Param Vir was born in Delhi, India. His early work in composition aroused the interest of Peter Maxwell Davies who invited him to Dartington Summer School in 1983. With further encouragement from Maxwell Davies and a fellowship from the Inlaks Foundation, Param Vir moved to London in 1984 to study composition with Oliver Knussen. Within three years of his arrival in London he had won the Benjamin Britten Composition Prize (Aldeburgh), the Kucyna International Composition Prize (Boston), the Tippett Composition Award (Dartington) and the Performing Right Society Composition Prize (London). His works have been performed by the Asko Ensemble, London Sinfonietta, London Sinfonietta Voices, BBC Philharmonic Orchestra and Lontano, amongst others. Param Vir has also studied composition with Jonathan Harvey and Randolph Coleman.
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