Wood then undertook a collaboration with the writer, Paul Griffiths and the director, Sybille Wilson on the opera, Gulliver, based on Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift – a project which lasted three years, from 2011 until 2014. At the same time he completed several new works for percussion, including a 35-minute work for percussion ensemble, Cloud-Polyphonies, commissioned by a consortium of American Universities headed by Michael Rosen. Since 2008 Wood has directed the Tenso Young Composers Workshops, designed to help and encourage young composers from all over Europe in composing for chamber choir. Awards and honours 1980 : Lili Boulanger Memorial Prize 1993 : Gemini Fellowship 1995/6 : Arts Foundation Fellowship for electro-acoustic composition 1996 : Holst Foundation Award 1990 : appointed a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Music, London 2013 : ECHO Klassik Prize (Choir Recording of the Year) together with Vocalconsort Berlin for their Harmonia Mundi recording of Wood’s reconstruction of Gesualdo’s Sacrae Cantiones Liber Secundus. List of works Discography (works by James Wood) References External links Official James Wood website Interview with James Wood by Juan Carlos Pérez Davila about the opera Hildegard for Oro Molido magazine. Oro Molido no. 16, January 2006 Performance of Rogosanti by Victor Caccese on the Vic Firth website Interview with James Wood by John Palmer, published by CE Books, Vision Edition 2015 Tenso Network Artistic Council Microtonal musicians 1953 births 20th-century classical composers English classical composers 21st-century classical composers Living people Alumni of the Royal Academy of Music English male classical composers 20th-century English composers 21st-century English composers 20th-century British male musicians 21st-century British male musicians