Meet the Artist

Who or what inspired you to take up composing, and pursue a career in music? I think it was watching ‘Young Musician of the Year’ on our black and white telly in the 1970s ignited my competitiveness and made me get on and do some practice. Although much of that ‘practice’ was improvising and composing because that is what…

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Sounds from the desert

During New Year’s Eve fireworks at Dubai’s Burj Khalifa, the tallest building in the world, British composer Joanna Marsh watched in “open-mouthed awe”. Soon after taking up residence in the Gulf emirate in 2007, she had written The Tower, a choral work for the BBC Singers that likened Dubai’s soaring needle to the hubristic Tower of Babel. Yet when…

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