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Top row (left to right): Sarah Westwood (Composer), Michele Abondano (Composer), Carmen Ho (Composer), Chloe Knobs (Composer) and Hayley Jenkins (Composer) Bottom row: Rachel Fryer (Pianist) and Ivana Peranic (Cellist)
Sarah Westwood (Illuminate composer in residence)
Sarah Westwood composes music for dance, music-theatre, installation, and concerts. Her music is concerned with: memory and the failure of memory; embodiment and transcendence; somatics and matters of the heart. Working in both acoustic and electronic music, with traditional notation, open scores, and improvisation.
Her work has been received in eleven European countries, across four continents, commissioned, and awarded; broadcast on Resonance FM, BBC Radio 3; published by BabelScores and Tetractys Publishing. Notable attainments include being awarded the Bliss Trust Scholarship for artistic development to UCSD (US); Creative Retreat at The Red House Aldeburgh (UK); composer for ISCM World Music Days (NZ) 2020; winner of the 21st Left Coast Chamber Ensemble Competition (US); composer for Phoenix Dance Theatre’s Choreographers and Composers Lab (UK); and musician in Ircam Academy In Vivio Danse (FR). With performances of her work by The Interstring Project (DE), Après l’Histoire (US), Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble (RU), Hong Kong New Music Ensemble (HK), and Ensemble L'imaginaire (FR), Karin Hellqvist (SE), Dan Thorpe (AU), and Jelena Makarova (UK) amongst others; in venues and festivals including Bitesize Proms (UK), Echofluxx (CZ), Queen Elizabeth Hall (UK), CROSSROADS Festival (AT), Le Petite Cabinet (FR), St John's Smith Square (UK), Constellations Chicago (US), OUA Festival (JP), Electric Lodge LA (US), Cheltenham Music Festival (UK), Tbilisi State Conservatoire (GE), Siobhan Davies Dance Studio (UK), the National Trust’s Wolstonbury Hill (UK), and Dance Limerick (IE).
Westwood is pursuing a PhD in Composition at Goldsmiths, University of London, under the supervision of Patricia Alessandrini, Lauren Redhead, and Holly Rogers; and has received additional mentorship from Chaya Czernowin, Kenneth Hesketh, Toshio Hosokawa, Justė Janulytė, Anton Lukoszevieze, and Katharina Rosenberger, amongst others.
Alongside composing, she is Director of Programmes at Estalagem da Ponta do Sol ‘Residency for Contemporary Music and Electronics’ Madeira (PT), and Co-Director for Illuminate Women's Music (UK).
Michele Abondano (Composer)
Composer, experimental performer, and researcher. Her creative work has been developed in the fields of acoustic and electroacoustic music as well as live electronics and collaborative works with dance. Her main interest is to explore timbre, especially, its multidimensional and dynamic condition. Winner of the Scholarship for the Creation of Contemporary Music granted by the Ministry of Culture (Colombia, 2015), the ECOES-UNAM Scholarship for an Artistic Residency at the Mexican Centre for Music and Sonic Arts CMMAS (Mexico, 2014), and the Melos/Gandini’11 Scholarship granted by Melos Ediciones Musicales S.A. (Argentina, 2011).
Recently, she was awarded an AHC Doctoral Research Scholarship to pursue a PhD in Composition at the University of Leeds (2018–21) with Martin Iddon and Scott McLaughlin as supervisors. She holds a Master’s Degree in Music Composition, Honourable Mention, from Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (2015) where she studied with Gabriela Ortiz and Carole Chargueron as composition mentors, and Jorge Torres Sáenz as supervisor. She completed a Bachelor in Composition at Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina (2011) studying with Marcelo Delgado and Marcos Franciosi, and continued her training as a composer in workshops/composition lessons with Gerardo Gandini, José Luis Castillo, Trevor Wishart, Chaya Czernowin, Toshio Hosokawa, Justė Janulytė, and Séverine Ballon, among others. She holds a Bachelor in Music, Honourable Distinction, from Universidad Pedagógica Nacional (2008), where she studied with Ana María Romano and Diana Marcela Rodríguez as monograph tutors.
Her music has been performed at numerous festivals and concert series in Argentina, Colombia, the United States, Spain, Italy, Mexico, Brazil, Japan, Germany, Bolivia, the United Kingdom, Poland, Chile, and France. She has worked as an Assistant Lecturer in multidisciplinary creation, composition and music theory at Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas (Colombia, 2017/15) and Universidad de Pamplona (Colombia, 2012).
