis is a versatile and passionate musician who works primarily as a composer for media, video games and the concert hall. He has over twenty years of experience as a choral director, vocal coach and pianist and his music has been performed both in the UK and internationally.
Francis is currently working on a number of commissions and is always looking for opportunities to collaborate and share his brand of musical storytelling with others.
Recently, his setting of a North Indian folk song, Nautanki Ke Mele, was awarded 2nd place at the
Tapiola Choir Choral Composition Competition and his
Vidi Aquam received an honorary mention in the annual
Japan International Choral Composition Competition.
He has just finished a new suite for solo clarinet called Tales of the Mabinogion, inspired by figures from
Welsh mythology.
Clarinettist Emma Davies plays the first two pieces from Tales of the Mabinogion.