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HI! I'm a singer songwriter from Lancaster - come have a listen. 

www.graceevangelinemason.com

Named as the 'Face to Watch' for classical music in The Times 2020 Calendar of the Arts, Grace-Evangeline Mason is a composer based in the UK. She has been described as ‘a supreme painter in sound’ [Seen and Heard International] and has a ‘keen ear for musical texture - from dreamy hazes of electronic sound to sumptuous choral writing’ [BBC]. Mason creates ethereal sound-worlds often inspired by art, poetry and literature to take a listener on a narrative journey. 

She has worked with ensembles such as the BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Philharmonic, London Symphony Orchestra, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Royal Northern Sinfonia, and the Aurora Orchestra, in venues across the UK and internationally,  including European countries, USA, Canada, Japan and South Africa. Her music has been performed at festivals such as the Cheltenham Music Festival, Southbank SoundState Festival, LFCCM, and the 2017 BBC Proms, amongst others. Her orchestral work ‘The Imagined Forest’, ‘drawn with pen-and-ink precision and filled with vivid orchestral colour’ [The Times], was co-commissioned to mark the 150th anniversary of the Royal Albert Hall premiered by the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra at the 2021 BBC Proms. 

Mason is the recipient of awards including BBC Young Composer of the Year (2013), the RLPO’s Christopher Brooks Prize (2017), and the prestigious Royal Philharmonic Society Composition Prize (2018). She studied at the RNCM and the University of Oxford and is currently pursuing her doctorate at the Royal Academy of Music, London. 

Grace-Evangeline Mason's music is published by Boosey & Hawkes.

Stream of Sound present all sorts of concerts: from tiny churches to great Town Halls, and from Folk Clubs to Festivals, you’ll find that we are at home in any venue.

Secondly, we run Singing Days for young people, residential sessions for teenagers and workshops for people of all ages: we’ll go for any way of getting people to sing in harmony with us.

In the last couple of years we’ve run the youth harmony workshops at the Sidmouth Folk Week, worked with children at the Towersey Festival, performed alongside Black Voices and Ex Cathedra in Birmingham Town Hall, sung for a charity in Worcester Cathedral, been played on BBC radio and made our sixth CD, Time & Tide.

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