The Hadit Collective is run by Nicholas Olsen and Aidan Teplitzky. The idea for starting the group came about from looking at how much money they were having to spend at the bar to cope with the atrocious new music concerts they were going to. As a result, they decided to use that money to put on concerts with great rep, excellent performers, and in an environment that everyone can enjoy. It saves the bar tab too...
Nicholas Olsen
Nicholas is a Welsh composer. Nicholas has worked with a number of internationally renowned ensembles and conductors and has taken part in a number of exciting opportunities across the UK. These projects have included performances and collaborations with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra (Who Wakes You Up and Taking the 71), BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra (Coordinates), BBC National Orchestra of Wales (A Shade or Two Darker), Ensemble Modern (Numb), Glasgow New Music Expedition (Cloudmine), Royal Scottish National Orchestra Chorus and Junior Chorus (Taliesin and Singing Into Being), and Red Note Ensemble (Echoes of Empire).
Nicholas has also taken part in a number of composition schemes including the Adopt A Composer scheme (Three Carriages) in partnership with Making Music, Sound and Music, and BBC Radio 3, the Psappha Composing For scheme (Ridley’s Party) with Ben Hudson, and the RSNO Composers’ Hub Scheme.
Nicholas is currently a doctoral researcher at Royal Birmingham Conservatoire exploring referential composition under the supervision of Joe Cutler, Ed Bennett, and Christopher Dingle. In 2017, Nicholas graduated with a first-class honours degree from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland where he studied with Gordon McPherson and Stuart MacRae.
Nicholas is a Welsh composer. Nicholas has worked with a number of internationally renowned ensembles and conductors and has taken part in a number of exciting opportunities across the UK. These projects have included performances and collaborations with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra (Who Wakes You Up and Taking the 71), BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra (Coordinates), BBC National Orchestra of Wales (A Shade or Two Darker), Ensemble Modern (Numb), Glasgow New Music Expedition (Cloudmine), Royal Scottish National Orchestra Chorus and Junior Chorus (Taliesin and Singing Into Being), and Red Note Ensemble (Echoes of Empire).
Nicholas has also taken part in a number of composition schemes including the Adopt A Composer scheme (Three Carriages) in partnership with Making Music, Sound and Music, and BBC Radio 3, the Psappha Composing For scheme (Ridley’s Party) with Ben Hudson, and the RSNO Composers’ Hub Scheme.
Nicholas is currently a doctoral researcher at Royal Birmingham Conservatoire exploring referential composition under the supervision of Joe Cutler, Ed Bennett, and Christopher Dingle. In 2017, Nicholas graduated with a first-class honours degree from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland where he studied with Gordon McPherson and Stuart MacRae.
Aidan Teplitzky
Aidan was born in Australia and was raised in his parents' restaurant in Sydney before moving to Scotland at age 4. Aidan began learning music on his fluorescent green recorder at age 6 and then went on to learn the saxophone, piano and double bass, all of which he performed on as a student at the Junior Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. It was here where he came to realise he preferred writing music than playing it and began learning to compose with Audrey McPherson which he then pursued into studying at the RCS with Dr Gordon McPherson.
Aidan has worked with a wide range of new music organisations including the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra (Them and Us), the Alternative Orchestra (Martland), the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire and the Sydney Conservatoirum of Music (Pearlies or Ornamentations Taking Over a Theme), the Orkest de Ereprijs (Baguette Baton), the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, the Glasgow Barons Orchestra (A Users Guide to Getting Back Into Your Bit Once It's Starting to Be Gentrified and Almost Achilles, Always the Heel), plus minus Ensemble (A Working Class Composer Trying to Be Passionate Without Posh People Thinking He's Angry), Psappha Ensemble (It's The Burden of Knowing and Another Country), Riot Ensemble (Penn and/or Teller and What It Is), BCMG (Joan's Bastard), and The Edinburgh Quartet (The Other Black). Alongside writing for established ensembles, Aidan is a performer of his own works including Seven Working-Class Time Pieces, They Can't Hurt Me Now, and the Otamatone Concerto.
Aidan is currently finishing off an AHRC funded PhD at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire exploring the creative potential of working-classness in a folio of new interdisciplinary compositions.
Aidan is interested in drag, identity and pop culture.
Aidan was born in Australia and was raised in his parents' restaurant in Sydney before moving to Scotland at age 4. Aidan began learning music on his fluorescent green recorder at age 6 and then went on to learn the saxophone, piano and double bass, all of which he performed on as a student at the Junior Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. It was here where he came to realise he preferred writing music than playing it and began learning to compose with Audrey McPherson which he then pursued into studying at the RCS with Dr Gordon McPherson.
Aidan has worked with a wide range of new music organisations including the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra (Them and Us), the Alternative Orchestra (Martland), the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire and the Sydney Conservatoirum of Music (Pearlies or Ornamentations Taking Over a Theme), the Orkest de Ereprijs (Baguette Baton), the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, the Glasgow Barons Orchestra (A Users Guide to Getting Back Into Your Bit Once It's Starting to Be Gentrified and Almost Achilles, Always the Heel), plus minus Ensemble (A Working Class Composer Trying to Be Passionate Without Posh People Thinking He's Angry), Psappha Ensemble (It's The Burden of Knowing and Another Country), Riot Ensemble (Penn and/or Teller and What It Is), BCMG (Joan's Bastard), and The Edinburgh Quartet (The Other Black). Alongside writing for established ensembles, Aidan is a performer of his own works including Seven Working-Class Time Pieces, They Can't Hurt Me Now, and the Otamatone Concerto.
Aidan is currently finishing off an AHRC funded PhD at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire exploring the creative potential of working-classness in a folio of new interdisciplinary compositions.
Aidan is interested in drag, identity and pop culture.
