Emily Crossland: Adopt a Composer
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University of Strathclyde Chamber Choir
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Emily hails from Portsmouth but has lived in York since starting her undergraduate studies there in 2004. She graduated from the University of York in 2007 with a First Class Honours BA in Music. During her undergraduate degree she specialised in composition (studying with Thomas Simaku and Damien Harron), Javanese gamelan, medieval music and community music. She returned to the University of York to study with Bruce Cole for an MA in Community Music, for which she was awarded a Distinction in 2010. These postgraduate studies were funded by the Wilfrid Mellers Gamelan Assistantship Award. Emily is still involved in academic life at York, working as a tutor and lecturer on the MA in Community Music and also as a guest lecturer on the BA course.
Emily’s music is very much performer-driven; she has a passion for collaboration and is inspired by working with other musicians and artists to create ‘person-specific’ pieces. She is also interested in the theatricality of music, with experience of both writing scores for plays and composing works that are inherently dramatic in their own right. Her compositions have received performances in the National Concert Hall Dublin, the Late Music Festival and the Spring Festival in York, and as part of International Women’s Week 2009.
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