Patrick Ellis

Since 2023, Patrick has been the creative director for PRXLUDES, an online magazine to celebrates and promotes emerging, underrepresented and early-career composers. Working closely with the artistic director and editor Zygmund de Somogyi, they have published over 125 articles and features. Patrick's contributions have included interviews with artists, ensembles and organisations including Ivan Vukosavljević, Avenue Azure, Sylvia Lim, Lise Morrison, Christian Drew, Kirkos, Laurence Osborn, Ailís Ní Ríain, the 2023-24 National Youth Choir Young Composers, Sawyer Editions, Esther Wu, Celia Swart, Mia Windsor, Patrick Giguère, Alex Groves, Bobbie-Jane Gardner, Robert Nettleship, Zubin Kanga, Joanna Ward, Anna-Louise Walton, Emily Pedersen, Bastard Assignments, Hugo Bell and Eden Lonsdale. In June and July 2025, they will be hosting Alex Groves' DANCE SUITE (performed by Zubin Kanga) as part of the PRS Foundation/Southbank Centre's New Music Biennial 2025.

Open Union is an electric guitar and modular synth duo made up of composer-performers Peter Bell and Patrick Ellis.

Described by the treasured composer Howard Skempton as being, 'sometimes subtle and unstable; sometimes rich and dense', the duo aims to build up strong collaborative relationships to create new verbal and text based works. Their current collaborators are Christine Cornwell, Wilson Leywantono, May Chi and Paolo Griffin, with a new piece by Seán Clancy currently in the works.

The duo have performed across the UK at events such as Ealing Extranormal, AMOK, Don't Mind Control, Birmingham Modular Organisation and CODA Festival. In 2025, they supported Passepartout Duo at Centrala Space, Birmingham as part of their UK Tour, and in 2023, undertook a mini tour of The Netherlands as part of the Sounding Here concert series, where they performed at Splendor in Amsterdam and Batavierhuis in Rotterdam.

Active between 2013 and 2021, Vallé was Patrick’s home-recording project that took influences from Ambient, Shoegaze and Dream Pop, as well as Experimental and Contemporary Western Classical Music.

Over the course of eight years, the complete digital discography included two albums, five eps and several singles. A live one-off live performance that featured new devised material took place on the 9^th of February 2020, as part of Birmingham’s Ideas of Noise Festival. The live line up featured Patrick Ellis and Peter Bell on electric guitars and Georgia Denham on vocals and modular synths.

A podcast series which asks questions to fifteen composers on different topics.

A Scratch Radio Series that was aired between January and June 2016, with a special episode in May 2017. Each week a different student composer at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire was interviewed. On the show their music, approach and influences on were discussed.