Carmen Ho (Composer)
Carmen Ho (b.1990) is a composer of orchestral, instrumental and choral music based in the UK. She has received numerous awards including the Royal Philharmonic Society Composition Prize in 2018 and most recently 4th prize in the Toru Takemitsu Composition Award 2020.
Carmen has worked with musicians such as BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Bristol Ensemble, Bristol University Symphony Orchestra, Ensemble 360, Ensemble Variances, Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, Kokoro, Musikfabrik, Riot Ensemble, The Bach Choir and Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra. She has participated in the Summer School at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland (2016), Kyiv Contemporary Music Days (2016), Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra Composers’ Day (2017) & (2019), Bristol New Music (2018) and Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra Composers Scheme (2019/20). Carmen has completed her PhD in composition at University of Bristol, under the supervision of Professor John Pickard.
Chloe Knibbs (Composer)
Chloe Knibbs is a composer, sound artist and researcher currently based in Birmingham. Featured on BBC Radio 3, Chloe has worked with a range of ensembles and organisations including the Hebrides Ensemble, Riot Ensemble and the Birmingham Opera Company. She is currently at the outset of the PhD in Composition at the University of York with Stef Conner, exploring the representation of women composers through vocality and intertextuality. Her work has been included in the British Music Collection and supported by the PRS Women Make Music Scheme, Jerwood Arts and Arts Council England.
www.chloeknibbs.com
Hayley Jenkins (Composer)
Born in Darlington, Hayley Jenkins began her musical career as a flautist playing in the district wind band and later learnt clarinet and saxophone. Hayley studied music at York St John University at undergraduate level, MA Music Composition and soon to be starting post doctoral study in this area. Hayley is a Lecturer of Music and Education at the University of Sunderland.
In addition to her work at Sunderland, Hayley is a freelance contemporary composer and conductor. As a composer, her work has featured in the Late Music concert series, performed by a range of performers such as Payee Chen (soprano) and Kate Ledger (piano), the Delta Saxophone Quartet, Soon Amore, Albany Trio and Berkley Ensemble. New projects include a commission for Soon Amore, a York-based community choir and working with Streetwise Opera as a composer in residence. Hayley's work explores narrative forms and draws influence from nature, art, literature and different cultures but most notably words and experiences which draw upon every day life.
Rachel Fryer (Pianist)
Rachel Fryer (piano) lives in Sussex and is greatly in demand both as a soloist and accompanist.
She is Founder and Concert Director of Music and Wine at St. Luke's, a concert series in Queen’s Park, Brighton. Rachel has performed for the Brighton Philharmonic Chamber music series and worked with education projects including Glyndebourne Youth Opera, Orchestra of Sound and Light and Kidenza.
Beyond Sussex, Rachel has performed throughout Britain at venues including Croydon's Fairfield Hall and St. John Smith's Square and for music societies including the Beethoven Piano Society as well as on luxury cruise liners. She has recorded and performed Bach's Goldberg Variations. Last year she curated a project called Variations down the line which commissioned 5 composers to each write 3 new variations using ideas from Bach’s Goldbergs. For more information please visit www.variationsdowntheline.org. and www.rachelfryer.co.uk
Ivana Peranic (Cellist)
Cellist Ivana Peranic enjoys a busy freelance career in performance and teaching in the South East UK. As a soloist and member of various ensembles, Ivana has performed in many notable venues, such as Queen Elizabeth Hall, Wigmore Hall, LSO St Luke’s and St James Piccadilly; and has recorded in Abbey Road and AIR Studios. Her recent recitals have been hailed by independent critics as “glowing”, and her tone “powerful, with a terrific lower register… resonant, suggestive of powerful reserves - sweeping musical argument with uninhibited, consummate technique”. An avid performer, Ivana has given solo and chamber music recitals across the South East, recorded for Classic FM, and premiered pieces by contemporary classical composers.
Ivana has previously served as Principal cellist for the Sarajevo Philharmonic Orchestra, Bosnia&Herzegovina's top state orchestra. The Sarajevo Philharmonic is based out of the National Theatre in Sarajevo, and in addition to symphonic repertoire, it supports all the opera and ballet performances throughout the season. In addition to her five-year engagement with the Philharmonic, Ivana has lead the Sarajevo Chamber Orchestra, and has been fortunate to perform alongside many prominent artists, such as Riccardo Muti, Denyce Graves, Zeljko Lucic, Akiko Suwanai, and Alena Baeva, among others. In 2009, she was invited to join the Balkan Chamber Orchestra by the ensemble's conductor and leader, Toshio Yanagisawa, and subsequently performed in Vienna's Musikverein, Tokyo's Kioi Hall, and other prestigious venues across Europe and Japan.
