Patrick Ellis

Since 2023, Patrick has been the creative director of PRXLUDES, an online contemporary music magazine, platform, and resource dedicated to the promotion of the work of emerging and early-career composers.

Working closely with the artistic director and editor Zygmund de Somogyi and with a team of contributors, they have published over 125 articles to date. Patrick's contributions have included interviews with composers, ensembles and organisations that include 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, Eden Lonsdale, Chloe Knibbs and Joy Ingle.

In 2025, they began hosting events, presenting Alex Groves' DANCE SUITE (performed by Zubin Kanga) as part of PRS Foundation New Music Biennial 2025. Recently, PRXLUDES have been awarded a multi-year partnership with The Hinrichsen Foundation in order to help platform emerging and early-career composers through a series of concerts, conversations, and commissions throughout the UK from 2025 to 2028.

Open Union is an experimental music duo made up of composer-performers Peter Bell (modular synthesiser) and Patrick Ellis (electric guitar) based in Birmingham and London.

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 works. Their current collaborators are Christine Cornwell, Wilson Leywantono, May Chi, Paolo Griffin and Seán Clancy.

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 co-hosted a portrait concert with saxophonist David Zucchi featuring music by Paolo Griffin at the Hundred Years Gallery; earlier in the year, 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.