After our inaugural Open Call held in May, we’re delighted to announce our six composers who have been commissioned to write new works for Treephonia: Live – Eden Lonsdale, Elisabet Dijkstra, Hangrui Zhang, Joanna Ward, Kiko Shao, Lucie Cure.
Find out a little more about the composers and listen to some of their music below!
Eden Lonsdale
Eden Lonsdale is a composer from Berlin (DE). He has studied composition to at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama (London) with Malcolm Singer, Cassandra Miller and Julian Anderson and at the Kunstuniversität Graz with Klaus Lang. He has written concert music for ensembles such as including EXAUDI, Apartment House, Plus-Minus Ensemble, Orkest de Ereprijs, Ensemble Intercontemporain, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin and ICTUS. Eden is also a founding member of ‘Red Panel’, a new music ensemble operating in London and Berlin.
Elisabet Dijkstra
Elisabet is a South African composer currently doing her MA in Composition at Durham University. She is interested in microtonality, indeterminacy and a use of sparse musical elements that undergo a careful evolution over time. Elisabet typically focuses on graphic scoring and is currently exploring organic/ ‘untaught’ sound-worlds that are technically simple but timbrally very delicate and complex. Her compositional approach is interdisciplinary and informed by a deep appreciation for the connection between music and other branches of being.
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Hangrui Zhang
Hangrui Zhang is a Chinese composer who is honest to his artistic personality and dedicated to creating a unique voice in his music. His music often draws inspiration from non-musical elements, such as pop culture, visual arts, and the environment. He is currently working towards his Doctor of Music degree in composition at the Royal College of Music under the supervision of Alison Kay and Kenneth Hesketh.
Joanna Ward
Joanna Ward is a composer, performer, and researcher from Newcastle upon Tyne, currently based in London. She is interested in experimenting with scores and with sound, and her practice ranges across genre and between media, usually in collaboration with other performers and artists. Her present work is contextualised by research around ‘anti-work’ compositional ethics and aesthetics; interested in radical liberatory futures and in playfulness.
Kiko Shao
Kiko Shao is a Cardiff-based composer, originally from Hong Kong. She is currently a music lecturer at Cardiff University. Most of her pieces are inspired by Chinese arts and culture and she explores the capabilities of Chinese instruments in her music. Recent achievements include being selected by the Tŷ Cerdd CoDi Lead programme, being the young composer in the Young China: Ten Talented Composers chamber music festival in Germany and the third prize recipient of the Seventh ConTempo New Chamber Music Composition Competition.
Lucie Cure
French-born British Mezzo-Soprano, actress, poet and composer Lucie Cure has graduated as a Master of Music in Performance at the Royal College of Music in July 2022. Studying under Sally Burgess, she is Their Serene Highnesses Dr Prince Donatus and Princess Heidi Von Hohenzollern Scholar (2020/2021) and Bruce-Payne Vaseppi Scholar (2021/2022).