Deborah Pritchard – Composer
Monday 27 July 2020
“A work that takes one’s breath away.” The Gramophone
Deborah Pritchard won a British Composer Award for her solo violin piece ‘Inside Colour.’ She has been broadcast by BBC Radio 3. Commercial recording include NMC, Signum and Nimbus. Her works have been performed by the London Symphony Orchestra, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, London Sinfonietta, Royal Northern Sinfonia, Philharmonia Orchestra, BBC Singers, Manchester Camerata, Chamber Domaine and the English String Orchestra.
As a synaesthetic composer she has worked with numerous visual artists. These include Maggi Hambling, Hughie O’Donoghue and Icelandic sculptor Steinunn Thorarinsdottir. Her violin concerto Wall of Water – after the paintings by Maggi Hambling – was performed at the National Gallery, Sainsbury Wing Theatre and held to critical acclaim by The Gramophone as a ‘work that will take ones breath away.’ The work also featured in Earth, Water, Air and Fire – a series of concerts for Music@Malling.
Pritchard also paints music. She has been commissioned to create a series of ‘music maps’ for the London Sinfonietta. These have been described in The Times as ‘beautifully illustrated…paying visual homage to those wonderful medieval maps of the world.’
Deborah Pritchard studied composition with Simon Bainbridge for her MMus Degree in Composition at the Royal Academy of Music. She was awarded her DPhil from Worcester College, Oxford where she studied with Robert Saxton. Pritchard currently teaches composition tutorials at the University of Oxford. She was composer in residence at the Lichfield Festival, 2016 through the Sound and Music Embedded scheme and her work features in the ‘Hitting the right note: Amazing Women of the Royal Academy of Music’ exhibition on display at the Royal Academy of www.
