A composer of extraordinary versatility, Dominic Muldowney has created award-winning music for the stage, screen and concert hall. Central to his orchestral work is an important sequence of concerti which deftly combine complex polyrhythmic experimentation with a fascination with the sounds and gestures of jazz and other musical vernaculars.
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Linda Hirst was born and grew up in Huddersfield, and studied flute and singing at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Her career began during the early music revival of the early seventies, with Roger Norrington, John Eliot Gardiner and David Munrow. From 1974-78 she was a Swingle Singer, she then co-founded Electric Phoenix.
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Tansy Davies writes music that is sleek, hot, earthy, physical. Her instruments glint and sigh and thrust. Her textures are lean and gleaming. Her rhythms are all punch and sinew. As a composer she is immensely herself: a woman of fearsome drive and rigour and self-knowledge, a woman who connects with body, spirituality and political convictions – and who conveys all that without without filter or apology.
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