Oliver is a Glasgow-based composer and educator and is currently Head of Composition at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. He has written a wide variety of works for many professional, amateur, youth and theatre organisations, which have been broadcast and performed around the world, and is interested in developing new environments for new music, collaborating with other artists and organisations to find ways to communicate to new audiences. He has previously won the Mendelssohn Scholarship, been nominated for a Royal Philharmonic Society Award and in 2017, won a British Composer Award.