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Composing classical soundtracks with a Celtic influence ⛰️🎹🌿
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Composer
JRAM'23
Hannah Lam is currently pursuing a joint degree in Mathematics and Music. Prior to this, she studied composition and piano at the Junior Royal Academy of Music. She has won the ORA Young Composers 2023 Competition and has been a finalist in the Young Percussion Composer of the Year. Furthermore, she has had premiers at prestigious events such as the Cambridge Summer Festival and the Three Choirs Festival.

Composer for concert, film/television and theatre
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composer, keyboardist

scores and all on www.jamiewestoby.co.uk

I am a composer living on the Isle of Wight. Early on, I discovered a passion for the sound and textures of the piano, and a life-long obsession with the music of Erik Satie. As well as piano, I learnt oboe and also played cor anglais, soprano saxophone and any other instrument I could get my hands on.

Whilst growing up, I liked jazz and film music, and at an early age got into Stravinsky, Ives, Messiaen, Boulez, Ligeti, Varèse, Scelsi, Cage and many more contemporary composers. I like some 'minimalist' composers' work - particularly Wim Mertens.

I went on to study at the University of Surrey, gaining a B.Mus (Hons) in 1987, and becoming a Master of Music in Analytical Musicology in 1989. I then started a Ph.D in composition techniques at The City University, London, but eventually abandoned it due to ill health and boredom with academia.

My first dissertation was on the music of Thelonious Monk (for which I painstakingly prepared many detailed transcriptions), and my second was an overview of the music of Vic Hoyland.

I write in a range of styles, and most recently have been working on completions and transformations of unfinished sketches by Erik Satie. In the past, I have worked with pop and jazz artists, including performing and composing for "Sunshine Hit Me", the Mercury nominated first album by Isle of Wight band The Bees. I have also contributed to albums by O.H Krill and Stromba.

I am currently working on Night Thoughts, a radiophonic poem written by my late friend David Gascoyne for the BBC in 1955. The original broadcast had music by Webern's pupil Humphrey Searle (who himself became teacher to Michael Finnissy). The original recording included my percussion tutor, James Blades. I hope the new version, which includes the voices of the poet himself, his wife Judy Gascoyne, and actor and admirer Simon Callow, will bring David's poem to a new audience.

I am also working on an electro-acoustic piece called Chain Ferry Soundscapes using recordings of the local Cowes-East Cowes 'floating bridge' - one of the last of its kind in the UK. The piece is gradually becoming a sort of concerto for chain ferry, voice and trombone.



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