Musical Experience
Background
From the age of 8, I started learning the viola, and spent my childhood playing in youth orchestras and music groups. At 17, I wrote my first full orchestral piece, performed in concert by my local youth orchestra. I also wrote for short films with live instruments. Through studying an undergraduate degree in Music at the University of Surrey, graduating with a First Class Honours, I have cultivated my skills in areas such as harmony, texture and style to develop my own compositional voice.
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I have also written for the indie rock genre in my past project 'Runaway Hounds' (lead vocals and guitar).
EXAMPLES OF WORK
Demo of an orchestral composition produced with sample libraries. This piece utilises contemporary compositional techniques, centering around harmonic ambiguity and conflict between tonality and atonality
Written as part of an experimental project, exploring the relationship between strings and technology in electronic music, this piece was produced entirely using samples from my viola. The drums, pads, arpeggiators, bass and melodies are all made by manipulating and distorting sounds of playing and tapping the instrument.
Contemporary piece written for strings and synthesizer using the post-atonal technique of interval permutation. This involves constructing chords in a grid-like structure which you can view here
Keyboard explores the concept of meta music: music that goes beyond its typical function. The rules for the piece is both the score and the piece itself. The process of typing out these rules is the piece. The sound of the typing is also a part of the piece. Everything is interconnected.