CV
CURRENT PROJECTS
The Pickers, in development with EFDSS and Snape Maltings, Composer/Performer, February 2020 and ongoing. The Pickers brings together text, song, and image, inspired by the history of women carrying folk songs through Suffolk, and other coastal things. Developed by vocalist Kate Huggett and writer Rosa van Hensbergen, with photographic images by artist Yoi Kawakubo.
NYX, Performer. Upcoming: NYX + Christina Vantzou, 27th March, Kings Place, London.
Shards ~ founding member
Find Sound debut album released August 2019. Previous: Michael Price ‘Entanglement’ recording and premier, Kings Place (2018), Nils Frahm ‘All Melody’ recording (2017), ‘Possibly Colliding’ with Nils Frahm, Anna VonHauswolf, Wildbirds & Peacedrums at the Barbican Centre (2016). Other collaborations: Luke Howard, Masayoshi Fujita. Upcoming dates: SXSW Artist Showcase, Austin, Texas; Barbican, London.
5Hz and Euphonia, Emma Smith / Wysing Arts Centre ~ Performer, September 2019. Performance and recording of improvised sound installation centred around the invention of a new singing language with artist Emma Smith and sound artist Brigitte Hart.
Birthstrike (in development), Melanie Wilson and Jessica Latowicki / Royal Opera House Engender Initiative ~ Soloist/Performer Working with Melanie Wilson and Melanie Pappenheim on a new semi-improvised opera about the Birthstrike movement.
Radical Mother, Melanie Wilson/Fuel ~ Deviser/Performer
Working alongside Melanie Pappenheim and Adey Grummet on a new semi-improvised piece of opera/music theatre. 2018 showings: ‘PULSE Festival’ Ipswich, Coastal Currents, Hastings, ‘Tonight We Fly’ Leeds. 2019: Latitude Festival, Suffolk; Upcoming - TedX at the Old Vic, Bristol.
The Coveryard ~ Vocalist/Collaborator, Upcoming: Dreamers at St John’s Hoxton. Previous: March 2013 - date, including Spitalfields Music Festival Launch 2018, Royal Academy Late Nights, Karoleoke.
SOLO FOLK
Specialisms: English, Irish Sean-Nós Festivals: Cork Folk Festival 2016/7, The Festival at the Edge 2015, Cambridge Folk Festival 2012-17, Fire in the Mountain Festival 2016, The Nest Collective 2015 Masterclasses: Iarla O’lionard (2014), EthnoWorld Folk Music Camps - Germany (2013)
Selected 2017/18
A Time of Listening (Work in Progress), Hanbury & Groves ~ Soprano, August 2018
Residency and performance at Snape Maltings as part of the ‘Festival of New’.
Embolon Theatre & Goat Theatre ~ Performer/Deviser, November 2017 - date
Cast member and deviser for new theatre piece All In and radio play The Soup. Camden People’s Theatre Residency. The Warren, Brighton Festival Fringe, The Garage, Norwich.
Festival Voices ~ Soprano, 2017 - date
Dido & Aeneas, Latitude Festival & Wilderness Festival Summer 2017, Session I - Pärt, Martin and Purcell @the Ugly Duck, 2018.
Daughter: ‘All I Wanted’
Video Recording @Asylum Peckham
James: Living in Extraordinary Times
Album backing vocalist on ‘Hank’, ‘Many Faces’ and ‘Better Than That’
Selected 2015/16 and previous
Opera for the Unknown Woman, Fuel Productions/Melanie Wilson ~ Soloist (Aphra), April - June 2016
Principal cast member of new opera touring Cardiff Festival of the Voice (WMC), Warwick Arts Centre, Platform Theatre and Huddersfield. ‘moving and understated’ (The Times), ‘radiant combination of psalm-like ancient strains and other-wordly, smoothly jumping vocal lines’ (The Stage)
The Real Reasons We Drink, Travelling Tent ~ Character Soloist, September 2015
Verbatim theatre project with new compositions by William Gardner.
Anna +3, Will Gardner / Christopher Roth ~ Soloist. Kino International Berlin, 2015
Choral Scholar ~ Jesus College, Cambridge, 2008-2012
Including Britten War Requiem (2011), Nico Muhly Premier (2010), Tours to USA, Ukraine, Europe.
Rodolfus Choir ~ Soprano, 2008-2011
2008 -2011 including St Matthew Passion, Channel 4 Productions, Recording Choral Music of Herbert Howells.
TRAINING/EDUCATION/RESIDENCIES
‘Our Cool Cousin’ - Told by an Idiot, March 2019
2 day workshop exploring the dynamic between theatre and cinema.
Rhythm & Body Percussion Advanced Training with David Eskenazy
November 2018 – date
Palazzo Stabile recording residency with Shards Voices - April 2018
Clod Ensemble - Sound Design for Theatre & Performance makers with Gareth Fry
May 2018
John Briton / Duende Ensemble - Self-with-others + creative practice June 2017
Rambert Dance - Contemporary, September - June 2015
Aerial Silks Cork Circus House Lost in Translation Circus, Norwich