Jonathan Dove

With a style that draws on minimalism as well as established traditions, Jonathan Dove has been one of contemporary Britain's most prolific composers of opera and music in other dramatic forms, as well as orchestral and chamber music. Dove's association with the Glyndebourne Opera led to the commission from Glyndebourne for Flight, a comic opera set in an airport, in 1998. It has become one of the most often performed of all contemporary operas and was the first of more than 20 Dove operas. Dove has also written a substantial amount of choral music, concertos, and chamber music. In 2020, several of Dove's works were included on the album After Silence by the virtuoso small choir Voces8, and in 2023, baritone Simon Keenlyside released an entire album of Dove works titled In Exile.