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Egidija Medeksaite

Dr Egidija Medekšaitė (b. 1979) received a PhD in composition from the Durham University by Prof. Richard Rinjvos and Dr Sam Hayden in 2016. She studied composition at the universities of the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre (Prof. Rytis Mažulis), and Stuttgart Academy of Music, where her teachers included Marco Stroppa and Caspar J. Walter. In 2003 she took part in Read More

Darlene Zarabozo

Darlene Zarabozo is a Cuban-American composer, sound artist, musician and collaborator based in Glasgow, Scotland. She received her Bachelor’s of Music (Composition) with Honors of the First Class and Endorsement in Social Change through Music at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland under the tutelage of Linda Buckley. In addition, she’s also received support from Alistair

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Siobhan Dyson

Siobhan Dyson has obtained her BMus (Hons) degree in composition at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. She is now in her second year of her Masters degree at the same university, studying with composer, Dr. Oliver Searle. Born in Macclesfield, she developed a passion for composing when her grandfather gave her a keyboard where she Read More

Matthew Grouse

Matthew Grouse (b.1996) is a Glasgow-based composer who makes pieces involving acoustic instruments and voices, electronic music, video, text media and performance. His work is often concerned with human frailties and a search for the remarkable in the everyday. In 2018, Matthew was awarded the Dorico Award for Small/Medium Scale Work at the Scottish Awards for New Music Read More

Linda Buckley

Linda Buckley is an Irish composer/performer based in Glasgow who has written extensively for orchestra (RTE National Symphony Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra), and has a particular interest in merging her classical training with the worlds of post punk, folk and ambient electronica. Her work has been described as “fantastically brutal, reminiscent of the glitch music Read More

Emily Doolittle

Emily Doolittle Canadian-born, Scotland-based composer Emily Doolittle grew up in Halifax Nova Scotia and was educated at Dalhousie University, the Koninklijk Conservatorium in the Hague, Indiana University and Princeton University. From 2008-2015 she was  Assistant/Associate Professor of Composition and Theory at Cornish College of the Arts. She now lives in Glasgow, UK, where she is an Read More

Timothy Cooper

I am a composer and performer of electroacoustic music. My compositions reflect a love of performance born from my studies as a euphonium player and from playing with my parents radio set. This performance is reflected in the kinds of sounds I seek out and in the way that I use them both instrumentally and Read More

Samuel Beagles

2016 - Fractured Smile solo alto flute premièred by Carla Rees Soundcloud Read More

Nina Whiteman

Described as ‘beguiling’ (The Guardian), my 2016 composition for the BBC Philharmonic was performed at the Bridgewater Hall and commissioned and broadcast by BBC Radio 3. In 2017, a commission from The Night With… series was heard in Scottish pubs, recorded for radio broadcast, commissioned with funds from Creative Scotland, and featured in M Magazine. Read More