01 Rothko

Berrynarbor

Piece for piano trio. Sibelius software playback

Still Waters

Still Waters (Instrumental Recording)

So this is a piece I made using the sounds of Liverpool. THe busker towards the end looked to be of Chinese extraction, unsurprisingly, as there is a Chinese community in Liverpool.

02 Merseyrhythm

Claire and I improvising at Prah Recording studios

Ruth/Claire Orme

performed by machine(in)trigue:
Chris Dowding (Trumpet), Amy Preece (violin), Chrissie Lockwood (vocals), Adam Harris(tuba) Paula Wilson (percussion)

Steamtalk3

IMPROVISED PERFORMANCES IN WHICH I USED MY VOICE/PLAYED FLUTE: 
2019 Lates, Turner Contemporary
2018 Criss Cross Limbo with Claire Orme, Margate, Athelstan Sound, Arco Barco, Ramsgate
2017 With Athelstan Sound: Venice Agendas Folkestone, 
2016 Electramatronic, Tom Thumb Theatre Margate, Contrapop Ramsgate,  Supporting This is How We Die at Tom Thumb Theatre, Margate, Tarantism, Turner Contemporary, Margate 
2015 Free Range Water Lane Cafe, Canterbury with Martin Tanton, 
2014 Public Information Night 2 Canterbury Sidney Cooper Gallery, 
2013 Public Information Night Canterbury with Andy Birtwistle, Sam Bailey and Ben Rowley.Veg Box Cafe
2012 CSO Canterbury Veg Box Cafe,  
2011 Canterbury Scratch Orchestra Sidney Cooper Gallery
WORKS PERFORMED:
2018 October Berrynarbor St. Greg's Canterbury Martin Outram & David Knotts, May Waxing Waning Waxing St. Greg's Canterbury Splinter Cell
March 2018 Berrynarbor St. Greg's Canterbury Martin Outram & Sam Bailey
2017 May Don't Push Me St Greg's Canterbury James Widden, May Don't Push Me  St Greg's Canterbury  Claire Orme
2016 November Steamtalk Free Range Canterbury, September Steamtalk Tom Thumb Theatre Margate, August Steamtalk Contrapop Ramsgate
2011 Music for Lemon Otter's Menilaism, The Private View Film shown at Canterbury Christ Church University
2010 October London St. Gabriel's Halls Zoli Regency Quartet, April Brighton Friends Meeting House Spinnakers in the Wind Talkestra, January London St. Gabriel's Church Spinnakers in the Wind Talkestra
November 2009 London Drill Hall Osmosis
November 2008 London New Wind Festival Blue Sky Thinking  Piccolo Nancy Ruffer
2005 November HCMF Huddersfield Drought Violin Alice Rickards, September Lewisham Art House Drought Alice Rickards, September Royal Academy of Music Drought  Violin Alice Rickards
2004 December Antithesis, Huddersfield Steamtalk3, November HCMF Huddersfield Steamtalk3, June St. Paul’s Hall, Huddersfield. Steamtalk3 for Instrumental Ensemble & Electronics, May Sonic Arts Network Conference Leicester Osmosis, April Lewisham Art House Whirling and improvisation, March  Electric Spring Huddersfield Steamtalk2, Kirklees International Womens Festival Whirling
2003 November Wapping Hydraulic Power Station, Oren Marshall and Katina Kangaris Steamtalk 1, May Sonic Arts Network Conference Fragile Graffitti, March Electric Spring Huddersfield Fragile Graffiti In collaboration with dancer Lati Saka
2002  June Sonic  Dart as part of Presence Festival, Dartington Osmosis(Electroacoustic), March  Dartington Electroacoustic Concert Osmosis
2001 November  Installation, Liverpool Jump Ship Rat Gallery Mother Nature Walks Towards Imprisonment In collaboration with artist Paul Goff, August Dartington International Summer School Merseyrhythm (Electroacoustic)
EMPLOYMENT
Music Therapy, Margate School for the Deaf
Secretary London Composers Forum
London Sinfonietta Internship
Ensemble administrator for Trittico 
Programme Book Coordinator Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival 
Youth Worker, Littlemoor Youth Club Teaching Music
All Hallows After school club, Everton teaching music
Everton Summer play scheme, teaching music
BURSARIES & RESIDENCIES
Summer 2001, Bursary - Dartington International Summer School Advanced Electroacoustic  Music Course 
February 2004 Residency - Sonic Arts Research Centre, Belfast sponsored by SPNM
EDUCATION & QUALIFICATIONS
2004 Huddersfield University, M.A. Music Composition Pass 60%
2002, Dartington College of Arts, B.A. Hons. Music - 2:1
1997, Weymouth College, Dorset, BTEC Music Classical and Jazz, 9 Distinctions 9 Merits Music A level Pass
ABRSM
Grade 5 Theory pass 1975
Grade 5 Piano distinction 1976
Grade 7 Singing merit 1997
Grade 8 Flute pass 1997
PRESS
Wired Up to Wapping
Wapping Hydraulic Power Station.
Ruth Duckworth's Steamtalk was exactly that: a steamy and electronically in- flamed duet between a mezzo- soprano (the excellent Katina Kangaris) and Marshall's heavy-breathing tuba. The Times. November 2003

Ruth Duckworth

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