Born in London in 1978, two-time British Composer Award winner Tarik O'Regan was educated at Oxford University, completing his postgraduate studies at Cambridge. His 2008 recording for the Harmonia Mundi label, Threshold of Night, debuted at #10 in the American Billboard® chart and received two GRAMMY® nominations (Best Classical Album and Best Choral Performance). Prior releases include Scattered Rhymes, also on Harmonia Mundi, and his 2006 debut disc, VOICES.
O’Regan divides his time between New York City and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he is Fellow Commoner in the Creative Arts, having previously held the Fulbright Chester Schirmer Fellowship in Music Composition at Columbia University and a Radcliffe Institute Fellowship at Harvard.
His compositions have been performed internationally by the BBC Symphony Orchestra, London Sinfonietta, Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir and Los Angeles Master Chorale. He is currently working on an operatic version of Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness in development with American Opera Projects in New York and OperaGenesis at the Royal Opera House, London.