Composing

Winner of ISM Competition for Young Composers

January 29th, 2013 by admin | Comments Off

YAW Leigh Folk Festival (photo: Steven Collins)

Kerry is a prize winner in the The Incorporated Society of Musicians (ISM) inaugural competition for young composers. Her choral version of the trad. English folksong ‘All Things Are Quite Silent’ was highly commended alongside Stef Conner’s ‘O Earendel (Hymn to the Star)’ and will be premiered as part of the ISM Conference at Queens’ [...]


Wigmore Hall Community Chamber Opera

November 30th, 2012 by admin | Comments Off

Woodwose Ad FINAL

Kerry is hugely excited to have been commissioned by Wigmore Hall to write a new community chamber opera, Woodwose, as part of their Britten centenary celebrations this year. It premieres in July! Click here for more info.


SCREECH! A new composing webgame is launched

November 30th, 2012 by admin | Comments Off

Mistle Thrush08a Fowlmere RSPB 18.11.2008

Fancy trying your hand at composing? Then visit Kerry’s ‘open source’ piece ‘Screech’! FOLLOW THE LINK! It’s a recorder quintet made up of fragments of musical material on video that YOU can put together freely. Then watch Consortium 5 play your piece back! This is part of Kerry’s second commission from her time as Composer [...]


Kerry Is Shortlisted For A British Composer Award 2012

October 27th, 2012 by admin | Comments Off

a-lock-gate

Kerry has been shortlisted for a British Composer Award in the Community or Educational category for her work on the Art on the Underground project, ‘A Lock Is Gate’. She won an award in 2010. The awards are on December 3rd and will be broadcast on BBC Radio 3.