ABOUT

Hollie is a composer, researcher and curator of contemporary music events in the UK and overseas. Her most recent project, Melting, Shifting, Liquid World was the first composition to incorporate the use of open-ear, bone-conduction headsets alongside live acoustic and amplified instruments to create a multi-layered sonic environment for the audience to move around and within. The project was awarded funding by Arts Council England, PRS Foundation’s Women Make Music, Hinrichsen Foundation and Gemma Classical Music Trust and was written for electric viola soloist Nic Pendlebury and string ensemble. The work was the concluding piece of her PhD thesis at Trinity Laban looking at different ways of constructing performance scenarios, and exploring the impact this has on compositional processes.

Hollie is grateful to have twice received funding from the Norwegian Arts Council to work with Alwynne Pritchard and Sjøforsvarets Musikkorps (Norwegian Navy Band). Other ensembles she has worked with include the London Philharmonic Orchestra, CHROMA ensemble, Castallian String Quartet, Ensemble Via Nova (Weimar) and DeciBells (Basel). She was 2017 Composer in Residence with CoMA and subsequently led workshops on their Summer School in Orkney, and at their 2018 Festival of Contemporary Music for All. She was also one of four selected composers on the Cohan Collective 2018-19 residencies working with choreographers, dancers and members of Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra at Pavilion Dance South West.

She was Artistic Advisor and Trustee for Borough New Music and has been Director of Production for the London Ear Festival since it began in 2013. 

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List of Works

SELECTED AWARDS

2018 - 19

• PRS Foundation - Women Make Music Artist, with funding awarded for Melting, Shifting, Liquid World

• Awarded Arts Council England project funding to support Melting, Shifting, Liquid World, and funding from the Hinrichsen Foundation and Gemma Classical Music Trust.

• The Cohan Collective, Composer in Residence

• Neither Nor, Either Or Artist Residency, Ytre Arna

2017 - 18

• CoMA Composer in Residence

• Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy

2016 – 17

• Trinity Laban RDP Scholarship for fully funded PhD in Composition

2015 - 16

• Bergen International Festival Commission funded by the Norwegian Arts Council for Ritual I, part of Alwynne Pritchard’s DOG/GOD Project

2013 - 14

• Sjøforsvarets Musikkorps (Norwegian Navy Band) commission for Fracture performed at the opening concert of Brasswind festival, funded by Norwegian Arts Council

2011 - 12

• Leverhulme Young Composer working with the London Philharmonic Orchestra on their Debut Sounds scheme

• MMus Composition (Distinction), Royal Academy of Music

• Licentiate of the Royal Academy of Music in Composition Teaching

• Dorothy Kennedy Davis Award, Royal Academy of Music

• R. Harvey Löhr Award, Royal Academy of Music

2010 - 11

• RVW Trust Award for Postgraduate Composition Students

• Arts Humanities Research Council Professional Preparation Masters Block Grant Partnership (full funding for MMus)

2009 – 2010

• Artist in Residence, USF Verftet, Bergen, Norway (3 months)

2008 – 2009

• BMus Hons Composition (First-Class)

• Silver Medal for Composition Studies, Trinity Laban

• Cyril Cork Prize, Trinity Laban