I am a composer, multi-instrumentalist and creative producer based in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. As a composer and musician, I write a mixture of contemporary classical and neo-folk pieces for stage, film and concert hall and perform as a cellist, pianist, singer and accordionist in a variety of creative settings. 

In 2008 I won the National Centre for Early Music Young Composers Competition for 'Stabat Mater', which was performed by the Tallis Scholars in Beverley Minster. In 2013 I musical directed and arranged Joe Hisaishi's score for an international stage production of Studio Ghibli's film 'Princess Mononoke' that toured to London and Japan. Between 2016-2018 I played with contemporary classical ensemble Aeyther, which resulted in studio album 'Into the Forest' and performances around the country.

My Fantasy for Viola and Orchestra was premiered by the Hull Philharmonic in May 2019, with award-winning soloist Timothy Ridout. In 2020 I collaborated with Lyricist and Songwriter Rosie Bristow to produce full-length musical Rum Punch, which merged traditional musical theatre, folk and contemporary classical music with puppetry, circus and performance. Other previous composition clients include The D Project, Circus Central, Theatre Space NE, Life & Limb Puppets and Woven Nest Theatre. 

Currently I am writing 'Requiem for a Fading World' as one of SageGateshead's Artists in Residence 2022-2023. The Requiem seeks to merge the traditional Latin text with secular, original English lyrics to tell a fantastical, environmentally-themed narrative for modern day audiences.

As a creative producer I am the Artistic Director and Co-Founder of Moving Parts Arts CIO, which produces the biennial Moving Parts: Newcastle Puppetry Festival. Now in its fourth edition, the festival won The Journal Culture Award for 'Best Newcomer' in 2018. 

I am also the Co-Director of Puppets in Beverley Ltd, which produces the award-winning Beverley Puppet Festival founded by Anna Ingleby, and Co-Artistic Director of Tatwood Puppets, which produces touring work featuring puppetry, visual theatre and original soundtracks.

Follow me...
Twitter: @kerrintatman
Instagram: kerrintatman
Website: www.kerrintatman.com

Making Waves is a monthly series of curated playlists streaming one hour of quality, new composed music.  Founded in 2015, Making Waves shines a spotlight on the music of Australian composers. Fresh playlists are released on the first day of each month and older playlists are made available all year round via our archives; perfect for those with just a few minutes to explore one track or for hours perusing a myriad of diverse sound-worlds.


The project offers wider exposure to emerging composers, their music and the talented performers who champion it. We also provide an easy-to-access platform for listeners to sit back and enjoy a curated hour of exciting new music or explore our living composers more actively.  The playlist themes (and media through which they’re shared eg. Soundcloud, YouTube) evolve each month depending on the content received directly from our talented composers.

At its core Making Waves is a curated listening space. In 2016 we branched into producing our own content through a special project, Making Conversation, thanks to a successful crowdfunding campaign. Making Conversation: Australian Composers Project is a series of podcasts and vodcasts presenting the human side of living Australian composers, released on popular audiovisual and social platforms mid-2017.
Composers Lisa Cheney (Melbourne) and Peggy Polias (Sydney) are curating this project.

 Listeners, we encourage you to explore current and past playlists and discover more about our featured composers. 

Composers, we encourage you to send us links to your streamable audio via our website. Visit: www.makingwavesnewmusic.com for more information.

Composing - Arranging - Transcribing - Score preparation

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Kate Locksley is a singer of folk songs, broadsides, and other historical music. She is the alto(ish) in The Teacups, a vibrant vocal quartet based in Newcastle upon Tyne, where she studied Folk and Traditional Music as an undergraduate, and has recently completed Masters degree based around the study of social protest in broadside ballads. Kate also performs with an all-female unaccompained trio, Wychwood, with Kat Davidson and Bryony Bainbridge, and in Night Fall with fiddle player Kev Lees (Folkestra, Last Orders) and Dave Wood (Malinky, Tom McConville). She also loves to perform solo, unaccompanied, feeling that it is both the ultimate vulnerability and a source of enormous strength. 

Finally getting to grips with performance during her studies at Newcastle, Kate has sung at venues of all shapes and sizes, from a flooded basement, to a dimly lit underground tunnel, to folk clubs up and down the country, to Hall One at the mighty Sage Gateshead. She will usually sing anything you like, anywhere you like, if you ask her nicely. 

Fresh On The Net is a music blog hosted by Tom Robinson and Team Freshnet, offering independent artists an open door and a level playing field for their music. Our inbox is open at http://freshonthenet.co.uk every Monday to Thursday morning - if you share a track with us there it will be heard by every member of our moderation team.

IMPORTANT: 
Only send ONE track, and make sure the dropbox says "OPEN".  Sorry, but tracks sent while the dropbox is closed - or shared drectly with this Soundcloud account - will not get heard.

My 33 1/3 series book about the Aphex Twin album <i>Selected Ambient Works Volume II</i> was published in 2014. The book was one of the top 5 bestselling titles for the calendar year, and in 2015 was ranked by Pitchfork as one of the "33 best" of the 100-plus books in the 33 1/3 series. It has subsequently been translated into Japanese (2019) and Spanish (2018)

Since 2012 I have moderated the Disquiet Junto group, which began on SoundCloud. More at disquiet.com/junto. 

I've written for Nature, Pitchfork, The Wire, Down Beat, Boing Boing, NewMusicBox, Red Bull Music Academy, Art Practical, the website of The Atlantic, and many other publications. 

I've exhibited sound art at galleries in Los Angeles (Crewest), Manhattan (apex art), and Dubai (DUTAC), and I had a audio-visual installation at the San Jose Museum of Art as part of its 45th anniversary.

And since 1996 I've run the website Disquiet.com about the intersection of sound, art, and technology.

composer / singer / teacher / 

new song-cycle coming to the aldeburgh festival june 2024

guildhall opera-maker 2022-23 'lost property'

former nycgb young composer, former composer in resi with london oriana choir, singer and wannabe popstar, rncm and guildhall grad, purcell and nyogb alumna, bbc young composer winner 2014

works written for the st martin's voices, the piatti quartet, standard issue, the listening project, bbc singers, london oriana choir, hallé youth choir, the european union chamber orchestra, juice vocal ensemble, majker, rncm brand new orchestra, rncm chamber choir, the camerata players, kantos chamber choir, the ora singers, the larisa trio, members of the bbcso, the national youth orchestra, music off canvas, the manchester singers, no dice collective, the london oriana choir, huddersfield choral society, the hermes experiment, the gesualdo six, the consone quartet, psappha 

email me: adisleysimpson@gmail.com

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Profile photo: Luar Klinghofer Bar Dov / eavesdropping
Sketch book of pieces and excerpts by artist Eleanor Cully Boehringer.

The Ensemble intercontemporain is a music ensemble of 31 soloists dedicated to the performance and promotion of music from the 20th and 21st centuries.
For almost 40 years, this permanent ensemble of highly professional musicians has been performing a demanding repertoire of orchestral music in all its diverse forms. Under the artistic direction of Matthias Pintscher  they are united by a shared passion for new music. 


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