Gareth Moorcraft (b.1990) is a British composer based in London and South Wales, UK.

Gareth’s music has been performed and broadcast internationally by leading ensembles including the Riot Ensemble, the Philharmonia, the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, and soloists and chamber ensembles including Tabea Debus, Tom Poster, Endymion, Chroma Ensemble, and the Solem Quartet.

Gareth’s music often engages with ‘creative transcription’, recycling and distorting historical materials and musical tropes and presenting them in unusual new contexts. His recent work also includes a growing series of compositions exploring the combination of synthesisers with acoustic instruments. This project has led to creative collaborations with pianist Joseph Havlat (2024) and violinist Marie Schreer (2025).

Gareth was awarded an Ivor Novello Award in the solo/duo category of The Ivors Composer Awards 2020. He is also the recipient of the prestigious RPS Composition Prize (2016), the Ty Cerdd Composition Prize (2012), and a BASCA British Composer Award (2012). Recordings of Gareth’s work have been released by NMC Recordings and Delphian Records. 

Gareth is a composition professor and lecturer at the Royal Academy of Music, London. In 2019, he established the RAM’s Young Composer Club, which provides workshop opportunities for young composers studying in London state schools. He is passionate about music education and runs regular workshops with music organisations and festivals around the UK.