Debbie Wiseman
One of the UK’s most successful female music ambassadors, Debbie Wiseman is in demand as a composer and conductor.
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Eva Sommestad Holten
Holten’s work as librettist is highly indebted to her deep insight in performance practice, spanning set design, costumes, dramaturgy and often light design for drama, musical and opera – more than 50 productions.
Melissa Parmenter
An accomplished composer and pianist, Melissa Parmenter has scored a number of films.
Jocelyn Pook
Jocelyn Pook is one of the UK’s most versatile composers, having written extensively for stage, screen, opera house and concert hall. She has established an international reputation as a highly original composer winning her numerous awards and nominations including a BAFTA, Golden Globe, Olivier and two British Composer Awards.
Josefine Opsahl
Josefine Opsahl is a remarkable composer and artist who connects music, art, performance and spaces in her works.
Lera Auerbach
One of the most widely performed composers of the new generation, Lera Auerbach continues the great tradition of pianist-composers of the 19th and 20th centuries. Auerbach’s compositions have been commissioned and performed by a wide array of artists, orchestras and ballet companies.
Ina Boyle
Ina Boyle (8 March 1889 – 10 March 1967) is recognised as Ireland’s most prolific and important female composer of the first half of the 20th century. Her body of work encompassed choral, chamber and orchestral works as well as an opera, ballets and vocal music.
Eydís Evensen
Although Eydís cites her home country of Iceland as still being a huge influence on her music, the real driving force behind her mournful, melancholic and incredibly beautiful arrangements is her own emotions, and having the full freedom to explore those feelings musically however she wants, while also attempting to break free from regular forms of music.
Cheryl Frances-Hoad
Composer Cheryl Frances-Hoad’s music has been described as “like a declaration of faith in the eternal verities of composition”, with “a voice overflowing not only with ideas, but also with the discipline and artistry necessary to harness them”.
Kristine Tjøgersen
Kristine Tjøgersen’s compositional practice is characterized by curiosity, imagination, humour and precision. Through her work she creates unexpected and absurd auditory situations through playing with tradition, often resulting in a particular strangeness.