Musician, editor, kobo fan, and aspiring foodie
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I’m a classically-trained musician, with over 15 years experience as a professional pianist, as well as experience in choral and music directing. Alongside my musicking, I also spent nearly 7 years’ experience as an editor in music and academic publishing, and now work as a freelance publishing professional. In my spare time, I can usually be found creating music with other people, cooking Asian food, working my way through my reading list, chilling with my boyfriend and cat, or stress tidying.
My two main projects at the moment are works by women composers. I believe that by making their works widely and freely available it will increase their chances of being programmed and performed, and prevent these works from being overshadowed by the male-heavy canon. Although positive action may be the chief reason for some of their performances in this day and age, I think that their lack of recognition has to be overcompensated for to improve diversity in the classical music industry. My editions are copyrighted under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 license so please contact me if you are interested in a commercial performance of these works. More details can be found on my IMSLP page.
This edition was last updated in mid-2019, with full score and full set of parts available on IMSLP.
It started off as a small passion project for a performance on International Women’s Day in 2017, where a set of parts were typeset from a facsimile by me and a small group of friends. Breitkopf and Härtel do have scores and parts available for hire, but this option was both practically and financially unfeasible for us. After the performance, I tidied up the parts, implemented suggested corrections and created a full score.
My edition has since been performed around the world, from my local city Oxford (Oxford University Orchestra) to neighours across the channel in Konstanz, Germany; and across the pond in Kentucky (University of Kentucky Symphony Orchestra), Colorado (Denver Young Artists Youth Orchestra), Massachusetts (New England Conservatory Philharmonic Orchestra), as well as further afield in British Columbia, Canada (Kamloops Symphony Orchestra).
If you don’t know Ethel Smyth, I would really encourage some research into this very unique individual. She was a composer, writer and suffragette during one of the most interesting times in British history for gender politics. An outspoken feminist, she stood her ground in a male-dominated industry, and made history as the first female composer performed by the New York Met Opera (1903). For the final year of my undergraduate degree, I produced an edition and critical commentary of ‘Before the Squall’, the second number in her song cycle Three Moods of the Sea for mezzo-soprano/baritone. This edition has now been picked up by Breitkopf & Härtel, and is due to be published in the second half of 2026.
Thanks for visiting! Have a good day and go eat a biscuit. (My favourite is the humble bourbon.)