Lauren Redhead

Graduate Student, Music

Thesis Title: Portfolio of Original Compositions with Written Commentaries

Supervisors: Prof. Derek Scott
Dr Mic Spencer;

About

Lauren is currently devoting much time to a work for the Nieuw Ensemble which will be premiered at Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival in November of this year. This piece is being written as part of the Young Composers’ Professional Development Programme, supported by the festival, and she has spent some time this year working in Amsterdam with the ensemble developing the piece.
In 2006 she was the winner of the Huddersfield Young Composers’ Competition, which resulted in the commission of the piece _then it became it’s own darkness_ for quartertone bass flute and electronics. This piece was premiered at HCMF in 2007 by rarescale.
Her music has also been played by Ian Pace (_Robin and Marian_ – solo piano) and Rhodri Davies (_my root is beautiful_ – solo harp).
Lauren has received recent premiers from Labyrinth (_as a name i am a myth_ – bass clarinet, violin, harpsichord, public address loudspeaker) and Edges Ensemble ( _in the back there was a pigeon (c)_ – open instrumentation) and numerous performances at Leeds University, these as part of the Leeds University Contemporary Music Festival, in collaboration with the student project LSTwo, and in August 2008 the premier of a 30 minute installation _Перестройка_ for percussion, electonics and projection, developed with percussionist Kate Whitaker.
She is currently seeking a performance opportunity for the opera _Fermata: stop temporarily, and remain, as if unwilling to leave_, and looking forward to writing a second opera in collaboration with writer and theatre director Adam Strickson, for performance in 2010.
When she is not working as a composer, Lauren is an organist, a performer with the quasi-spontaneous ensemble projectisle, and a keen supporter of new music. She is currently undertaking an AHRC funded practice-led PhD at the University of Leeds with Prof. Derek Scott and Dr Mic Spencer.

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