composers

Rachel Stott

• Serendipity and Household Objects

Rachel was educated at Wells Cathedral School and Churchill College, Cambridge where she studied composition with Hugh Wood and Robin Holloway. She then studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama where she specialised in modern and baroque viola with David Takeno and Micaela Comberti. She played for a number of years with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and other period instrument orchestras while simultaneously exploring new music with groups such as Opus 20 String Ensemble and Cambridge New Music Players, of which she is a founder member.

Her compositions have been performed at the Brighton, Greenwich, Isleworth and Spitalfields festivals, at the London South Bank, St. John's Smith Square and St. Martin-in-the-Fields, and abroad in Germany, Switzerland, Spain and Japan. She has been commissioned by the London Park Lane Group, Orchestra 1820 and Concitato Consort of Zurich, for whom she wrote one of a number of pieces for early instruments. Concordia for viol consort was broadcast on radio and television in Radjovica, Slovenia, in 1999. The ensemble has also performed her work in Nottingham, Warwick and Valencia and with counter tenor James Bowman in the Queen's house, Greenwich, as part of the Greenwich and Docklands festival. www.singingspace.co.uk