For more information, please visit www.ivanaperanic.com.
Sarah Westwood composes music for dance, music-theatre, installation, and concerts. Her music is concerned with: memory and the failure of memory; embodiment and transcendence; somatics and matters of the heart. Working in both acoustic and electronic music, with traditional notation, open scores, and improvisation.
Her work has been received in eleven European countries, across four continents, commissioned, and awarded; broadcast on Resonance FM, BBC Radio 3; published by BabelScores and Tetractys Publishing. Notable attainments include being awarded the Bliss Trust Scholarship for artistic development to UCSD (US); Creative Retreat at The Red House Aldeburgh (UK); composer for ISCM World Music Days (NZ) 2020; winner of the 21st Left Coast Chamber Ensemble Competition (US); composer for Phoenix Dance Theatre’s Choreographers and Composers Lab (UK); and musician in Ircam Academy In Vivio Danse (FR). With performances of her work by The Interstring Project (DE), Après l’Histoire (US), Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble (RU), Hong Kong New Music Ensemble (HK), and Ensemble L'imaginaire (FR), Karin Hellqvist (SE), Dan Thorpe (AU), and Jelena Makarova (UK) amongst others; in venues and festivals including Bitesize Proms (UK), Echofluxx (CZ), Queen Elizabeth Hall (UK), CROSSROADS Festival (AT), Le Petite Cabinet (FR), St John's Smith Square (UK), Constellations Chicago (US), OUA Festival (JP), Electric Lodge LA (US), Cheltenham Music Festival (UK), Tbilisi State Conservatoire (GE), Siobhan Davies Dance Studio (UK), the National Trust’s Wolstonbury Hill (UK), and Dance Limerick (IE).
Westwood is pursuing a PhD in Composition at Goldsmiths, University of London, under the supervision of Patricia Alessandrini, Lauren Redhead, and Holly Rogers; and has received additional mentorship from Chaya Czernowin, Kenneth Hesketh, Toshio Hosokawa, Justė Janulytė, Anton Lukoszevieze, and Katharina Rosenberger, amongst others.
Alongside composing, she is Director of Programmes at Estalagem da Ponta do Sol ‘Residency for Contemporary Music and Electronics’ Madeira (PT), and Co-Director for Illuminate Women's Music (UK).
Michele Abondano (Composer)
Composer, experimental performer, and researcher. Her creative work has been developed in the fields of acoustic and electroacoustic music as well as live electronics and collaborative works with dance. Her main interest is to explore timbre, especially, its multidimensional and dynamic condition. Winner of the Scholarship for the Creation of Contemporary Music granted by the Ministry of Culture (Colombia, 2015), the ECOES-UNAM Scholarship for an Artistic Residency at the Mexican Centre for Music and Sonic Arts CMMAS (Mexico, 2014), and the Melos/Gandini’11 Scholarship granted by Melos Ediciones Musicales S.A. (Argentina, 2011).
Recently, she was awarded an AHC Doctoral Research Scholarship to pursue a PhD in Composition at the University of Leeds (2018–21) with Martin Iddon and Scott McLaughlin as supervisors. She holds a Master’s Degree in Music Composition, Honourable Mention, from Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (2015) where she studied with Gabriela Ortiz and Carole Chargueron as composition mentors, and Jorge Torres Sáenz as supervisor. She completed a Bachelor in Composition at Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina (2011) studying with Marcelo Delgado and Marcos Franciosi, and continued her training as a composer in workshops/composition lessons with Gerardo Gandini, José Luis Castillo, Trevor Wishart, Chaya Czernowin, Toshio Hosokawa, Justė Janulytė, and Séverine Ballon, among others. She holds a Bachelor in Music, Honourable Distinction, from Universidad Pedagógica Nacional (2008), where she studied with Ana María Romano and Diana Marcela Rodríguez as monograph tutors.
Her music has been performed at numerous festivals and concert series in Argentina, Colombia, the United States, Spain, Italy, Mexico, Brazil, Japan, Germany, Bolivia, the United Kingdom, Poland, Chile, and France. She has worked as an Assistant Lecturer in multidisciplinary creation, composition and music theory at Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas (Colombia, 2017/15) and Universidad de Pamplona (Colombia, 2012).
Carmen Ho (Composer)
Carmen Ho (b.1990) is a composer of orchestral, instrumental and choral music based in the UK. She has received numerous awards including the Royal Philharmonic Society Composition Prize in 2018 and most recently 4th prize in the Toru Takemitsu Composition Award 2020.
