Rachel Stott (Instruments & Bodies)

Rachel Stott has composed for ensembles as diverse as sound sculptures, viol consorts, saxophone duos and singing recorder players. Her works have been performed at the London South Bank, UK festivals and abroad in Spain, Switzerland, Slovenia and the USA. She has produced a CD of contemporary British song, Airborne, and written a series entitled ‘Harmony and Invention’ for BBC Radio 3. Recent works include a music theatre piece for a singing recorder player, a sequence of settings of the 16th century poet Thomas Campion, a musical response to the medical procedure of endoscopic retrograde cholangio pancreatography, and a work of contemporary political satire, Notes from a Viol Cabinet, for the early music group ‘Sonnerie’. Her String Quartet No. 1 Quiet Earth was commissioned for performance by the Fitzwilliam String Quartet at the 2002 Swaledale Festival.

During 2003 Rachel has been Composer-in-residence at Blackpool Victoria Hospital, in the course of which she has written a work for string trio entitled Gulliver’s Ear and many other pieces for the entertainment of patients and staff. She is presently working on a music theatre piece for clarinettist/actress Neyire Ashworth and a two act opera for children based on a book by Joan Aiken