Carmen has worked with musicians such as BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Bristol Ensemble, Bristol University Symphony Orchestra, Ensemble 360, Ensemble Variances, Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, Kokoro, Musikfabrik, Riot Ensemble, The Bach Choir and Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra. She has participated in the Summer School at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland (2016), Kyiv Contemporary Music Days (2016), Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra Composers’ Day (2017) & (2019), Bristol New Music (2018) and Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra Composers Scheme (2019/20). Carmen has completed her PhD in composition at University of Bristol, under the supervision of Professor John Pickard.
Chloe Knibbs (Composer)
Chloe Knibbs is a composer, sound artist and researcher currently based in Birmingham. Featured on BBC Radio 3, Chloe has worked with a range of ensembles and organisations including the Hebrides Ensemble, Riot Ensemble and the Birmingham Opera Company. She is currently at the outset of the PhD in Composition at the University of York with Stef Conner, exploring the representation of women composers through vocality and intertextuality. Her work has been included in the British Music Collection and supported by the PRS Women Make Music Scheme, Jerwood Arts and Arts Council England.
www.chloeknibbs.com
Hayley Jenkins (Composer)
Born in Darlington, Hayley Jenkins began her musical career as a flautist playing in the district wind band and later learnt clarinet and saxophone. Hayley studied music at York St John University at undergraduate level, MA Music Composition and soon to be starting post doctoral study in this area. Hayley is a Lecturer of Music and Education at the University of Sunderland.
In addition to her work at Sunderland, Hayley is a freelance contemporary composer and conductor. As a composer, her work has featured in the Late Music concert series, performed by a range of performers such as Payee Chen (soprano) and Kate Ledger (piano), the Delta Saxophone Quartet, Soon Amore, Albany Trio and Berkley Ensemble. New projects include a commission for Soon Amore, a York-based community choir and working with Streetwise Opera as a composer in residence. Hayley's work explores narrative forms and draws influence from nature, art, literature and different cultures but most notably words and experiences which draw upon every day life.
Rachel Fryer (Pianist)
Rachel Fryer (piano) lives in Sussex and is greatly in demand both as a soloist and accompanist.
She is Founder and Concert Director of Music and Wine at St. Luke's, a concert series in Queen’s Park, Brighton. Rachel has performed for the Brighton Philharmonic Chamber music series and worked with education projects including Glyndebourne Youth Opera, Orchestra of Sound and Light and Kidenza.
Beyond Sussex, Rachel has performed throughout Britain at venues including Croydon's Fairfield Hall and St. John Smith's Square and for music societies including the Beethoven Piano Society as well as on luxury cruise liners. She has recorded and performed Bach's Goldberg Variations. Last year she curated a project called Variations down the line which commissioned 5 composers to each write 3 new variations using ideas from Bach’s Goldbergs. For more information please visit www.variationsdowntheline.org. and www.rachelfryer.co.uk
Ivana Peranic (Cellist)
Cellist Ivana Peranic enjoys a busy freelance career in performance and teaching in the South East UK. As a soloist and member of various ensembles, Ivana has performed in many notable venues, such as Queen Elizabeth Hall, Wigmore Hall, LSO St Luke’s and St James Piccadilly; and has recorded in Abbey Road and AIR Studios. Her recent recitals have been hailed by independent critics as “glowing”, and her tone “powerful, with a terrific lower register… resonant, suggestive of powerful reserves - sweeping musical argument with uninhibited, consummate technique”. An avid performer, Ivana has given solo and chamber music recitals across the South East, recorded for Classic FM, and premiered pieces by contemporary classical composers.
Ivana has previously served as Principal cellist for the Sarajevo Philharmonic Orchestra, Bosnia&Herzegovina's top state orchestra. The Sarajevo Philharmonic is based out of the National Theatre in Sarajevo, and in addition to symphonic repertoire, it supports all the opera and ballet performances throughout the season. In addition to her five-year engagement with the Philharmonic, Ivana has lead the Sarajevo Chamber Orchestra, and has been fortunate to perform alongside many prominent artists, such as Riccardo Muti, Denyce Graves, Zeljko Lucic, Akiko Suwanai, and Alena Baeva, among others. In 2009, she was invited to join the Balkan Chamber Orchestra by the ensemble's conductor and leader, Toshio Yanagisawa, and subsequently performed in Vienna's Musikverein, Tokyo's Kioi Hall, and other prestigious venues across Europe and Japan.
For more information, please visit www.ivanaperanic.com.
